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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 |
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 |
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 |
By Anna Winter on November 20, 2007
There’s a greater focus on the role of the Senate since the Howard Government gained control of both Houses. That’s a very good thing, and let’s hope it continues. Most of the Senate focus has been on the importance of [...]
Posted in Federal Elections, Feminism, Health, Policy, Science | Tagged Australian Democrats, Australian Greens, Federal election 2007, gender & equality, Natasha Stott-Despoja, politics&govt, Sociology |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 7, 2007
From today’s Crikey email: When the venerable New York Times publishes a piece in its travel section praising cosmopolitan Brisbane to the hilt as an upscale destination, you know that you can forget all about those cliches about a “sleepy [...]
Posted in Brisbane, Culture, Federal Elections, Politics, Sociology | Tagged andrew bartlett, Australian Democrats, Coalition, Culture Wars, Federal election 2007, politics&govt, Sociology |
By Kim on November 4, 2007
… for there to be a real movement for the abolition of party determined preferences in the Senate? How difficult could it be to have the parties and other candidates listed above the line and allow voters to determine preferences? [...]
Posted in Federal Elections, Polls | Tagged Australian Democrats, Australian Greens, Coalition, Federal election 2007 |
By Brian on October 28, 2007
Lenore Taylor in the Weekend AFR reported that Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull had taken a submission to cabinet suggesting that Australia ratify the Kyoto Protocol immediately. Government sources have told the Weekend AFR that Mr Turnbull argued the government would [...]
Posted in Climate change, Federal Elections | Tagged Australian Democrats, Australian Greens, Coalition, Federal election 2007, Kim Beazley |
By tigtog on October 27, 2007
In Queensland, the Australian Greens and the Australian Democrats have agreed to a preference swap deal, to maximise the chance that at least one non-major Senate candidate will win a seat. I’m so glad to hear this. Good on Andrew [...]
Posted in Federal Elections | Tagged andrew bartlett, Australian Democrats, Australian Greens, Coalition, Federal election 2007 |
By Robert Merkel on October 23, 2007
No, not the Senate, the US presidential election. While Steve Colbert’s presidential run is probably the most entertaining thing that’s happened in those primaries since no-chance Democrat Mike Gravel’s avant-garde advertisement, the marginally more serious candidates are touring their way [...]
Posted in Elections, International, Politics, USA | Tagged Australian Democrats, politics&govt |
By Robert Merkel on October 22, 2007
Well, everybody seems to think Rudd won the debate fairly convincingly. But perhaps the most interesting thing said all night wasn’t even at the debate, it was as the Greens “People’s Forum”, which they liveblogged: Q from the web: Would [...]
Posted in Federal Elections, Film, TV, Video etc | Tagged Australian Democrats, Australian Greens, Federal election 2007, Television |
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