By Mark Bahnisch on June 8, 2010
I continue to be quite surprised at the levels of panic about the Labor party’s current polling predicament, and some of the reactions. The government’s response to the Nielsen poll yesterday was to point out that Tony Abbott stands a [...]
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By Mark Bahnisch on May 17, 2010
We’ve spent a fair bit of time, justly, concentrating on what Mr Denmore called in his guest post “churnalism” – the recycling of PR spin in the guise of news, stirred into to a toxic cocktail of misinformation with a [...]
Posted in Climate change, Federal Elections, Media, Politics, Polls | Tagged ALP, Climate change, cprs, double dissolution, election, ets, Federal Election 2010, journalism, Kevin Rudd, Labor, leadership, March, Media, Peter Hartcher, political strategy, Polls |
By Brian on May 12, 2010
When Rudd recently deferred the main component of his climate change strategy, the CPRS, into the never-never Peter Wood reminded us of a speech that Rudd made at Copenhagen. In ringing tones he called for the assembled leaders “to frame [...]
Posted in Climate change, Energy | Tagged Climate Competitiveness Index, copenhagen agreement, Copenhagen climate change conference 2009, cprs, martin ferguson, tourism, World People\'s Conference on Climate Change and the Rig |
By Kim on May 5, 2010
Two articles in the two Fairfax metropolitan papers tell two very different stories about Labor’s backflip/clear the decks strategy. In the SMH, Lenore Taylor has been talking to Labor strategists. The target voters, it’s argued, are those in outer suburban [...]
Posted in Activism, Climate change, Federal Elections, Politics | Tagged ALP, backflips, Climate change, cprs, ets, Federal Election 2010, Guy Beres, ideology, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Labor strategists, labour movement, modernisation, Polls, public opinion, shaun carney, trust, vision |
By Kim on May 3, 2010
I can’t make much of the numbers the ABC had on Lateline just then for the 2PP in Newspoll as they were Labor 46 and Coalition 51, which of course, doesn’t add up. Still, if it is the case that [...]
Posted in Politics, Polls | Tagged ALP, backflip, backflips, Coalition, cprs, economic management, Essential Research, ets, Health, Kevin Rudd, Labor, lead, liberals, Morgan, Newspoll, polling, Polls, TPP |
By Mark Bahnisch on May 1, 2010
As already documented on LP, Kevin Rudd occupied himself this week by performing perhaps the most spectacular policy backflip imaginable, the sidelining of the CPRS. Or perhaps unimaginable, because I suspect very few people saw this coming. Rudd’s climate change [...]
Posted in Climate change, Federal Elections, Howardia, Policy, Politics, Sociology | Tagged ALP, backflip, class cleavages, Climate change, cprs, ets, Federal Election 2010, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Lindsay Tanner, martin ferguson, May Day, paul norton, political culture, political sociology, reform, reversal, social democracy, Tanya Plibersek, The Greens, Tony Abbott, unions |
By Robert Merkel on April 27, 2010
ABC news: It was once a centrepiece of the Federal Government’s election strategy, but now the emissions trading scheme (ETS) has been relegated to the shelf until at least 2013… But Government sources say it was decided last week to [...]
Posted in Climate change, Economics, Federal Elections, Policy | Tagged cprs, ets, Senate |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 8, 2010
Former Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull spoke in the House of Representatives today, in debate on the reintroduced CPRS bills. Bernard Keane has a full wrap at The Stump. From Keane’s coverage, it appears that Turnbull devoted most of his time [...]
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By Mark Bahnisch on February 8, 2010
Abbott on tv today: What the housewives of Australia need to understand as they do the ironing, is that if they get it done commercially, it’s gonna go up in price, and their own power bills as they switch the [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Climate change, Media, Politics | Tagged audio, cprs, ets, housewives, ironing, patriarchy, radio, retail politics, scare campaign, tax, Tony Abbott |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 2, 2010
Presiding as he has been over the Nationals-isation of the Liberal Party, Tony Abbott might pause to consider one of Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s bon mots: You can’t straddle both sides of a barbed-wire fence. The first stage of selling the Coalition’s [...]
Posted in Climate change, Media, Politics | Tagged 7 30 Report, Barnaby Joyce, carbon emissions, climate change denialism, Coalition, cprs, ets, Joh Bjelke-Petersen, Kevin Rudd, Lateline, Nationals, political communication, retail politician, Tony Abbott |
Breaking the CPRS deadlock
By Mark Bahnisch on February 3, 2010
Almost two weeks ago, I suggested that something positive might come of The Greens’ suggestion that Ross Garnaut’s interim measure on carbon emissions should be the circuit breaker for the CPRS impasse. In the intervening period, I’ve been surprised that [...]
Posted in Climate change, Federal Elections, Media, Politics | Tagged ALP, Australian Greens, carbon emissions, carbon tax, climate change policy, commentary, cprs, double dissolution, ets, Judith Troeth, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Media, nick xenophon, Penny Wong, political strategy, Ross Garnaaut, Rudd government, Senate, The Greens | 72 Responses