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By Kim on June 27, 2010
I admire Julia Gillard and always have. Those who’ve been around here for a long time, and have long memories, might recall that I was backing Gillard enthusiastically when Kim Beazley’s leadership was on its last legs. I welcome and [...]
Posted in Disasters, Ethics, Feminism, Politics, Relationships | Tagged agency, ALP, ambition, Anne Summers, Apology, care, Culture, Disasters, Ethics, fear, Federal election 2007, Feminism, first female PM, fluidity, hope, insecurity, John Howard, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Kim Beazley, Labor, Labor leadership, liquid lives, Politics, press conference, risk society, second modernity, Shakira Hussein, Sociology, spill, stolen generations, structure, trust, work, workplace, workplace culture |
By Kim on April 21, 2010
As I observed last night, the Opposition’s first reaction to the COAG deal* on health and hospitals reform was to blather on about “a great big new bureaucracy” (which isn’t as catchy as “a great big new tax”, but is [...]
Posted in Federal Elections, Health, Policy, Politics | Tagged COAG, Coalition, Federal election 2007, Federal Election 2010, GST, Health, hospitals, Kevin Rudd, Liberal Party, liberals, National Health and Hospitals Network, Peter Dutton, Policy, political strategy, Senate, Tony Abbott, WA, Western Australia |
By Mark Bahnisch on March 23, 2010
As anticipated, commentariat memes very quickly emerged after the Great Health Debate – “Abbott was disadvantaged because he didn’t have a policy”, “Abbott came out swinging”, “He was authentic”, “Rudd played to The Worm”, “It’s not important anyway”, “No one [...]
Posted in Federal Elections, Film, TV, Video etc, Health, Howardia, Media, Politics, Polls, Sociology | Tagged 7 30 Report, commentariat, day time tv, Days of our lives, debate, demographics, Essential Research, Federal election 2007, Federal Election 2010, Grahame Morris, great health debate, Health, health debate, health policy, hospitals, Howard, Kevin Rudd, Laurie Oakes, leaders debates, National Health and Hospitals Network, Peter Martin, political communication, political strategy, Polls, press gallery, ratings, reaction, The Worm |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 9, 2010
George H. W. Bush was famously incapable of projecting what he termed “the vision thing” in his unsuccessful campaign for re-election in 1992, but at least he knew what he needed to, but couldn’t, do. I noted the other day [...]
Posted in Federal Elections, Health, Media, Politics | Tagged commentariat, Dennis Shanahan, Federal election 2007, Federal Election 2010, George H. W. Bush, health policy, hospitals, intergenerational report, John Howard, Kevin Rudd, Malcolm Colless, Media, productivity, Q&A, Qanda, Tony Abbott, Tony Jones, vision thing |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 29, 2010
I’ve been wondering myself, recently, about the significance of Labor’s unbroken lead in the polls, which if memory serves, has persisted for over three years now. There’s little doubt that it’s Rudd’s election to lose, but, conversely, big Labor victories [...]
Posted in Elections, Federal Elections, Politics, Polls, Sociology | Tagged ALP, Antony Green, brand loyalty, epistemology, Federal election 2007, Federal Election 2010, Federal Elections, Labor, marketing, political behaviour, political parties, polling, Polls, possum, psephology, Rudd government, voting intention |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 24, 2009
Today marks the second anniversary of the election of the Rudd government. No doubt thousands of words will be written to commemorate it. This is your opportunity to add even more!
Posted in Politics | Tagged ALP, anniversary, Federal election 2007, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Rudd government |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 21, 2009
I’ve commented before on the tendency to anticipate the anniversary of events, and everyone in the Oz media has been doing just that ahead of the milestone of two years since the election of the Rudd government, which falls on [...]
Posted in Culture, Economics, Federal Elections, History, Markets, Media, Politics, Queensland | Tagged anniversary, Economics, election, Federal election 2007, ideology, Kevin Rudd, neo-liberalism, political culture, Queensland, Queensland politics, Queenslandism, Rudd government, shaun carney, statism, The Monthly |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 18, 2009
Peter Van Onselen’s new role at Newspoll Central appears to be a second string Dennis Shanahan, adding a second dose of commentary on the almighty Newspoll a day after the master pronounces on how it is to be interpreted. Van [...]
Posted in Media, Polls | Tagged ALP, bounce, Coalition, Dennis Shanahan, Federal election 2007, GFC, global financial crisis, honeymoon, Imre Salusinszky, john della bosca, John Howard, Kevin Rudd, Kristina Keneally, liberal leadership, Liberal Party, nathan rees, Newspoll, Nick Minchin, NSW Labor, NSW Labor conference, Peter Van Onselen, Polls, Rudd government, service delivery, state labor |
By Mark Bahnisch on July 1, 2009
Crikey‘s editorial today (reproduced over the fold with permission) picked up on the political significance of Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard’s critical remarks about the conduct of News Limited papers in publishing the concocted email at the centre of the [...]
Posted in Ethics, Media, Politics | Tagged Anna Bligh, coverage, Crikey, election coverage, Ethics, Federal election 2007, John Hartigan, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Media, media watch, new media, News Limited, newspapers, political journalism, Queensland election 2009, scandal, Utegate |
By Kim on October 22, 2008
When I first discovered FiveThirtyEight.Com (courtesy of Down and Out of Sài Gòn on one of the American election threads here at LP, if I recall correctly), I thought of Nate Silver as America’s Possum. Coincidentally, there’s a profile of [...]
Posted in Blogging, Elections, Federal Elections, Foreign Elections, Politics, Polls, Sociology, Technology, The Web, USA | Tagged Blogging, chris nash, Federal election 2007, nate silver, political blogging, possum, Possum Comitatus, psephological analysis, psephological blogging, psephology, US election 2008, USA Election 2008 |
Turns out people do watch day time tv
By Mark Bahnisch on March 24, 2010
Last night, I made a point about the claim that the Great Health Debate was unimportant, because, as most munificently expressed by Grahame Morris, no one (important) watches day time television. I wrote: I wouldn’t be so quick to assume [...]
Posted in Federal Elections, Film, TV, Video etc, Health, Sociology | Tagged commentariat, communications style, Federal election 2007, Federal Election 2010, Glenn Dyer, Grahame Morris, great health debate, health debate, hospitals, journalism, Kevin Rudd, Media, messaging, national press club, parliament, political communication, Television, Tony Abbott | 17 Responses