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By Mark Bahnisch on December 8, 2009
Tony Abbott is set to announce his new frontbench this morning. All the reports suggest that the winners are the hard Right – including the resurrection of Howard era waxworks Bronwyn Bishop and Kevin Andrews, and the astonishing selection of [...]
Posted in Politics | Tagged Barnaby Joyce, Bronwyn Bishop, Cory Bernardi, Eric Abetz, frontbench, John Howard, Kevin Andrews, reshuffle, shadow cabinet, Sophie Mirabella, Tony Abbott |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 24, 2009
In the wake of today’s extraordinary events in the Coalition party room, Malcolm Turnbull could put to good use the very qualities he’s usually been panned by his right wing colleagues and the commentariat for having – displaying some courage [...]
Posted in Climate change, Media, Politics | Tagged andrew bolt, Annabel Crabb, climate change denialism, climate change denialists, climate change policy, Coalition, coalition party room, cprs, emissions trading, Francis Urquhart, front bench, George Brandis, Kevin Andrews, Lateline, liberal leadership, Liberal right wing, Malcolm Turnbull, Nationals, Nick Minchin, party meeting, Peter Van Onselen, reshuffle, shadow cabinet, spill, The Australian, Tony Abbott, Wilson Tuckey |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 22, 2008
The list is out and it can be found here. Julie Bishop is the new Shadow Treasurer. Contrary to Turnbull’s own claims, it’s clear that he’s rewarded his own supporters and demoted or discarded some of Nelson’s – such as [...]
Posted in Politics | Tagged Coalition, Concetta Fioranti-Wells, Julie Bishop, liberal leadership, Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull, Nick Minchin, shadow cabinet, shadow ministry, Sophie Mirabella, Tony Abbott, Tony Smith |
By Kim on September 17, 2008
There’s something of a paradox there, because, as I’ve been arguing, Malcolm Turnbull’s best chance at making an impact (beyond the born in a log cabin dingy flat narrative personal stuff) is to move towards the centre, and particularly given [...]
Posted in Climate change, Media, Politics | Tagged ALP, brendan nelson, carbon pollution reduction scheme, Climate change, Emissions trading scheme, John Hewson, John Quiggin, Kevin Rudd, Labor, leadership spill, liberal leadership, Liberal leadership spill, Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull, Nick Minchin, political leadership, Rudd government, shadow cabinet |
By Kim on September 16, 2008
One theme that’s come up in commentary on several threads about the Liberal leadership here is that the political suicide of Brendan Nelson has the potential to put the Howard years to bed at last. One other sign of this [...]
Posted in Climate change, Economics, Howardia, Immigration, Politics | Tagged brendan nelson, Climate change, Costello memoirs, Emissions trading scheme, four corners, immigration detention, John Howard, leadership spill, liberal leadership, Liberal leadership spill, Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull, Peter Costello, shadow cabinet |
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