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By Kim on September 8, 2011
So, the Gillard government continues its bizarre negotiations with the Coalition over some legislative way to effectively overturn the High Court’s decision on asylum seekers, and revive offshore processing. A dire warning was provided to the Coalition by the Secretary [...]
Posted in Featured, Howardia, Immigration, Politics | Tagged asylum seekers, High Court, John Howard, Julia Gillard, leadership, Malaysian solution, Manus Island, Nauru, pacific solution, Refugee convention, refugees, Tony Abbott |
By Kim on September 26, 2010
It’s interesting to contrast reports of two ALP reflections on the election result – one in Crikey on the thoughts of Victorian MP Martin Foley, and one in The Drum on a meeting of the NSW Right, penned by Glenn [...]
Posted in Media, Politics | Tagged abc, ALP, battlers, Crikey, Federal Election 2010, Glenn Milne, John Howard, Julia Gillard, Karl Bitar, Kevin Rudd, Labor, martin foley, neo-liberalism, Petrie, post-mortem, progressives, recriminations, swing |
By Kim on September 4, 2010
There’s an interesting article in The Australian today by Gabrielle Chan, looking at the rural discontent embodied in the rhetoric of the country Independents: The 2010 episode of “bush leverage” is a result of a backlash by conservatives against a [...]
Posted in Australiana, Economics, federal election 2010, Howardia, Markets, Policy, Politics, Sociology | Tagged Barnaby Joyce, Bob Katter, country independents, Culture, economic policy, Federal Election 2010, globalisation, hung parliament, John Howard, Nationals, neo-liberalism, neocons, Paul Keating, Pauline Hanson, Red Ted Theodore, rural and regional economies, Sociology, the bush, The Greens, tony windsor |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 20, 2010
Early this month, I contested the idea that this campaign was a boring race. It didn’t take long for that notion to be junked. But the perception that there’s no salient difference between the two parties has had a stronger [...]
Posted in federal election 2010, Philosophy | Tagged Ben Eltham, campaign strategy, choice, Culture Wars, Deakinite liberalism, Federal Election 2010, ideology, John Howard, Julia Gillard, liberalism, libertarians, social democracy, social neoliberalism, statism, The Greens, Tony Abbott, welfare state |
By Kim on August 19, 2010
… though although I’m nodding to Robert Frost’s famous poem, read at John F. Kennedy’s inauguration, I don’t think Mr Abbott is going without sleep because he has promises to keep: on his own admission, we have leave to doubt [...]
Posted in federal election 2010 | Tagged campaign, cycling, Federal Election 2010, John Howard, riding, robert frost, sleep, Tony Abbott, trust, truth |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 14, 2010
A week from now, we’ll be getting the earliest booth figures in from the count in Election Night 2010.
I’m starting to think it’s all over bar the shouting. The Prime Minister’s increasingly relaxed and confident style is central to Labor’s recovery.
Tony Abbott’s campaign has looked strangely static since his campaign launch. It’s not clear where the Opposition Leader goes from here, and the ALP will be hoping for a momentum boost near the finishing line from Monday’s launch.
Posted in Climate change, federal election 2010, Howardia | Tagged brendan nelson, Climate change, ets, Federal Election 2010, John Howard, Julia Gillard, Malcolm Turnbull, The Greens, Tony Abbott |
By Kim on August 6, 2010
John Howard has returned to the campaign trail, in support of Tony Abbott.
Posted in federal election 2010 | Tagged Coalition, Federal Election 2010, John Howard |
By Kim on July 31, 2010
Jason Wilson has an excellent post over at Restless Capital on the history of political advertising, and a classification of the various types of ads. In case you need a reminder that some political ads have always been terrible, I [...]
Posted in Advertising, federal election 2010, Film, TV, Video etc, Howardia | Tagged Advertising, election ads, Federal Election 2010, Jason Wilson, John Howard, political communication, roundtable, youtube |
By Brian on July 4, 2010
There has been some discussion on Saturday Salon about the rejection by the International Cricket Council (ICC) of the nomination of John Howard as the next vice president and president elect of the ICC. It’s a four year part-time gig [...]
Posted in Sport | Tagged ICC, John Howard |
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 Mark Bahnisch on June 8, 2010
I continue to be quite surprised at the levels of panic about the Labor party’s current polling predicament, and some of the reactions. The government’s response to the Nielsen poll yesterday was to point out that Tony Abbott stands a [...]
Posted in Elections, Federal Elections, Politics, Polls, State/Territory Elections | Tagged ALP, Anna Bligh, Australian Greens, Bruce Hawker, Coalition, cprs, electoral strategy, ets, Federal Election 2010, Gary Gray, greens, John Black, John Howard, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Liberal Party, Nielsen Poll, Paul Keating, Peel Street, Peter Van Onselen, political communication, polling, preferences strategy, preferential voting, preferred Prime Minister, Qanda, Queensland election 2009, Queensland Labor, resources tax, Richard Farmer, rspt, Rudd government, Samah Hadid, satisfaction, second preferences, Sussex Street, Tony Abbott, underdog, win expectations, youth activists, youth vote |
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