Browse: Home / nathan rees
By Phil on December 2, 2009
Meanwhile in other spill news, NSW Premier Nathan Rees has lived to fight another day, reportedly seeing off the possibility of a leadership challenge by Treasurer Eric Roozendaal and/or Frank Sartor. NSW Premier Nathan Rees insists his leadership is “solid [...]
Posted in Government, NSW Government, Politics, Sydney | Tagged eric roozendaal, Frank Sartor, nathan rees, NSW |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 28, 2009
Having talked to a few friends over the last few days who aren’t political junkies (but are more taken with politics than perhaps the average voter), I’m not at all convinced that the Liberal leadership shenanigans are of anywhere near [...]
Posted in Climate change, Howardia, Media, Politics, Sociology, The Web | Tagged Andrew Robb, Annabel Crabb, Axel bruns, Ben Eltham, bernard keane, Blogging, blogs, Canberra, Climate change, climate change denialism, commentariat, Copenhagen, cprs, Crikey, cultural studies, ets, facebook, future of journalism, future of media, Gatewatching, hyperlinks, Imre Salusinszky, journalists, Larvatus prodeo, Lateline, Laura Tingle, legacy media, liberal leadership, Liberal leadership spill, link economy, links, Malcolm Turnbull, Media, media discourses, nathan rees, New Matilda, new media, Nick Minchin, Peter Van Onselen, public, public opinion, publics, Rudd government, social media, social sharing, Sociology, spill, Stephen Fenely, tweeting, twitter |
By Phil on November 25, 2009
Andrew Clennell in today’s Sydney Morning Herald points us to an interesting trial mooted by NSW Premier, Nathan Rees. Ethics classes will be introduced in NSW schools, offering an alternative to religious studies for the first time in 100 years, [...]
Posted in Education, Ethics, NSW Government, Policy | Tagged Andrew Clennell, Education, Ethics, nathan rees, new south wales, NSW, Religion, smh, St James Ethics Centre |
By Phil on November 20, 2009
As Imre Salusinszky noted a few days ago, the McGurk inquiry into planning decisions made for land in the Badgery’s Creek area of western Sydney has found that, ‘no NSW Labor politician or government official has acted corruptly.’ In handing [...]
Posted in Ethics, Law, NSW Government, Politics, Sydney | Tagged Kristina Keneally, mcgurk, nathan rees, new south wales, NSW, planning, Sylvia Hale |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 18, 2009
Peter Van Onselen’s new role at Newspoll Central appears to be a second string Dennis Shanahan, adding a second dose of commentary on the almighty Newspoll a day after the master pronounces on how it is to be interpreted. Van [...]
Posted in Media, Polls | Tagged ALP, bounce, Coalition, Dennis Shanahan, Federal election 2007, GFC, global financial crisis, honeymoon, Imre Salusinszky, john della bosca, John Howard, Kevin Rudd, Kristina Keneally, liberal leadership, Liberal Party, nathan rees, Newspoll, Nick Minchin, NSW Labor, NSW Labor conference, Peter Van Onselen, Polls, Rudd government, service delivery, state labor |
By Phil on November 15, 2009
It’s been a big weekend at the annual NSW State Labor conference, with embattled Premier Nathan Rees winning the right to choose a cabinet of his own making. A ministerial re-shuffle could be on the cards in New South Wales, [...]
Posted in NSW Government, Sydney | Tagged ian mcdonald, joe tripodi, Labor, nathan rees, new south wales, politcs |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 15, 2008
The Sydney Daily Telegraph, a newspaper which likes to see itself as some sort of courageous voice of the people, has been losing readers hand over fist, and more recently, an editor. The paper is also running a campaign for [...]
Posted in Elections, Media, NSW Government, Politics | Tagged constitution, Daily Telegraph, fixed terms, four year terms, managerialism, nathan rees, Nick Greiner, NSW Government, NSW Labor, Paul Kelly, recall, Westminister system |
By Robert Merkel on November 12, 2008
Governments spending money to stimulate the economy is all the rage nowadays. The Federal Government’s just done $10 billion of it. Obama is being urged to do it on a gargantuan scale. The Chinese have apparently promised 800 billion dollars [...]
Posted in Economics, NSW Government, Sydney, Transport | Tagged eric roozendaal, nathan rees |
The media, social media and the Liberal thrills and spills
By Mark Bahnisch on November 28, 2009
Having talked to a few friends over the last few days who aren’t political junkies (but are more taken with politics than perhaps the average voter), I’m not at all convinced that the Liberal leadership shenanigans are of anywhere near [...]
Posted in Climate change, Howardia, Media, Politics, Sociology, The Web | Tagged Andrew Robb, Annabel Crabb, Axel bruns, Ben Eltham, bernard keane, Blogging, blogs, Canberra, Climate change, climate change denialism, commentariat, Copenhagen, cprs, Crikey, cultural studies, ets, facebook, future of journalism, future of media, Gatewatching, hyperlinks, Imre Salusinszky, journalists, Larvatus prodeo, Lateline, Laura Tingle, legacy media, liberal leadership, Liberal leadership spill, link economy, links, Malcolm Turnbull, Media, media discourses, nathan rees, New Matilda, new media, Nick Minchin, Peter Van Onselen, public, public opinion, publics, Rudd government, social media, social sharing, Sociology, spill, Stephen Fenely, tweeting, twitter | 27 Responses