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By Kim on September 2, 2011
In the wake of the asylum seeker decision by the High Court, federal Labor’s cup of existential angst is spilling over. The problem now with the ‘hold your nerve with Julia’ strategy is that her personal and policy performance appears [...]
Posted in Politics | Tagged ALP, High Court, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, labor party, leadership, Malaysian solution, Peter Beattie |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 22, 2011
The CPD suggests a return to evidence-based policy on asylum seekers. The question is: how do we get there?
Posted in Featured, Immigration, Policy, Politics | Tagged ALP, asylum seekers, boats, Breaking the Stalemate on Asylum Seekers and Refugees, Centre for Policy Development, Chris Bowen, CPD, debate, Essential Media Communications, Essential Research, Gillard government, John Menadue, Julia Gillard, labor party, Policy, political communication, Polls, public opinion, refugees |
By Kim on July 11, 2010
There is no doubt that the ascension of Julia Gillard to the Labor leadership, and therefore her becoming Australia’s first female Prime Minister, is a significant moment and raises a number of issues for discussion. Some have posed the question [...]
Posted in Culture, Feminism, Politics, Sociology, Women | Tagged ALP, Anna Bligh, Anne Summers, Catherine Marshall, equality, Feminism, gender, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Labor leadership, labor party, leadership challenge, misogyny, Shakira Hussein, spill, Women |
By Mark Bahnisch on June 23, 2010
In his press conference tonight, Kevin Rudd threw down a gauntlet to the Labor Party. He made it very difficult for MPs to elect Julia Gillard without her leadership being cruelled from the start. The PM emphasised the fact that [...]
Posted in Politics | Tagged ALP, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Labor leadership, labor party, leadership, leadership challenge, spill |
By Mark Bahnisch on June 15, 2010
Writing in today’s Fin, Laura Tingle, who’s normally very well informed, reports on work being done in the Department of Climate Change on a new version of the ETS, this time based on consumption not production. The idea is that [...]
Posted in Climate change, Economics, Energy, Federal Elections, Markets, NSW Government, Policy, Politics | Tagged ALP, Australian Greens, Bruce Hawker, carbon price, carbon tax, Climate change, climate change denialism, climate change policy, consumption, consumption based ets, Copenhagen, cprs, Department of Climate Change, direct action, ets, Federal Election 2010, Garnaut, graham richardson, Karl Bitar, Kevin Rudd, Labor leadership, labor party, Laura Tingle, Mark Arbib, market based mechanisms, NSW Labor, NSW Right, Penny Wong, Polls, production, rent seeking, The Greens, Tony Abbott |
By Mark Bahnisch on May 3, 2010
In Queensland today, we celebrated Labour Day as a public holiday. In the wake of the privatisation imbroglio perpetrated by the Bligh government, expectations were that solidarity between Labor and labour wouldn’t be at the forefront of the Brisbane May [...]
Posted in Activism, Brisbane, Economics, Government, History, Industrial Relations, Masculinity, Policy, Politics, Queensland, Sociology | Tagged ACTU, ALP, Andrew Fraser, Anna Bligh, bionics, Brisbane, Brisbane Times, British Columbia, business, canada, casualisation, class, class politics, corporatisation, corporatism, Henry review, ideology, Industrial Relations, John Quiggin, Kevin Rudd, labor party, Labour Day, labour movement, LHMU, March, masculinism, May Day, Paul Lucas, Peter Beattie, privatisation, QR, queensland government, Queensland Labor, social class, Sociology, super, superannuation, tax, unions, workerism, working class, workplace relations |
By Kim on April 21, 2010
The Australian Labor Party has long had a commitment to entrenching the protection of human rights, driven by a continuing tradition of legal liberalism associated with luminaries such as Gough Whitlam and Gareth Evans. Yet the ALP has also had [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Law, Policy, Politics | Tagged ALP, bill of rights, Cardinal Pell, civil liberties, Frank Brennan, Gareth Evans, Gough Whitlam, Guy Beres, human rights, human rights consultation, John Howard, Labor, labor party, legal liberalism, NSW Right, Policy, public consultation, robert mcclelland, Rudd government, Tony Abbott |
By Mark Bahnisch on April 16, 2010
Peter Black from Electronic Frontiers Australia asked me to contribute to a series of posts the EFA is publishing to draw attention to its current fundraising campaign. Please consider donating to the EFA in order to fund its continued work [...]
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, Blogging, Ethics, Government, History, Life, Policy, Politics, Sociology, The Web | Tagged ALP, biopolitics, Bob Carr, Capitalism, censorship, civil liberties, efa, electronic frontiers australia, expertise, Francis Fukuyama, freedom, governance, governmentality, ideology, internet filter, labor party, labourism, left, mark latham, michel foucault, neo-liberalism, New Labour, personal freedom, Policy, political communication, rationality, risk society, social democracy, socialism, Sociology, state labor governments, statism, stephen conroy, ulrich beck |
By Kim on April 12, 2010
Sheesh, election years can be depressing some times. If it’s not having the green lycra clad form of Action Man Abbott on the tv screen for 9 days in a row, or craven policy reversals on brown people in boats, [...]
Posted in Education, Politics | Tagged Arkansas, asylum seekers, Bill Clinton, Julia Gillard, labor party, myschool, NAPLAN, national tests, New Labour, parents, school education, strikebreakers, teachers unions, Tony Abbott, triangulation, unions, wedge politics |
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 January 23, 2010
Intriguing to see that Malcolm Turnbull is about the only Australian political figure who’s put Prince William’s visit into some sort of political context. Writing in The Times, the erstwhile Liberal leader puts his finger on a conception of Australian [...]
Posted in Australiana, Nationalism, Politics | Tagged Australia Day, Howardia, identity, John Howard, Kevin Rudd, labor party, Malcolm Turnbull, Nationalism, Prince William, Republic, republicanism, Rudd government, Times |
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