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By Kim on August 2, 2010
As a bit of an update to my post this morning on Newspoll, I thought I’d link to Possum’s piece this afternoon where he factors today’s numbers into an estimation of the trend: As a result, this brings our Pollytrend [...]
Posted in federal election 2010, Media, Polls | Tagged campaign strategy, Christopher Pyne, debate, Federal Election 2010, front runner, incumbency, Julia Gillard, Lateline, Leigh Sales, let julia be julia, Media, Newspoll, possum |
By Kim on July 14, 2010
Two recent events have prompted me to ponder how federal Labor is traveling in Queensland. Yesterday, we saw Flynn MP Chris Trevor make an impassioned defence of Kevin Rudd against what he identified as the factional forces that brought him [...]
Posted in Brisbane, Elections, Federal Elections, Politics, Polls, Queensland | Tagged ALP, Anna Bligh, AWU, Bill Ludwig, Chris Trevor, Christopher Pyne, Coalition, Dennis Atkins, electorates, Federal Election 2010, Federal Elections, Flynn, Galaxy, Julia Gillard, Julie Bishop, Kevin Rudd, Labor, marginal seats, Nielsen, Polls, privatisation, Queensland, seats, swing |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 18, 2009
Props to Paul Burns for cooking up the latest apt nickname for Peter Costello – it says it all, really. If the Liberal Party thought they’d recovered from the political morass they sunk themselves into with the stimulus package naysaying, [...]
Posted in Economics, Politics | Tagged Christopher Pyne, Essential Research poll, factions, free markets, howard government, ideology, Joe Hockey, leadership, Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull, moderates, Peter Costello, political communication, public opinion, reshuffle, Rudd government, stimulus package |
By Mark Bahnisch on December 5, 2008
It’s been a shocker of a week for Malcolm Turnbull. We’ve had the Julie Bishop shenanigans, the missing deficit as a yardstick line, second guessing the Reserve Bank to argue that interest rates rises tanked the economy (which is an [...]
Posted in Politics | Tagged Christopher Pyne, crossing the floor, Fiona Nash, infrastructure, Julia Gillard, Julie Bishop, liberal leadership, Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull, Nationals, parliament, private schools funding, Senate |
By Mark Bahnisch on December 2, 2008
Back when Malcolm Turnbull’s reshuffle was announced, we had a request from Laura for a Chrissy Pyne watch. I can’t find the comment in question readily to link back to, but the LP collective memory is evidently elephantine… So, what’s [...]
Posted in Education | Tagged bills, Christopher Pyne, Education, education policy, Julia Gillard, Liberal Party, national curriculum, parliament, private schools funding, Senate, transparency |
By Kim on October 15, 2008
I have to confess at the outset that I haven’t read the report – I am really busy with work at the moment and I simply don’t have time (or energy when I do have time), but I wanted to [...]
Posted in Culture, Ethics, History, Indigenous, Media, Politics, Race | Tagged ALP, andrew bartlett, Christopher Pyne, Culture Wars, Glenn Milne, history curriculum, History wars, Indigenous policy, Jenny Macklin, kevin donnelly, Labor, Marni Cordell, national curriculum board, Noel Pearson, Northern Territory, NT intervention, NT intervention report, NT intervention review, Rudd government, stuart macintyre, Warren Mundine, welfare policy |
By Kim on October 13, 2008
Glenn Milne used to be frequently accused of being a mouthpiece for Peter Costello. Guess who he’s talking to now? Pyne, one of Turnbull’s key leadership backers, has now been promoted into the frontline education portfolio and it is Julia [...]
Posted in Education, Media | Tagged ALP, Christopher Pyne, education funding, Glenn Milne, Julia Gillard, Labor, News Limited columnists, Peter Costello, Rudd government, schools policy |
By Kim on August 7, 2008
What do you do if you’re a columnist for the Opposition Organ and nothing is actually happening in the Peter Costello Leadership Story? Write about Chrissy Pyne’s Facebook status updates as if they’re news, that’s what! Score one zero for [...]
Posted in Media, Politics, The Web | Tagged $weetie, Christopher Pyne, Coalition, Dennis Shanahan, leadership crisis, leadership instability, Liberal Party, mainstream media, News Limited columnists, Paul Keating, Peter Costello, web and politics |
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