By Mark Bahnisch on August 26, 2010
Counting continues in the close seats of Brisbane, Hasluck and Corangamite. Hasluck is looking like falling to the Liberals, and Corangamite being retained by the ALP. So, Brisbane may be the last seat in contention, and also the knife edge [...]
Posted in Brisbane, federal election 2010 | Tagged AEC, Arch Bevis, australian electoral commission, Brisbane, Federal Election 2010, hung parliament, provisional votes, Teresa Gambaro |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 20, 2010
I’ve only ever cast two votes for a party other than the Australian Labor Party in the lower house in my life: once for The Greens in the 1995 state election, and once for the Democrats in the 2001 federal [...]
Posted in Brisbane, federal election 2010 | Tagged andrew bartlett, Arch Bevis, Brisbane, Federal Election 2010 |
By Kim on August 18, 2010
The no doubt over-hyped “town hall meeting” at the Broncos Leagues Club at 6pm, featuring Julia Gillard, Tony Abbott and 200 “swinging voters” picked by Galaxy will be televised live by ABC News 24 this time; and the online stream [...]
Posted in Brisbane, federal election 2010 | Tagged Brisbane, Broncos, broncos leagues club, direct democracy, Federal Election 2010, Galaxy, History, Julia Gillard, New England, Paddington, Q&A, red hill, Rooty Hill, Tony Abbott, town hall meeting, twitter |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 16, 2010
The ALP launches its campaign today in Brisbane. As I was saying earlier, it’s likely that Julia Gillard will focus on the economy, and weave together previous promises into a more focused narrative on Australia’s economic future. Announcements on education, [...]
Posted in federal election 2010 | Tagged ALP, Brisbane, campaign launch, economy, Federal Election 2010, Julia Gillard, Labor |
By Kim on August 12, 2010
Mark discussed the dynamics of shoring up marginal seat votes against broader state and national swings here yesterday. Today, Fairfax’s Brisbane Times provides a form guide to the betting markets on closely contested Queensland seats. My picks would be – [...]
Posted in Brisbane, federal election 2010, Queensland | Tagged ALP, betting markets, Brisbane, Coalition, Federal Election 2010, form guide, Labor, marginal seats, odds, Queensland, sandbagging |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 11, 2010
Newspoll has released the state by state breakdown of its latest poll. Sample sizes, when disaggregated this way, are fairly small, ranging from 445 in SA to 765 in NSW. That translates to a margin of error between 4.6 and [...]
Posted in Brisbane, federal election 2010, Polls, Queensland | Tagged Bonner, Brisbane, campaign, Federal Election 2010, Kevin Rudd, marginal seats, marginals, Moreton, Newspoll, Peter Brent, Petrie, Polls, sandbagging, state swings, William Bowe |
By Kim on July 27, 2010
Continuing an irregular series commenting on how the election looks to commercial tv viewers: commercial free to air is the biggest single source of information for voters. After almost disappearing last night, the election was back on Brisbane’s Channel Nine [...]
Posted in Brisbane, federal election 2010, Media, Queensland, Transport | Tagged andrew bartlett, Anna Bligh, Brisbane, Channel Nine, Dickson, Joe Hockey, Julia Gillard, Laurie Oakes, leaks, Longman, marginal seats, parental leave, pensions, Petrie, Queensland, Redcliffe, redcliffe rail, Simon Crean, Tony Abbott, Yvette D'ath |
By Kim on July 26, 2010
Continuing an irregular series commenting on how the election looks to commercial tv viewers: commercial free to air is the biggest single source of information for voters. On Channel Nine in Brisbane tonight, the sole election story was the seventh [...]
Posted in federal election 2010, Film, TV, Video etc, Health, Parenting, Policy | Tagged abc news 24, Brisbane, Channel Nine, childcare, Federal Election 2010, health policy, Julia Gillard, leaders debate, news, political communication, the drum, Tony Abbott |
By Kim on July 26, 2010
Ever since the Penrith by-election, we’ve been hearing endlessly about Western Sydney as the epicentre of the Australian political nation. The population “debate” proclaims that we need to “pause” as outer suburban areas groan under population pressure and failing infrastructure. [...]
Posted in Australiana, Brisbane, federal election 2010, Immigration, Policy, Politics, Sociology, Sydney, Urbanism | Tagged Bob Carr, Brisbane, Don Arthur, fear of crime, Federal Election 2010, growth, infrastructure, Lindsay, outer suburbs, Policy, population, Sociology, Sydney, Urbanism |
By Gummo Trotsky on June 23, 2010
William Bowe of The Poll Bludger wrote this piece for Crikey today, which we’re republishing with permission. This article is part of a weekly feature in the lead up to the 2010 federal election, and if you’d like to read [...]
Posted in Brisbane, Elections, Federal Elections, Politics, Polls | Tagged ALP, Arch Bevis, Bert van Manen, Blair, Bonner, Bowman, Brett Raguse, Brisbane, Clive Palmer, Coalition, Crikey, Dickson, Federal Election 2010, Forde, Griffith, Jon Sullivan, Kerry Rea, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Lilley, LNP, Longman, Mal Brough, marginal seats, Michael Johnson, Michael Palmer, Moreton, Newspoll, Oxley Rankin, Peter Dutton, Petrie, Poll Bludger, polling, Polls, preferences, redistribution, Rudd government, Ryan, Shayne Neumann, swing, Tereas Gambaro, William Bowe, Wyatt Roy, Yvette D'ath |
By Mark Bahnisch on June 18, 2010
Andrew Bartlett reports on a disgraceful LNP leaflet distributed in the suburbs of Wayne Swan’s electorate of Lilley on Brisbane’s northside. Go read.
Posted in Elections, Immigration, Politics | Tagged andrew bartlett, asylum seekers, Brisbane, campaign, Coalition, Immigration, leaflet, Liberal Party, Lilley, LNP, refugee week, refugees, virginia, Wayne Swan |
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