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By Mark Bahnisch on September 24, 2008
I’m planning at some stage in the reasonably near future to write a longish post about Anna Bligh’s prospects (and I wouldn’t comment on Mike Rann’s, not being a resident of South Australia, and thus I don’t think able to [...]
Posted in Elections, Federal Elections, Polls, Queensland, State/Territory Elections | Tagged 1983 federal election, 1987 federal election, 2006 Queensland election, 2009 queensland election, ALP, Anna Bligh, Bob Hawke, Joh Bjelke-Petersen, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Lawrence Springborg, LNP, Mike Rann, News Limited columnists, Newspoll, Peter Beattie, political analysis, polling, Queensland Labor, Queensland politics, SA Labor, The Borg |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 24, 2008
…45% of Australians think so, according to this fortnight’s Essential Research poll. As a bit of an addendum to my earlier post about Julia Gillard’s speech last week to the National Press Club on the detail of the Forward with [...]
Posted in Industrial Relations, Polls | Tagged ACTU, ALP, brendan nelson, Essential Research, Industrial Relations, industrial relations policy, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Labor, labour movement, liberal leadership, Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull, political analysis, polling, Polls, psephology, Rudd government, union movement, WorkChoices, workplace relations |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 18, 2008
Tony Abbott trotted out the line on Q&A tonight that the ALP is scared of Malcolm Turnbull, hence the attack on him. This meme – which I think originated with the claims that the government were trembling in their collective [...]
Posted in Media, Politics | Tagged 2007 federal election, ALP, brendan nelson, Canberra press gallery, Kevin Rudd, Labor, liberal leadership, Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull, Peter Costello, political analysis, political columnists, political communication, political messaging, political strategy, Polls, question time, Rudd government, Tony Abbott |
By Kim on September 8, 2008
Via The Poll Bludger, the same old same old from Newspoll. I think what Rod Cameron had to say on Lateline had a lot of merit – voters will give Kevin Rudd at least another year before making a final [...]
Posted in Polls | Tagged ALP, brendan nelson, Essential Research, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Liberal leadership instability, Liberal Party, Newspoll, Peter Costello, political analysis, Polls, psephological analysis, psephology, Rod Cameron, Rudd government |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 1, 2008
mute a generation by ~funkadelic on deviantART Image courtesy of Funkadelic at deviantart. Click through and click on full view for a higher res version. Regular LP readers might recall that I’ve been emphasising for some time now research evidence [...]
Posted in Activism, Blogging, Media, Sociology, The Web | Tagged ABC tv, blogging and politics, blogosphere, citizenship, civic capacities, cultural sociology, cultural studies, democracy, electoral behaviour, Gen X, Gen Y, generationalism, new social movements, ngos, online activism, Phillipa Colvin, political analysis, political apathy, political commentary, political disengagement, political engagement, political parties, political sociology, protest movements, punditariat, Q&A, Qanda, Sociology, sociology of culture, sociology of generations, volunteering, Whitlam Institute, youth activism |
Muting a generation
By Mark Bahnisch on September 1, 2008
mute a generation by ~funkadelic on deviantART Image courtesy of Funkadelic at deviantart. Click through and click on full view for a higher res version. Regular LP readers might recall that I’ve been emphasising for some time now research evidence [...]
Posted in Activism, Blogging, Media, Sociology, The Web | Tagged ABC tv, blogging and politics, blogosphere, citizenship, civic capacities, cultural sociology, cultural studies, democracy, electoral behaviour, Gen X, Gen Y, generationalism, new social movements, ngos, online activism, Phillipa Colvin, political analysis, political apathy, political commentary, political disengagement, political engagement, political parties, political sociology, protest movements, punditariat, Q&A, Qanda, Sociology, sociology of culture, sociology of generations, volunteering, Whitlam Institute, youth activism | 18 Responses