Assessing the merits of a regional asylum seeker centre as policy
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, [...]
So how about that Worm?
On Lateline last night, Laura Tingle made a point that she’s been developing in her Friday columns in the Fin Review. Tingle argues that the parties’ current financial crisis (caused by a drop in corporate donations associated both with the [...]
The No Clean Feed campaign
Alex White has posted on what he describes as soul searching in the campaign against internet filtering about its direction. White’s post is replete with useful links, and is well worth a read. He disagrees with the focus on censorship, [...]
Labor research on a Costello leadership switch
I’ve made the point a number of times over the years that leaks of internal polling are usually accurate, and also made very deliberately for strategic reasons. It’s always worth remembering that contrary to some perceptions, every staffer and her [...]
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