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By Mark Bahnisch on February 24, 2009
Well, knock me down with a feather! Taking a leaf out of Tim Blair’s book of selective quotation, The Australian has claimed I was the “last to call” the Queensland election. I must say things must have come to a [...]
Posted in Blogging, Media, State/Territory Elections | Tagged bloggers, early election, election speculation, journalists, Larvatus prodeo, Mark Bahnisch, pundits, Queensland election 2009, The Australian, Tim Blair |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 20, 2009
From today’s Crikey email: Any close observer of Queensland politics – or rather what the press gallery and the pundits write about Queensland politics – could be forgiven for thinking the general approach to election date tipping was to write [...]
Posted in Media, Politics, Queensland, State/Territory Elections | Tagged Anna Bligh, Barnaby Joyce, Crikey, early election, economic policy, fiscal stimulus, global financial crisis, Judy Spence, Kevin Rudd, Lawrence Springborg, Liberal National Party, LNP, Mike Kaiser, MPs, National party, Queensland election 2009, retirements, speculation, stimulus package, The Borg |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 19, 2009
Lots of stuff going on at the moment – there’s a great roundup at The Poll Bludger of this week’s retirements and preselections. And Antony Green’s election guide is up. Note that this doesn’t necessarily imply that an election is [...]
Posted in Media, Queensland, State/Territory Elections | Tagged ALP, Anna Bligh, Antony Green, Chris Bombolas, early election, election guide, election speculation, Labor, Ministers, MPs, Poll Bludger, preselections, Queensland election 2009, retirements |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 12, 2009
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] [...]
Posted in Economics, Elections, Politics | Tagged ALP, Australian Greens, balance of power, Bob Brown, double dissolution, early election, economic policy, global financial crisis, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull, nick xenophon, Polls, proportional representation, recession, Rudd government, Senate, Senate passage, Steve Fielding, stimulus package, The Greens |
By Mark Bahnisch on December 19, 2008
I’ve said before that I don’t put too much stock in the quarterly state Newspolls, because they’re taken at such a lengthy interval it’s hard to get a sense of when any movement shown has actually occurred, and it’s more [...]
Posted in Media, Polls, Queensland, State/Territory Elections | Tagged ALP, Anna Bligh, early election, Lawrence Springborg, LNP, Mark McArdle, Nationals, Newspoll, psephological analysis, Queensland election 2009, Queensland politics, state labor, The Australian, The Borg |
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