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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 May 18, 2010
There’s been a bit of discussion about the latest installment in the media narrative, the Gillard breathing down Rudd’s neck meme, on the latest Spin thread. I should add to the list of tricks used to propel a non-story along [...]
Posted in Media, Polls | Tagged challenge, first term, Guy Beres, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, leadership, liberal leadership, media narrative, Polls, popularity, Richard Farmer, spin |
By Kim on April 8, 2010
There are at least two possible frames for understanding the significance of Malcolm Turnbull’s departure from politics. The first is the quotidian political view. His going, and the manner thereof, does or does not help Tony Abbott. In the land [...]
Posted in Politics | Tagged Andrew Elder, ideology, liberal leadership, Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull, Peter Costello, political leadership, Tony Abbott, Wentworth |
By Mark Bahnisch on March 18, 2010
Ben Eltham has a neat piece in New Matilda today comprehensively detailing the reasons why the ‘Rudd quaking in his boots’ story is tosh. He makes a very good point about the relative inattention given to the Essential Research poll [...]
Posted in Media, Politics, Polls | Tagged ALP, Ben Eltham, Coalition, Essential Research, Kevin Rudd, Labor, liberal leadership, Liberal Party, media narrative, New Matilda, Newspoll, Policy, Rudd government, Tony Abbott |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 3, 2010
After last night’s round of interviews with Tony Abbott and Barnaby Joyce, one thing is clear about the Coalition’s climate change policy. No one believes in it. They’ve come to this pass because of the momentum of the twin drives [...]
Posted in Climate change, Politics | Tagged Barnaby Joyce, bike riding, Climate change, climate change denialism, climate change policy, Coalition, contradictions, direct action, Kevin Rudd, liberal leadership, liberals, Malcolm Turnbull, Tony Abbott |
By Mark Bahnisch on December 5, 2009
The first few days of Tony Abbott’s leadership have seen a concerted effort by the conservative commentariat to decry any criticism of his reactionary policies on women’s rights and social issues as ‘anti-Catholic’. A number of points need making about [...]
Posted in Culture, Media, Politics, Religion, Sociology | Tagged ALP, anti Catholicism, Cardinal Pell, Catholic Church, Catholicism, catholics, catholics in politics, Christopher Pearson, Culture Wars, DLP, George Pell, groupers, liberal leadership, Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull, Media, political culture, Pope Benedict, punditariat, religion and politics, sectarianism, secularisation, social justice, Sociology, the movement, theology, Tony Abbott, Vatican II, victimology, Women |
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 December 2, 2009
The CPRS has been defeated in the Senate, with only two Liberal Senators supporting the legislation – Judith Troeth from Victoria and Sue Boyce from Queensland. This is the first fruits of Tony Abbott’s leadership. The potential questions are many: [...]
Posted in Climate change, Politics | Tagged Climate change, cprs, defeat, ets, Judith Troeth, Kevin Rudd, liberal leadership, Malcolm Turnbull, Rudd government, Senate, spill, Sue Boyce, 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 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 |
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 [...]
Posted in Media, Politics, Polls | Tagged bernard keane, Climate change, climate change denialism, commentariat, Conservative Party, cprs, David Cameron, delay, ets, GST, Joe Hockey, John Howard, liberal leadership, Liberal leadership spill, Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull, Nielsen Poll, Paul Keating, Polls, possum, press gallery, Rudd government, spill, Tony Wright, Tories, twitter, WorkChoices | 29 Responses