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…” [...]
State issues and Federal Election 2010
This morning, in response to the Galaxy Poll [see analysis here], Prime Minister Gillard warned that voters in Queensland and New South Wales needed to distinguish between her government and their unpopular state Labor regimes. Is she right that there’s [...]
The politics of health: COAG and beyond
With the Council of Australian Governments meeting for a second successive day to deliberate on the federal government’s National Health and Hospitals Network plan, the usual suspects are proclaiming that there will be no deal, which will be a disaster [...]
Not spilling, dripping
Meanwhile in other spill news, NSW Premier Nathan Rees has lived to fight another day, reportedly seeing off the possibility of a leadership challenge by Treasurer Eric Roozendaal and/or Frank Sartor. NSW Premier Nathan Rees insists his leadership is “solid [...]
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 [...]
Sub-editing FAIL
AKA How the addition of a single word results in a headline that doesn’t provoke the Laura Norder crowd to clutch their pearls. Assuming, of course, that one doesn’t want to confect a controversy via a plausibly deniable misrepresentation. Saluzinsky’s [...]
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