Taking our time
Two of the most unedifying aspects of the aftermath of the election result, from the time when it became apparent that we would have a hung parliament, have been the pressure for a quick resolution and the endless rehashing of [...]
Quick link: Graham Young on polling interpretation for mugs
Following my post yesterday on the dangers of taking internal party polling “leaks” seriously, and the Newspoll and Galaxy figures released last night, Graham Young makes some excellent points on today’s interpretations game: Mugs are what most of my colleagues [...]
How (not) to do things with graphs
Possum has a cracker of a post up on Andrew Bolt’s infamous climate change graphs. Go read, as they say. He also pings the blurring of the opinion/analysis distinction at the ABC, where Bolt seems to wear two hats – [...]
On Paul Kelly and political history
I referred in an earlier post to Paul Kelly’s style of commentary – a mix of oracular pronouncement and portentous ponderings about the primacy of narrative. I actually read his March of Patriots a while back, and planned to review [...]
Malcolm Turnbull's faith based economics
One of the most puzzling lines Malcolm Turnbull came out with as shadow Treasurer earlier in the year was his claim that Labor had talked inflation into existence. This was part of some sort of complex juggling act which allowed [...]
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