Quick link: Antony Green on constitutional realities
[Via tigtog at Hoyden] In a very valuable post, Antony Green has discussed a range of constitutional realities affecting the current situation which appear to have been unknown to many of our political commentators and journalists, which is rather interesting. [...]
The ETS election we never had
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 [...]
Abbott takes a stand in defence of private health
This week in Parliament Labor will gain another double dissolution trigger, as the Coalition has vowed to stop changes to the threshold for the private health insurance rebate. Labor will be keen to draw a parallel between this move and [...]
Rudd government to negotiate with Greens on CPRS?
The Australian Greens have written to the Prime Minister suggesting Ross Garnaut’s interim proposal on carbon trading as a mode of breaking the deadlock on the CPRS legislation. Details are here. On SBS news tonight, Kevin Rudd stated he was [...]
Double dissolution triggers
A report from today’s Australian: KEVIN Rudd has quietly assembled at least nine potential early-election triggers and is about to rain them upon Malcolm Turnbull to undermine his rival’s already brittle leadership. When parliament resumes next week, the Prime Minister [...]
Malcolm Turnbull is the new Brendan Nelson
… with less Emo. The poll that News Limited owns is out. Possum reports: In fact, this whole poll is pretty much identical to Nelson’s last… On the beauty contest that is Preferred Prime Minister, Turnbull’s PPM rating has, for [...]
The politics of the Senate vote on the stimulus package
Possum has done an admirable job of spelling out the political implications of the stalling of the stimulus package in the Senate [see also Rob's earlier posts]: The real irony here is it’s the bloke in the middle [Malcolm Turnbull] [...]
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 [...]
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