John Quiggin on Campbell Newman’s distressed infrastructure
John Quiggin, who attributes much of the scale of the New South Wales Labor election disaster to electricity privatisation, has an excellent suggestion in today’s Financial Review about how the Queensland ALP could turn its own privatisation woes around. Quiggin [...]
Mythbusting: Social capital as an excuse for party decline
I’m published in Crikey today, discussing the way an apparent deficit of ‘social capital’ has been wrongly used as an excuse for the decline of political parties, particularly the Labor party. It’s paywalled, but if you’re not a Crikey subscriber, [...]
Weekly Whimsy
This week’s whimsy is brought to you a selection of unusable stock photos courtesy of the Internet’s WTF Were They Thinking? department.
Libya, human rights and politics
I have an article at The Drum today on the Libyan intervention, human rights and politics. [Previous discussion on LP of Libya and politics can be found here. It would be nice if comments on this post were relevant to [...]
Libya roundtable
Discussion on Libya on various threads has tended to stray off the topic, so it’s appropriate that we have a general roundtable for discussion of continuing developments in Libya, and argument about issues other than those raised on substantive posts.
Napoleon Newman’s LNP takeover
The latest in the Campbell Newman putsch: he’s bringing his own election strategists with him, and all LNP policy has now been declared null and void. The Election Team Leader needs a Clean Slate. Presumably to be filled in with [...]
NSW election: New beginnings at Sussex Street?
At long last, after all the slightly nutsy talk in the media about “recall elections” and what seems now like an endless litany of scandals, the people of New South Wales have spoken. Save for at the margins, what they [...]
NSW election: The bell tolls for Tony?
Lots and lots of column inches and bits and bytes are being devoured in analysis of commentary on the federal implications of the NSW election result for Julia Gillard, Labor MPs in New South Wales, The Greens, Bob Brown, the [...]
Spotlight the Spin
Our weekly (mostly) look at media spin tactics: this week we shall obviously be seeing much spin regarding the NSW election …
Libya, the Left and a No Fly Zone IV
The previous thread is also getting a tad long, so here’s a new one. You can access all related LP threads here. If anyone needs a discussion starter, there’s an interesting take from Gilbert Achcar at Znet: The left should [...]
The Galaxy poll and the Campbell Newman putsch
As has been the subject of some discussion on Facebook, Brisbane’s Sunday Mail today has the appearance of the Can-Do Campbell Fan Club Newsletter. It’s full of puff about a Galaxy poll showing Campbell Newman ahead of Anna Bligh on [...]
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