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By Mark Bahnisch on January 26, 2010
Responding to the loss of Ted Kennedy’s Massachussetts Senate seat to Republican Scott Brown, Barack Obama is set to announce a three year discretionary spending freeze. (Note that military spending is apparently compulsory not discretionary.) Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight.Com thinks [...]
Posted in Economics, International, Markets, USA | Tagged andrew leonard, Australian politics, barack obama, blue dog democrats, Brad DeLong, Coalition, deficits, Economics, Evan Bayh, firedoglake, G20, GFC, global financial crisis, growth, herbert hoover, ideology, Liberal Party, nate silver, Paul Krugman, Politics, recession, Robert Reich, Salon, spending freeze, stimulus, US politics |
By Anna Winter on December 4, 2009
Dr. Cat’s post on women and Tony Abbott is a must-read. She really nails one of the problems I’ve had with the general coverage about Abbott’s “women problem”. So go and read it now. I’ll wait. I’m not going to [...]
Posted in Media, Politics, Women | Tagged Annabel Crabb, Australian politics, Feminism, Judith Troeth, Julia Gillard, Julie Bishop, Kristina Keneally, Miranda Devine, Sophie Mirabella, spill, Sue Boyce, Tony Abbott, Women |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 2, 2009
As a number of prominent Australian climate change scientists hit back at the increasing propensity of elements of the media and some politicians to engage in very high profile climate change denialism, no matter how discredited the ‘arguments’ they put [...]
Posted in Apocalypse, Blogging, Climate change, Media, Politics, Science, Sociology, USA | Tagged Australian politics, barack obama, birthers, Climate change, climate change denialism, conservatism, Guardian, John Quiggin, Media, Michael Tomasky, political culture, political psychology, Republican party, United States politics |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 5, 2009
Thanks to commenter Bird of paradox on a previous thread for drawing my attention to the creation of a Facebook group “Come on Turnbull, don’t take away my $950 bucks !”. As of this morning, it was the largest political [...]
Posted in Activism, Economics, Politics, Sociology, The Web | Tagged Activism, Australian Greens, Australian politics, Bob Brown, Come on Turnbull, crowdsourcing, don't take away my $950 bucks !, economic policy, facebook, Family First, global financial crisis, internet, Kevin Rudd, lobbying, Malcolm Turnbull, nick xenophon, Politics, Senate, Senators, Sociology, Steve Fielding, stimulus package |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 12, 2009
With George W. Bush having a little over a week in office left to go of what has been a very long eight years, it’s timely to turn to the question of the long term implications for the political strength [...]
Posted in Climate change, Environment, Ethics, International, Markets, Science, Sociology, USA | Tagged ALP, anti-science, Australian politics, Climate change, cprs, epistemology, George W. Bush, ideas, John Quiggin, Kevin Rudd, Labor, neoliberalism, political culture, right wing, Rudd government, Science, science studies, short term thinking, Sociology, white paper |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 2, 2008
There’s no doubt that electoral systems structure party competition – something that will become very obvious to us when we start to focus on the New Zealand election. The American system is one of the great contributors to the anti-democratic [...]
Posted in Elections, Europe, International, Politics, Sociology, USA | Tagged Australian politics, Bill Bowtell, Centre for Policy Development, comparative politics, electoral systems, New Zealand election, political history, proportional representation |
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