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Queensland state election 2009
By Mark Bahnisch on March 15, 2009
As the Queensland election is buffeted off course by Cyclone Hamish and the oil spill, Lawrence Springborg has enjoyed more success in shaping the political message – Anna Bligh’s sos is being lost in the storm. There’s a conundrum here, [...]
Posted in Queensland, State/Territory Elections | Tagged ALP, Anna Bligh, Bligh government, campaign launch, Crikey blog, fiscal policy, GFC, John Wanna, Labor, Lawrence Springborg, leaders debate, leadership, LNP, Pineapple Party Time, political communication, political science, public management, Queensland politics, Queensland state election 2009 |
By Mark Bahnisch on March 10, 2009
I’m increasingly convinced that if things carry on as they are at the moment, Labor is gone in Queensland as a majority government. Their biggest hope remains a shift in voter expectations away from an ALP win, and it seems [...]
Posted in Polls, Queensland, State/Territory Elections | Tagged ALP, Anna Bligh, Bligh government, campaign strategy, Labor, Lawrence Springborg, LNP, Newspoll, Peter Beattie, Queensland politics, Queensland state election 2009 |
By Mark Bahnisch on March 3, 2009
There’s lots more reading about the Queensland election over at Pineapple Party Time, but I thought I might take this opportunity of pointing out that a plausible argument could be made that The Borg sunk his ship today. We’ll see, [...]
Posted in Federal Elections, Queensland, State/Territory Elections | Tagged ALP, Anna Bligh, Bligh government, economic policy, global financial crisis, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Lawrence Springborg, LNP, Malcolm Turnbull, Queensland politics, Queensland state election 2009 |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 21, 2009
I’ve previously posted on the fact that the Courier-Mail has been beside itself with early election speculation for quite some time now. The logic advanced by several commentators that Anna Bligh would call an election because the last Newspoll showed [...]
Posted in Media, Polls, Queensland, State/Territory Elections | Tagged ALP, Anna Bligh, Bligh government, Courier-Mail, election speculation, Labor, Lawrence Springborg, LNP, Media, News Limited, populism, Queensland politics, Queensland state election 2009, Steven Wardill |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 15, 2009
Possum has a super post on Lawrence Springborg’s cunning plan – how to lose an election against a tired four term government. Go read.
Posted in Queensland, State/Territory Elections | Tagged ALP, Anna Bligh, Bligh government, Courier-Mail, election speculation, Labor, Lawrence Springborg, LNP, Media, News Limited, Queensland politics, Queensland state election 2009 |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 13, 2009
From today’s Crikey email: Queensland’s the only state to hold an election this year, and excitement is obviously building. Well, that’s one way of looking at it — if you’re either a News Limited journo looking for a lazy piece [...]
Posted in Politics, Queensland, State/Territory Elections | Tagged ALP, Anna Bligh, Bligh government, Brisbane Central, Clive Palmer, election speculation, Labor, Lawrence Springborg, LNP, Matthew Palmer, Media, News Limited, Nudgee, Queensland politics, Queensland state election 2009 |
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