CPD post: Cox on the Coalition’s parental leave plan
During the election campaign, LP will be cross-posting selected items from the Centre for Policy Development’s discussion of policy issues, Thinking Points. Readers may also be interested in the CPD’s collection of policy ideas and priorities for the next term, [...]
Coalition MPs set to move against parental leave plan
A report in The Australian this morning has one Nationals MP, Darren Chester of Victoria, going on record against the Coalition’s parental leave plan in its current form. Chester feels it ought to be extended to support “stay at home [...]
The view from Channel Nine IX
Continuing an irregular series commenting on how the election looks to commercial tv viewers: commercial free to air is the biggest single source of information for voters. “The new Julia changes her mind on debates, while the old Tony makes [...]
CPD post: McDermott on why we need to talk about equal pay
During the election campaign, LP will be cross-posting selected items from the Centre for Policy Development’s discussion of policy issues, Thinking Points. Readers may also be interested in the CPD’s upcoming collection of policy ideas and priorities for the next [...]
Gillard’s attack on Abbott’s great big new tax, and his gender fail
Bernard Keane picked something interesting out of last night’s debate (yes, it is possible – see previous LP discussion here and here): Watch for Labor to ramp up its attack on the Liberals’ paid parental leave tax. Gillard’s most effective [...]
Moving Australia backwards! Coalition policy speculation open thread
Well, Kevin Rudd has had his corflutes printed (and no doubt everyone else has too), you can’t walk around a marginal seat in Queensland without tripping over Christopher Pyne or Julie Bishop, and Julia Gillard is giving the kiddies more [...]
Marginal seat polling and the Rudd government's position
Paul Norton observed here at LP yesterday that we’re in uncharted psephological waters, with both major parties on low primaries and both leaders relatively unpopular. A host of questions have therefore arisen: about the likely flow of preferences from The [...]
Anna Bligh and Steven Fielding need to go to an Angels concert
And take instruction from the crowd.
Compulsory paternity leave
For all the grimness of the crime at its center, the Danish whodunit The Killing (which concluded on SBS on Wednesday night) sometimes felt like it was set in some progressive fantasyland, a land where politicians backstab and conspire against [...]
Tony Abbott the self confessed wimp
Shaun Carney begins his latest column thus: TONY Abbott the unlikely leader has done a terrific job in the 5½ months in which he has been at the helm of the Liberal Party. I doubt that, somehow. It’s clear from [...]
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