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By Mark Bahnisch on March 22, 2009
Welcome to the Bligh heterogeneity! And living with heterogeneity is a much better prospect than assimilation into the hivemind of The Borg. I’m still thinking that whoever came up with the bright idea of applying that moniker to Lawrence perhaps [...]
Posted in Queensland, State/Territory Elections | Tagged ALP, analysis, Anna Bligh, Bligh government, campaign, Crikey, election results, Labor, Lawrence Springborg, LNP, Mark Bahnisch, Pineapple Party Time, Polls, Queensland election 2009 |
By Mark Bahnisch on March 19, 2009
I observed on Pineapple Party Time at the beginning of the week that the blame game inside the ALP about the failings of the Queensland campaign had started to leak out into the media. Evidently, some Labor types have been [...]
Posted in Queensland, State/Territory Elections | Tagged ALP, Anna Bligh, Anthony Chisholm, Bligh government, Brisbane, Crikey, electorates, head office, Labor, Lawrence Springborg, LNP, Mike Kaiser, Peel Street, polling, Polls, Queensland election 2009, seats, strategists, swings, tracking polls |
By Mark Bahnisch on March 19, 2009
If the story William Bowe has linked to this morning at Pineapple Party Time about Labor tracking polls showing swings of up to 10% in seats with margins of up to 8% in and around Brisbane and a collapse in [...]
Posted in Queensland, State/Territory Elections | Tagged ALP, Anna Bligh, Bligh government, Brisbane, electorates, Labor, Lawrence Springborg, LNP, polling, Polls, Queensland election 2009, seats, swings, The Greens, tracking polls |
By Mark Bahnisch on March 15, 2009
As the Queensland election is buffeted off course by Cyclone Hamish and the oil spill, Lawrence Springborg has enjoyed more success in shaping the political message – Anna Bligh’s sos is being lost in the storm. There’s a conundrum here, [...]
Posted in Queensland, State/Territory Elections | Tagged ALP, Anna Bligh, Bligh government, campaign launch, Crikey blog, fiscal policy, GFC, John Wanna, Labor, Lawrence Springborg, leaders debate, leadership, LNP, Pineapple Party Time, political communication, political science, public management, Queensland politics, Queensland state election 2009 |
By Mark Bahnisch on March 10, 2009
I’m increasingly convinced that if things carry on as they are at the moment, Labor is gone in Queensland as a majority government. Their biggest hope remains a shift in voter expectations away from an ALP win, and it seems [...]
Posted in Polls, Queensland, State/Territory Elections | Tagged ALP, Anna Bligh, Bligh government, campaign strategy, Labor, Lawrence Springborg, LNP, Newspoll, Peter Beattie, Queensland politics, Queensland state election 2009 |
By Mark Bahnisch on March 3, 2009
There’s lots more reading about the Queensland election over at Pineapple Party Time, but I thought I might take this opportunity of pointing out that a plausible argument could be made that The Borg sunk his ship today. We’ll see, [...]
Posted in Federal Elections, Queensland, State/Territory Elections | Tagged ALP, Anna Bligh, Bligh government, economic policy, global financial crisis, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Lawrence Springborg, LNP, Malcolm Turnbull, Queensland politics, Queensland state election 2009 |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 17, 2009
It seems that the ALP still can’t lift a political finger in Queensland without the press wizards at The Australian heralding it as a sign of an imminent election. On Friday, they were writing about a “trigger” for a poll, [...]
Posted in Queensland, State/Territory Elections, The Web | Tagged ALP, Anna Bligh, anna4qld, Bligh government, early election speculation, Gary Fenlon, Graham Young, internet and politics, Labor, Lawrence Springborg, Liberal National Party, LNP, Mike Reynolds, Queensland election 2009, social media, The Borg, web campaigning |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 10, 2009
A taste of what’s to come in the Queensland election campaign has been airing on the telly over the last few nights. One of the advantages for Labor of the early election speculation is that almost anything they do that’s [...]
Posted in Queensland, State/Territory Elections | Tagged ALP, attack ads, Bligh government, economic policy, global financial crisis, jobs, Labor, Lawrence Springborg, LNP, political campaigning, political communication, Queensland election 2009, The Borg, TV, youtube |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 29, 2009
Aside from running “news” stories that “couriermail.com.au readers” are shocked by Anna Bligh’s use of the government jet to fly to Townsville, the redoubtable News Limited ranks are continuing their early election frenzy at every available opportunity. Witness this piece [...]
Posted in Media, Polls, Queensland, State/Territory Elections | Tagged ALP, Andrew Fraser, Anna Bligh, Bligh government, Courier-Mail, Cowboys, early election speculation, government jet, Graham Young, Labor, News Limited, Polls, Queensland election 2009, The National Forum, Townsville |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 28, 2009
There are some interesting tidbits around today about where Queensland politics is at – at a point in time when the serious business of politics has started (at least for the ALP) but where I think the election is still [...]
Posted in Polls, Queensland, State/Territory Elections | Tagged Anna Bligh, bernard keane, Bligh government, Graham Young, Lawrence Springborg, LNP, National Forum, polling, Polls, Queensland election 2009, Queensland politics, The Borg, What the People Want |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 26, 2009
A further sequel to the LNP/Courier-Mail early election mania – Springborg backer Clive Palmer’s 18 year old son, Michael, who’s the LNP candidate for the safe Labor seat of Nudgee, has had a bit more publicity for saying dumb stuff [...]
Posted in Brisbane, Media, Queensland, State/Territory Elections, Urbanism | Tagged ALP, Andrew Fraser, Anna Bligh, Bligh government, budget, Clive Palmer, Courier-Mail, election speculation, Kangaroo Point, Labor, Lawrence Springborg, Liberal National Party, LNP, Mark McArdle, Michael Palmer, park, Queensland, Queensland election 2009, TAFE, The Borg, Tim Nicholls |
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