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By Mark Bahnisch on December 4, 2009
Tomorrow sees voters in Peter Costello’s old seat of Higgins (and Brendan Nelson’s seat of Bradfield) go to the polls. Labor is not running in either by-election. That seemed like an arguably justifiable decision at the time nominations closed, but [...]
Posted in By-elections, Politics | Tagged ALP, Anthony Albanese, Antony Green, Australian Greens, Bradfield by-election, brendan nelson, Climate change, Clive Hamilton, cprs, ets, Higgins by-election, Hugo Young, kelly o'dwyer, Kevin Rudd, Labor, liberal leadership, Liberal leadership spill, Malcom Turnbull, New Matilda, Peter Costello, Rebekka Power, Rudd government, The Greens, Tony Abbott |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 30, 2009
I mentioned in my previous post that a lot of speculation has now turned to Malcolm Turnbull’s intentions should he lose the leadership tomorrow. I also linked to the thoughts of Christopher Joye of Business Spectator. This paragraph is particularly [...]
Posted in Politics | Tagged ALP, Christopher Joyce, Crikey, economic liberalism, ideology, Labor, Liberal leadership spill, Liberal Party, Liberal split, liberalism, Malcolm Turnbull, new party, political sociology, republicanism, Rudd government, social liberalism, split |
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 28, 2009
[Via Labor Outsider in comments] The Australian is reporting that an analysis of Newspoll data collected in September suggests that 63% of urban Coalition voters want the government’s CPRS passed, with only 28% against, and that the Liberals could lose [...]
Posted in Climate change, Polls | Tagged Alan Jones, andrew bolt, Climate change, climate change denialism, cprs, ets, Liberal base, liberal leadership, Liberal leadership spill, Liberal Party, Liberal party membership, Malcolm Turnbull, Media, Newspoll, political sociology, poll, possum, public opinion, urban seats |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 28, 2009
Having talked to a few friends over the last few days who aren’t political junkies (but are more taken with politics than perhaps the average voter), I’m not at all convinced that the Liberal leadership shenanigans are of anywhere near [...]
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By Mark Bahnisch on November 27, 2009
It’s become something of a race to the finish between the Liberal leadership spill and the CPRS’ passage through the Senate. I haven’t seen much discussion out there of the implications of a defeat for the ETS bill. Those who [...]
Posted in Climate change, Politics | Tagged ALP, cprs, ets, Ian Macfarlane, Joe Hockey, Kevin Rudd, Labor, liberal leadership, Liberal leadership spill, Malcolm Turnbull, Penny Wong, Rudd government, Senate, spill |
By Robert Merkel on November 27, 2009
ABC News: Former Opposition frontbencher Tony Abbott has confirmed he will challenge Malcolm Turnbull in a leadership spill on Monday morning if the Liberal leader does not back down on emissions trading. “If there’s no movement then I’ll be calling [...]
Posted in Howardia, Politics | Tagged Climate change, cprs, Joe Hockey, liberal leadership, Liberal leadership crisis, Liberal leadership spill, Malcolm Turnbull, spill, Tony Abbott |
By Kim on September 17, 2008
There’s something of a paradox there, because, as I’ve been arguing, Malcolm Turnbull’s best chance at making an impact (beyond the born in a log cabin dingy flat narrative personal stuff) is to move towards the centre, and particularly given [...]
Posted in Climate change, Media, Politics | Tagged ALP, brendan nelson, carbon pollution reduction scheme, Climate change, Emissions trading scheme, John Hewson, John Quiggin, Kevin Rudd, Labor, leadership spill, liberal leadership, Liberal leadership spill, Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull, Nick Minchin, political leadership, Rudd government, shadow cabinet |
By Kim on September 16, 2008
One theme that’s come up in commentary on several threads about the Liberal leadership here is that the political suicide of Brendan Nelson has the potential to put the Howard years to bed at last. One other sign of this [...]
Posted in Climate change, Economics, Howardia, Immigration, Politics | Tagged brendan nelson, Climate change, Costello memoirs, Emissions trading scheme, four corners, immigration detention, John Howard, leadership spill, liberal leadership, Liberal leadership spill, Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull, Peter Costello, shadow cabinet |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 15, 2008
It’s on. Brendan Nelson’s thrown down the gauntlet. The Liberal Party will determine its leadership tomorrow morning after Nelson called on a spill. Perhaps his capital E emo man performance in Parliament today was his audition – or maybe he’d [...]
Posted in Media, Politics | Tagged brendan nelson, Brendan Nelson leadership spill, Bruce Billson, Costello memoirs, leadership spill, liberal leadership, Liberal leadership instability, Liberal leadership spill, Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull, Peter Costello, Tony Abbott |
King Lear becomes a kingmaker, Hockey's treachery, and delay is the new denial
By Mark Bahnisch on November 30, 2009
It’s probably time to take stock again of the Liberal leadership spill shenanigans. John Howard has obviously been having a word in a few journos’ ears. Tony Wright penned this piece for The Age yesterday, portraying the Ghost of Wollstonecraft [...]
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