By Kim on October 13, 2011
The other day, I wrote about Campbell Newman’s botheration and bluster in the face of demands that he fully declare his pecuniary interests. The Bligh Labor government, the opposition declaimed, was preparing the ground for a “summer of sleaze” and [...]
Posted in Featured, Media, Politics, Queensland, State/Territory Elections | Tagged Anna Bligh, Bligh government, Bruce McIver, Campbell Newman, Courier-Mail, dirt files, drunks and desperadoes, LNP, punks, Queensland politics, Robert Hough, sleaze |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 20, 2010
Published in today’s Crikey email: We’re drowning in polls at the moment, and rumours of polls. I’ve been writing in recent days about the futility of over-interpreting polls, and it’s also been suggested that the key to divining this election [...]
Posted in Brisbane, federal election 2010, Queensland | Tagged ALP, Anna Bligh, Bligh government, Federal Election 2010, Kevin Rudd, Labor, labor seats, LNP, marginals, Mark Bahnisch, Polls, queensland seats, swing |
By Kim on July 21, 2010
The Poll Bludger has posted a useful wrap of some recent developments which is worth a read. Among the links cited, there’s one to the selection of Rebecca Docherty as the LNP candidate for Kevin Rudd’s seat of Griffith: The [...]
Posted in federal election 2010 | Tagged Federal Election 2010, Griffith, john humphreys, Kevin Rudd, LDP, Liberal Democratic Party, LNP, Mal Brough, rebecca docherty |
By tigtog on July 18, 2010
Continue your discussion of the opening salvos in the active election campaigns.
Posted in Elections, federal election 2010 | Tagged ALP, Federal Election 2010, greens, Julia Gillard, Labor, liberals, LNP, Paul Abbott |
By Gummo Trotsky on June 23, 2010
William Bowe of The Poll Bludger wrote this piece for Crikey today, which we’re republishing with permission. This article is part of a weekly feature in the lead up to the 2010 federal election, and if you’d like to read [...]
Posted in Brisbane, Elections, Federal Elections, Politics, Polls | Tagged ALP, Arch Bevis, Bert van Manen, Blair, Bonner, Bowman, Brett Raguse, Brisbane, Clive Palmer, Coalition, Crikey, Dickson, Federal Election 2010, Forde, Griffith, Jon Sullivan, Kerry Rea, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Lilley, LNP, Longman, Mal Brough, marginal seats, Michael Johnson, Michael Palmer, Moreton, Newspoll, Oxley Rankin, Peter Dutton, Petrie, Poll Bludger, polling, Polls, preferences, redistribution, Rudd government, Ryan, Shayne Neumann, swing, Tereas Gambaro, William Bowe, Wyatt Roy, Yvette D'ath |
By Mark Bahnisch on June 18, 2010
Andrew Bartlett reports on a disgraceful LNP leaflet distributed in the suburbs of Wayne Swan’s electorate of Lilley on Brisbane’s northside. Go read.
Posted in Elections, Immigration, Politics | Tagged andrew bartlett, asylum seekers, Brisbane, campaign, Coalition, Immigration, leaflet, Liberal Party, Lilley, LNP, refugee week, refugees, virginia, Wayne Swan |
By Mark Bahnisch on June 9, 2010
Derek Barry at Woolly Days has written a comprehensive post on this year’s Queensland Budget. Suffice it for me to state that I agree with his conclusion: Queensland’s 150th budget is much like the 149th that came before it. It [...]
Posted in Politics, Polls, Queensland, State/Territory Elections | Tagged Andrew Fraser, Anna Bligh, asset sales, Bligh government, Galaxy poll, Labor, LNP, Polls, privatisations, Queensland budget 2010, Queensland Labor, The Greens |
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 Kim on March 31, 2010
If the South Australian election proved anything, it proved that to win in a tight race, you need hard working and appealing candidates in the marginals. For all the headline talk (now somewhat diminished) about Tony Abbott’s alleged momentum, what [...]
Posted in Federal Elections, Politics, Queensland, State/Territory Elections | Tagged candidates, Coalition, election campaign, Federal Election 2010, George Brandis, Liberal Party, LNP, Longman, Mal Brough, marginal seats, marginals, Michael Johnson, Moreton, Nationals, preselections, Queensland, Ryan, South Australian election 2010, Wyatt Roy |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 14, 2010
The Poll Bludger has all the figures on a disastrous Galaxy poll for Queensland Labor. The 59-41 two party preferred in favour of the LNP isn’t so significant in the context of optional preferential voting, where many voters don’t preference [...]
Posted in Politics, Polls, Queensland | Tagged ALP, Anna Bligh, asset sales, Bligh government, Galaxy poll, LNP, optional preferential voting, privatisation, queensland government, Queensland Labor, Queensland politics |
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