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By Mark Bahnisch on July 18, 2010
Possum reports on the first poll released during the election campaign – Galaxy, which comes in with essentially the same numbers as last time, bar a drop in The Greens’ primary vote to 13%, with the one point lost going [...]
Posted in federal election 2010, Federal Elections, Polls | Tagged ALP, Anna Bligh, Federal Election 2010, Galaxy, Julia Gillard, Labor, Polls, possum, Queensland election 2009 |
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 April 11, 2010
I spoke yesterday at a Search Foundation Forum, Breaking the Addiction: challenging Bligh’s privatisation push, in Brisbane at the Workers’ Community Centre at Paddington. This is the text of my talk, written up from my notes: I The Bligh government’s [...]
Posted in Activism, Culture, Economics, Government, History, Policy, Politics, Queensland, Sociology, State/Territory Elections | Tagged ALP, Andrew Fraser, Anna Bligh, autonomy, Bligh government, capacities, capital, Carole Ferrier, commodification, communitarianism, communities, corporatism, decommodification, democratic socialism, ETU, GFC, global financial crisis, globalisation, governmentality, History, homgenisation, homogenisation, ideology, Joh Bjelke-Petersen, John Quiggin, John-Paul Langbroek, Labor, Lawrence Springborg, Liberal National Party, LNP, managerialism, Media, neo-liberalism, New Labor, New Labour, nudge, Peter Beattie, political class, political culture, Polls, privatisation, QR, Queensland election 2009, queensland government, Queensland Greens, Queensland history, Queensland rail, radical brisbane, Ray Evans, resources, Sociology, Sunday Mail, T. J. Ryan, The Greens, trade unions, unions |
By Mark Bahnisch on December 17, 2009
Back in August, I had this to say about Anna Bligh’s Labor regime in Queensland: Anna Bligh’s credibility was one of the few things the ALP had going for it in the March state election. Her opposition to the dictates [...]
Posted in Politics, Queensland | Tagged ALP, Andrew Crook, Anna Bligh, AWU, Bernie Fraser, Bligh government, Cameron Dick, caucus, Crikey, Grace Grace, Graham Young, Greenslopes, John Mickel, Kevin Rudd, labor party, left faction, left unions, Liberal National Party, LNP, Mike Kaiser, Nicole Scurrah, Paul Lucas, Peter Beattie, Polls, privatisation, QCU, QR, Queensland ALP, Queensland election 2009, Queensland politics, Queensland rail, special conference, unions, Wayne Swan |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 3, 2009
From today’s Crikey email: Anna Bligh certainly wasn’t exaggerating when she observed that Queensland Labor had a bad week. Nor has this week started off well for her, with a Galaxy Poll showing her approval rating plunging to 33%, just [...]
Posted in Crime, Economics, Federal Elections, Politics, Queensland, State/Territory Elections | Tagged ALP, Anna Bligh, Australian Greens, CMC, corruption, Crikey, Cronyism, ETU, fitzgerald enquiry, Galaxy poll, government business relations, John Hewson, Liberal National Party, LNP, lobbyists, Paul Keating, police culture, Poll Bludger, Polls, privatisation, psephology, public assets, Queensland election 2009, queensland government, Queensland Labor, Queensland politics, The Greens, Tony Fitzgerald, William Bowe |
By Mark Bahnisch on July 1, 2009
Crikey‘s editorial today (reproduced over the fold with permission) picked up on the political significance of Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard’s critical remarks about the conduct of News Limited papers in publishing the concocted email at the centre of the [...]
Posted in Ethics, Media, Politics | Tagged Anna Bligh, coverage, Crikey, election coverage, Ethics, Federal election 2007, John Hartigan, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Media, media watch, new media, News Limited, newspapers, political journalism, Queensland election 2009, scandal, Utegate |
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 April 3, 2009
From today’s Crikey email: Queensland has a new opposition leader. Former Liberal and Member for Surfers Paradise, John-Paul Langbroek was yesterday elected leader of the LNP, beating Clayfield MP Tim Nicholls by a narrow margin after the elimination of former [...]
Posted in Politics, Queensland | Tagged Anna Bligh, Bruce Flegg, Fiona Simpson, Jeff Seeney, John-Paul Langbroek, Kate Langbroek, Lawrence Springborg, LNP, LNP leadership, Queensland election 2009, Santo Santoro, The Borg, Tim Nicholls |
By Mark Bahnisch on March 22, 2009
Welcome to the Bligh heterogeneity! And living with heterogeneity is a much better prospect than assimilation into the hivemind of The Borg. I’m still thinking that whoever came up with the bright idea of applying that moniker to Lawrence perhaps [...]
Posted in Queensland, State/Territory Elections | Tagged ALP, analysis, Anna Bligh, Bligh government, campaign, Crikey, election results, Labor, Lawrence Springborg, LNP, Mark Bahnisch, Pineapple Party Time, Polls, Queensland election 2009 |
By Mark Bahnisch on March 21, 2009
We’ve got a real contest on our hands in the Smart State (perhaps over the future of that moniker!) as Queenslanders vote today. At Crikey’s dedicated Qld election blog, Possum, William “The Poll Bludger” Bowe and I will be liveblogging [...]
Posted in Blogging, Media, Notices, Queensland, State/Territory Elections | Tagged ALP, analysis, Anna Bligh, count, coverage, Crikey, election night, election results, Labor, Lawrence Springborg, live streaming, liveblogging, LNP, Mark Bahnisch, podcast, Poll Bludger, Polls, possum, predictions, Queensland election 2009, The Borg |
By Mark Bahnisch on March 20, 2009
Primaries are 41.7% Labor and 42.1% LNP with the 2PP at 49.9% ALP and 50.1% LNP. Details at Pineapple Party Time.
Posted in Polls, Queensland, State/Territory Elections | Tagged ALP, LNP, Newspoll, Queensland election 2009 |
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