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By Mark Bahnisch on March 31, 2010
At Eureka Street, John Warhurst has written a piece about Tony Abbott, Santamaria and the Liberal Party. The illustration (reproduced below) is interesting for all sorts of reasons: <img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/files/2010/03/abbott-pope1.jpg" The article Tony Abbott penned for the Weekend Australian colour [...]
Posted in Economics, Politics, Religion, Sociology | Tagged Australian Catholicism, B.A. Santamaria, Barnaby Joyce, Bob Katter, Catholic Church, clerical child abuse, Democratic Labor Party, DLP, economic policy, Eureka Street, John Warhurst, Kevin Rudd, Liberal Party, National civic Council, political behaviour, political catholicism, political culture, political sociology, Pope Benedict, Queensland Nationals, religion and politics, religiosity, secularisation, Speech, symbolism, the movement, Tony Abbott, World Youth Day |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 29, 2009
In light of the interminable Queensland election speculation – seemingly immune to confrontation with any actual facts – there’s some interest in a leak Crikey‘s Bernard Keane had from the LNP: In the wake of yesterday’s item on problems within [...]
Posted in State/Territory Elections | Tagged bernard keane, election speculation, Jeff Seeney, Lawrence Springborg, leadership speculation, Liberal National Party, liberals, LNP, Queensland election 2009, Queensland Nationals, Santoro faction, The Borg |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 14, 2009
As another followup to recent posts on Barnaby Joyce’s egofest (driven by the Howardian egofest), Lawrence Springborg has weighed in – in the Barnaby corner: Queensland’s Opposition Leader Lawrence Springborg said the comments helped highlight the faults in Labor’s scheme. [...]
Posted in Climate change, Politics | Tagged Barnaby Joyce, Climate change, Coalition, cprs, Emissions trading scheme, House of Reps, John Howard, Kevin Rudd, leadership, Malcolm Turnbull, Nationals, Queensland Nationals, seat, Senate, The Greens, white paper |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 12, 2009
Maybe it’s still the silly season in Australian politics. Or maybe any development involving both John Howard and the Queensland Nationals is by definition surreal. Barnaby Joyce has apparently been chatting to John Howard, and has indicated a willingness to [...]
Posted in Howardia, Politics | Tagged Barnaby Joyce, Coalition, House of Reps, John Howard, leadership, Malcolm Turnbull, Nationals, Queensland Nationals, seat |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 9, 2009
From today’s Crikey email: Queensland Liberal National Party leader Lawrence Springborg – often accused by his Labor opponents of being a policy free zone – was quick out of the blocks on Monday, making an announcement about trail bike tracks. [...]
Posted in Queensland, State/Territory Elections, Transport | Tagged amalgamation, Anna Bligh, Bligh government, Brisbane, Coalition, Lawrence Springborg, Liberal National Party, LNP, Mal Brough, Queensland election 2009, Queensland Liberals, Queensland Nationals, Queensland politics, South East Queensland, trail bikes, transport policy |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 3, 2008
I note that Brian Costar has been thinking along similar lines to me and Andrew Bartlett on the subject of the formation of the Liberal National Party. He’s put his finger on the key challenge for the Borg and his [...]
Posted in Brisbane, Elections, NSW Government, Polls, Queensland, Sociology, State/Territory Elections, Urbanism | Tagged andrew bartlett, coalition amalgamation, Lawrence Springborg, Liberal National Party, Nationals takeover, NSW Election 2007, politics&govt, Queensland Liberals, Queensland Nationals, Queensland political history, Queensland politics, Santo Santoro, Sociology |
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