By Mark Bahnisch on February 3, 2010
In the land of pineapple politics postmodern style, it might be thought that any aspiring leader should have done their time in reality tv. After all, Anna Bligh’s been on Celebrity MasterChef. Until last week, Liberal National Party MP, Aidan [...]
Posted in Politics, Queensland | Tagged Aidan McLindon, Andrew Fraser, Anna Bligh, Big Brother, Bruce Flegg, Bruce McIvor, Celebrity MasterChef, deputy leadership, gatecrashing, Gretel Killeen, John-Paul Langbroek, Lawrence Springborg, leadership, LNP, Mike Horan, Queensland politics, spill, The Borg, Tim Nicholls |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 8, 2010
The last couple of releases of quarterly Newspoll data saw a theme emerge about Labor’s supposed weakening outside capital cities (and then a bounce back, which suggested that the huge amount of prognostication spun about the first quarterly poll was [...]
Posted in Elections, Federal Elections, Politics, Polls, Queensland | Tagged analysis, cities, Federal Election 2010, Lawrence Springborg, Liberal Party, LNP, Newspoll, polling, possum, quarterly Newspoll, Queensland elections, The Borg |
By Mark Bahnisch on June 18, 2009
I think there are quite a few self-inflicted political problems for Queensland Labor in the presentation of the budget handed down on Tuesday afternoon. But Anna Bligh and Andrew Fraser certainly aren’t helped by the ubiquity of the ‘debt is [...]
Posted in Economics, Media, Politics, Queensland, State/Territory Elections | Tagged ALP, Andrew Fraser, Anna Bligh, credit rating, debt, deficit, economic management, Economics, George Megalogenis, infrastructure, investment, John-Paul Langbroek, Labor, Lawrence Springborg, Liberal National Party, LNP, Media, Nationals, Peter Beattie, privatisation, public services, public spending, QR, Queensland, Queensland budget 2009, Queensland Budget papers, Queensland politics, Queensland rail, stimulus, The Borg, unemployment |
By Mark Bahnisch on April 3, 2009
From today’s Crikey email: Queensland has a new opposition leader. Former Liberal and Member for Surfers Paradise, John-Paul Langbroek was yesterday elected leader of the LNP, beating Clayfield MP Tim Nicholls by a narrow margin after the elimination of former [...]
Posted in Politics, Queensland | Tagged Anna Bligh, Bruce Flegg, Fiona Simpson, Jeff Seeney, John-Paul Langbroek, Kate Langbroek, Lawrence Springborg, LNP, LNP leadership, Queensland election 2009, Santo Santoro, The Borg, Tim Nicholls |
By Mark Bahnisch on March 21, 2009
We’ve got a real contest on our hands in the Smart State (perhaps over the future of that moniker!) as Queenslanders vote today. At Crikey’s dedicated Qld election blog, Possum, William “The Poll Bludger” Bowe and I will be liveblogging [...]
Posted in Blogging, Media, Notices, Queensland, State/Territory Elections | Tagged ALP, analysis, Anna Bligh, count, coverage, Crikey, election night, election results, Labor, Lawrence Springborg, live streaming, liveblogging, LNP, Mark Bahnisch, podcast, Poll Bludger, Polls, possum, predictions, Queensland election 2009, The Borg |
By Mark Bahnisch on March 20, 2009
From today’s Crikey email: I don’t often agree with former ALP Senator John Black’s political analysis — he places too much weight on demographics for my liking — but I did nod my head vigorously when reading his piece on [...]
Posted in Queensland, State/Territory Elections | Tagged ALP, Anna Bligh, Brisbane, Culture, demographics, geography, John Howard, Kevin Rudd, Lawrence Sprinborg, LNP, One Nation, Peter Beattie, Politics, Queensland, Queensland election 2009, Sociology, The Borg |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 22, 2009
Various newspapers described Queensland Treasurer Andrew Fraser’s budget outlook review on Friday as providing a “trigger” for an impending poll. That’s something of a misleading formulation. But the budget position does give state Labor – perhaps paradoxically – a political [...]
Posted in Economics, Queensland, State/Territory Elections | Tagged ALP, Andrew Fraser, Anna Bligh, debt, deficit, economy, global financial crisis, Graham Young, infrastructure, jobs, Labor, Lawrence Springborg, LNP, political strategy, Polls, Queensland election 2009, queensland government, The Borg |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 20, 2009
From today’s Crikey email: Any close observer of Queensland politics – or rather what the press gallery and the pundits write about Queensland politics – could be forgiven for thinking the general approach to election date tipping was to write [...]
Posted in Media, Politics, Queensland, State/Territory Elections | Tagged Anna Bligh, Barnaby Joyce, Crikey, early election, economic policy, fiscal stimulus, global financial crisis, Judy Spence, Kevin Rudd, Lawrence Springborg, Liberal National Party, LNP, Mike Kaiser, MPs, National party, Queensland election 2009, retirements, speculation, stimulus package, The Borg |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 17, 2009
It seems that the ALP still can’t lift a political finger in Queensland without the press wizards at The Australian heralding it as a sign of an imminent election. On Friday, they were writing about a “trigger” for a poll, [...]
Posted in Queensland, State/Territory Elections, The Web | Tagged ALP, Anna Bligh, anna4qld, Bligh government, early election speculation, Gary Fenlon, Graham Young, internet and politics, Labor, Lawrence Springborg, Liberal National Party, LNP, Mike Reynolds, Queensland election 2009, social media, The Borg, web campaigning |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 10, 2009
A taste of what’s to come in the Queensland election campaign has been airing on the telly over the last few nights. One of the advantages for Labor of the early election speculation is that almost anything they do that’s [...]
Posted in Queensland, State/Territory Elections | Tagged ALP, attack ads, Bligh government, economic policy, global financial crisis, jobs, Labor, Lawrence Springborg, LNP, political campaigning, political communication, Queensland election 2009, The Borg, TV, youtube |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 9, 2009
The Poll Bludger links to a report in The Australian about LNP polling that shows they’re in a huge mess in Brisbane. I’m not surprised by the report – I was hearing similar numbers back in January about their internal [...]
Posted in Media, Queensland, State/Territory Elections | Tagged Brisbane, election speculation, electorates, Indooroopilly, Lawrence Springborg, Liberal National Party, LNP, News Limited, Queensland election 2009, Ronan Lee, The Borg, The Poll Bludger |
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