andrew bartlett
Why I’m voting for The Greens tomorrow
By Mark Bahnisch on August 20, 2010
I’ve only ever cast two votes for a party other than the Australian Labor Party in the lower house in my life: once for The Greens in the 1995 state election, and once for the Democrats in the 2001 federal [...]
Posted in Brisbane, federal election 2010 | Tagged andrew bartlett, Arch Bevis, Brisbane, Federal Election 2010 | 180 Responses
The view from Channel Nine VI: Playing the parochial card and an Oakes bombshell
By Kim on July 27, 2010
Continuing an irregular series commenting on how the election looks to commercial tv viewers: commercial free to air is the biggest single source of information for voters. After almost disappearing last night, the election was back on Brisbane’s Channel Nine [...]
Posted in Brisbane, federal election 2010, Media, Queensland, Transport | Tagged andrew bartlett, Anna Bligh, Brisbane, Channel Nine, Dickson, Joe Hockey, Julia Gillard, Laurie Oakes, leaks, Longman, marginal seats, parental leave, pensions, Petrie, Queensland, Redcliffe, redcliffe rail, Simon Crean, Tony Abbott, Yvette D'ath | 183 Responses
LNP wishes Lilley an unhappy Refugee Week
By Mark Bahnisch on June 18, 2010
Andrew Bartlett reports on a disgraceful LNP leaflet distributed in the suburbs of Wayne Swan’s electorate of Lilley on Brisbane’s northside. Go read.
Posted in Elections, Immigration, Politics | Tagged andrew bartlett, asylum seekers, Brisbane, campaign, Coalition, Immigration, leaflet, Liberal Party, Lilley, LNP, refugee week, refugees, virginia, Wayne Swan | 113 Responses
Are the Liberals Australia's Tea Party?
By Kim on May 27, 2010
The exit of Malcolm Fraser from the Liberal party has set a few tongues wagging: Andrew Bartlett: For the last few months, I’ve found it hard to shake the idea that the Liberal Party’s overriding approach to politics and policy [...]
Posted in Politics, USA | Tagged American politics, andrew bartlett, anti-politics, Charles Richardson, Federal Election 2010, GOP, ideology, John Howard, Kevin Rudd, Liberal Party, libertarianism, Malcolm Fraser, Mark Lilla, populism, Republican party, Tony Abbott, USA mid term election 2010 | 159 Responses
Bartlett to run for Brisbane
By Mark Bahnisch on November 9, 2009
Former Australian Democrats Senator Andrew Bartlett has announced he will be contesting the federal seat of Brisbane for The Greens. That’s my local electorate, and I’m looking forward to an interesting contest! Antony Green has much more. He points out [...]
Posted in Brisbane, Politics | Tagged andrew bartlett, Antony Green, Arch Bevis, Australian Democrats, Australian Greens, Brisbane, candidates, Federal Election 2010, Ingrid Tall, Labor, liberals, LNP, Queensland politics, Sexuality, Teresa Gambaro, The Greens | 68 Responses
Political parties past
By Mark Bahnisch on October 12, 2009
The Australian Democrats lost their last sitting MP last week, when South Australian Upper House MP David Winderlich resigned from the party. Andrew Bartlett wrote about this milestone at Crikey’s The Stump, and on his own blog. Now it appears [...]
Posted in Politics, Sociology | Tagged AEC, andrew bartlett, Australian Democrats, David Winderlich, deregistration, electoral commission, One Nation, Pauline Hanson, political culture, political parties, political sociology, Queensland, Sociology, South Australia | 50 Responses
GST votes, a decade on
By Robert Merkel on May 19, 2009
Andrew Bartlett has had a couple of fascinating posts up recently. The first is a look back on Brian Harradine’s speech in the Senate when he announced his intention to vote against the tax. Bartlett quotes the key part of [...]
Posted in Economics, Howardia, Policy, Politics, Poverty | Tagged andrew bartlett, Australian Democrats, brian harradine, goods and services tax, GST | 35 Responses
Opposing the CPRS?
By Robert Merkel on February 16, 2009
This is kind of old news, but Andrew Bartlett linked to a piece by climate activist Anna Rose about the People’s Climate Action Summit a couple of weeks ago. Bartlett noted, with interest, Rose’s take on the summit’s extreme distaste [...]
Posted in Climate change, Economics, Policy, Politics | Tagged andrew bartlett, anna rose, cprs, greens | 95 Responses
Universal Declaration of Human Rights: 60th anniversary
By Kim on December 11, 2008
Amnesty International has released a video – You Are Powerful – to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the UDHR. They’re encouraging its widest possible distribution. Kate Allen explains at Comment is Free. The level of controversy that still surrounds not [...]
Posted in Activism, History, Law, Philosophy, Sociology | Tagged Activism, Amnesty International, andrew bartlett, bill of rights, charter of rights, common law, Frank Brennan, human rights, John Howard, jurisprudence, political philosophy, Rudd government, UDHR, United Nations, universal declaration of human rights | 25 Responses
Reflections on CPD's Common Ground forum on Climate Change
By dk.au on November 26, 2008
As Mark mentioned, the CPD hosted the third ‘Common Ground’ forum, this one on climate change. It was an ecumenical gathering with plenty of shiny suits (Slater Gordon lawyers sponsored), hipster urban types, young professionals, and plenty of the interested [...]
Posted in Climate change, Energy, Environment, Markets, Policy, Politics | Tagged andrew bartlett, Bob Carr, Centre for Policy Development, Climate change, Common Ground, CPD, fiona wain, Pru Goward, public forum, steve hatfield-dodds | 10 Responses
Asylum seekers and Indonesia
By Mark Bahnisch on October 28, 2009
Lateline last night featured the best and worst of public debate. On one hand, Melbourne lawyer and refugee advocate Jessie Taylor was interviewed about her own footage of the conditions under which asylum seekers in Indonesia are attained. In a [...]
Posted in Howardia, Immigration, Media, Sociology | Tagged andrew bartlett, asylum seekers, commentariat, detention, Guy Rundle, humanitarianism, Immigration, immigration detention, indonesia, Jessie Taylor, John Howard, Kevin Rudd, Lateline, Media, Philip Ruddock, political culture, refugrees, Rudd government, Tony Abbott | 86 Responses