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By Mark Bahnisch on December 9, 2009
Tony Abbott appears to have taken that gospel saying about being “cunning as a serpent” to heart, if not the bit about being “gentle as a dove”. The problem with the media cycle these days for the political obfuscator is [...]
Posted in Climate change, Howardia, Politics | Tagged Alan Jones, battlers, climate change denialism, climate change policy, cprs, ets, John Howard, Kevin Rudd, Lateline, Liberal Party, market solutions, Nationals, political strategy, Politics, spin, Tony Abbott, WorkChoices |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 28, 2009
[Via Labor Outsider in comments] The Australian is reporting that an analysis of Newspoll data collected in September suggests that 63% of urban Coalition voters want the government’s CPRS passed, with only 28% against, and that the Liberals could lose [...]
Posted in Climate change, Polls | Tagged Alan Jones, andrew bolt, Climate change, climate change denialism, cprs, ets, Liberal base, liberal leadership, Liberal leadership spill, Liberal Party, Liberal party membership, Malcolm Turnbull, Media, Newspoll, political sociology, poll, possum, public opinion, urban seats |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 28, 2009
Having talked to a few friends over the last few days who aren’t political junkies (but are more taken with politics than perhaps the average voter), I’m not at all convinced that the Liberal leadership shenanigans are of anywhere near [...]
Posted in Climate change, Howardia, Media, Politics, Sociology, The Web | Tagged Andrew Robb, Annabel Crabb, Axel bruns, Ben Eltham, bernard keane, Blogging, blogs, Canberra, Climate change, climate change denialism, commentariat, Copenhagen, cprs, Crikey, cultural studies, ets, facebook, future of journalism, future of media, Gatewatching, hyperlinks, Imre Salusinszky, journalists, Larvatus prodeo, Lateline, Laura Tingle, legacy media, liberal leadership, Liberal leadership spill, link economy, links, Malcolm Turnbull, Media, media discourses, nathan rees, New Matilda, new media, Nick Minchin, Peter Van Onselen, public, public opinion, publics, Rudd government, social media, social sharing, Sociology, spill, Stephen Fenely, tweeting, twitter |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 24, 2009
In the wake of today’s extraordinary events in the Coalition party room, Malcolm Turnbull could put to good use the very qualities he’s usually been panned by his right wing colleagues and the commentariat for having – displaying some courage [...]
Posted in Climate change, Media, Politics | Tagged andrew bolt, Annabel Crabb, climate change denialism, climate change denialists, climate change policy, Coalition, coalition party room, cprs, emissions trading, Francis Urquhart, front bench, George Brandis, Kevin Andrews, Lateline, liberal leadership, Liberal right wing, Malcolm Turnbull, Nationals, Nick Minchin, party meeting, Peter Van Onselen, reshuffle, shadow cabinet, spill, The Australian, Tony Abbott, Wilson Tuckey |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 23, 2009
You really have to feel a bit sorry for Malcolm Turnbull. Any chance he had of representing himself as leading a party enlightened on the policy response to climate change is gone completely, no matter what happens in tomorrow’s party [...]
Posted in Climate change, Politics | Tagged amendments, Climate change, climate change denialism, climate change policy, coalition party room, cprs, Emissions trading scheme, ets, John Williams, Lateline, legislation, liberal leadership, Malcolm Turnbull, Nick Minchin, parliament, Penny Wong |
By Robert Merkel on November 9, 2009
Tonight’s Four Corners has a piece on the Coalition’s views on climate change. The blurb makes clear that much of the party rank and file are denialists. That’s not news. However, they’re also promising some kind of meta-analysis of public [...]
Posted in Climate change, Film, TV, Video etc, Media, Polls | Tagged Climate change, climate change denialism, climate change policy, Coalition, four corners, Liberal Party, Liberal party leadership, liberals, Polls, Senators, TV |
By Brian on August 17, 2009
The Spectator has excelled itself in stupidity by putting on it’s front page a puff piece boosting Ian Plimer. This was too tempting a target for George Monbiot at The Guardian, so he obliged with a scathing commentary. This led [...]
Posted in Climate change | Tagged climate change denialism, ian plimer |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 2, 2009
As a number of prominent Australian climate change scientists hit back at the increasing propensity of elements of the media and some politicians to engage in very high profile climate change denialism, no matter how discredited the ‘arguments’ they put [...]
Posted in Apocalypse, Blogging, Climate change, Media, Politics, Science, Sociology, USA | Tagged Australian politics, barack obama, birthers, Climate change, climate change denialism, conservatism, Guardian, John Quiggin, Media, Michael Tomasky, political culture, political psychology, Republican party, United States politics |
By Mark Bahnisch on July 7, 2009
Rob recently discussed the passage of the Waxman-Markey emissions trading bill through the US House of Representatives, and there’s been much written about its impact both on global climate change negotiations and on the chances of the CPRS legislation in [...]
Posted in Economics, Energy, Media, Politics, USA | Tagged American politics, Australian Greens, Climate change, climate change denialism, cprs, Emissions trading scheme, legislation, nate silver, Senate, Steve Fielding, The Greens, us congress, US House, US Senate, Wall Street Journal, waxman-markey |
By Brian on January 14, 2009
Recently I’ve seen and heard a number of stories saying that the winter sea ice levels in the Arctic are right back at 1979 levels, so what’s to worry? On the polar bears thread I expected this story to appear, [...]
Posted in Climate change | Tagged Antarctica, Arctic, arctic ice, Arctic melting, Climate change, climate change denialism, climate science |
King Lear becomes a kingmaker, Hockey's treachery, and delay is the new denial
By Mark Bahnisch on November 30, 2009
It’s probably time to take stock again of the Liberal leadership spill shenanigans. John Howard has obviously been having a word in a few journos’ ears. Tony Wright penned this piece for The Age yesterday, portraying the Ghost of Wollstonecraft [...]
Posted in Media, Politics, Polls | Tagged bernard keane, Climate change, climate change denialism, commentariat, Conservative Party, cprs, David Cameron, delay, ets, GST, Joe Hockey, John Howard, liberal leadership, Liberal leadership spill, Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull, Nielsen Poll, Paul Keating, Polls, possum, press gallery, Rudd government, spill, Tony Wright, Tories, twitter, WorkChoices | 29 Responses