Is the gagging of NSW CLCs a breach of the implied freedom of political communication?
[My Constitutional Law is rusty and so this is an attempt to start a conversation, not to make a definite argument on this issue. I really welcome thoughtful debate.] The NSW government has recently issued new ‘Principles for Funding of [...]
Queensland’s revenge? Palmer and Katter’s anti-systemic double act
Populist politics often feed off perceptions of geo-spatial neglect, intertwined with class grievances (from classes that are not conscious of being such). Hence the Hanson phenomenon, largely confined to outer metropolitan and regional (not really rural) districts of Queensland, itself [...]
Coal Seam Gas, Four Corners, and failed governance
Last night’s Four Corners focused on Coal Seam Gas, moving between the stories of farmers and claims by a whistleblower that the governance process for the approval of Santos and QGC projects by the Queensland Government in 2010 was flawed. [...]
Two member electoral system with floating members
John Davidson who comments as John D has been interested for some time in alternative electoral systems. Stimulated by discussion on Mark’s recent thread John has fine-tuned a system he has been working on. There’s a lot to like about [...]
Guest post by Linda Carroli: Losing connections
A guest post by Brisbane-based writer, urbanist, planner and researcher Linda Carroli on the South East Queensland review of bus services, previously discussed on LP in comments here. (Cross-posted from placeblog) Yesterday I read about the State Government’s review of [...]
Peter Costello, Tony Abbott, the Queensland LNP and privatisation
Last week in Crikey I argued Queensland Health Minister Lawrence Springborg’s privatisation push foreshadowed the Newman government’s embrace of the recommendations of the Costello Audit. There’s no doubt that privatisation is unpopular, and rightly so.
…. 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 …
Larvatus Prodeo’s Last Post
As of today, Larvatus Prodeo will cease publishing: the blog began to wend its way through the online world on March 17, 2005, so it’s a very old beast in internet years. We collectively feel seven years is enough.
On stuffups
In Brian’s wrap of the Queensland election, he observed that “competence” was a factor in the election loss. I’d like to pick apart this notion of “competence” a bit.
Queensland election wrap
We’ve reached 400 on the other thread and I’m not sure we are done yet. Any way I wanted to make a rather long comment. To me there were three general factors and three specific ones. The first general one [...]
Queensland election roundtable
The polls will be closing shortly. The expected result, as no doubt everybody knows by now, is a massive swing to the LNP with only an ignominious rump left for Labor.
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