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By Mark Bahnisch on August 3, 2009
From today’s Crikey email: Anna Bligh certainly wasn’t exaggerating when she observed that Queensland Labor had a bad week. Nor has this week started off well for her, with a Galaxy Poll showing her approval rating plunging to 33%, just [...]
Posted in Crime, Economics, Federal Elections, Politics, Queensland, State/Territory Elections | Tagged ALP, Anna Bligh, Australian Greens, CMC, corruption, Crikey, Cronyism, ETU, fitzgerald enquiry, Galaxy poll, government business relations, John Hewson, Liberal National Party, LNP, lobbyists, Paul Keating, police culture, Poll Bludger, Polls, privatisation, psephology, public assets, Queensland election 2009, queensland government, Queensland Labor, Queensland politics, The Greens, Tony Fitzgerald, William Bowe |
By Kim on December 19, 2008
End of year reflection on the state of politics and the nation type articles can be interesting. They can be tedious rehashes of trivia and reinventions of an already distorted reality to prove punditarian narratives r us and are ace [...]
Posted in Activism, Climate change, Economics, Energy, Federal Elections, Foreign Elections, International, Markets, Media, Policy, Politics, Sociology, USA | Tagged Activism, barack obama, bernard keane, citizen engagement, Climate change, cprs, economic management, emissions trading, Glenn Stevens, interest rates, John Hewson, Kevin Rudd, neoliberalism, political sociology, Politics, public policy, reserve bank, Rick Warren, Rudd government, US election 2008, white paper, year in review |
By Kim on September 17, 2008
There’s something of a paradox there, because, as I’ve been arguing, Malcolm Turnbull’s best chance at making an impact (beyond the born in a log cabin dingy flat narrative personal stuff) is to move towards the centre, and particularly given [...]
Posted in Climate change, Media, Politics | Tagged ALP, brendan nelson, carbon pollution reduction scheme, Climate change, Emissions trading scheme, John Hewson, John Quiggin, Kevin Rudd, Labor, leadership spill, liberal leadership, Liberal leadership spill, Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull, Nick Minchin, political leadership, Rudd government, shadow cabinet |
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