By Mark Bahnisch on September 22, 2010
Malcolm Farnsworth has an excellent piece at The Drum on how claims that the 2010 federal election was going to be a Twitter campaign are very wide of the mark. I’d recommend reading the whole thing. If the premise is [...]
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By Kim on August 24, 2010
(Via Open Democracy) Patrick Dunleavy from the LSE has written a post on the decline of the “Westminster model”: For the first time in history, the Australian outcome means that every key ‘Westminster model’ country in the world now has [...]
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By tigtog on July 23, 2010
Seriously, just how many senior members of Cabinet really need to be present for every single NSCC meeting?
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By Mark Bahnisch on January 14, 2010
2010 is going to be a year of elections. In Australia, we have three state elections – Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania, and almost certainly a federal poll*. In Britain, the Labour party’s future is on the line; the same [...]
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By Mark Bahnisch on December 11, 2009
One of the points I’ve made over and over again, before, during and after the 2007 election was that the electorate had tired of the noise level; the ranting and raving and constant theatrics of the Howard government. In voting [...]
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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 December 29, 2008
Probably one of the most laudable steps taken by the Rudd government has been the attention given by Senator John Faulkner as Special Minister of State to cleaning up the electoral system. Admittedly, this isn’t one of the funky and [...]
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By tigtog on August 20, 2008
Running for Office: It’s Like A Flamewar with a Forum Troll, but with an Eventual Winner Sean Tevis’ innovative method of raising internet funds in his venture to oust and replace his current State Representative (basically equivalent to one of [...]
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Rudd unwhacked
By Mark Bahnisch on March 2, 2010
Newspoll came in last night with essentially a status quo result, with both parties one point up on primaries (and the 2PP changing one point down each way to 52-48 because of a measured fall in The Greens’ primary.) I [...]
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