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By Mark Bahnisch on June 9, 2010
Derek Barry at Woolly Days has written a comprehensive post on this year’s Queensland Budget. Suffice it for me to state that I agree with his conclusion: Queensland’s 150th budget is much like the 149th that came before it. It [...]
Posted in Politics, Polls, Queensland, State/Territory Elections | Tagged Andrew Fraser, Anna Bligh, asset sales, Bligh government, Galaxy poll, Labor, LNP, Polls, privatisations, Queensland budget 2010, Queensland Labor, The Greens |
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 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 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 March 11, 2010
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/files/2010/03/softvswitched1.jpg1.jpg" Possum has obtained the polling conducted by UMR for six Queensland unions on the impact of Anna Bligh’s privatisation plans on Labor’s vote. It’s not good news for Bligh, and he suggests, not good news for Kevin Rudd [...]
Posted in Federal Elections, Politics, Queensland, State/Territory Elections | Tagged ALP, Anna Bligh, Bligh government, Federal Election 2010, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Peter Beattie, polling, possum, QR, Queensland Labor, Queensland rail, 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 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 Brian on June 4, 2009
She did say that in her speech to Parliament: At times in our history the government of Queensland has sold beer, sawn and milled timber, retailed fish and even had 90 state owned butcher shops. In Brisbane, our electricity network [...]
Posted in Politics, Queensland, Transport | Tagged ALP, Anna Bligh, Labor, privatisation, public transport, Queensland budget 2009, Queensland Fuel Subsidy Scheme, Queensland Labor, Queensland politics |
By Mark Bahnisch on June 2, 2009
Intoning the phrase ‘Global Financial Crisis’ at every opportunity, Queensland Premier Anna Bligh has been preparing the ground for the privatisation of a wide range of state assets. It was confirmed today that QR’s freight train business would be among [...]
Posted in Brisbane, Disasters, Economics, Queensland, Sociology, Transport | Tagged ALP, Anna Bligh, global financial crisis, Labor, privatisation, public transport, QR, Queensland budget 2009, Queensland Labor, Queensland politics, Queensland rail |
By Mark Bahnisch on December 19, 2008
As a bit of a postscript to my last post on the latest Queensland Newspoll, The Poll Bludger advises that Antony Green’s analysis of the redistributed state electoral boundaries has been published as a paper by the Queensland Parliamentary Library. [...]
Posted in Media, Polls, Queensland, State/Territory Elections | Tagged ALP, Anna Bligh, Antony Green, electoral boundaries, electorates, LNP, polling, psephological analysis, Queensland election 2006, Queensland election 2009, Queensland Labor, Queensland parliamentary library, Queensland politics, redistribution, The Australian |
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