The Australian has better pundits than the blogosphere?
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 [...]
Queensland election – it's all happening
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 [...]
Borg bombs in Brisbane
The Poll Bludger links to a report in The Australian about LNP polling that shows they’re in a huge mess in Brisbane. I’m not surprised by the report – I was hearing similar numbers back in January about their internal [...]
Bored with election speculation? There's always leadership speculation!
In light of the interminable Queensland election speculation – seemingly immune to confrontation with any actual facts – there’s some interest in a leak Crikey‘s Bernard Keane had from the LNP: In the wake of yesterday’s item on problems within [...]
We've always been at war with Eastasia
A further sequel to the LNP/Courier-Mail early election mania – Springborg backer Clive Palmer’s 18 year old son, Michael, who’s the LNP candidate for the safe Labor seat of Nudgee, has had a bit more publicity for saying dumb stuff [...]
Papering over the cracks in C-M credibility with populism
I’ve previously posted on the fact that the Courier-Mail has been beside itself with early election speculation for quite some time now. The logic advanced by several commentators that Anna Bligh would call an election because the last Newspoll showed [...]
Possum deconstructs The Borg
Possum has a super post on Lawrence Springborg’s cunning plan – how to lose an election against a tired four term government. Go read.
New year, "fresh" Queensland election hype
From today’s Crikey email: Queensland’s the only state to hold an election this year, and excitement is obviously building. Well, that’s one way of looking at it — if you’re either a News Limited journo looking for a lazy piece [...]
An August election?
By Mark Bahnisch on June 16, 2010
Rumours persist that an early August election will be called early in July. Parliament is only sitting for two weeks, and then won’t return until September. The delivery of valedictory speeches in the budget sitting shows that this term is [...]
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