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By Kim on September 5, 2010
We’ve seen an increasing volume of bluster from the Coalition over recent days – clearly a coordinated strategy given the almost identical choice of words used by each front bencher (allowing for a lapse on Joe Hockey’s part – “centre [...]
Posted in federal election 2010, Media | Tagged Coalition, Daily Telegraph, David Penberthy, Dennis Shanahan, Federal Election 2010, Independents, Media, Paul Kelly, Tony Abbott |
By Mark Bahnisch on June 28, 2010
In a very comprehensive and statistically rich post, Possum has refuted Dennis Shanahan’s contention about the interpretation of polls in Kevin Rudd’s last months as Prime Minister. Graham Young has also had a look at the Quarterly Newspoll data: The [...]
Posted in Media, Polls | Tagged ALP, Dennis Shanahan, Graham Young, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Labor leadership, Newspoll, Polls, possum, quarterly Newspoll |
By Mark Bahnisch on June 22, 2010
Paul Norton observed here at LP yesterday that we’re in uncharted psephological waters, with both major parties on low primaries and both leaders relatively unpopular. A host of questions have therefore arisen: about the likely flow of preferences from The [...]
Posted in Federal Elections, Politics, Polls | Tagged ALP, China, Dawson, Dennis Shanahan, Federal Election 2010, Flynn, Julia Gillard, Labor, Laura Tingle, Lindsay, Longman, marginal seats, media narrative, NBN, Newspoll, Page, parental leave, paul norton, Penrith by-election 2010, Peter Van Onselen, Poll Bludger, Polls, possum, rspt, Rudd governmment, Telstra, The Australian, The Greens, Tony Abbott, William Bowe |
By Kim on May 25, 2010
Dennis Shanahan: The Rudd government, incredibly, has lost the fight over the RSPT. A Labor government has been unable to win popular support, or the policy argument, for lifting taxes on wealthy and prosperous mining companies… Essential Research: <img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/files/2010/05/rspt1.png"
Posted in Media, Politics, Polls | Tagged Dennis Shanahan, Essential Research, Media, Polls, public opinion, resources rent, resources tax, rspt |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 25, 2010
I don’t think Barnaby Joyce likes to think he might be wrong. He’s followed up yesterday’s ‘net gross debt’ clanger with an incoherent op/ed in The Australian today. It’s described by Dennis Shanahan in what appears to be a news [...]
Posted in Economics, Politics | Tagged Barnaby Joyce, capital, Coalition, debt, default, Dennis Shanahan, economic policy, Glenn Dyer, opposition, private debt, sovereign debt |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 15, 2010
I’ve previously highlighted Dennis Shanahan and Malcolm Colless as barometers of the new new political narrative (‘Rudd in trouble! Gloss comes off! Action Man Tony Off To Vigorous Start!’). Michelle Grattan provided another twist on the mechanics of constructing such [...]
Posted in Federal Elections, Media, Polls | Tagged Alexander Downer, Anna Bligh, commentariat, Courier-Mail, Dennis Shanahan, Federal Election 2010, Galaxy poll, Kevin Rudd, Malcolm Colless, Media, Michelle Grattan, political narrative, poll, polling, possum, public opinion, Queensland, Rudd government, stephanie balogh, Tony Abbott |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 9, 2010
George H. W. Bush was famously incapable of projecting what he termed “the vision thing” in his unsuccessful campaign for re-election in 1992, but at least he knew what he needed to, but couldn’t, do. I noted the other day [...]
Posted in Federal Elections, Health, Media, Politics | Tagged commentariat, Dennis Shanahan, Federal election 2007, Federal Election 2010, George H. W. Bush, health policy, hospitals, intergenerational report, John Howard, Kevin Rudd, Malcolm Colless, Media, productivity, Q&A, Qanda, Tony Abbott, Tony Jones, vision thing |
By Mark Bahnisch on December 9, 2009
On Saturday night, I summed up the Higgins and Bradfield by-elections: The final verdict – the whole thing is probably a bit of a side show. The by-election results did, of course, lead to a particularly risible bit of Newspoll [...]
Posted in By-elections, Media, Politics, Polls | Tagged ALP, analysis, Antony Green, Australian Greens, Barnaby Joyce, battlers, Bradfield by-election, Climate change, Coalition, Dennis Shanahan, electoral strategy, Higgins by-election, John Howard, Liberal Party, Newspoll, political sociology, possum, psephology, public opinion, The Greens, Tony Abbott |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 18, 2009
Peter Van Onselen’s new role at Newspoll Central appears to be a second string Dennis Shanahan, adding a second dose of commentary on the almighty Newspoll a day after the master pronounces on how it is to be interpreted. Van [...]
Posted in Media, Polls | Tagged ALP, bounce, Coalition, Dennis Shanahan, Federal election 2007, GFC, global financial crisis, honeymoon, Imre Salusinszky, john della bosca, John Howard, Kevin Rudd, Kristina Keneally, liberal leadership, Liberal Party, nathan rees, Newspoll, Nick Minchin, NSW Labor, NSW Labor conference, Peter Van Onselen, Polls, Rudd government, service delivery, state labor |
So how about that media narrative now?
By Mark Bahnisch on June 16, 2010
Over the long weekend, I noted the frenzy The Australian was stirring up about the purported deadline on Rudd’s leadership, built on a foundation of a self-serving article from mining company director Keith De Lacy and quotes from NSW Right [...]
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