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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 June 15, 2009
In the wake of the unnecessary firesale of state assets, the Bligh government has continued down its merry path of trashing Labor policy. Last week we had the refusal to take any action over the charges laid against a 19 [...]
Posted in Government, Policy, Queensland, State/Territory Elections | Tagged abortion, ALP, ALP policy, Anna Bligh, Bligh government, budget, GFC, infrastructure, Ipswich, Labor conference, Mike Kaiser, One Nation, Peter Beattie, privatisation, public sector, QR, Queensland budget 2009, Queensland election 2009, Queensland Labor, Queensland politics, Queensland rail, RU486, unions, wage negotiations, Wayne Goss |
By Mark Bahnisch on March 19, 2009
I observed on Pineapple Party Time at the beginning of the week that the blame game inside the ALP about the failings of the Queensland campaign had started to leak out into the media. Evidently, some Labor types have been [...]
Posted in Queensland, State/Territory Elections | Tagged ALP, Anna Bligh, Anthony Chisholm, Bligh government, Brisbane, Crikey, electorates, head office, Labor, Lawrence Springborg, LNP, Mike Kaiser, Peel Street, polling, Polls, Queensland election 2009, seats, strategists, swings, tracking polls |
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 August 13, 2008
Discussion of the Northern Territory election results continues to be framed in terms of its possible implications for WA, where Alan Carpenter also went early. There are at least two problems with this narrative – first that there’s no evidence [...]
Posted in State/Territory Elections | Tagged Alan Carpenter, ALP, Bob Quinn, Bruce Flegg, CCC, CMC, Colin Barnett, Jim Elder, Labor, Labor factions, Lawrence Springborg, Liberal Party, Mike Kaiser, ministerial resignations, Nationals, Northern Territory election 2008, political scandal, Queensland, Queensland election 2001, Queensland election 2006, Sheperdson Inquiry, Troy Buswell, WA election 2008, Western Australia |
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