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By Kim on August 7, 2010
Lindsay Tanner speaks some typically good sense in an opinion piece today on the topic of the leaks and the media. Read the whole thing here.
Posted in federal election 2010, Media | Tagged Federal Election 2010, leaks, Lindsay Tanner, Media |
By Mark Bahnisch on May 16, 2010
Shaun Carney begins his latest column thus: TONY Abbott the unlikely leader has done a terrific job in the 5½ months in which he has been at the helm of the Liberal Party. I doubt that, somehow. It’s clear from [...]
Posted in Federal Elections, Howardia, Politics | Tagged budget 2010, budget reply, Coalition, Federal Election 2010, Guy Beres, John Howard, Liberal Party, Lindsay Tanner, parental leave, Rudd government, shaun carney, Tony Abbott, Wayne Swan |
By Mark Bahnisch on May 1, 2010
As already documented on LP, Kevin Rudd occupied himself this week by performing perhaps the most spectacular policy backflip imaginable, the sidelining of the CPRS. Or perhaps unimaginable, because I suspect very few people saw this coming. Rudd’s climate change [...]
Posted in Climate change, Federal Elections, Howardia, Policy, Politics, Sociology | Tagged ALP, backflip, class cleavages, Climate change, cprs, ets, Federal Election 2010, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Lindsay Tanner, martin ferguson, May Day, paul norton, political culture, political sociology, reform, reversal, social democracy, Tanya Plibersek, The Greens, Tony Abbott, unions |
By Kim on April 13, 2010
Remember how the South Australian and Tasmanian elections were going to be the precursor to the inevitable Abbott Ascendancy? How much can change in politics in such a short period of time! Tasmanian Governor Peter Underwood has asked Labor Premier [...]
Posted in Elections, Federal Elections, Government, Politics, State/Territory Elections | Tagged ALP, David Bartlett, Federal Election 2010, Hare Clark, Labor, Lindsay Tanner, Nick McKim, PR, Tasmania, Tasmanian election 2010, Tasmanian government, Tasmanian politics, The Greens, Tony Abbott |
By Mark Bahnisch on October 3, 2009
A truly bizarre editorial decision from Ben Naparstek, who occupies the chair at The Monthly, has resulted in the publication of a review of Jacqueline Kent’s biography of Julia Gillard by Christine Wallace, who is writing a rival biography of [...]
Posted in Books, Writers & Writing, Ethics, Media, Politics | Tagged Allen & Unwin, ben naparstek, Book review, Christine Wallace, Crikey, Ethics, Gerard Henderson, Jacqueline Kent, journalism ethics, Julia Gillard, Kim Carr, Lindsay Tanner, Michelle Grattan, Penguin, publishing, review, robert manne, Sally Warhaft, The Monthly |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 3, 2009
The Centre for Policy Development has released a new issue of its online magazine, Insight: As the internet continues to make transparency and collaboration cheaper and easier, governments around the world face increasing pressure to become more open and more [...]
Posted in Blogging, Media, Policy, Politics, Sociology, The Web | Tagged Centre for Policy Development, citizen consultation, citizen engagement, CPD, democracy 2.0, government 2.0 taskforce, internet, Lindsay Tanner, participation, public policy, upgrading democracy, web, web 2.0, web and politics |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 18, 2009
Sometimes, in politics, it might be better to remain silent. Glenn Milne’s latest intervention, talking up a line from Liberal MP Scott Morrison, has to be one of the lamest ever political attack lines. [For those who don't want to [...]
Posted in Economics, Media, Politics | Tagged climate change legislation, economic management, economic policy, ets, Glenn Milne, Glenn Stevens, interest rates, Ken Henry, Kevin Rudd, Lindsay Tanner, Media, reserve bank, Rudd government, Sinclair Davidson, Treasury, Wayne Swan |
By Mark Bahnisch on June 24, 2009
In an interview with the Financial Review a little while back, Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner commented that governments might face some difficulty down the track when the need for economic stimulus has passed, but when also public revenues are not [...]
Posted in Economics, Elections, Politics | Tagged ALP, Coalition, economic management, economic policy, Economics, Elections, John Howard, Labor, liberal leadership, Liberal Party, Lindsay Tanner, Malcolm Turnbull, Peter Costello, Rudd government, taxation |
By Mark Bahnisch on March 12, 2009
John Quiggin wrote an interesting op/ed in the Fin Review today, which I imagine will eventually surface on his blog. Quiggin picked up on recent remarks by Lindsay Tanner about discipline in the budget process. “Efficiency dividends” are much in [...]
Posted in Economics, Education, Policy | Tagged bradley review, budget, fiscal policy, GFC, global financial crisis, higher education, ideology, John Quiggin, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Lindsay Tanner, Policy, spending, tax cuts, taxation |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 27, 2009
There’s a bit of chat around the shop today that one of the mooted new stimulus measures the Rudd government might undertake – bringing forward tax cuts and LITO changes for low income earners – could be a way of [...]
Posted in Economics, Industrial Relations, Media | Tagged AIG, corporatism, Fair Pay Commission, Heather Ridout, Ian Harper, Lindsay Tanner, LITO, Rudd govermnent, tax cuts, tax policy, unions, wages policy |
How the coup against Kevin Rudd unfolded
By Mark Bahnisch on June 25, 2010
Today’s comprehensive coverage in the Financial Review allows us to understand how the Labor leadership challenge was orchestrated. From reading a number of reports in the Fin Review today, including Laura Tingle’s, I think it’s fair to characterise it as [...]
Posted in Media, Politics | Tagged ALP, Anthony Albanese, AWU, Bill Shorten, caucus, commentariat, cprs, David Feeney, Don Farrell, ets, factions, Financial Review, Gary Gray, John Faulkner, Julia Gillard, Karl Bitar, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Labor leadership, Laura Tingle, Lindsay Tanner, Mark Arbib, Media, MPs, Paul Howes, Penny Wong, Robert Ray, spill, Wayne Swan | 752 Responses