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By Mark Bahnisch on July 21, 2010
If this election proves anything, it proves that both parties have taken the notion of polling driven strategy to ever greater heights. Once, policies were road tested via focus groups to guage their acceptability and to refine selling points. Now, [...]
Posted in federal election 2010, Government, Immigration | Tagged ALP, asylum seekers, Coalition, debate, East Timor, Eureka Street, Federal Election 2010, focus groups, Frank Brennan, humanitarianism, Immigration, Julia Gillard, Labor, Lowy Institute, Media, political communication, Polls, refugees, regional processing centre, Speech, Timor-Leste |
By Mark Bahnisch on March 31, 2010
At Eureka Street, John Warhurst has written a piece about Tony Abbott, Santamaria and the Liberal Party. The illustration (reproduced below) is interesting for all sorts of reasons: <img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/files/2010/03/abbott-pope1.jpg" The article Tony Abbott penned for the Weekend Australian colour [...]
Posted in Economics, Politics, Religion, Sociology | Tagged Australian Catholicism, B.A. Santamaria, Barnaby Joyce, Bob Katter, Catholic Church, clerical child abuse, Democratic Labor Party, DLP, economic policy, Eureka Street, John Warhurst, Kevin Rudd, Liberal Party, National civic Council, political behaviour, political catholicism, political culture, political sociology, Pope Benedict, Queensland Nationals, religion and politics, religiosity, secularisation, Speech, symbolism, the movement, Tony Abbott, World Youth Day |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 19, 2010
In the wake of Abbott’s Brutopian comments at the Catholic Social Services Australia national conference, Stephen Nash, CEO of Melbourne homelessness and housing support agency HomeGround Services, has published a rebuttal of the claim that homelessness is a choice at [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Ethics, Policy, Politics, Poverty, Religion, Sociology | Tagged Andrew Hamilton, Catholic Social Services Australia, Catholicism, conference, Eureka Street, HomeGround Services, housing policy, Jesus, John Falzon, New Matilda, paternalism, poor, Poverty, Religion, Rudd government, Stephen Nash, theology, Tony Abbott, Vinnies |
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