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By Mark Bahnisch on April 8, 2010
As an addendum to Robert’s post on the Rudd government’s announcement of the appointment of Tony Burke as Population Minister, and the call for a national debate on population policy, I wanted to pick up on another aspect of Bernard [...]
Posted in Australiana, Culture, History, Howardia, Immigration, Media, Politics, Race | Tagged ALP, asylum seekers, bernard keane, Big Australia, boat people, border policing, border security, Culture, discourses, History, Immigration, immigration debate, insularity, John Howard, Julia Gillard, Kevin Andrews, labor party, Lowy Institute, One Nation, political communication, political culture, poll, population policy, Race, racism, rhetoric, Rudd government, Scott Morrison, survey, Tony Burke |
By Mark Bahnisch on October 12, 2009
The Australian Democrats lost their last sitting MP last week, when South Australian Upper House MP David Winderlich resigned from the party. Andrew Bartlett wrote about this milestone at Crikey’s The Stump, and on his own blog. Now it appears [...]
Posted in Politics, Sociology | Tagged AEC, andrew bartlett, Australian Democrats, David Winderlich, deregistration, electoral commission, One Nation, Pauline Hanson, political culture, political parties, political sociology, Queensland, Sociology, South Australia |
By Mark Bahnisch on June 15, 2009
In the wake of the unnecessary firesale of state assets, the Bligh government has continued down its merry path of trashing Labor policy. Last week we had the refusal to take any action over the charges laid against a 19 [...]
Posted in Government, Policy, Queensland, State/Territory Elections | Tagged abortion, ALP, ALP policy, Anna Bligh, Bligh government, budget, GFC, infrastructure, Ipswich, Labor conference, Mike Kaiser, One Nation, Peter Beattie, privatisation, public sector, QR, Queensland budget 2009, Queensland election 2009, Queensland Labor, Queensland politics, Queensland rail, RU486, unions, wage negotiations, Wayne Goss |
By Mark Bahnisch on March 20, 2009
From today’s Crikey email: I don’t often agree with former ALP Senator John Black’s political analysis — he places too much weight on demographics for my liking — but I did nod my head vigorously when reading his piece on [...]
Posted in Queensland, State/Territory Elections | Tagged ALP, Anna Bligh, Brisbane, Culture, demographics, geography, John Howard, Kevin Rudd, Lawrence Sprinborg, LNP, One Nation, Peter Beattie, Politics, Queensland, Queensland election 2009, Sociology, The Borg |
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