Dennis Glover's avoidable ignorance
In another thread, commenter amused has written that: The effect of not having to go out, and actually mix with the hoi polloi to do your reporting is becoming obvious, as is the effect on the quality of ‘reporting’ (if [...]
Newspoll and the Greens
The Newspoll in this morning’s Australian shows the Greens polling 6 per cent of the primary vote, down from 7.2 per cent in the 2004 election. Newspolls this year have consistently had the Greens vote fluctuating around the 5 per [...]
Dear NSW Liberals and your media mates: judge not lest ye be judged!
Let me begin this post with a sad, potentially very sad, story which turned out to have a happy ending.
So, you wanna be a NSW premier?
Dear Applicant, Thank you for enrolling the the premier training course for NSW premiers to be. Past alumni have included Bob Carr, John Fahey, Nick Greiner, and Neville Wran. Morris Iemma is a current graduate whereas Barry O’Farrell is scheduled [...]
Debnam, O'Farrell to enter Thunderdome
Let the post NSW election recriminations begin! While Debnam has stated that he wants to contest the 2011 NSW Election, it seems that his deputy Barry O’Farrell has the same idea. This is going to be a one hell of [...]
WorkChoices one year on
From today’s Crikey email: Both the Prime Minister and Joe Hockey have rushed to deny that the NSW election result had anything to do with WorkChoices. Hockey has apparently attributed the Liberals’ poor performance to the power of negative advertising, [...]
The NSW Election: The Washup
I crawl out from under a day which started with tying coloured balloons to the gate of a local primary school and ended with a particularly boisterous victory party (praise daylight saving!) to deliver this analysis of last night’s results. [...]
Indifference 2007: Decision Day
I love the smell of voting in the morning. Or is that the sausage sizzle at the primary school just around the corning which doubles as the local polling place I can smell? I’ll soon find out as I wander [...]
Hobson's Choice
As an update to my Crikey piece on the NSW focus group research Graham Young and I conducted last week (cross-posted here at LP), here’s a link to an article Graham has written for On Line Opinion based on the [...]
School facilities and the true 'values' of education
While ideologues such as Kevin Donnelly deserve to be taken to task for the unique ability to condemn education policies via a quirky command of English, one of the battlegrounds on the NSW election illustrates an greater problem with public [...]
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