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Ashgrove race tightening #qldpol
Friday saw a ReachTel poll showing Kate Jones gaining 3.4% on primaries in Ashgrove since January. According to ReachTel, Campbell Newman is still on 49% of the primary. However, it may be that because of the nature of the sample [...]
What to do about Julia and Kevin? Magical thinking and politics
We’re all very familiar, by now, with the refrain that ALP leadership stories are the invention of a hostile media. The media is not, indeed, friendly to Labor, and Bob Brown is surely right to say that Julia Gillard has [...]
LNP off to a very bad start in Queensland campaign
Here in paradoxical Quinceland, we have an alternative premier who isn’t an MP and isn’t Opposition Leader, and we have a campaign that’s started before parliament has been dissolved. And I think that’s actually what is causing the LNP so [...]
Troppo’s Crikey group subscription
As he does every year, Club Troppo‘s Nicholas Gruen is organising a discount for people who might want to take out a group subscription to the fabulous Crikey. All the details are here, and I’d strongly encourage people to support [...]
Clive Palmer not helping LNP
The big news in the Queensland state election campaign today, overshadowing as journos like to say even Kevin Rudd’s launch of Kate Jones’ new website and Anna Bligh and Campbell Newman’s trip to flood ravaged Charleville, is an “extraordinary” press [...]
Disability funding ‘aspirational’ for Tony Abbott
John Howard invented ‘core’ and ‘non-core promises’. Now Tony Abbott has gone one up on his mentor. In a speech to the National Press Club yesterday, the Opposition Leader included Medicare dental funding and the National Disability Insurance Scheme under [...]
University of Sydney survey of blog readers: Please participate!
Dr Peter Chen from Sydney Uni is surveying readers of selected Australian blogs for a forthcoming publication. When his survey is analysed, LP will also receive selected insights from the findings. Additional information about Dr Chen’s project can be accessed [...]
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 [...]
Queensland election roundup 1
Before the formal election campaign starts when Parliament is dissolved on February 19, I’m going to keep people updated with a series of Queensland election roundups. The big question, of course, is how politicised things get before the campaign kicks [...]
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