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By Mark Bahnisch on June 9, 2010
Derek Barry at Woolly Days has written a comprehensive post on this year’s Queensland Budget. Suffice it for me to state that I agree with his conclusion: Queensland’s 150th budget is much like the 149th that came before it. It [...]
Posted in Politics, Polls, Queensland, State/Territory Elections | Tagged Andrew Fraser, Anna Bligh, asset sales, Bligh government, Galaxy poll, Labor, LNP, Polls, privatisations, Queensland budget 2010, Queensland Labor, The Greens |
By Mark Bahnisch on May 3, 2010
In Queensland today, we celebrated Labour Day as a public holiday. In the wake of the privatisation imbroglio perpetrated by the Bligh government, expectations were that solidarity between Labor and labour wouldn’t be at the forefront of the Brisbane May [...]
Posted in Activism, Brisbane, Economics, Government, History, Industrial Relations, Masculinity, Policy, Politics, Queensland, Sociology | Tagged ACTU, ALP, Andrew Fraser, Anna Bligh, bionics, Brisbane, Brisbane Times, British Columbia, business, canada, casualisation, class, class politics, corporatisation, corporatism, Henry review, ideology, Industrial Relations, John Quiggin, Kevin Rudd, labor party, Labour Day, labour movement, LHMU, March, masculinism, May Day, Paul Lucas, Peter Beattie, privatisation, QR, queensland government, Queensland Labor, social class, Sociology, super, superannuation, tax, unions, workerism, working class, workplace relations |
By Mark Bahnisch on April 11, 2010
I spoke yesterday at a Search Foundation Forum, Breaking the Addiction: challenging Bligh’s privatisation push, in Brisbane at the Workers’ Community Centre at Paddington. This is the text of my talk, written up from my notes: I The Bligh government’s [...]
Posted in Activism, Culture, Economics, Government, History, Policy, Politics, Queensland, Sociology, State/Territory Elections | Tagged ALP, Andrew Fraser, Anna Bligh, autonomy, Bligh government, capacities, capital, Carole Ferrier, commodification, communitarianism, communities, corporatism, decommodification, democratic socialism, ETU, GFC, global financial crisis, globalisation, governmentality, History, homgenisation, homogenisation, ideology, Joh Bjelke-Petersen, John Quiggin, John-Paul Langbroek, Labor, Lawrence Springborg, Liberal National Party, LNP, managerialism, Media, neo-liberalism, New Labor, New Labour, nudge, Peter Beattie, political class, political culture, Polls, privatisation, QR, Queensland election 2009, queensland government, Queensland Greens, Queensland history, Queensland rail, radical brisbane, Ray Evans, resources, Sociology, Sunday Mail, T. J. Ryan, The Greens, trade unions, unions |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 3, 2010
In the land of pineapple politics postmodern style, it might be thought that any aspiring leader should have done their time in reality tv. After all, Anna Bligh’s been on Celebrity MasterChef. Until last week, Liberal National Party MP, Aidan [...]
Posted in Politics, Queensland | Tagged Aidan McLindon, Andrew Fraser, Anna Bligh, Big Brother, Bruce Flegg, Bruce McIvor, Celebrity MasterChef, deputy leadership, gatecrashing, Gretel Killeen, John-Paul Langbroek, Lawrence Springborg, leadership, LNP, Mike Horan, Queensland politics, spill, The Borg, Tim Nicholls |
By Mark Bahnisch on June 18, 2009
I think there are quite a few self-inflicted political problems for Queensland Labor in the presentation of the budget handed down on Tuesday afternoon. But Anna Bligh and Andrew Fraser certainly aren’t helped by the ubiquity of the ‘debt is [...]
Posted in Economics, Media, Politics, Queensland, State/Territory Elections | Tagged ALP, Andrew Fraser, Anna Bligh, credit rating, debt, deficit, economic management, Economics, George Megalogenis, infrastructure, investment, John-Paul Langbroek, Labor, Lawrence Springborg, Liberal National Party, LNP, Media, Nationals, Peter Beattie, privatisation, public services, public spending, QR, Queensland, Queensland budget 2009, Queensland Budget papers, Queensland politics, Queensland rail, stimulus, The Borg, unemployment |
By Mark Bahnisch on March 2, 2009
The Fin Review today published a big feature article on the financial plight of the state governments. And yes, Virginia, they’re all in a bit of a hole, with Victoria possibly an exception depending on whether the VTC head’s claims [...]
Posted in Economics, Markets, Queensland, State/Territory Elections | Tagged Andrew Fraser, bonds, financial markets, GFC, infrastructure, sovereign debt, state governments, Wayne Swan |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 22, 2009
Various newspapers described Queensland Treasurer Andrew Fraser’s budget outlook review on Friday as providing a “trigger” for an impending poll. That’s something of a misleading formulation. But the budget position does give state Labor – perhaps paradoxically – a political [...]
Posted in Economics, Queensland, State/Territory Elections | Tagged ALP, Andrew Fraser, Anna Bligh, debt, deficit, economy, global financial crisis, Graham Young, infrastructure, jobs, Labor, Lawrence Springborg, LNP, political strategy, Polls, Queensland election 2009, queensland government, The Borg |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 29, 2009
Aside from running “news” stories that “couriermail.com.au readers” are shocked by Anna Bligh’s use of the government jet to fly to Townsville, the redoubtable News Limited ranks are continuing their early election frenzy at every available opportunity. Witness this piece [...]
Posted in Media, Polls, Queensland, State/Territory Elections | Tagged ALP, Andrew Fraser, Anna Bligh, Bligh government, Courier-Mail, Cowboys, early election speculation, government jet, Graham Young, Labor, News Limited, Polls, Queensland election 2009, The National Forum, Townsville |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 26, 2009
A further sequel to the LNP/Courier-Mail early election mania – Springborg backer Clive Palmer’s 18 year old son, Michael, who’s the LNP candidate for the safe Labor seat of Nudgee, has had a bit more publicity for saying dumb stuff [...]
Posted in Brisbane, Media, Queensland, State/Territory Elections, Urbanism | Tagged ALP, Andrew Fraser, Anna Bligh, Bligh government, budget, Clive Palmer, Courier-Mail, election speculation, Kangaroo Point, Labor, Lawrence Springborg, Liberal National Party, LNP, Mark McArdle, Michael Palmer, park, Queensland, Queensland election 2009, TAFE, The Borg, Tim Nicholls |
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