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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 December 17, 2009
Back in August, I had this to say about Anna Bligh’s Labor regime in Queensland: Anna Bligh’s credibility was one of the few things the ALP had going for it in the March state election. Her opposition to the dictates [...]
Posted in Politics, Queensland | Tagged ALP, Andrew Crook, Anna Bligh, AWU, Bernie Fraser, Bligh government, Cameron Dick, caucus, Crikey, Grace Grace, Graham Young, Greenslopes, John Mickel, Kevin Rudd, labor party, left faction, left unions, Liberal National Party, LNP, Mike Kaiser, Nicole Scurrah, Paul Lucas, Peter Beattie, Polls, privatisation, QCU, QR, Queensland ALP, Queensland election 2009, Queensland politics, Queensland rail, special conference, unions, Wayne Swan |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 3, 2009
From today’s Crikey email: Anna Bligh certainly wasn’t exaggerating when she observed that Queensland Labor had a bad week. Nor has this week started off well for her, with a Galaxy Poll showing her approval rating plunging to 33%, just [...]
Posted in Crime, Economics, Federal Elections, Politics, Queensland, State/Territory Elections | Tagged ALP, Anna Bligh, Australian Greens, CMC, corruption, Crikey, Cronyism, ETU, fitzgerald enquiry, Galaxy poll, government business relations, John Hewson, Liberal National Party, LNP, lobbyists, Paul Keating, police culture, Poll Bludger, Polls, privatisation, psephology, public assets, Queensland election 2009, queensland government, Queensland Labor, Queensland politics, The Greens, Tony Fitzgerald, William Bowe |
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 February 20, 2009
From today’s Crikey email: Any close observer of Queensland politics – or rather what the press gallery and the pundits write about Queensland politics – could be forgiven for thinking the general approach to election date tipping was to write [...]
Posted in Media, Politics, Queensland, State/Territory Elections | Tagged Anna Bligh, Barnaby Joyce, Crikey, early election, economic policy, fiscal stimulus, global financial crisis, Judy Spence, Kevin Rudd, Lawrence Springborg, Liberal National Party, LNP, Mike Kaiser, MPs, National party, Queensland election 2009, retirements, speculation, stimulus package, The Borg |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 17, 2009
It seems that the ALP still can’t lift a political finger in Queensland without the press wizards at The Australian heralding it as a sign of an imminent election. On Friday, they were writing about a “trigger” for a poll, [...]
Posted in Queensland, State/Territory Elections, The Web | Tagged ALP, Anna Bligh, anna4qld, Bligh government, early election speculation, Gary Fenlon, Graham Young, internet and politics, Labor, Lawrence Springborg, Liberal National Party, LNP, Mike Reynolds, Queensland election 2009, social media, The Borg, web campaigning |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 9, 2009
The Poll Bludger links to a report in The Australian about LNP polling that shows they’re in a huge mess in Brisbane. I’m not surprised by the report – I was hearing similar numbers back in January about their internal [...]
Posted in Media, Queensland, State/Territory Elections | Tagged Brisbane, election speculation, electorates, Indooroopilly, Lawrence Springborg, Liberal National Party, LNP, News Limited, Queensland election 2009, Ronan Lee, The Borg, The Poll Bludger |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 29, 2009
In light of the interminable Queensland election speculation – seemingly immune to confrontation with any actual facts – there’s some interest in a leak Crikey‘s Bernard Keane had from the LNP: In the wake of yesterday’s item on problems within [...]
Posted in State/Territory Elections | Tagged bernard keane, election speculation, Jeff Seeney, Lawrence Springborg, leadership speculation, Liberal National Party, liberals, LNP, Queensland election 2009, Queensland Nationals, Santoro faction, The Borg |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 26, 2009
A further sequel to the LNP/Courier-Mail early election mania – Springborg backer Clive Palmer’s 18 year old son, Michael, who’s the LNP candidate for the safe Labor seat of Nudgee, has had a bit more publicity for saying dumb stuff [...]
Posted in Brisbane, Media, Queensland, State/Territory Elections, Urbanism | Tagged ALP, Andrew Fraser, Anna Bligh, Bligh government, budget, Clive Palmer, Courier-Mail, election speculation, Kangaroo Point, Labor, Lawrence Springborg, Liberal National Party, LNP, Mark McArdle, Michael Palmer, park, Queensland, Queensland election 2009, TAFE, The Borg, Tim Nicholls |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 9, 2009
From today’s Crikey email: Queensland Liberal National Party leader Lawrence Springborg – often accused by his Labor opponents of being a policy free zone – was quick out of the blocks on Monday, making an announcement about trail bike tracks. [...]
Posted in Queensland, State/Territory Elections, Transport | Tagged amalgamation, Anna Bligh, Bligh government, Brisbane, Coalition, Lawrence Springborg, Liberal National Party, LNP, Mal Brough, Queensland election 2009, Queensland Liberals, Queensland Nationals, Queensland politics, South East Queensland, trail bikes, transport policy |
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