Qantas dispute: How Joyce’s actions could backfire
The actions of Qantas in locking out its workforce yesterday, led by CEO Alan Joyce who on Friday received a 71% increase in his remuneration, have huge potential to backfire. Bernard Keane encapsulates Joyce’s strategy: Alan Joyce’s logic is the elegant [...]
Quick link: Grog on Gillard and the NBN deals
Grog notes the deal done with Nick Xenophon and Steve Fielding to pass a key piece of legislation enabling the NBN: What it also shows (again) is that Julia is a master negotiator. Doing what Rudd was pretty loathe to [...]
Wild Rivers, wild times and new paradigms
I’ve been wondering why Tony Abbott has to keep giving near identical speeches to “the party faithful”. It couldn’t be because (despite being, according to the Shanahans and Kellys of this world, teh best opposition leader evah) he didn’t actually [...]
Government: Don't feed the trolls
The last couple of weeks have seen a fair bit of furore about those intertubes. Anna Bligh wrote to Facebook about the defacing of a couple of memorial sites for a child and a teenager who’d been murdered in Queensland. [...]
Where now for the CPRS?
So, the Greens aren’t too sad that the Rudd government’s Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) was blocked in the Senate – indeed they were a key component of that blocking. From the GreensMPs website: “The collapse of the Continue Polluting [...]
Fielding the coin-toss
I’d like to play poker against Steve Fielding. If his actions over the alcopops tax are any guide, he’d bet all his chips with a lousy hand – after showing it to all the other players. The net result of [...]
The politics of the Senate vote on the stimulus package
Possum has done an admirable job of spelling out the political implications of the stalling of the stimulus package in the Senate [see also Rob's earlier posts]: The real irony here is it’s the bloke in the middle [Malcolm Turnbull] [...]
Xenophon amendment – on its merits
Political machinations to one side for a moment , it’s worth considering whether Xenophon’s proposed amendment is a good idea. While it’s clear we’re collectively not doing enough to protect the Murray-Darling basin, that obviously doesn’t make any random throwing [...]
Xenophon not stimulated
ABC news: Independent Senator Nick Xenophon has dashed the Government’s hopes of implementing its $42 billion economic stimulus package by voting to reject it. Earlier today the passage of the legislation appeared doomed as Senator Nick Xenophon vowed he would [...]
Senate scrutiny or posturing?
Xenophon watch: TALK to resolve a Senate deadlock on the $42 billion economic stimulus package have hit a snag with independent senator Nick Xenophon demanding it include water reforms. Xenophon says that he can’t support the economic stimulus package without [...]
Breaking the CPRS deadlock
By Mark Bahnisch on February 3, 2010
Almost two weeks ago, I suggested that something positive might come of The Greens’ suggestion that Ross Garnaut’s interim measure on carbon emissions should be the circuit breaker for the CPRS impasse. In the intervening period, I’ve been surprised that [...]
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