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By Kim on September 4, 2010
There’s an interesting article in The Australian today by Gabrielle Chan, looking at the rural discontent embodied in the rhetoric of the country Independents: The 2010 episode of “bush leverage” is a result of a backlash by conservatives against a [...]
Posted in Australiana, Economics, federal election 2010, Howardia, Markets, Policy, Politics, Sociology | Tagged Barnaby Joyce, Bob Katter, country independents, Culture, economic policy, Federal Election 2010, globalisation, hung parliament, John Howard, Nationals, neo-liberalism, neocons, Paul Keating, Pauline Hanson, Red Ted Theodore, rural and regional economies, Sociology, the bush, The Greens, tony windsor |
By Kim on August 18, 2010
One of the strange things about watching Tony Abbott on Q&A the other night is that he doesn’t actually appear to be a quick thinker. Any sort of question sees him raise his eyes to heaven in search of inspiration. [...]
Posted in federal election 2010, Policy, Sociology | Tagged Federal Election 2010, national press club, Noel Pearson, Paul Keating, Tony Abbott, unemployment, welfare reform, working nation |
By Kim on July 15, 2010
Both Blanche D’Alpuget’s new book, Hawke: The Prime Minister, and Channel Ten’s new series “Hawke” have had a dream publicity run, and not just because of all the comparisons between the new PM and her silver-haired predecessor. On Monday and [...]
Posted in Books, Writers & Writing, Culture, Film, TV, Video etc, Life, Media, Politics | Tagged 7 30 Report, biography, Blanche D'Alpuget, Bob Hawke, Julia Gillard, Kerry O'Brien, Kevin Rudd, Paul Keating, tv series |
By Mark Bahnisch on June 8, 2010
I continue to be quite surprised at the levels of panic about the Labor party’s current polling predicament, and some of the reactions. The government’s response to the Nielsen poll yesterday was to point out that Tony Abbott stands a [...]
Posted in Elections, Federal Elections, Politics, Polls, State/Territory Elections | Tagged ALP, Anna Bligh, Australian Greens, Bruce Hawker, Coalition, cprs, electoral strategy, ets, Federal Election 2010, Gary Gray, greens, John Black, John Howard, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Liberal Party, Nielsen Poll, Paul Keating, Peel Street, Peter Van Onselen, political communication, polling, preferences strategy, preferential voting, preferred Prime Minister, Qanda, Queensland election 2009, Queensland Labor, resources tax, Richard Farmer, rspt, Rudd government, Samah Hadid, satisfaction, second preferences, Sussex Street, Tony Abbott, underdog, win expectations, youth activists, youth vote |
By Mark Bahnisch on May 6, 2010
A couple of snippets from today’s papers: MINING giant Rio Tinto has shelved plans to spend $11 billion expanding its massive iron ore operations in Western Australia because of the wave of uncertainty sparked by the Rudd government’s proposed tax [...]
Posted in Federal Elections, Policy, Politics | Tagged capital, capital strike, Capitalism, democracy, Federal Election 2010, ideology, Kevin Rudd, Miners, Paul Keating, resources, resources rent, Robert Gottliebsen, rspt, Rudd government, super profits |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 11, 2010
Bernard Keane in today’s Crikey email:
Posted in Climate change, Culture, Education, Politics, Sociology | Tagged bernard keane, climate change policy, Culture Wars, education revolution, federalism, John Howard, Kevin Rudd, managerialism, myschool, Paul Keating, political culture, political sociology, Politics, roof insulation, Rudd government, spin, state labor, stimulus, Tony Abbott |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 18, 2009
I referred in an earlier post to Paul Kelly’s style of commentary – a mix of oracular pronouncement and portentous ponderings about the primacy of narrative. I actually read his March of Patriots a while back, and planned to review [...]
Posted in Australiana, History, Howardia, Media, Politics, Sociology | Tagged Book review, Guy Rundle, History, Insiders, John Howard, march of history, narrative, Nationalism, Paul Keating, Paul Kelly, political history, reform, Sociology |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 2, 2009
Paul Keating hasn’t been reticent lately about letting people know what he thinks … though, perhaps he never was. PJK has been in the news decrying the artistic establishment for neglecting Geoffrey Tozer, pondering cities and dubbing Canberra “a great [...]
Posted in Media, Politics | Tagged Canberra, Future Fund, Geoffrey Tozer, Kevin Rudd, News Limited, Paul Keating, Peter Costello, Rudd government |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 18, 2009
Parliament goes into recess next week, after a sitting whose most prominent contribution to political discussion was the unruliness of question time (aside, of course, from the usual shenanigans of opposition disunity, which are now customary). Writing in Crikey yesterday, [...]
Posted in Media, Philosophy, Politics | Tagged Athenian democracy, Bagehot, bernard keane, classical philosophy, eidos, forms, Gough Whitlam, jim cope, keating government, Kevin Rudd, liberalism, opposition, parliament, Paul Keating, Plato, question time, Rudd government, rudd rage, speaker, westminster democracy |
King Lear becomes a kingmaker, Hockey's treachery, and delay is the new denial
By Mark Bahnisch on November 30, 2009
It’s probably time to take stock again of the Liberal leadership spill shenanigans. John Howard has obviously been having a word in a few journos’ ears. Tony Wright penned this piece for The Age yesterday, portraying the Ghost of Wollstonecraft [...]
Posted in Media, Politics, Polls | Tagged bernard keane, Climate change, climate change denialism, commentariat, Conservative Party, cprs, David Cameron, delay, ets, GST, Joe Hockey, John Howard, liberal leadership, Liberal leadership spill, Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull, Nielsen Poll, Paul Keating, Polls, possum, press gallery, Rudd government, spill, Tony Wright, Tories, twitter, WorkChoices | 29 Responses