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By Mark Bahnisch on August 16, 2010
Perhaps the most significant of the ABC’s “My Vote” videos (where voters talk about their electorate and the issues that concern them) features the delightfully and aptly named Sid Plant, a farmer from the Darling Downs in Queensland. Plant, like [...]
Posted in Climate change, federal election 2010, Policy, Queensland | Tagged abc, Bob Brown, Climate change, coal seam gas, ets, farmers, Federal Election 2010, food security, Groom, Kingaroy, Larissa Waters, my vote, new south wales, Queensland, Richard Farmer, Senate, sid plant, The Greens, toowoomba |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 15, 2010
In an interesting post at Politicalowl, inspired by The Greens’ continued poll strength in House of Reps voting intention, Richard Farmer takes a look at the claim that The Greens always do worse on election day than in the polls. [...]
Posted in federal election 2010, Polls | Tagged Federal Election 2010, Polls, Richard Farmer, 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 18, 2010
There’s been a bit of discussion about the latest installment in the media narrative, the Gillard breathing down Rudd’s neck meme, on the latest Spin thread. I should add to the list of tricks used to propel a non-story along [...]
Posted in Media, Polls | Tagged challenge, first term, Guy Beres, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, leadership, liberal leadership, media narrative, Polls, popularity, Richard Farmer, spin |
By Mark Bahnisch on March 22, 2010
I was interested to hear Tasmanian Greens leader Nick McKim comment on the 7.30 Report that neither Will Hodgman nor David Bartlett had yet contacted him. I linked in an earlier post to an article reviewing the precedents for a [...]
Posted in Politics, State/Territory Elections | Tagged agreement, ALP, arrangement, confidence motion, David Bartlett, election results, Government, Hare Clark, Labor, Liberal Party, liberals, negotiations, Nick McKim, Richard Farmer, supply, Tasmanian election 2010, Tasmanian politics, The Greens, Westminster system, Will Hodgman |
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 Kim on October 1, 2008
The other day I pointed to ludicrously misreported Galaxy polling showing federal Labor improving its vote in Queensland. Yesterday, the other bit of the Galaxy Poll was published in the Courier-Mail showing state Labor going backwards in Queensland. (Although actually, [...]
Posted in Federal Elections, Media, Polls, Queensland, State/Territory Elections | Tagged Anna Bligh, Galaxy poll, Lawrence Springborg, LNP, media narratives, Mike Horan, News Limited columnists, psephological analysis, Queensland politics, Richard Farmer, Stuart Copeland, The Borg |
Even the devil sometimes speaks true? Rudd, Labor and the 2010 election
By Mark Bahnisch on December 23, 2009
We have it on good authority, that of St Thomas Aquinas, that demons and evil spirits can sometimes speak the truth. Now, I’m not saying that Janet Albrechtsen falls into either of those categories, but for once I was interested [...]
Posted in Climate change, Federal Elections, Government, Health, Howardia, Industrial Relations, Policy, Politics | Tagged Bob Hawke, COAG, commentariat, electoral strategy, Essential Research, Federal Election 2010, health policy, hospitals, Howardia, Industrial Relations, Janet Albrechtsen, John Howard, Kevin Rudd, Peter Dutton, Politics, Polls, reform, Richard Farmer, Rudd government, Thomas Aquinas, Tony Abbott, WorkChoices | 50 Responses