Never mind the pork…
…feel the long-term trajectory. There’s already a great deal of insta-reaction to the Clean Energy Future online – you can try Climate Spectator or Crikey for some analysis if you like. Or you could start by reading the actual policy [...]
What should a Gillard minority government be like?
If there’s one thing that’s clear from the events of recent days, it is that a minority government led by Julia Gillard could not represent business as usual for the Labor party. So what should a Gillard minority government look [...]
Greens plant some rural seeds
Perhaps the most significant of the ABC’s “My Vote” videos (where voters talk about their electorate and the issues that concern them) features the delightfully and aptly named Sid Plant, a farmer from the Darling Downs in Queensland. Plant, like [...]
One more week and it’s all over bar the counting
A week from now, we’ll be getting the earliest booth figures in from the count in Election Night 2010.
I’m starting to think it’s all over bar the shouting. The Prime Minister’s increasingly relaxed and confident style is central to Labor’s recovery.
Tony Abbott’s campaign has looked strangely static since his campaign launch. It’s not clear where the Opposition Leader goes from here, and the ALP will be hoping for a momentum boost near the finishing line from Monday’s launch.
CPD post: CPRS’ failures killed it, not The Greens
During the election campaign, LP will be cross-posting selected items from the Centre for Policy Development’s discussion of policy issues, Thinking Points. Readers may also be interested in the CPD’s collection of policy ideas and priorities for the next term, [...]
Labor could turn a carbon tax into a positive
The Coalition campaign has less money in the coffers than Labor, and if past indications are any guide, they’ll be holding back on their advertising spend for a blitz in the final ten days or so. It’s worth gazing into [...]
The carbon price we almost had
Julia Gillard once said that delay on climate change equated to denial. With Labor’s announcement of a citizen’s assembly and a climate change commission continuing to attract puzzlement at best, it’s worth observing that we already have a price on [...]
ACF poll finds that 45% of soft voters would be more likely to support Labor with an ETS
The Australian Conservation Foundation has commissioned polling from Auspoll on attitudes to the major parties’ climate change stance: The survey, part of Auspoll’s national omnibus of 1500 voters, found: * When asked which party leader “do you trust most to [...]
Is Julia Gillard the new Bob Hawke?
It probably hasn’t escaped folks’ attention that Julia Gillard has expanded the scope of her rhetoric about being consultative beyond the issues of governance, cabinet processes and caucus decision making. In all the statements she’s made since becoming PM, she’s [...]
How the coup against Kevin Rudd unfolded
By Mark Bahnisch on June 25, 2010
Today’s comprehensive coverage in the Financial Review allows us to understand how the Labor leadership challenge was orchestrated. From reading a number of reports in the Fin Review today, including Laura Tingle’s, I think it’s fair to characterise it as [...]
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