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By Kim on September 28, 2010
We really must be in a new paradigm when some people on Twitter end up thinking Sophie Mirabella speaks truly and I find myself feeling some sympathy with Stephen Conroy. But that’s perhaps by the by. I think one of [...]
Posted in Culture, Media, Politics, Sexuality, Sociology | Tagged censorship, filter, fiona patten, ideology, internet, liberation, Marcus Lockard, Mungo McCallum, Q&A, Qanda, sex, sexualisation, Sexuality, Sociology, Sophie Mirabella, stephen conroy |
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 Anna Winter on December 4, 2009
Dr. Cat’s post on women and Tony Abbott is a must-read. She really nails one of the problems I’ve had with the general coverage about Abbott’s “women problem”. So go and read it now. I’ll wait. I’m not going to [...]
Posted in Media, Politics, Women | Tagged Annabel Crabb, Australian politics, Feminism, Judith Troeth, Julia Gillard, Julie Bishop, Kristina Keneally, Miranda Devine, Sophie Mirabella, spill, Sue Boyce, Tony Abbott, Women |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 26, 2009
Tony Abbott has resigned from the frontbench. There is speculation there may be another move for a leadership spill, which would mean that Andrews’ candidacy was pure stalking horse. I must say I’m surprised by how crazy the Libs really [...]
Posted in Politics | Tagged Kevin Andrews, leadership spill, liberal leadership, Malcolm Turnbull, Sophie Mirabella, Tony Abbott, twitter |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 6, 2009
[With apologies to Shakespeare's Macbeth.] It may be that political news abhors a (Christmas/New Year) vacuum, but hasn’t Evan Thornley’s departure from politics at the point when the Victorian ALP caucus was about to elevate him to a Ministry set [...]
Posted in Climate change, Energy, Environment, Ethics, Media, Politics, Victoria | Tagged ALP, Australia Israel Chamber of Commerce, better place, Brumby government, Crikey, Evan Thornley, Hawke government, HECS, Israel, john brumby, Julia Gillard, Labor, labor students, Media, Melbourne uni, NOLS, NUS, RAD Group, Shai Agassi, Sophie Mirabella, Sophie Panopoulos, student politics, Theo Theophanous, Victorian ALP, Victorian politics |
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 |
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