Kristina Keneally’s speech on same-sex adoption
[Via Nicholas Gruen] Anyone who wants to automatically equate Catholicism with homophobia really should read Kristina Keneally’s fine speech to the New South Wales parliament, explaining why she is casting her vote in favour of a bill allowing same sex [...]
More entrail gazing: “party polling shows…”
I wrote yesterday about the futility of trying to make direct extrapolations from a multitude of polls to the election result. Today, we’ve seen one of the other standard tropes of campaigning – the claim that “leaked party polling shows…” [...]
State issues and Federal Election 2010
This morning, in response to the Galaxy Poll [see analysis here], Prime Minister Gillard warned that voters in Queensland and New South Wales needed to distinguish between her government and their unpopular state Labor regimes. Is she right that there’s [...]
The politics of health: COAG and beyond
With the Council of Australian Governments meeting for a second successive day to deliberate on the federal government’s National Health and Hospitals Network plan, the usual suspects are proclaiming that there will be no deal, which will be a disaster [...]
Ne bis in idem
Crossposted from No Right Turn. The above, which translates as “not twice for the same”, is one of the fundamental principles of modern law. Once you’ve been tried for something, and that trial has reached a final verdict (either to [...]
Prince William comes to town
A number of the commenters on the earliest political memories thread recalled having been taken as schoolkids to see Her Maj, and a number of us also recalled weird little pledges and scratchy recordings of ‘God Save the Queen’ being [...]
The Women
Dr. Cat’s post on women and Tony Abbott is a must-read. She really nails one of the problems I’ve had with the general coverage about Abbott’s “women problem”. So go and read it now. I’ll wait. I’m not going to [...]
All clear in McGurk inquiry
As Imre Salusinszky noted a few days ago, the McGurk inquiry into planning decisions made for land in the Badgery’s Creek area of western Sydney has found that, ‘no NSW Labor politician or government official has acted corruptly.’ In handing [...]
Rudd v. Gillard: Gillard's communication problem
By Mark Bahnisch on June 24, 2010
Those whose opinion needs to be taken into account when planning a leadership challenge are broader than Labor MPs, political journalists and tragics and the Twitterverse. It’s not an insignificant thing to tear down a Prime Minister in his first [...]
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