By Robert Merkel on July 1, 2011
As the ABC breathlessly notes, the Greens now hold the Senate balance of power. A number of Senators have left, most notably Steve Fielding. Of the departures from the major parties, perhaps the most significant is Nick Minchin; Crikey has [...]
Posted in Environment, Featured, federal election 2010, Policy, Politics | Tagged greens, Nick Minchin, roundtable, Senate, Steve Fielding |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 27, 2010
[Via tigtog at Hoyden] In a very valuable post, Antony Green has discussed a range of constitutional realities affecting the current situation which appear to have been unknown to many of our political commentators and journalists, which is rather interesting. [...]
Posted in federal election 2010, Law | Tagged advice, Antony Green, conflict of interest, constitution, double dissolution, Federal Election 2010, governor general, hung parliament, new election, Senate, solicitor general |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 22, 2010
William Bowe has all the news on the shifting dynamic in the Senate. We know The Greens have won a Senator in each state, bringing them up to 9 Senators when the Senators elected yesterday take their seats on 1 [...]
Posted in federal election 2010 | Tagged DLP, Family First, Federal Election 2010, Poll Bludger, Senate, Stephen Fielding, The Greens, Victoria, William Bowe |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 22, 2010
Bernard Keane in today’s Crikey: A hung parliament and a new Senate in which the Greens will have the balance of power and, most likely, a presence of which few of their number would have dared dream. The mainstream media [...]
Posted in federal election 2010 | Tagged ALP, bernard keane, election result, Federal Election 2010, left, Senate, The Greens |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 22, 2010
One of the interesting parallels for this campaign is obviously the British election result – and Penny Wong was right to say that George Brandis was running the same sort of agenda to try to bump the conservatives into office, [...]
Posted in federal election 2010 | Tagged Bob Katter, British election 2010, Federal Election 2010, George Brandis, House of Representatives, hung parliament, Independents, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Penny Wong, Rob Oakseshott, Senate, the ALP, The Greens, tony windsor, Tories, voting system |
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 1, 2010
The AEC has released the Senate group preference tickets online. For those who might not be aware of how this works, if you vote “above the line” (that is, if you put a 1 in one of the parties’ or [...]
Posted in federal election 2010 | Tagged AEC, ALP, Democrats, Family First, Federal Election 2010, greens, group preference tickets, liberals, preferences, Senate, Steve Fielding, Victoria |
By Mark Bahnisch on June 13, 2010
This weekend’s seen the latest installment in the ‘media narrative’; demands in The Australian for either a Labor leadership change or a quick cave-in by Kevin Rudd to the mining industry on the RSPT (which would, of course, in the [...]
Posted in Federal Elections, Media, Politics, Polls | Tagged ALP, Australian Greens, campaign, Coalition, Federal Election 2010, Galaxy, Geoffrey Barker, graham richardson, Greens preferences, inside story, Julia Gillard, keith de lacy, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Liberal Party, media narrative, Miners, mining industry, Nielsen, Peter Walsh, Poll Bludger, Polls, possum, preferences, Queensland, resources rent, resources tax, rspt, Senate, The Australian, The Greens, WA, Western Australia, Westpoll |
By Robert Merkel on April 27, 2010
ABC news: It was once a centrepiece of the Federal Government’s election strategy, but now the emissions trading scheme (ETS) has been relegated to the shelf until at least 2013… But Government sources say it was decided last week to [...]
Posted in Climate change, Economics, Federal Elections, Policy | Tagged cprs, ets, Senate |
By Kim on April 21, 2010
As I observed last night, the Opposition’s first reaction to the COAG deal* on health and hospitals reform was to blather on about “a great big new bureaucracy” (which isn’t as catchy as “a great big new tax”, but is [...]
Posted in Federal Elections, Health, Policy, Politics | Tagged COAG, Coalition, Federal election 2007, Federal Election 2010, GST, Health, hospitals, Kevin Rudd, Liberal Party, liberals, National Health and Hospitals Network, Peter Dutton, Policy, political strategy, Senate, Tony Abbott, WA, Western Australia |
Breaking the CPRS deadlock
By Mark Bahnisch on February 3, 2010
Almost two weeks ago, I suggested that something positive might come of The Greens’ suggestion that Ross Garnaut’s interim measure on carbon emissions should be the circuit breaker for the CPRS impasse. In the intervening period, I’ve been surprised that [...]
Posted in Climate change, Federal Elections, Media, Politics | Tagged ALP, Australian Greens, carbon emissions, carbon tax, climate change policy, commentary, cprs, double dissolution, ets, Judith Troeth, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Media, nick xenophon, Penny Wong, political strategy, Ross Garnaaut, Rudd government, Senate, The Greens | 72 Responses