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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 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 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 5, 2010
In a neat piece of timing, Queensland LNP MPs Aidan McLindon (Beaudesert) and Rob Messenger (Burnett) chose the eve of a John Howard love in with the party’s caucus to announce their defection and decision to sit as Independents. Both [...]
Posted in Federal Elections, Howardia, Politics, Queensland, State/Territory Elections | Tagged Aidan McLindon, ALP, amalgamation, Anna Bligh, Bligh government, Federal Election 2010, Independents, John Howard, John-Paul Langbroek, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Labour Day, Lawrence Springborg, Liberal National Party, Liberal Party, LNP, Nationals, privatisation, Queensland politics, Rob Messenger |
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 March 11, 2010
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/files/2010/03/softvswitched1.jpg1.jpg" Possum has obtained the polling conducted by UMR for six Queensland unions on the impact of Anna Bligh’s privatisation plans on Labor’s vote. It’s not good news for Bligh, and he suggests, not good news for Kevin Rudd [...]
Posted in Federal Elections, Politics, Queensland, State/Territory Elections | Tagged ALP, Anna Bligh, Bligh government, Federal Election 2010, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Peter Beattie, polling, possum, QR, Queensland Labor, Queensland rail, unions |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 22, 2010
The Queensland government is pondering the introduction of the ‘Teach for Australia‘ model into state schools. The idea, trialled in Victoria and inspired by an American programme, is to fast track graduates with Bachelor’s degrees in any discipline into classrooms [...]
Posted in Education, Politics, Queensland, USA | Tagged ALP, Anna Bligh, behaviour management, Bligh government, child development, child psychology, classroom management, disadvantaged schools, Geoff Wilson, Labor, prac, practicum, professionalism, qualifications, Queensland politics, school education, schools, skills, Teach for Australia, Teach for Queensland, teacher education, teacher registration, teacher training, teachers, tertiary training, university education faculties, Victoria |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 14, 2010
The Poll Bludger has all the figures on a disastrous Galaxy poll for Queensland Labor. The 59-41 two party preferred in favour of the LNP isn’t so significant in the context of optional preferential voting, where many voters don’t preference [...]
Posted in Politics, Polls, Queensland | Tagged ALP, Anna Bligh, asset sales, Bligh government, Galaxy poll, LNP, optional preferential voting, privatisation, queensland government, Queensland Labor, Queensland politics |
By Mark Bahnisch on December 17, 2009
Back in August, I had this to say about Anna Bligh’s Labor regime in Queensland: Anna Bligh’s credibility was one of the few things the ALP had going for it in the March state election. Her opposition to the dictates [...]
Posted in Politics, Queensland | Tagged ALP, Andrew Crook, Anna Bligh, AWU, Bernie Fraser, Bligh government, Cameron Dick, caucus, Crikey, Grace Grace, Graham Young, Greenslopes, John Mickel, Kevin Rudd, labor party, left faction, left unions, Liberal National Party, LNP, Mike Kaiser, Nicole Scurrah, Paul Lucas, Peter Beattie, Polls, privatisation, QCU, QR, Queensland ALP, Queensland election 2009, Queensland politics, Queensland rail, special conference, unions, Wayne Swan |
By Mark Bahnisch on July 27, 2009
From today’s Crikey: There has been a certain feeling in the air of deja vu over the past fortnight in Queensland. The jailing of a former Minister, allegations that government was far too close to business, a government sinking rapidly [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Brisbane, Crime, Media, Politics, Queensland, Sociology | Tagged Anna Bligh, anniversary, Armed Robbery Squad, Bligh government, civil liberties, CJC, CMC, corruption, Courier-Mail, Crime, Fitzgerald Inquiry, Gordon Nuttall, Griffith University, Joh Bjelke-Petersen, malfeasance, Media, police culture, political culture, Queensland police, Queensland politics, Quentin Dempster, Terry O'Gorman, Tony Fitzgerald, transparency |
By Mark Bahnisch on June 15, 2009
In the wake of the unnecessary firesale of state assets, the Bligh government has continued down its merry path of trashing Labor policy. Last week we had the refusal to take any action over the charges laid against a 19 [...]
Posted in Government, Policy, Queensland, State/Territory Elections | Tagged abortion, ALP, ALP policy, Anna Bligh, Bligh government, budget, GFC, infrastructure, Ipswich, Labor conference, Mike Kaiser, One Nation, Peter Beattie, privatisation, public sector, QR, Queensland budget 2009, Queensland election 2009, Queensland Labor, Queensland politics, Queensland rail, RU486, unions, wage negotiations, Wayne Goss |
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