Welcome Julia Gillard but don’t forget to farewell Kevin Rudd
I admire Julia Gillard and always have. Those who’ve been around here for a long time, and have long memories, might recall that I was backing Gillard enthusiastically when Kim Beazley’s leadership was on its last legs. I welcome and [...]
Abbott's health dilemma
As I observed last night, the Opposition’s first reaction to the COAG deal* on health and hospitals reform was to blather on about “a great big new bureaucracy” (which isn’t as catchy as “a great big new tax”, but is [...]
No one watches daytime tv; and other Health Debate myths
As anticipated, commentariat memes very quickly emerged after the Great Health Debate – “Abbott was disadvantaged because he didn’t have a policy”, “Abbott came out swinging”, “He was authentic”, “Rudd played to The Worm”, “It’s not important anyway”, “No one [...]
Whatever happened to the vision thing?
George H. W. Bush was famously incapable of projecting what he termed “the vision thing” in his unsuccessful campaign for re-election in 1992, but at least he knew what he needed to, but couldn’t, do. I noted the other day [...]
Parsing the polls: Just how strong is Labor's lead, really?
I’ve been wondering myself, recently, about the significance of Labor’s unbroken lead in the polls, which if memory serves, has persisted for over three years now. There’s little doubt that it’s Rudd’s election to lose, but, conversely, big Labor victories [...]
Kevin Rudd two years on; Open thread
Today marks the second anniversary of the election of the Rudd government. No doubt thousands of words will be written to commemorate it. This is your opportunity to add even more!
Rudd and Queenslandism
I’ve commented before on the tendency to anticipate the anniversary of events, and everyone in the Oz media has been doing just that ahead of the milestone of two years since the election of the Rudd government, which falls on [...]
Of honeymoons and polls
Peter Van Onselen’s new role at Newspoll Central appears to be a second string Dennis Shanahan, adding a second dose of commentary on the almighty Newspoll a day after the master pronounces on how it is to be interpreted. Van [...]
Rudd and Gillard attack News Limited, Hartigan punches back
Crikey‘s editorial today (reproduced over the fold with permission) picked up on the political significance of Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard’s critical remarks about the conduct of News Limited papers in publishing the concocted email at the centre of the [...]
The American Possum (and the Australian Possum)
When I first discovered FiveThirtyEight.Com (courtesy of Down and Out of Sài Gòn on one of the American election threads here at LP, if I recall correctly), I thought of Nate Silver as America’s Possum. Coincidentally, there’s a profile of [...]
Turns out people do watch day time tv
By Mark Bahnisch on March 24, 2010
Last night, I made a point about the claim that the Great Health Debate was unimportant, because, as most munificently expressed by Grahame Morris, no one (important) watches day time television. I wrote: I wouldn’t be so quick to assume [...]
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