Is pokie reform a seat-changer?
In Yet Another ALP Leadership Speculation Article, Michelle Grattan claims that some “nervous ALP backbenchers” want to go back to Rudd, abandon pokie reform, and therefore immediately run to an early election which Labor will inevitably lose but will preserve [...]
More entrail gazing: “party polling shows…”
I wrote yesterday about the futility of trying to make direct extrapolations from a multitude of polls to the election result. Today, we’ve seen one of the other standard tropes of campaigning – the claim that “leaked party polling shows…” [...]
Greens plant some rural seeds
Perhaps the most significant of the ABC’s “My Vote” videos (where voters talk about their electorate and the issues that concern them) features the delightfully and aptly named Sid Plant, a farmer from the Darling Downs in Queensland. Plant, like [...]
So, what exactly does 'direct action' mean?
Tony Abbott’s second policy release since becoming leader also carries the ‘direct action’ badge – the underwhelming ‘plan’ to institute local boards for public hospitals in Queensland and New South Wales mirrors the Coalition’s climate change policy in highlighting this [...]
Ethics in NSW schools
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, [...]
All clear in McGurk inquiry
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 [...]
Tripodi tipped out in Rees reshuffle
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, [...]
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