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By Kim on September 7, 2010
Bob Katter has supported the Coalition; and the other two Independents will reveal their hand at 3pm. Crikey has a liveblog, and ABC News 24 and News Radio are carrying Bob Katter’s press conference live. Update: Bernard Keane summarises Katter’s [...]
Posted in federal election 2010 | Tagged Bob Katter, Coalition, Federal Election 2010, hung parliament, Independents, liveblogging, Rob Oakeshott, tony windsor |
By Kim on September 7, 2010
BobKat showed last night on Q&A that he could name drop De Tocqueville, Mill and Shakespeare just as well as David Burchell, but with more actual sense (and fewer allusions to Montesquieu, Rousseau and “the ancient Athenians”). Funny how political [...]
Posted in federal election 2010, Media, Philosophy, Politics | Tagged Bob Katter, David Burchell, edmund burke, Federal Election 2010, hung parliament, Independents, kenneth wiltshire, News Limited, Q&A, Qanda, Rob Oakeshott |
By Kim on September 7, 2010
… and urges the country Indepedents to support Tony Abbott. The story is here. Pearson’s main issue seems to be the Queensland Wild Rivers legislation, which Brian wrote about recently. As the article notes, this intervention comes on the back [...]
Posted in federal election 2010, Indigenous | Tagged Bob Katter, chris graham, country independents, Federal Election 2010, hung parliament, Indigenous policy, Noel Pearson, overland, wild rivers |
By Kim on September 6, 2010
Q&A tonight came close to living up to its pitch of unpredictability. The representatives of both wings of the political class – Nick Minchin and Peter Beattie – looked like going into meltdown as Christine Milne and Bob Katter, for [...]
Posted in federal election 2010, History, International, Media, Politics | Tagged agriculture, Bob Katter, cheap food, Christine Milne, De Tocqueville, economic policy, Federal Election 2010, food security, free trade, greens, hung parliament, John Stuart Mill, neo-liberalism, Nick Minchin, Peter Beattie, protection, Q&A, Qanda, Rebecca Huntley, tariffs |
By Kim on September 4, 2010
There’s an interesting article in The Australian today by Gabrielle Chan, looking at the rural discontent embodied in the rhetoric of the country Independents: The 2010 episode of “bush leverage” is a result of a backlash by conservatives against a [...]
Posted in Australiana, Economics, federal election 2010, Howardia, Markets, Policy, Politics, Sociology | Tagged Barnaby Joyce, Bob Katter, country independents, Culture, economic policy, Federal Election 2010, globalisation, hung parliament, John Howard, Nationals, neo-liberalism, neocons, Paul Keating, Pauline Hanson, Red Ted Theodore, rural and regional economies, Sociology, the bush, The Greens, tony windsor |
By Kim on September 2, 2010
One of the most amusing aspects of the hung parliament negotiations has been the discombobulation of MSM opinionistas. David Penberthy is one stellar example. His most recent piece for The Punch is a strange concoction of weirdness, unified only by [...]
Posted in federal election 2010, Media | Tagged 7 30 Report, Bob Katter, conservative, David Penberthy, Federal Election 2010, hung parliament, Independents, Kennedy, Kerry O'Brien, Lyne, Media, myths, New England, Page, Richmond, Rob Oakeshott, The Punch |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 1, 2010
The three rural Independents are meeting this morning with Treasury Secretary Ken Henry to discuss the state of the economy. Yesterday, in her address to the National Press Club [see previous LP discussion here], Prime Minister Julia Gillard made a [...]
Posted in Economics, federal election 2010 | Tagged ALP, andrew wilkie, Bob Katter, economic policy, Federal Election 2010, hung parliament, Independents, infrastructure australia, Julia Gillard, Ken Henry, Labor, Nationals, pork, reserve bank, Wayne Swan |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 27, 2010
There was an interesting micro-debate on Twitter the other night between me, Tad Tietze and Jason Wilson, riffing off Dr_Tad’s scepticism about the “independents are our saviours” meme. That’s expanded on at much greater length at Left Flank. I’d thoroughly [...]
Posted in federal election 2010 | Tagged Bob Katter, Federal Election 2010, Guy Rundle, hung parliament, ideology, Jason Wilson, left, left flank, Media, neo-liberalism, new politics, Politics, Rob Oakeshott, Tad Tietze, The Greens, tony windsor |
By Kim on August 26, 2010
I’m sure there’ll be lots more of this around in tomorrow’s papers, but this article by David Penberthy caught my eye via a Twitter link. In less portentous tones than Paul Kelly, “Penbo” opines in similarly petulant vein. The good [...]
Posted in federal election 2010, Media | Tagged Bob Katter, Daily Telegraph, David Penberthy, Federal Election 2010, hung parliament, Media, Murdoch press, tony windsor, western sydney |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 25, 2010
Here’s a list of requests from the three rural independents. And here’s the Prime Minister’s response.
Posted in federal election 2010 | Tagged Bob Katter, Federal Election 2010, hung parliament, Independents, Julia Gillard, letter, negotiations, requests, Rob Oakeshott, tony windsor |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 22, 2010
Two of the most unedifying aspects of the aftermath of the election result, from the time when it became apparent that we would have a hung parliament, have been the pressure for a quick resolution and the endless rehashing of [...]
Posted in federal election 2010, Media | Tagged 7 30 Report, Andrew Robb, Bill Shorten, Bob Katter, Federal Election 2010, hung parliament, Insiders, Karl Bitar, liberals, Markets, Media, Rob Oakeshott, tony windsor |
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