Colin Barnett
Of pimps, prostitutes, dealers and freedom: guest post by Rewi Lyall
By Guest Poster on October 23, 2009
Rewi blogs at Oqurum and this post was originally posted there. In an earlier post I briefly discussed the issue of civil rights in Australia, particularly as to how we justify infringing rights in order to deal with specific segments [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Law | Tagged Authoritarianism, Barnett government, Colin Barnett, freedom, police powers, surveillance, Western Australia | 97 Responses
The state of Rudd Nation
By Mark Bahnisch on October 2, 2008
This time last year, we were all feverishly anticipating the calling of the federal election, which was less than a fortnight away. Now, courtesy of the quarterly Newspoll geographical and demographic analysis we can track where and with whom the [...]
Posted in Climate change, Economics, Education, Federal Elections, Policy, Polls, Water | Tagged ALP, Anna Bligh, bernard keane, carbon pollution reduction scheme, Climate change, climate change policy, COAG, coast to coast labor, Colin Barnett, education policy, education revolution, emissions trading, Federal election 2007, judith brett, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Lindsay Tanner, Murray-Darling, Newspoll, pensions, Polls, psephological analysis, quarterly Newspoll, Queensland, Rudd government, schools, South Australia, tax policy, WA election 2008, Wayne Swan, Western Australia | 29 Responses
Ending or reviving the blame game?
By Mark Bahnisch on September 9, 2008
When it appeared likely that the Libs might win in WA, much of the commentary focused on how a non-Labor state government would play havoc with Kevin Rudd’s “cooperative federalism”. As with so much political analysis around the traps, this [...]
Posted in Federal Elections, Government, Media, Policy, State/Territory Elections | Tagged ALP, COAG, Colin Barnett, cooperative federalism, Federal election 2007, federalism, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Liberal Party, Rudd government, Senate, WA election 2008 | 5 Responses
No, thanks
By Anna Winter on September 8, 2008
Saturday’s election result in WA means the possibility of the political commentator’s dream: the hung parliament. Labor has suffered a massive swing, and now it’s probably going to come down to who can convince the Nationals to make a deal. [...]
Posted in State/Territory Elections | Tagged Alan Carpenter, ALP, Brendon Grylls, Colin Barnett, Labor, Liberal Party, Nationals, WA election 2008, WA election results, WA nationals, Western Australia | 16 Responses
Worst. Campaign. Ever.
By crankynick on September 7, 2008
This was the worst campaign I have ever seen run by the ALP. Ever. This was an election where all of the ALP’s problems over the last 6-8 years came home to roost. There was no central theme. The campaign [...]
Posted in Government, Polls, State/Territory Elections | Tagged Alan Carpenter, ALP, Colin Barnett, Labor, Liberal Party, Troy Buswell, WA election 2008, WA election campaign, WA election results, WA election results analysis, Western Australia | 70 Responses
The Poll Bludger's live blog of the WA count [continued from The Poll Bludger]
By Guest Poster on September 6, 2008
MB: William’s been having problems with his database crashing, so he’s going to conclude his liveblogging of the WA election poll count here if the problems continue. 10.48pm. I’ll wrap it up here and carry on over at my place, [...]
Posted in Blogging, Notices, State/Territory Elections | Tagged Alan Carpenter, ALP, Australian Greens, Colin Barnett, Labor, Liberal Party, Nationals, The Poll Bludger, WA election 2008, WA election live blogging, WA election results, William Bowe | 39 Responses
WA election open thread
By Kim on September 6, 2008
WA goes to the polls today. Prediction, speculation, reports, links, etc, welcomed. Possum and The Poll Bludger have rounded up the latest polling, which suggests a very close race. Election bloggy goodness: Worst of Perth and the WA Greens both [...]
Posted in Polls, State/Territory Elections | Tagged Alan Carpenter, ALP, Colin Barnett, Labor, Liberal Party, WA election 2008, Western Australia | 18 Responses
Whose trainwreck will it be?
By Anna Winter on September 3, 2008
Yesterday the WA Labor Party took the strange step of releasing its internal polling publicly, rather than pretending to some journo that it was an uncontrolled leak. They claim that Labor faces losing the election on Saturday, and are hoping [...]
Posted in Polls, State/Territory Elections | Tagged Alan Carpenter, ALP, Colin Barnett, internal ALP polling, internal party polling, Labor, Liberal Party, polling, WA election 2008, WA election latest polls, Western Australia | 32 Responses
The big issues
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 | 22 Responses
No Alarms and No Surprises
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 | 15 Responses
WA Labor takes aim at the Liberals' "boys club"
By Kim on August 19, 2008
I suspect none of the major parties federally or in any of the states and territories could entirely escape the accusation of being a “boys club”, but I’m very interested to see – for the first time I can think [...]
Posted in Advertising, Feminism, Masculinity, State/Territory Elections, Women | Tagged Alan Carpenter, ALP, Colin Barnett, Deirdre Willmott, Feminism, Labor, Liberal Party, Liz Constable, Sociology, Troy Buswell, WA election 2008, women in politics | 12 Responses
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