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By Kim on October 13, 2011
The other day, I wrote about Campbell Newman’s botheration and bluster in the face of demands that he fully declare his pecuniary interests. The Bligh Labor government, the opposition declaimed, was preparing the ground for a “summer of sleaze” and [...]
Posted in Featured, Media, Politics, Queensland, State/Territory Elections | Tagged Anna Bligh, Bligh government, Bruce McIver, Campbell Newman, Courier-Mail, dirt files, drunks and desperadoes, LNP, punks, Queensland politics, Robert Hough, sleaze |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 17, 2011
My colleague in several incarnations, Dr John Harrison, has a neat post on social capital and the SEQ floods at jmaced: The good thing is that communities with high levels of social capital recover from adverse circumstances faster than those [...]
Posted in Activism, Blogging, Brisbane, Disasters, International, Sociology | Tagged #qldfloods, Anna Bligh, brisbane floods, communications, donations, equality, facebook, giving, Hurricane Katrina, inequality, mentalities, queensland floods, queensland government, Queensland police, social capital, social media, Sociology, trust, tsunami, twitter, volunteering |
By Robert Merkel on October 8, 2010
A couple of weeks ago, to some fanfare, the Bligh government signed a memorandum of cooperation (memo here) with Origin Energy and the PNG Sustainable Development program for the Wabo Hydroelectric project. The plan, described in fact sheets from the [...]
Posted in Climate change, Developing world, Energy, Environment, Foreign policy, Policy | Tagged Anna Bligh, hydroelectricity, Papua New Guinea, Queensland, renewable energy, renewable energy target |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 20, 2010
Published in today’s Crikey email: We’re drowning in polls at the moment, and rumours of polls. I’ve been writing in recent days about the futility of over-interpreting polls, and it’s also been suggested that the key to divining this election [...]
Posted in Brisbane, federal election 2010, Queensland | Tagged ALP, Anna Bligh, Bligh government, Federal Election 2010, Kevin Rudd, Labor, labor seats, LNP, marginals, Mark Bahnisch, Polls, queensland seats, swing |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 15, 2010
This morning, in response to the Galaxy Poll [see analysis here], Prime Minister Gillard warned that voters in Queensland and New South Wales needed to distinguish between her government and their unpopular state Labor regimes. Is she right that there’s [...]
Posted in federal election 2010, Queensland | Tagged Anna Bligh, debate, economic debate, economic management, Federal Election 2010, Galaxy poll, Julia Gillard, Kristina Keneally, labor launch, Neville Wran, NSW, Peter Beattie, Queensland, state issues, town hall meeting |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 5, 2010
From today’s Crikey email: Former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd last night gave an interview to Phillip Adams on Late Night Live. This morning, Brisbane’s sole metropolitan newspaper characterised his successor Julia Gillard’s response as an apology to Queenslanders for hurting [...]
Posted in federal election 2010, Queensland | Tagged abc news 24, ALP, Anna Bligh, Crikey, Federal Election 2010, interview, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Labor leadership, late night live, marginal seats, Mark Bahnisch, mark latham, Phillip Adams, Polls, Queensland, the drum |
By Mark Bahnisch on July 31, 2010
The Coalition campaign has less money in the coffers than Labor, and if past indications are any guide, they’ll be holding back on their advertising spend for a blitz in the final ten days or so. It’s worth gazing into [...]
Posted in Advertising, Climate change, federal election 2010 | Tagged Anna Bligh, carbon price, carbon tax, climate change policy, cprs, Department of Climate Change, election ads, electricity tarriffs, ets, Federal Election 2010, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, modelling, Penny Wong, price signals, privatisation, scare campaign, tax, Tony Abbott, Water, water policy |
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 |
By Mark Bahnisch on July 18, 2010
Possum reports on the first poll released during the election campaign – Galaxy, which comes in with essentially the same numbers as last time, bar a drop in The Greens’ primary vote to 13%, with the one point lost going [...]
Posted in federal election 2010, Federal Elections, Polls | Tagged ALP, Anna Bligh, Federal Election 2010, Galaxy, Julia Gillard, Labor, Polls, possum, Queensland election 2009 |
By Kim on July 14, 2010
Two recent events have prompted me to ponder how federal Labor is traveling in Queensland. Yesterday, we saw Flynn MP Chris Trevor make an impassioned defence of Kevin Rudd against what he identified as the factional forces that brought him [...]
Posted in Brisbane, Elections, Federal Elections, Politics, Polls, Queensland | Tagged ALP, Anna Bligh, AWU, Bill Ludwig, Chris Trevor, Christopher Pyne, Coalition, Dennis Atkins, electorates, Federal Election 2010, Federal Elections, Flynn, Galaxy, Julia Gillard, Julie Bishop, Kevin Rudd, Labor, marginal seats, Nielsen, Polls, privatisation, Queensland, seats, swing |
By Kim on July 11, 2010
There is no doubt that the ascension of Julia Gillard to the Labor leadership, and therefore her becoming Australia’s first female Prime Minister, is a significant moment and raises a number of issues for discussion. Some have posed the question [...]
Posted in Culture, Feminism, Politics, Sociology, Women | Tagged ALP, Anna Bligh, Anne Summers, Catherine Marshall, equality, Feminism, gender, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Labor leadership, labor party, leadership challenge, misogyny, Shakira Hussein, spill, Women |
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