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By Mark Bahnisch on May 13, 2010
Tony Abbott really squibbed his moment in the spotlight tonight. According to the government, he needed to identify at least $15 billion in spending cuts to fund the promises he’s already made. According to just about everyone, he needed to [...]
Posted in Economics, Federal Elections, Howardia, Politics | Tagged budget 2010, budget reply, debt, deficit, economic management, Federal Election 2010, fiscal policy, howard government, Joe Hockey, Kevin Rudd, Rudd government, Tony Abbott, Treasury |
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 April 1, 2010
Whether or not it’s a coincidence that the first of Tony Abbott’s ‘headland speeches’ was on economic policy and was delivered the day after Newspoll showed the Coalition falling behind Labor on economic management, I don’t know. But, given that [...]
Posted in Economics, Howardia, Politics | Tagged asian currency crisis, budget, Coalition, cuts, economic management, economic policy, Economics, fiscal policy, GFC, global financial crisis, headland speeches, Henry Tax review, Joe Hockey, John Howard, Keynes, Lateline, levies, Liberal Party, opposition, parental leave, Peter Costello, spending, stimulus, tax, Tony Abbott, Tony Jones |
By Mark Bahnisch on March 25, 2010
The departure of Nick Minchin from the frontbench has been accompanied by speculation that Tony Abbott should move Barnaby Joyce from Finance to Energy and Resources, the portfolio Minchin had occupied. Joyce is said to have expertise in this area, [...]
Posted in Economics, Politics | Tagged Barnaby Joyce, Christopher Pearson, economic management, economic policy, finance, Henry Tax review, ideology, liberalism, National Broadband Network, Nick Minchin, resources rent, schools, social democracy, statism, stimulus, tax, Tony Abbott |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 18, 2009
Sometimes, in politics, it might be better to remain silent. Glenn Milne’s latest intervention, talking up a line from Liberal MP Scott Morrison, has to be one of the lamest ever political attack lines. [For those who don't want to [...]
Posted in Economics, Media, Politics | Tagged climate change legislation, economic management, economic policy, ets, Glenn Milne, Glenn Stevens, interest rates, Ken Henry, Kevin Rudd, Lindsay Tanner, Media, reserve bank, Rudd government, Sinclair Davidson, Treasury, Wayne Swan |
By Mark Bahnisch on July 25, 2009
[Via Terry Flew] In the wake of his essay for The Monthly, Kevin Rudd has written close to 7000 words for the Fairfax papers on the economy, claiming that the opposition’s approach is something akin to the Premiers’ Plan of [...]
Posted in Climate change, Economics, Media | Tagged Climate change, cprs, economic management, economic policy, essay, ets, Fairfax papers, global financial crisis, Great Depression, Kevin Rudd, liberal opposition, Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull, Premiers'Plan, Rudd government, shaun carney, The Age, The Monthly, Tony Abbott |
By Mark Bahnisch on June 24, 2009
In an interview with the Financial Review a little while back, Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner commented that governments might face some difficulty down the track when the need for economic stimulus has passed, but when also public revenues are not [...]
Posted in Economics, Elections, Politics | Tagged ALP, Coalition, economic management, economic policy, Economics, Elections, John Howard, Labor, liberal leadership, Liberal Party, Lindsay Tanner, Malcolm Turnbull, Peter Costello, Rudd government, taxation |
By Mark Bahnisch on June 18, 2009
I think there are quite a few self-inflicted political problems for Queensland Labor in the presentation of the budget handed down on Tuesday afternoon. But Anna Bligh and Andrew Fraser certainly aren’t helped by the ubiquity of the ‘debt is [...]
Posted in Economics, Media, Politics, Queensland, State/Territory Elections | Tagged ALP, Andrew Fraser, Anna Bligh, credit rating, debt, deficit, economic management, Economics, George Megalogenis, infrastructure, investment, John-Paul Langbroek, Labor, Lawrence Springborg, Liberal National Party, LNP, Media, Nationals, Peter Beattie, privatisation, public services, public spending, QR, Queensland, Queensland budget 2009, Queensland Budget papers, Queensland politics, Queensland rail, stimulus, The Borg, unemployment |
"Ghosts go along with us to the end…"
By Mark Bahnisch on October 20, 2009
So, what happens if the Opposition, and their media echo chambers, tried every Howardian trick in the book, and nothing worked? Possum explains the significance of the latest polling numbers: With the phone poll average in the sidebar now showing [...]
Posted in Howardia, Polls | Tagged asylum seekers, boat people, commentariat, Dennis Shanahan, economic management, Essential Research, GFC, Howardia, John Howard, liberal leadership, Media, Newspoll, polling, punditariat, Rudd government, The Australian | 41 Responses