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By Mark Bahnisch on January 17, 2011
My colleague in several incarnations, Dr John Harrison, has a neat post on social capital and the SEQ floods at jmaced: The good thing is that communities with high levels of social capital recover from adverse circumstances faster than those [...]
Posted in Activism, Blogging, Brisbane, Disasters, International, Sociology | Tagged #qldfloods, Anna Bligh, brisbane floods, communications, donations, equality, facebook, giving, Hurricane Katrina, inequality, mentalities, queensland floods, queensland government, Queensland police, social capital, social media, Sociology, trust, tsunami, twitter, volunteering |
By Kim on September 22, 2010
I’ve been wondering why Tony Abbott has to keep giving near identical speeches to “the party faithful”. It couldn’t be because (despite being, according to the Shanahans and Kellys of this world, teh best opposition leader evah) he didn’t actually [...]
Posted in Indigenous, Politics, Queensland | Tagged House of Representatives, Independents, indigenous communities, nick xenophon, Noel Pearson, parliamentary reform agreement, private members bill, queensland government, Tony Abbott, wild rivers, wilderness society |
By Mark Bahnisch on May 4, 2010
In the wake of a disastrous Labour Day march for Deputy Premier Paul Lucas, it’s intriguing to see Keppel MP Paul Hoolihan question the need for asset sales in light of the resurgence of the resources boom. It’s even more [...]
Posted in Politics, Queensland | Tagged ALP, Anna Bligh, asset sales, Keppel, Labor, Labour Day, March, Paul Hoolihan, Paul Lucas, privatisation, queensland government, Queensland politics, Robert Schwarten |
By Mark Bahnisch on May 3, 2010
In Queensland today, we celebrated Labour Day as a public holiday. In the wake of the privatisation imbroglio perpetrated by the Bligh government, expectations were that solidarity between Labor and labour wouldn’t be at the forefront of the Brisbane May [...]
Posted in Activism, Brisbane, Economics, Government, History, Industrial Relations, Masculinity, Policy, Politics, Queensland, Sociology | Tagged ACTU, ALP, Andrew Fraser, Anna Bligh, bionics, Brisbane, Brisbane Times, British Columbia, business, canada, casualisation, class, class politics, corporatisation, corporatism, Henry review, ideology, Industrial Relations, John Quiggin, Kevin Rudd, labor party, Labour Day, labour movement, LHMU, March, masculinism, May Day, Paul Lucas, Peter Beattie, privatisation, QR, queensland government, Queensland Labor, social class, Sociology, super, superannuation, tax, unions, workerism, working class, workplace relations |
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 April 8, 2010
I’m speaking at a forum organised by the Search Foundation on Saturday: Breaking the Addiction: challenging Bligh’s privatisation push. There’s a great line up of speakers, including Professor John Quiggin, Peter Simpson of the Queensland ETU and Dr Patricia Ranald [...]
Posted in Activism, Brisbane, Economics, Government, Markets, Notices, Politics, Queensland, Sociology | Tagged Activism, ALP, Anna Bligh, breaking the addiction, Brisbane Workers Community Centre, BWCC, campaign, challenging Bligh's privatisation push, ETU, event, forum, ideology, John Quiggin, neo-liberalism, notice, Patricia Ranald, Peter Simpson, privatisation, QR, queensland government, Queensland Labor, Queensland rail, search foundation, unions |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 14, 2010
The Poll Bludger has all the figures on a disastrous Galaxy poll for Queensland Labor. The 59-41 two party preferred in favour of the LNP isn’t so significant in the context of optional preferential voting, where many voters don’t preference [...]
Posted in Politics, Polls, Queensland | Tagged ALP, Anna Bligh, asset sales, Bligh government, Galaxy poll, LNP, optional preferential voting, privatisation, queensland government, Queensland Labor, Queensland politics |
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 February 22, 2009
Various newspapers described Queensland Treasurer Andrew Fraser’s budget outlook review on Friday as providing a “trigger” for an impending poll. That’s something of a misleading formulation. But the budget position does give state Labor – perhaps paradoxically – a political [...]
Posted in Economics, Queensland, State/Territory Elections | Tagged ALP, Andrew Fraser, Anna Bligh, debt, deficit, economy, global financial crisis, Graham Young, infrastructure, jobs, Labor, Lawrence Springborg, LNP, political strategy, Polls, Queensland election 2009, queensland government, The Borg |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 26, 2008
Even if you’re not a local, you might have noticed that it’s been raining in Brisbane a lot recently. Anna Bligh’s taken advantage of fuller dams to execute a backflip on recycled water and to delay the Traveston Dam. These [...]
Posted in Brisbane, Climate change, Media, Queensland, Science, State/Territory Elections, Water | Tagged Anna Bligh, Brisbane, Climate change, dams, infrastructure, Lawrence Springborg, Liberal National Party, LNP, mary river, Nationals, Peter Beattie, queensland government, Queensland Labor, Queensland politics, recycled water, recycling, Richard Farmer, Travestock Dam, Water, water policy, water supply |
By Brian on August 25, 2008
Whatever the merits of shale oil it seems that the Queensland Government has come to its senses by banning shale oil developments in the Whitsundays, and everywhere else for that matter, and specifically a plan to dig up 400,000 tonnes [...]
Posted in Climate change | Tagged ALP, Anna Bligh, Climate change, climate change debate, environmental sustainability, geothermal power, Labor, managing risk, queensland government, Queensland politics, shale oil, Whitsundays |
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