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By Mark Bahnisch on May 5, 2010
In a neat piece of timing, Queensland LNP MPs Aidan McLindon (Beaudesert) and Rob Messenger (Burnett) chose the eve of a John Howard love in with the party’s caucus to announce their defection and decision to sit as Independents. Both [...]
Posted in Federal Elections, Howardia, Politics, Queensland, State/Territory Elections | Tagged Aidan McLindon, ALP, amalgamation, Anna Bligh, Bligh government, Federal Election 2010, Independents, John Howard, John-Paul Langbroek, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Labour Day, Lawrence Springborg, Liberal National Party, Liberal Party, LNP, Nationals, privatisation, Queensland politics, Rob Messenger |
By Mark Bahnisch on April 11, 2010
I spoke yesterday at a Search Foundation Forum, Breaking the Addiction: challenging Bligh’s privatisation push, in Brisbane at the Workers’ Community Centre at Paddington. This is the text of my talk, written up from my notes: I The Bligh government’s [...]
Posted in Activism, Culture, Economics, Government, History, Policy, Politics, Queensland, Sociology, State/Territory Elections | Tagged ALP, Andrew Fraser, Anna Bligh, autonomy, Bligh government, capacities, capital, Carole Ferrier, commodification, communitarianism, communities, corporatism, decommodification, democratic socialism, ETU, GFC, global financial crisis, globalisation, governmentality, History, homgenisation, homogenisation, ideology, Joh Bjelke-Petersen, John Quiggin, John-Paul Langbroek, Labor, Lawrence Springborg, Liberal National Party, LNP, managerialism, Media, neo-liberalism, New Labor, New Labour, nudge, Peter Beattie, political class, political culture, Polls, privatisation, QR, Queensland election 2009, queensland government, Queensland Greens, Queensland history, Queensland rail, radical brisbane, Ray Evans, resources, Sociology, Sunday Mail, T. J. Ryan, The Greens, trade unions, unions |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 3, 2010
In the land of pineapple politics postmodern style, it might be thought that any aspiring leader should have done their time in reality tv. After all, Anna Bligh’s been on Celebrity MasterChef. Until last week, Liberal National Party MP, Aidan [...]
Posted in Politics, Queensland | Tagged Aidan McLindon, Andrew Fraser, Anna Bligh, Big Brother, Bruce Flegg, Bruce McIvor, Celebrity MasterChef, deputy leadership, gatecrashing, Gretel Killeen, John-Paul Langbroek, Lawrence Springborg, leadership, LNP, Mike Horan, Queensland politics, spill, The Borg, Tim Nicholls |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 8, 2010
The last couple of releases of quarterly Newspoll data saw a theme emerge about Labor’s supposed weakening outside capital cities (and then a bounce back, which suggested that the huge amount of prognostication spun about the first quarterly poll was [...]
Posted in Elections, Federal Elections, Politics, Polls, Queensland | Tagged analysis, cities, Federal Election 2010, Lawrence Springborg, Liberal Party, LNP, Newspoll, polling, possum, quarterly Newspoll, Queensland elections, The Borg |
By Mark Bahnisch on June 18, 2009
I think there are quite a few self-inflicted political problems for Queensland Labor in the presentation of the budget handed down on Tuesday afternoon. But Anna Bligh and Andrew Fraser certainly aren’t helped by the ubiquity of the ‘debt is [...]
Posted in Economics, Media, Politics, Queensland, State/Territory Elections | Tagged ALP, Andrew Fraser, Anna Bligh, credit rating, debt, deficit, economic management, Economics, George Megalogenis, infrastructure, investment, John-Paul Langbroek, Labor, Lawrence Springborg, Liberal National Party, LNP, Media, Nationals, Peter Beattie, privatisation, public services, public spending, QR, Queensland, Queensland budget 2009, Queensland Budget papers, Queensland politics, Queensland rail, stimulus, The Borg, unemployment |
By Mark Bahnisch on April 3, 2009
From today’s Crikey email: Queensland has a new opposition leader. Former Liberal and Member for Surfers Paradise, John-Paul Langbroek was yesterday elected leader of the LNP, beating Clayfield MP Tim Nicholls by a narrow margin after the elimination of former [...]
Posted in Politics, Queensland | Tagged Anna Bligh, Bruce Flegg, Fiona Simpson, Jeff Seeney, John-Paul Langbroek, Kate Langbroek, Lawrence Springborg, LNP, LNP leadership, Queensland election 2009, Santo Santoro, The Borg, Tim Nicholls |
By Mark Bahnisch on March 22, 2009
Welcome to the Bligh heterogeneity! And living with heterogeneity is a much better prospect than assimilation into the hivemind of The Borg. I’m still thinking that whoever came up with the bright idea of applying that moniker to Lawrence perhaps [...]
Posted in Queensland, State/Territory Elections | Tagged ALP, analysis, Anna Bligh, Bligh government, campaign, Crikey, election results, Labor, Lawrence Springborg, LNP, Mark Bahnisch, Pineapple Party Time, Polls, Queensland election 2009 |
By Mark Bahnisch on March 21, 2009
We’ve got a real contest on our hands in the Smart State (perhaps over the future of that moniker!) as Queenslanders vote today. At Crikey’s dedicated Qld election blog, Possum, William “The Poll Bludger” Bowe and I will be liveblogging [...]
Posted in Blogging, Media, Notices, Queensland, State/Territory Elections | Tagged ALP, analysis, Anna Bligh, count, coverage, Crikey, election night, election results, Labor, Lawrence Springborg, live streaming, liveblogging, LNP, Mark Bahnisch, podcast, Poll Bludger, Polls, possum, predictions, Queensland election 2009, The Borg |
By Mark Bahnisch on March 19, 2009
I observed on Pineapple Party Time at the beginning of the week that the blame game inside the ALP about the failings of the Queensland campaign had started to leak out into the media. Evidently, some Labor types have been [...]
Posted in Queensland, State/Territory Elections | Tagged ALP, Anna Bligh, Anthony Chisholm, Bligh government, Brisbane, Crikey, electorates, head office, Labor, Lawrence Springborg, LNP, Mike Kaiser, Peel Street, polling, Polls, Queensland election 2009, seats, strategists, swings, tracking polls |
By Mark Bahnisch on March 19, 2009
If the story William Bowe has linked to this morning at Pineapple Party Time about Labor tracking polls showing swings of up to 10% in seats with margins of up to 8% in and around Brisbane and a collapse in [...]
Posted in Queensland, State/Territory Elections | Tagged ALP, Anna Bligh, Bligh government, Brisbane, electorates, Labor, Lawrence Springborg, LNP, polling, Polls, Queensland election 2009, seats, swings, The Greens, tracking polls |
By Mark Bahnisch on March 15, 2009
As the Queensland election is buffeted off course by Cyclone Hamish and the oil spill, Lawrence Springborg has enjoyed more success in shaping the political message – Anna Bligh’s sos is being lost in the storm. There’s a conundrum here, [...]
Posted in Queensland, State/Territory Elections | Tagged ALP, Anna Bligh, Bligh government, campaign launch, Crikey blog, fiscal policy, GFC, John Wanna, Labor, Lawrence Springborg, leaders debate, leadership, LNP, Pineapple Party Time, political communication, political science, public management, Queensland politics, Queensland state election 2009 |
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