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Boat people tragedy

By Robert Merkel on December 15, 2010

According to ABC News online, dozens are feared dead: Dozens of asylum seekers are feared dead after their boat smashed into rocks and broke apart in rough conditions off Christmas Island this morning. Customs crews and locals are frantically trying [...]

Posted in Disasters, Immigration | Tagged boat people, Immigration, roundtable | 249 Responses

CPD post: Menadue – surely we’re a better country than this?

By Guest Poster on August 18, 2010

During the election campaign, LP will be cross-posting selected items from the Centre for Policy Development’s discussion of policy issues, Thinking Points. Readers may also be interested in the CPD’s collection of policy ideas and priorities for the next term, [...]

Posted in federal election 2010, Immigration | Tagged asylum seekers, boat people, CPD, Federal Election 2010, Immigration, John Menadue, Media, population, public debate, Thinking Points | 7 Responses

Coalition announces border protection policy: a bigger, nastier Pacific Solution

By Kim on May 27, 2010

The Coalition has released its policy on “border protection”. The press release is here. All the usual nasties are there (TPVs, turn back the boats, blah blah) but what’s significant is the return of the Pacific Solution: In government, we [...]

Posted in Howardia, Immigration | Tagged boat people, border protection, Christmas Island, Coalition, detention, Immigration, Liberal Party, pacific solution, people smuggling, processing, refugees | 192 Responses

Population policy and political border control

By Mark Bahnisch on April 8, 2010

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 [...]

Posted in Australiana, Culture, History, Howardia, Immigration, Media, Politics, Race | Tagged ALP, asylum seekers, bernard keane, Big Australia, boat people, border policing, border security, Culture, discourses, History, Immigration, immigration debate, insularity, John Howard, Julia Gillard, Kevin Andrews, labor party, Lowy Institute, One Nation, political communication, political culture, poll, population policy, Race, racism, rhetoric, Rudd government, Scott Morrison, survey, Tony Burke | 57 Responses

They're Here! Asylum seeker beat ups

They're Here! Asylum seeker beat ups

By Kim on March 30, 2010

So, it wasn’t just me that noticed a prime piece of fear mongering occupying the front page of Brisbane’s Sunday Mail (now with new editor!): <img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/files/2010/03/29-03-2010-10-50-17-AM1.jpg" The image of the paper’s Sunday cover comes courtesy of Crikey:

Posted in Howardia, Immigration, Politics, Polls, Race | Tagged asylum seekers, boat people, border protection, civil rights, Crikey, debate, dog whistling, economic policy, great health debate, headland speech, human rights, humanitarianism, Immigration, John Howard, Lilley, News Limited, Newspoll, Policy, public opinion, refugees, scare campaigns, shopping centre, Speech, Sunday Mail, temporary protection visas, Tony Abbott, Toombul, tpvs, Wayne Swan, xenophobia | 72 Responses

Tony Abbott: Dogwhistling towards destiny?

By Mark Bahnisch on January 23, 2010

Tony Abbott gave an Australia day address in Melbourne last night (a few days early, but what the hey…). The Shorter Tone? Immigrants should adopt Australian values and that Mufti character was dodgy; A big population is good, but John [...]

Posted in Howardia, Immigration, Politics | Tagged asylum seekers, Australia Day, boat people, Federal Election 2010, Immigration, John Howard, Tony Abbott, values | 67 Responses

Road to nowhere

By Mark Bahnisch on November 20, 2009

In the wake of his avowal of climate change denialism on Four Corners, Nick Minchin has spent the second last week of the Parliamentary year stoking the fires of Coalition opposition to the CPRS. Tony Abbott, previously a ‘skeptic’ who [...]

Posted in Climate change, Economics, Energy, Howardia, Immigration, Politics | Tagged asylum seekers, Barnaby Joyce, boat people, brown jobs, climate change policy, Coal industry, Copenhagen, cprs, denialism, emissions trading legislation, employment, green jobs, John Howard, liberal leadership, Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull, Nationals, Nick Minchin, Penny Wong, polling, refugees, Rudd government, Tony Abbott | 49 Responses

The polling trend

By Mark Bahnisch on November 17, 2009

Although the new Newspoll (and presumably the Newspoll with the unpublished voting intention figures) shows a return to what has become normality with a 2PP of 56/44 in Labor’s favour, all the talk among the commentariat is of “the trend”. [...]

Posted in Immigration, Media, Polls | Tagged ALP, asylum seekers, boat people, Labor, Newspoll, political communication, polling, polling trend, possum, refugees, Rudd government | 15 Responses

News(poll) hits new lows

By Mark Bahnisch on November 10, 2009

At politicalowl, Richard Farmer quotes Gary Morgan on the Newspoll released today, which asked questions about the Prime Minister’s handling of asylum seekers but which also included questions about voting intention. But the results of those questions were not printed [...]

Posted in Ethics, Immigration, Media, Polls | Tagged abc, asylum seekers, boat people, crisis, Gary Morgan, Media, News Limited, Newspoll, Nielsen, Polls, refugees, SBS, The Australian | 58 Responses

Memories

By Mark Bahnisch on November 8, 2009

John Howard is on the front page of the Sydney Sunday Telegraph proclaiming “I’d stop the boats!”… Meanwhile, all week since the Newspoll likely outlier, the tone of the media coverage and commentary has shifted. Glenn Milne, with his accustomed [...]

Posted in Culture, Howardia, Immigration, Media, Polls, Sociology | Tagged asylum seekers, boat people, commentatariat, Essential Research, Indonesian solution, John Howard, Kevin Rudd, Media, Morgan, Newspoll, pacific solution, Pauline Hanson, political culture, political sociology, Polls, psephology, Rudd government, xenophobia | 67 Responses

That other race

By Mark Bahnisch on November 3, 2009

As Phil observed on Facebook, the political classes are going to work themselves into a lather over a poll on the day when a horse race stops the nation. Newspoll shows Labor’s primary at 41, down 7 points, and equal [...]

Posted in Immigration, Media, Polls | Tagged ALP, asylum seekers, boat people, Coalition, Essential Research, Labor, Liberal Party, Media, Newspoll, possum, Rudd government | 61 Responses

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