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By Mark Bahnisch on September 1, 2010
One of the most interesting aspects of the agreement between The Greens and the ALP is the way in which it promises to put flesh on the bones of parliamentary reform. A number of clauses envisage combined committees of parliamentarians [...]
Posted in federal election 2010, Government, Policy | Tagged agreement, ALP, carbon price, Climate change, climate change committee, donations, electoral reform, Federal Election 2010, hung parliament, John Faulkner, lobbyists, Media, parliament, parliamentary budget office, Policy, policy formulation, Q&A, Qanda, question time, Rooty Hill, same sex marriage, The Greens |
By Guest Poster on August 23, 2010
Ben Harris-Roxas is a Research Fellow at the UNSW Research Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity. When he’s not talking about health impact assessment he makes a nuisance of himself on Twitter: @ben_hr. The entrails of the weekend’s result [...]
Posted in federal election 2010, Policy | Tagged ben harris-roxas, electoral reform, Henry Tax review, hung parliament, Independents, Julia Gillard, parliamentary reform, process, public policy, Rob Oakeshott |
By Mark Bahnisch on May 13, 2010
I have an article at the ABC’s The Drum today about the British election and its aftermath, focusing on how much change the eventual deal implies. NB: Previous LP British election coverage here. Update: Interesting piece from Seumas Milne.
Posted in Foreign Elections | Tagged abc, British politics, Coalition, conservatives, cuts, David Cameron, deficit, electoral reform, first past the post, GFC, gordon brown, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Mark Bahnisch, the drum, Tories, UK election 2010 |
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 May 7, 2010
Clearly, the results of the UK election are inconclusive – Labour doing much better than expected, and the Liberal Democrats worse, with the Tories falling short of a majority. Similarly, the regional pattern is quite varied – with Labour holding [...]
Posted in Foreign Elections, International, Politics | Tagged conservatives, electoral reform, England, first past the post, gordon brown, hung parliament, Labour, Lib Dems, Liberal Democrats, New Labour, Nick Clegg, Peter Mandelson, Scotland, Tories, UK election 2010 |
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 [...]
Posted in Politics | Tagged Barnaby Joyce, business, Coalition, Elections, electoral reform, John Howard, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Lateline, Liberal Party, LNP, Nick Minchin, populism, public funding, Scott Morrison, Senate, Terry Flew, Tony Abbott |
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 [...]
Posted in Activism, Elections | Tagged ACTU, Andrew Norton, campaign finance, Elections, electoral reform, GetUp!, Jamie Briggs, John Faulkner, John Howard, Liberal Party, liberalism, ngos, Nick Minchin, third party campaigns, WorkChoices, Your Rights at Work |
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