Breaking the stalemate on asylum seekers and refugees: How?
The CPD suggests a return to evidence-based policy on asylum seekers. The question is: how do we get there?
Coalition claims to have economic policy
Apparently, there’s more to it than reciting “debt and deficit” like a mantra. Yesterday, in his address to the National Press Club, when he could wean himself off talking about talking to “real Australians” at Rooty Hill and similar places, [...]
State issues and Federal Election 2010
This morning, in response to the Galaxy Poll [see analysis here], Prime Minister Gillard warned that voters in Queensland and New South Wales needed to distinguish between her government and their unpopular state Labor regimes. Is she right that there’s [...]
The ABC’s pursuit of Wayne Swan on “leaks”
Mark commented last night that a lot of time that could have been better spent on the 7.30 Report joint interview with Wayne Swan and Joe Hockey was wasted on a discussion of “Treasury leaks”. I won’t call it a [...]
Live Tweeting the Swan/Hockey encounter on the 7.30 Report
Read LP’s tweets here. Update: Well, that was most unenlightening. Joe Hockey has seemed to be in a very grumpy mood all campaign, and he was allowed to get away with his usual bizarre contradictions. Swan’s lines on infrastructure and [...]
The battle for Rooty Hill
Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott are both fronting up at Western Sydney’s iconic (ahem) Rooty Hill RSL for an event tonight which is not quite a debate – at the Opposition Leader’s insistence, it will be two separate town hall [...]
The Roxon/Dutton health debate at the National Press Club
Nicola Roxon and Peter Dutton will be debating health at the National Press Club momentarily. I’ll be live tweeting here. Update: The debate is being live streamed here. Update: Roxon is very impressive, across the detail. The thing is that [...]
The Treasurers’ debate
Today, we have Wayne Swan and Joe Hockey going head to head at the National Press Club at lunch time. I won’t be watching it, because I have a full time job and I’m at work. That’s the problem with [...]
Possum on Newspoll and the trend; and Libs now acting as front runner
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 [...]
The Wong/Hunt climate change debate
You can watch the interchange between Penny Wong and Greg Hunt on the 7.30 Report last night on climate change policy here. I didn’t find it very edifying.
Labor’s bite sized policies on mental health and disability
Let’s face it. Everyone’s more interested in discussing leaks and polls than policy in this campaign. Why is this? In part, it’s because of the political theatre of the horse race and the personality contest, and in part because of [...]
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