Campbell Newman’s austerity and privatisation agendas are toxic in Brisbane
Reachtel has conducted a massive poll (sample size is 36,323) for the Together Union. Being dismissed by the LNP Queensland government as “push polling”, the poll is unique in that the sample is broken down by individual electorates with average sample [...]
Why we have Labor leadership spills and stoushes; and how to avoid them
It won’t have escaped anyone’s attention that there is a more than usually febrile atmosphere in Canberra today, and that some folks are anticipating white smoke announcing “Habemus PM”… Whether there will be a vacancy is, as yet, unresolved. I [...]
Does Labor need a primary vote in the low 40s to win?
Most of the discussions about Labor’s chances at this year’s election assume that the party needs a primary vote in the high 30s to have any chance of prevailing. But Dennis Atkins, writing in the Courier-Mail, questions one of the [...]
Not-so-great expectations
In short, current poll support for the election of an Abbott-led Coalition government is soft and brittle. Yet it exists, and persists. And voter opinion of what the Federal Labor government has actually done is not all that unfavourable. Yet people don’t think the government deserves to be reelected. What are we to make of this?
Narratology and Newspoll in the Dark City; or a Parable for Our Times
Let’s take a little look at how the “political narrative” works. Now, polls are not Truth. They’re a snapshot of the past… But they apparently are the key tropes of the Narrative.
…. and, we’re back for Election ’13!
As everyone who followed Larvatus Prodeo knows, we decided in April last year to sound the Last Post.
But, prompted by some urgings on Twitter, we have resolved that we can’t let an election year go past without blogging. So …
Behind the Seams: Moderate voices in the CSG debate – video interviews
Cross-posted from The Wellhead As Kim Jameson reported, The Greens have ramped up the pressure on their key issue of Coal Seam Gas today, as the election enters its closing days. Similarly, Lock The Gate Alliance made an intervention around [...]
Who will lead Queensland Labor after the LNP-slide?
I have been a bit surprised that there’s been little discussion during the election campaign about who will replace Anna Bligh as Labor leader. Perhaps that’s because Andrew Fraser was rightly assumed to be next in line. But, on the [...]
Queensland Labor wipeout and LNP-slide #qldpol
It’s bad news for Labor and Greens supporters in Queensland, just under one week out from the state election. The Galaxy Poll today has the LNP poised to win up to 70 seats, with the most likely Labor representation between [...]
Behind the Seams: Regulating Coal Seam Gas
Crikey’s website is down today, so we’re publishing the latest Coal Seam Gas: Behind the Seams posts here. NB: You might like to consider donating to support the work of FAQ Research on our Coal Seam Gas project. The project [...]
Talking about a(n Education) Revolution
With apologies to Tracy Chapman. The Gonski Review into School Funding is to report shortly, and yesterday an Essential Research poll found opinion split largely on partisan lines over the BER projects, but intriguingly with a much more favourable view [...]
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