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By Mark Bahnisch on April 1, 2010
Whether or not it’s a coincidence that the first of Tony Abbott’s ‘headland speeches’ was on economic policy and was delivered the day after Newspoll showed the Coalition falling behind Labor on economic management, I don’t know. But, given that [...]
Posted in Economics, Howardia, Politics | Tagged asian currency crisis, budget, Coalition, cuts, economic management, economic policy, Economics, fiscal policy, GFC, global financial crisis, headland speeches, Henry Tax review, Joe Hockey, John Howard, Keynes, Lateline, levies, Liberal Party, opposition, parental leave, Peter Costello, spending, stimulus, tax, Tony Abbott, Tony Jones |
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 February 19, 2010
I’m not sure how this one slipped through: What the longevity of almost all state and territory governments suggests is that it is difficult for an opposition to come to power except through the electorate’s view that it is time [...]
Posted in Disasters, Media, Politics | Tagged Alexander Downer, AWB, balance, bernard keane, Crikey, Greg Hunt, howard government, Lateline, Media, Michael Sexton, ministerial responsibility, Peter Garrett, press gallery, roof insulation, Saddam Hussein, The Australian, Tony Jones |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 9, 2010
George H. W. Bush was famously incapable of projecting what he termed “the vision thing” in his unsuccessful campaign for re-election in 1992, but at least he knew what he needed to, but couldn’t, do. I noted the other day [...]
Posted in Federal Elections, Health, Media, Politics | Tagged commentariat, Dennis Shanahan, Federal election 2007, Federal Election 2010, George H. W. Bush, health policy, hospitals, intergenerational report, John Howard, Kevin Rudd, Malcolm Colless, Media, productivity, Q&A, Qanda, Tony Abbott, Tony Jones, vision thing |
By Phil on October 21, 2008
Just a follow up to a previous post. It appears that no matter what the ABC does it just can’t find enough sympathetic Coalition voters to balance a Q&A studio audience and keep Senator Abetz happy. Mr Scott said the [...]
Posted in Film, TV, Video etc, Media | Tagged abc, Eric Abetz, hearings, mark scott, Media, Q&A, Qanda, Senate, Television, Tony Jones, young liberals in their jammies |
By dk.au on October 15, 2008
Tony Jones asked Will Hutton last night whether the interbank credit market was “run by cowboys or run by reputable people?” But between these two moral poles is enormous material and cultural complexity: If a bank wants to borrow money, [...]
Posted in Markets, Sociology, Technology | Tagged credit crunch, Donald Mackenzie, Interbank Lending, LIBOR, sociology of finance, Tony Jones, Will Hutton |
By Kim on October 2, 2008
Tom Switzer, former op/editor of the Government Gazette and the Opposition Organ and subsaquently Nelson staffer is a panelist on tonight’s final instalment of the ABC’s Q&A. Switzer famously proclaimed that the right was now winning the Culture Wars. Let’s [...]
Posted in Culture, Media, Politics | Tagged ABC tv, Culture Wars, David Marr, liberal leadership, Peter Costello, Q&A, Qanda, Tom Switzer, Tony Jones |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 14, 2008
Occasional guest poster at LP, Marcus Westbury, is on Q&A tonight – ABC1 at 9.30pm. Let’s hope he can get a word in between the pompous comedy stylings of Greg Sheridan, and the litterateur/Macquarie Bank shill Bob Carr. Germaine Greer [...]
Posted in Books, Writers & Writing, Feminism, Film, TV, Video etc, Indigenous, Media, Policy, Race | Tagged ABC television, Bob Carr, Germaine Greer, Greg Sheridan, Indigenous Australia, Indigenous policy, Leigh Sales, Marcus Westbury, NT intervention, Q&A, Qanda, Tony Jones, Writings |
Whatever happened to the vision thing?
By Mark Bahnisch on February 9, 2010
George H. W. Bush was famously incapable of projecting what he termed “the vision thing” in his unsuccessful campaign for re-election in 1992, but at least he knew what he needed to, but couldn’t, do. I noted the other day [...]
Posted in Federal Elections, Health, Media, Politics | Tagged commentariat, Dennis Shanahan, Federal election 2007, Federal Election 2010, George H. W. Bush, health policy, hospitals, intergenerational report, John Howard, Kevin Rudd, Malcolm Colless, Media, productivity, Q&A, Qanda, Tony Abbott, Tony Jones, vision thing | 84 Responses