Abbott on population: Babies good, immigration not so much
When Tony Abbott was giving a press conference yesterday, alongside his wife, at a child care centre at Kippa Ring in the Brisbane outer northside electorate of Petrie, he was asked if his support for benefits designed to encourage Australians [...]
Essential Research: A pox on both your houses (and on the media)
In comments on Mr Denmore’s guest post on the interpretation of polls (particularly Newspoll) through the self-referential lens of the ‘media narrative’, I wrote: All quantitative polling tells you only so much, without asking questions about strength of voting intention, [...]
Brumby vs. Rudd (and sundry other premiers)
With the announcement of substantial funding for aged care closing the Commonwealth’s offer to the Premiers on health policy ahead of the COAG meeting next week, the National Health and Hospitals Network roadshow reaches the penultimate stage in the drama. [...]
Population policy and political border control
As an addendum to Robert’s post on the Rudd government’s announcement of the appointment of Tony Burke as Population Minister, and the call for a national debate on population policy, I wanted to pick up on another aspect of Bernard [...]
Balance?
I’m not sure how this one slipped through: What the longevity of almost all state and territory governments suggests is that it is difficult for an opposition to come to power except through the electorate’s view that it is time [...]
Abbott and Murdoch
The News Limited papers have been pounding Stephen Conroy for having met Kerry Stokes while holidaying in Colorado, prior to the Rudd government’s hand out to free to air tv stations. [For the record, Conroy denies the two events are [...]
The politics of risk and uncertainty in an election year
Writing in Crikey yesterday, Guy Rundle described the Greek imbroglio as the second wave of the Global Financial Crisis: So let’s try and make it as clear as possible — the second wave of the 2008 GFC has begun, and [...]
What's up with Rudd?
Bernard Keane in today’s Crikey email:
Should Peter Garrett resign?
Peter Garrett is in all sorts of strife, over the deaths caused by unsafe foil roof insulation installations under a Federal Government programme. Writing at The Stump, Bernard Keane argues that the Opposition’s pursuit of Garrett has been lacklustre. A [...]
King Lear becomes a kingmaker, Hockey's treachery, and delay is the new denial
It’s probably time to take stock again of the Liberal leadership spill shenanigans. John Howard has obviously been having a word in a few journos’ ears. Tony Wright penned this piece for The Age yesterday, portraying the Ghost of Wollstonecraft [...]
Who are the golden geese?
By Kim on May 5, 2010
A couple of interesting pieces appeared today about the self-serving claims of the mining industry about the Resources Super Profits Tax, dutifully echoed by journos and opposition pollies, and it would now appear, Anna Bligh. Bernard Keane:
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