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
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 Mark Bahnisch on August 13, 2008
Discussion of the Northern Territory election results continues to be framed in terms of its possible implications for WA, where Alan Carpenter also went early. There are at least two problems with this narrative – first that there’s no evidence [...]
Posted in State/Territory Elections | Tagged Alan Carpenter, ALP, Bob Quinn, Bruce Flegg, CCC, CMC, Colin Barnett, Jim Elder, Labor, Labor factions, Lawrence Springborg, Liberal Party, Mike Kaiser, ministerial resignations, Nationals, Northern Territory election 2008, political scandal, Queensland, Queensland election 2001, Queensland election 2006, Sheperdson Inquiry, Troy Buswell, WA election 2008, Western Australia |
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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