By Mark Bahnisch on February 12, 2009
Possum has done an admirable job of spelling out the political implications of the stalling of the stimulus package in the Senate [see also Rob's earlier posts]: The real irony here is it’s the bloke in the middle [Malcolm Turnbull] [...]
Posted in Economics, Elections, Politics | Tagged ALP, Australian Greens, balance of power, Bob Brown, double dissolution, early election, economic policy, global financial crisis, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull, nick xenophon, Polls, proportional representation, recession, Rudd government, Senate, Senate passage, Steve Fielding, stimulus package, The Greens |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 7, 2009
Simon Jackman has the good oil on what Bob Brown and Steve Fielding are putting on the table as Senate deliberations on Kevin Rudd’s fiscal stimulus continue. Both are emphasising the unemployed and job creation (with Brown arguing for green [...]
Posted in Politics | Tagged Australian Greens, benefits, Bob Brown, Family First, fiscal stimulus, global financial crisis, Henry review, Ken Henry, Kevin Rudd, minor party, Rudd government, Senate, Senate Committee, Senate passage, Senators, social inequality, social policy, Steve Fielding, stimulus package, The Greens, unemployed, unemployment, welfare policy |
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 October 5, 2008
As noted here and here in comments, there’s an extremely interesting development in Queensland state politics today – Indooroopilly MP Ronan Lee has defected from the ALP to join The Greens. Lee has been something of a maverick during his [...]
Posted in Local Elections, Queensland, State/Territory Elections | Tagged ALP, Anna Bligh, Australian Greens, Bob Brown, Brisbane City Council election 2008, Indooroopilly, Labor, LNP, Peter Beattie, Queensland politics, queensland state election 2006, Ronan Lee, The Greens, Toowong |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 10, 2008
With all the attention on the role of Brendon Grylls and the Nationals as the kingmakers in the WA election result, the improvement in the Greens’ vote has slipped under the radar somewhat. Counting subsequent to election night has seen [...]
Posted in Activism, Federal Elections, State/Territory Elections | Tagged ALP, Anthony Albanese, Australian Greens, Bob Brown, Brendon Grylls, comparative electoral systems, comparative politics, electoral systems, GetUp!, Kevin Rudd, Labor, labour movement, Lib Dems, Lindsay Tanner, MMP, Nationals, New Zealand, nick xenophon, proportional representation, Steve Fielding, Tanya Plibersek, Tony Blair, trade union movement, WA election 2008, WA election results |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 25, 2008
As well as OpenAustralia being tweaked to focus on the Senate, the folks at GreensBlog have also welcomed in the first sitting of the new Senate tomorrow with a new address and look for the blog and a new website [...]
Posted in Activism, Blogging, Politics, The Web | Tagged Australian Greens, balance of power, Blogging, blogosphere, Bob Brown, e democracy, GreensBlog, open australia, openaustralia, political blogging, Senate, The Greens |
By Kim on August 14, 2008
John Quiggin’s blog is on a temporary hiatus, which is a pity as I’d hoped he’d reproduce his article in the Financial Review today to enable it to reach a wider audience. Gary Sauer-Thompson summarises the gist of the article [...]
Posted in Climate change | Tagged Australian Greens, big business, Bob Brown, Climate change, climate change denialism, ecological disaster, Emissions trading scheme, global warming, John Quiggin, Kevin Rudd, Labor, labor party, Lake Albert, Lake Alexandrina, Murray River, Murray-Darling, Penny Wong, Rudd government |
By Robert Merkel on November 20, 2007
One thing we talked about quite a bit before the election amongst the LP collective is drawing attention to the Senate contests. I don’t think we’ve done as good a job as we could have, considering its importance. Just to [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Climate change, Federal Elections, Politics, Terrorism | Tagged andrew bartlett, Australian Greens, authoritarian, Bob Brown, Coalition, Federal election 2007, intolerance, Sociology, war & conflict |
By suz on November 6, 2007
Next Sunday November 11 is the second Walk Against Warming, deliberately planned for two weeks before the election. There will be at least 50 walks across Australia. Sydney’s Walk Against Warming will kick off in The Domain at 1pm, with [...]
Posted in Activism, Environment, Federal Elections | Tagged Bob Brown, Federal election 2007, Peter Garrett |
By Robert Merkel on October 29, 2007
Yesterday morning on Insiders, Bob Brown pointed out that neither Howard or Rudd mentioned the drought in the debate last Sunday. That may be so, but Labor has put it back on the agenda with the promise of a $1 [...]
Posted in Climate change, Economics, Energy, Federal Elections, Water | Tagged Bob Brown, Federal election 2007, Labor |
By Robert Merkel on October 19, 2007
Sometimes, the only way to make sense of this election is through fiction.With Kevin Rudd’s immediate slapdown of Robert McClelland, you can almost hear in the background The West Wing‘s Josh Lyman blowing his top at the message calendar being [...]
Posted in Books, Writers & Writing, Federal Elections, Levity | Tagged Bob Brown, Federal election 2007, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Writings |
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