NSW politics
Penrith by-election open thread
By Mark Bahnisch on June 18, 2010
The first by-election since Kristina Keneally became NSW Premier will be held tomorrow, for the seat of Penrith, vacated by Karyn Paluzzano after she admitted lying to ICAC over irregular payments of staff allowances. Antony Green has provided a compendium [...]
Posted in By-elections | Tagged analysis, Antony Green, Barry O'Farrell, Coalition, hashtag, ICAC, Karyn Paluzzano, Kristina Keneally, links, NSW Labor, NSW politics, open thread, Penrith by-election 2010, Poll Bludger, predictions, results, twitter, William Bowe | 202 Responses
The Twitter #penrithdebate assessed
By Mark Bahnisch on June 17, 2010
There’s been a flurry of chat around the place about the Twitter debate ahead of Saturday’s Penrith by-election for the NSW Parliament, which it’s been claimed is a world first (wrongly, because The Netherlands got there first). At the initiative [...]
Posted in Blogging, By-elections, Elections, Media, NSW Government, Politics, Sociology, Sydney, The Web | Tagged Barry O'Farrell, Ben Eltham, Blogging, blogosphere, campaign strategy, Crikey, direct democracy, Kristina Keneally, Lee Rhiannon, live blogging, messaging, new media, NSW politics, online debate, Penrith by-election 2010, political communication, social media, Stilgherrian, The Greens, tweets, twitter, web 2.0 | 12 Responses
Labor states on the nose!!!
By Mark Bahnisch on November 6, 2008
I’ve written before about why I think that the “media narrative” masquerading as psephological analysis that there’s some sort of automatic fall in support for state Labor parties because of some putative desire among voters to have different parties governing [...]
Posted in Federal Elections, Media, Polls, Sociology, State/Territory Elections | Tagged ALP, Anna Bligh, Antony Green, infrastructure, john brumby, Kevin Rudd, Labor, News Limited columnists, Newspoll, NSW Government, NSW politics, Paul Rees, Peter Beattie, political science, Polls, psephology, Queensland politics, Rudd government, service delivery, state governments, state labor, Victorian politics, wall to wall labor | 58 Responses
Privatising democracy
By Kim on August 29, 2008
So, Barry O’Farrell and the Coalition rained on Morris Iemma’s privatisation parade. Now, the Dilemmster announces that he can still privatise the retailers and generation sites without parliamentary approval. Correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t Iemma’s original argument some [...]
Posted in Economics, Energy, Ethics, NSW Government, Politics | Tagged ALP, Barry O'Farrell, Coalition, electricity privatisation, Labor, Liberal Party, Michael Costa, morris iemma, NSW politics | 20 Responses
Which party does Morris Iemma think he's leading?
By Kim on August 28, 2008
Poor old Morris. He can’t take a trick. After cunningly switching the introduction of the electricity privatisation bills to the Upper House (to avoid the chance of a symbolic defeat in the House that actually determines government and presumably to [...]
Posted in Energy, Media, NSW Government | Tagged ALP, Barry O'Farrell, Coalition, electricity privatisation, Labor, Liberal Party, Michael Costa, morris iemma, NSW politics | 63 Responses
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