Quiggin on the Murray-Darling parliamentary committee report
Less buybacks, more engineering works – that’s what the forward to the House Standing Committee on Regional Australia report on the Murray-Darling Basin Plan recommends, in a nutshell. The Australian Conservation Foundation is unimpressed to say the least. John Quiggin [...]
Bob Katter supports Coalition; Windsor and Oakeshott to reveal their hand at 3pm
Bob Katter has supported the Coalition; and the other two Independents will reveal their hand at 3pm. Crikey has a liveblog, and ABC News 24 and News Radio are carrying Bob Katter’s press conference live. Update: Bernard Keane summarises Katter’s [...]
Last chance New Gubbermint divination thread
Whether Tony Windsor, Bob Katter and Rob Oakeshott know which way they’re going to jump is something I don’t know. But hopefully we’ll all know this afternoon, at around 2pm if Windsor and Oakeshott’s statements this morning to the press [...]
The Left, the independents and “new politics”
There was an interesting micro-debate on Twitter the other night between me, Tad Tietze and Jason Wilson, riffing off Dr_Tad’s scepticism about the “independents are our saviours” meme. That’s expanded on at much greater length at Left Flank. I’d thoroughly [...]
The new election no one wants – except the Murdoch press (and maybe Mr Rabbit)
I’m sure there’ll be lots more of this around in tomorrow’s papers, but this article by David Penberthy caught my eye via a Twitter link. In less portentous tones than Paul Kelly, “Penbo” opines in similarly petulant vein. The good [...]
What the Independents want; and what Julia Gillard will give them
Here’s a list of requests from the three rural independents. And here’s the Prime Minister’s response.
Abbott’s Plan B?
On another thread, Josh makes the intriguing suggestion that Tony Abbott may not be taking negotiations to form government seriously, and preparing the ground for a claim that any Gillard minority government lacks “legitimacy”, particularly if the Coalition seat count [...]
What lessons should the media learn from Federal Election 2010? [Roundtable]
Tony Windsor had this to say on Q&A last night: TONY WINDSOR: Well, I think the media have got some degree of responsibility in relation to some of the things that went on, as well, but the – this is [...]
Taking our time
Two of the most unedifying aspects of the aftermath of the election result, from the time when it became apparent that we would have a hung parliament, have been the pressure for a quick resolution and the endless rehashing of [...]
The electoral imperative for the independents, The Greens and the ALP
One of the interesting parallels for this campaign is obviously the British election result – and Penny Wong was right to say that George Brandis was running the same sort of agenda to try to bump the conservatives into office, [...]
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