By Kim on August 18, 2010
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, [...]
Posted in Economics, federal election 2010 | Tagged Andrew Robb, bonds, debate, debt, economic management, economy, Federal Election 2010, infrastructure, national press club, Policy, public private partnerships, super, Tony Abbott |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 16, 2010
The ALP launches its campaign today in Brisbane. As I was saying earlier, it’s likely that Julia Gillard will focus on the economy, and weave together previous promises into a more focused narrative on Australia’s economic future. Announcements on education, [...]
Posted in federal election 2010 | Tagged ALP, Brisbane, campaign launch, economy, Federal Election 2010, Julia Gillard, Labor |
By Mark Bahnisch on May 10, 2010
The Guardian is reporting that Nick Clegg will announce within 24 hours whether the Liberal Democrats will go into Coalition with the Conservatives or support a minority Tory administration or join a “Progressive Alliance” comprising Labour, the SNP, Plaid Cymru [...]
Posted in Foreign Elections | Tagged Coalition, conservatives, David Cameron, David Miliband, economy, electoral reform, first past the post, GFC, gordon brown, Greece, hung parliament, Labour, Lib Dems, Liberal Democrats, Nick Clegg, pact, Plaid Cymru, PR, recession, referendum, SNP, Tories, UK election 2010 |
By Mark Bahnisch on April 5, 2009
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/jefferson_thumbo87o8686.jpg" align=left Karl Marx’ concept of ‘fictitious capital’ has enjoyed something of a revival recently – in the context of explaining the Global Financial Crisis. It’s interesting to observe [h/t Richard Metzger at Boing Boing] that Marx doesn’t appear [...]
Posted in Culture, Developing world, Economics, Immigration, Industrial Relations, International, Markets, Poverty, Security, Sociology | Tagged Capitalism, CCi, creative economy, creative industries, economic sociology, economy, Fernand Braudel, fictitious capital, finance capital, financialisation, Giovanni Arrighi, global financial crisis, globalisation, Immigration, insecurity, intellectual property, Karl Marx, knowledge economy, labour mobility, neo-liberalism, networks, Paul Keating, QUT, regulation school, Robert Metzger, Robert Reich, services, services economy, social inequality, Sociology, sub prime mortgages, symbolic analysts, Thomas Jefferson, work, world systems theory |
By Mark Bahnisch on March 9, 2009
Politically, much of the resilience of Kevin Rudd’s government in the face of the economic downturn is explicable by voter perceptions that the causes of the crisis are external to this country – the Global Financial Crisis. While that’s largely [...]
Posted in Economics, Markets, USA | Tagged banking, banks, barack obama, credit crisis, economy, GFC, global financial crisis, ideology, Kevin Rudd, liquidity, nationalisation, nationisation, neo-liberalism, Paul Krugman, social democracy, Tim Keithner |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 22, 2009
Various newspapers described Queensland Treasurer Andrew Fraser’s budget outlook review on Friday as providing a “trigger” for an impending poll. That’s something of a misleading formulation. But the budget position does give state Labor – perhaps paradoxically – a political [...]
Posted in Economics, Queensland, State/Territory Elections | Tagged ALP, Andrew Fraser, Anna Bligh, debt, deficit, economy, global financial crisis, Graham Young, infrastructure, jobs, Labor, Lawrence Springborg, LNP, political strategy, Polls, Queensland election 2009, queensland government, The Borg |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 20, 2009
Late last year, I observed that the final Newspoll of the year was “probably an outlier” (Labor’s 2PP lead was 59-41). I also observed that the pundits and the more excitable members of the political class would nevertheless take it [...]
Posted in Economics, Media, Polls | Tagged ALP, Barnaby Joyce, best PM, economy, Essential Research, John Howard, Kevin Rudd, Labor, leadership, liberal leadership, Malcolm Turnbull, Newspoll, political science, Poll Bludger, Polls, press gallery, psephological analysis, punditariat, recession, Rudd government, voting intention |
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