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 [...]
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By Mark Bahnisch on February 19, 2009
Lots of stuff going on at the moment – there’s a great roundup at The Poll Bludger of this week’s retirements and preselections. And Antony Green’s election guide is up. Note that this doesn’t necessarily imply that an election is [...]
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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 [...]
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