By Kim on May 27, 2010
The exit of Malcolm Fraser from the Liberal party has set a few tongues wagging: Andrew Bartlett: For the last few months, I’ve found it hard to shake the idea that the Liberal Party’s overriding approach to politics and policy [...]
Posted in Politics, USA | Tagged American politics, andrew bartlett, anti-politics, Charles Richardson, Federal Election 2010, GOP, ideology, John Howard, Kevin Rudd, Liberal Party, libertarianism, Malcolm Fraser, Mark Lilla, populism, Republican party, Tony Abbott, USA mid term election 2010 |
By Kim on April 21, 2010
Tony Abbott has a plan which would end skills shortages in the resources sector: TONY Abbott has proposed banning the dole for people under 30 in a bid to entice the unemployed to head west and fill massive skill shortages [...]
Posted in Politics | Tagged dole, ideology, mining sector, newstart, populism, resources, skills shortages, Tony Abbott, unemployment benefits, youth |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 4, 2010
Overland editor Jeff Sparrow has a great piece in Crikey today, reflecting on the significance of Christopher Monckton’s tour of Australia. If you’re not signed up, I’d strongly urge you to take out a trial subscription to read the whole [...]
Posted in Activism, Climate change, Federal Elections, Politics, Science, Sociology | Tagged Christopher Monckton, climate change denialism, climate change policy, Coalition, Crikey, Culture, Culture Wars, elites, emotion, Jeff Sparrow, knowledge, Liberal Party, Menzies, nature, overland, populism, rationality, Science, science studies, Sociology, Tony Abbott |
By Mark Bahnisch on December 17, 2009
If you’re anything like me, you’ve been preoccupied with festive socialising and the fact that you haven’t bought any Christmas presents yet. But, in the rarefied circles of political tragedy, there’s a frisson of excitement, or perhaps manic enthusiasm, unrelated [...]
Posted in Howardia, Media, Politics, Sociology | Tagged Andrew Elder, anti-Labor, Arthur Sinodinos, Churchill, Churchillian, Coalition, election funding, fundraising, ideology, John Howard, Liberal Party, Nationals, Pauline Hanson, political parties, Polls, populism, redistribution, ressentiment, small business, socialism, Sociology, Spartacus, tax, Tony Abbott |
By Mark Bahnisch on December 11, 2009
One of the points I’ve made over and over again, before, during and after the 2007 election was that the electorate had tired of the noise level; the ranting and raving and constant theatrics of the Howard government. In voting [...]
Posted in Politics | Tagged Barnaby Joyce, business, Coalition, Elections, electoral reform, John Howard, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Lateline, Liberal Party, LNP, Nick Minchin, populism, public funding, Scott Morrison, Senate, Terry Flew, Tony Abbott |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 21, 2009
I’ve previously posted on the fact that the Courier-Mail has been beside itself with early election speculation for quite some time now. The logic advanced by several commentators that Anna Bligh would call an election because the last Newspoll showed [...]
Posted in Media, Polls, Queensland, State/Territory Elections | Tagged ALP, Anna Bligh, Bligh government, Courier-Mail, election speculation, Labor, Lawrence Springborg, LNP, Media, News Limited, populism, Queensland politics, Queensland state election 2009, Steven Wardill |
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