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By Kim on October 13, 2011
The other day, I wrote about Campbell Newman’s botheration and bluster in the face of demands that he fully declare his pecuniary interests. The Bligh Labor government, the opposition declaimed, was preparing the ground for a “summer of sleaze” and [...]
Posted in Featured, Media, Politics, Queensland, State/Territory Elections | Tagged Anna Bligh, Bligh government, Bruce McIver, Campbell Newman, Courier-Mail, dirt files, drunks and desperadoes, LNP, punks, Queensland politics, Robert Hough, sleaze |
By Mark Bahnisch on May 5, 2010
In a neat piece of timing, Queensland LNP MPs Aidan McLindon (Beaudesert) and Rob Messenger (Burnett) chose the eve of a John Howard love in with the party’s caucus to announce their defection and decision to sit as Independents. Both [...]
Posted in Federal Elections, Howardia, Politics, Queensland, State/Territory Elections | Tagged Aidan McLindon, ALP, amalgamation, Anna Bligh, Bligh government, Federal Election 2010, Independents, John Howard, John-Paul Langbroek, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Labour Day, Lawrence Springborg, Liberal National Party, Liberal Party, LNP, Nationals, privatisation, Queensland politics, Rob Messenger |
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 February 22, 2010
The Queensland government is pondering the introduction of the ‘Teach for Australia‘ model into state schools. The idea, trialled in Victoria and inspired by an American programme, is to fast track graduates with Bachelor’s degrees in any discipline into classrooms [...]
Posted in Education, Politics, Queensland, USA | Tagged ALP, Anna Bligh, behaviour management, Bligh government, child development, child psychology, classroom management, disadvantaged schools, Geoff Wilson, Labor, prac, practicum, professionalism, qualifications, Queensland politics, school education, schools, skills, Teach for Australia, Teach for Queensland, teacher education, teacher registration, teacher training, teachers, tertiary training, university education faculties, Victoria |
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 February 3, 2010
In the land of pineapple politics postmodern style, it might be thought that any aspiring leader should have done their time in reality tv. After all, Anna Bligh’s been on Celebrity MasterChef. Until last week, Liberal National Party MP, Aidan [...]
Posted in Politics, Queensland | Tagged Aidan McLindon, Andrew Fraser, Anna Bligh, Big Brother, Bruce Flegg, Bruce McIvor, Celebrity MasterChef, deputy leadership, gatecrashing, Gretel Killeen, John-Paul Langbroek, Lawrence Springborg, leadership, LNP, Mike Horan, Queensland politics, spill, The Borg, Tim Nicholls |
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 November 21, 2009
I’ve commented before on the tendency to anticipate the anniversary of events, and everyone in the Oz media has been doing just that ahead of the milestone of two years since the election of the Rudd government, which falls on [...]
Posted in Culture, Economics, Federal Elections, History, Markets, Media, Politics, Queensland | Tagged anniversary, Economics, election, Federal election 2007, ideology, Kevin Rudd, neo-liberalism, political culture, Queensland, Queensland politics, Queenslandism, Rudd government, shaun carney, statism, The Monthly |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 11, 2009
Federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett has declined to give Anna Bligh’s Traveston Dam the tick of approval. Bligh inherited this project from Peter Beattie, and I, and a lot of others, always thought its conception in the first place had [...]
Posted in Politics, Queensland, Water | Tagged Anna Bligh, Environment, Mary Valley, Peter Beattie, Queensland politics, South East Queensland, Traveston Dam, Water, water futures, water supply |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 9, 2009
Former Australian Democrats Senator Andrew Bartlett has announced he will be contesting the federal seat of Brisbane for The Greens. That’s my local electorate, and I’m looking forward to an interesting contest! Antony Green has much more. He points out [...]
Posted in Brisbane, Politics | Tagged andrew bartlett, Antony Green, Arch Bevis, Australian Democrats, Australian Greens, Brisbane, candidates, Federal Election 2010, Ingrid Tall, Labor, liberals, LNP, Queensland politics, Sexuality, Teresa Gambaro, The Greens |
By Mark Bahnisch on October 30, 2009
John Quiggin has posted a withering critique of the arguments that Anna Bligh has put forward for her privatisation program. The Bligh’s government’s original case for the asset sales announced in the June budget was that the state’s finances had [...]
Posted in Economics, Politics, Queensland | Tagged Anna Bligh, GFC, John Quiggin, privatisation, Queensland politics, Queensland rail |
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