By Mark Bahnisch on July 23, 2011
Malcolm Turnbull’s speech on climate change science points the way to a better framing of the climate change and carbon price debates than we’ve seen from the Labor party.
Posted in Climate change, Climatology, Featured, Politics, Polls, Science | Tagged ALP, clean energy future, Climate change, climate science, communications, Essential Research, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Malcolm Turnbull, Polls, public opinion, strategy |
By Mark Bahnisch on July 29, 2010
In a post at The ABC’s Drumroll, and in comments on the link thread here, I’ve been critical of the fact that a concentration on the horse race, on internal ALP dramas, and Julia Gillard’s political persona has all allowed [...]
Posted in federal election 2010 | Tagged campaign, Coalition, Government, Policy, roundtable, strategy, Tony Abbott |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 22, 2010
On Q&A tonight, the defence from John Roskam of Tony Abbott’s remarks on homelessness and the government’s social housing strategy at the Catholic Social Service Association’s national conference appeared to be that it wasn’t clear what he’d said. [It's worth [...]
Posted in Film, TV, Video etc, Media, Policy, Politics, Poverty | Tagged Catholic Social Service Association, choice, Christopher Pearson, conference, homeless, homelessness, John Roskam, poor will always be with us, Q&A, Qanda, remarks, Rudd government, social housing, strategy, text, The Australian, Tony Abbott, Tony Jones, transcript |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 2, 2009
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/3153159979_d584827f6d.jpg" Happy New Year 2009 image courtesy of zltgfx at flickr – reproduced under a creative commons licence. There are quite a few cultural constants of New Year’s Eve – fireworks (and the illegal ones in my neck of [...]
Posted in Books, Writers & Writing, Culture, Life, Philosophy, Relationships, Religion, Sociology, State/Territory Elections | Tagged calendar, choice, confession, Crikey, cultural sociology, cultural studies, freedom, habitus, holidays, individualism, Life, lifeworld, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, michel foucault, new year, new year's resolutions, new years eve, NYE, phenomenology, Pierre Bourdieu, Queensland election 2009, QUT, resolutions, Smart Services CRC, Sociology, strategy, work, work/life balance |
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