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By Anna Winter on July 21, 2009
Labor MP Vince Catania last night announced he was quitting the Labor party and joining the Nationals, the party whose support helped Colin Barnett become Premier after the close state election last year. A former member of the upper house, [...]
Posted in Politics | Tagged Brian Burke, Eric Ripper, Vince Catania, WA Labor, WA nationals, Western Australia |
By Anna Winter on August 27, 2008
On a day when speculation ran rife that WA had lost the nation’s biggest resource development project, the Inpex Liquefied Natural Gas project in the Kimberley valued at $25 billion, Alan Carpenter announced yesterday he would be closing the bars [...]
Posted in Feminism, Masculinity, State/Territory Elections, Women | Tagged Alan Carpenter, ALP, Brian Burke, CCC, Colin Barnett, election stunts, Labor, Liberal Party, political accountability, Troy Buswell, WA election 2008, women and politics |
By Anna Winter on August 25, 2008
After the Great Debate 05, it was always going to be a staid affair. Last time, Barnett used the forum to announce his plans for the “Far Canal“. The Howard Government wouldn’t speak in support of it, and then he [...]
Posted in Media, State/Territory Elections, Women | Tagged Alan Carpenter, ALP, Brian Burke, candidates debates, Colin Barnett, Geoff Gallop, great debate, Labor, leaders debates, Liberal Party, Noel Crichton-Browne, political debates, WA election 2008, Western Australia, women in politics |
By Anna Winter on August 25, 2008
With just under two weeks left until the earliest WA election in 100 years, the main story of the campaign is a Premier trying to position himself as a strong and decisive leader, and an opposition trying to paint him [...]
Posted in Perth, State/Territory Elections | Tagged Alan Carpenter, ALP, Brian Burke, CCC, Labor, Liberal Party, WA election 2008 |
By Anna Winter on August 11, 2008
There are some interesting power games and shifts happening in WA politics at the moment, which make this state election slightly more interesting than it would otherwise be. I’m sure they will have very little effect on the outcome of [...]
Posted in State/Territory Elections | Tagged Alan Carpenter, ALP, Brian Burke, CCC, factional politics, independent Labor, Julian Grill, Labor, Labor factions, labor party, ministerial resignations, political scandal, WA election 2008 |
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