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By Mark Bahnisch on July 26, 2010
By Mark Bahnisch Over the weekend, I read Annabel Crabb’s Rise of the Ruddbot. It’s fascinating to take a trip back to a time when a Liberal leadership team of Tony Abbott and Julie Bishop seemed fanciful. Just as much [...]
Posted in Advertising, Books, Writers & Writing, federal election 2010, Howardia | Tagged Advertising, Annabel Crabb, Bronwyn Bishop, disunity, election advertising, Federal Election 2010, Julie Bishop, Kevin Andrews, Kevin Rudd, Labor leadership, liberal leadership, Malcolm Turnbull, parties, Philip Ruddock, Rise of the Ruddbot, Tony Abbott |
By Mark Bahnisch on April 8, 2010
As an addendum to Robert’s post on the Rudd government’s announcement of the appointment of Tony Burke as Population Minister, and the call for a national debate on population policy, I wanted to pick up on another aspect of Bernard [...]
Posted in Australiana, Culture, History, Howardia, Immigration, Media, Politics, Race | Tagged ALP, asylum seekers, bernard keane, Big Australia, boat people, border policing, border security, Culture, discourses, History, Immigration, immigration debate, insularity, John Howard, Julia Gillard, Kevin Andrews, labor party, Lowy Institute, One Nation, political communication, political culture, poll, population policy, Race, racism, rhetoric, Rudd government, Scott Morrison, survey, Tony Burke |
By Mark Bahnisch on December 8, 2009
Tony Abbott is set to announce his new frontbench this morning. All the reports suggest that the winners are the hard Right – including the resurrection of Howard era waxworks Bronwyn Bishop and Kevin Andrews, and the astonishing selection of [...]
Posted in Politics | Tagged Barnaby Joyce, Bronwyn Bishop, Cory Bernardi, Eric Abetz, frontbench, John Howard, Kevin Andrews, reshuffle, shadow cabinet, Sophie Mirabella, Tony Abbott |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 29, 2009
Developments yesterday and today in the Liberal leadership spill should only reinforce the belief that Malcolm Turnbull’s survival as leader would be the Liberal party’s only sane option. Joe Hockey went to lunch with John Howard, didn’t reply to any [...]
Posted in Politics | Tagged cprs, ets, Joe Hockey, John Howard, Kevin Andrews, liberal leadership, Liberal leadership spill, Liberal right, Malcolm Turnbull, Mark Neeham, Nick Minchin, Peter Costello, spill, Tony Abbott, Wayne Swan, Wilson Tuckey |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 26, 2009
Let’s sum up a few things about the CPRS/leadership shenanigans: (a) It’s been intriguing to see the focus of political discussion narrow to the Parliamentary dramatics. Journalists – and one suspects, many Liberal MPs – appear to have completely lost [...]
Posted in By-elections, Climate change, Howardia, Media, Politics, Polls | Tagged By-elections, Climate change, commentariat, cprs, ets, Higgins, Higgins by-election, Industrial Relations, journos, Kevin Andrews, leadership spill, Liberal base, liberal leadership, Liberal right, Malcolm Turnbull, Newspoll, Peter Costello, Ryan, spill, Tony Abbott, Wentworth, WorkChoices, workplace relations |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 26, 2009
Tony Abbott has resigned from the frontbench. There is speculation there may be another move for a leadership spill, which would mean that Andrews’ candidacy was pure stalking horse. I must say I’m surprised by how crazy the Libs really [...]
Posted in Politics | Tagged Kevin Andrews, leadership spill, liberal leadership, Malcolm Turnbull, Sophie Mirabella, Tony Abbott, twitter |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 25, 2009
At 1pm AEDT today, the Liberal Party will meet for a leadership vote, with the only declared challenger to Malcolm Turnbull being Kevin Andrews. I stand by the analysis I offered last night – Turnbull has the numbers, and if [...]
Posted in Politics | Tagged Climate change, Coalition, cprs, George Brandis, Kevin Andrews, leadership challenge, liberal leadership, Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull, Nationals, Nick Minchin, party room, Tony Abbott |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 24, 2009
In the wake of today’s extraordinary events in the Coalition party room, Malcolm Turnbull could put to good use the very qualities he’s usually been panned by his right wing colleagues and the commentariat for having – displaying some courage [...]
Posted in Climate change, Media, Politics | Tagged andrew bolt, Annabel Crabb, climate change denialism, climate change denialists, climate change policy, Coalition, coalition party room, cprs, emissions trading, Francis Urquhart, front bench, George Brandis, Kevin Andrews, Lateline, liberal leadership, Liberal right wing, Malcolm Turnbull, Nationals, Nick Minchin, party meeting, Peter Van Onselen, reshuffle, shadow cabinet, spill, The Australian, Tony Abbott, Wilson Tuckey |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 24, 2009
The Coalition are continuing their marathon climate change/leadership party room meeting after question time today. Clearly, agreement couldn’t be reached within the scheduled four hours. That’s significant in itself. In developments so far, Andrew Robb has jumped ship, reports Bernard [...]
Posted in Climate change, Disasters, Howardia, Media, Policy, Politics | Tagged Andrew Robb, Australian Greens, Ben Eltham, bernard keane, Christine Milne, Climate change, climate change policy, coalition amendments, cprs, Crikey, ets, greens, Greens Blog, Ian Macfarlane, Kevin Andrews, Kevin Rudd, legislation, liberal leadership, Malcolm Turnbull, New Matilda, Penny Wong, Peter Martin |
Propositions on the Liberal right week of FAIL
By Mark Bahnisch on November 26, 2009
Let’s sum up a few things about the CPRS/leadership shenanigans: (a) It’s been intriguing to see the focus of political discussion narrow to the Parliamentary dramatics. Journalists – and one suspects, many Liberal MPs – appear to have completely lost [...]
Posted in By-elections, Climate change, Howardia, Media, Politics, Polls | Tagged By-elections, Climate change, commentariat, cprs, ets, Higgins, Higgins by-election, Industrial Relations, journos, Kevin Andrews, leadership spill, Liberal base, liberal leadership, Liberal right, Malcolm Turnbull, Newspoll, Peter Costello, Ryan, spill, Tony Abbott, Wentworth, WorkChoices, workplace relations | 122 Responses