By Mark Bahnisch on August 19, 2010
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…” [...]
Posted in federal election 2010, NSW Government, Polls | Tagged Federal Election 2010, internal party polling, Julia Gillard, Kristina Keneally, Media, national press club, new south wales, NSW, NSW Labor, Polls, state issues, swing, swings |
By Mark Bahnisch on June 15, 2010
Writing in today’s Fin, Laura Tingle, who’s normally very well informed, reports on work being done in the Department of Climate Change on a new version of the ETS, this time based on consumption not production. The idea is that [...]
Posted in Climate change, Economics, Energy, Federal Elections, Markets, NSW Government, Policy, Politics | Tagged ALP, Australian Greens, Bruce Hawker, carbon price, carbon tax, Climate change, climate change denialism, climate change policy, consumption, consumption based ets, Copenhagen, cprs, Department of Climate Change, direct action, ets, Federal Election 2010, Garnaut, graham richardson, Karl Bitar, Kevin Rudd, Labor leadership, labor party, Laura Tingle, Mark Arbib, market based mechanisms, NSW Labor, NSW Right, Penny Wong, Polls, production, rent seeking, The Greens, Tony Abbott |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 18, 2010
A number of the commenters on the earliest political memories thread recalled having been taken as schoolkids to see Her Maj, and a number of us also recalled weird little pledges and scratchy recordings of ‘God Save the Queen’ being [...]
Posted in Australiana, Culture, Media, NSW Government, Politics | Tagged Auckland, Australia, childhood memories, Joh Bjelke-Petersen, Kevin Rudd, Kristina Keneally, monarchy, New Zealand, NSW Government, NSW Labor, Politics, Prince William, queen elizabeth II, Queensland, Republic, republicanism, school days, Sydney |
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 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 Kim on October 10, 2008
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/costanswparliament.jpg" align=left Michael Costa has taken a leaf out of Mark Latham’s book… Forced out of office and Parliament? Write op/eds attacking your former party! LISTENING to Kevin Rudd at Council of Australian Governments meetings as he tried to [...]
Posted in Books, Writers & Writing, Economics, Media, NSW Government | Tagged ALP, COAG, economic policy, global economy, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Latham Diaries, liberal leadership, Malcolm Turnbull, mark latham, Michael Costa, News Limited columnists, NSW Government, NSW Labor, Peter Costello, Rudd government |
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