Troy Buswell
Worst. Campaign. Ever.
By crankynick on September 7, 2008
This was the worst campaign I have ever seen run by the ALP. Ever. This was an election where all of the ALP’s problems over the last 6-8 years came home to roost. There was no central theme. The campaign [...]
Posted in Government, Polls, State/Territory Elections | Tagged Alan Carpenter, ALP, Colin Barnett, Labor, Liberal Party, Troy Buswell, WA election 2008, WA election campaign, WA election results, WA election results analysis, Western Australia | 70 Responses
The big issues
By Anna Winter on August 27, 2008
On a day when speculation ran rife that WA had lost the nation’s biggest resource development project, the Inpex Liquefied Natural Gas project in the Kimberley valued at $25 billion, Alan Carpenter announced yesterday he would be closing the bars [...]
Posted in Feminism, Masculinity, State/Territory Elections, Women | Tagged Alan Carpenter, ALP, Brian Burke, CCC, Colin Barnett, election stunts, Labor, Liberal Party, political accountability, Troy Buswell, WA election 2008, women and politics | 22 Responses
WA Labor takes aim at the Liberals' "boys club"
By Kim on August 19, 2008
I suspect none of the major parties federally or in any of the states and territories could entirely escape the accusation of being a “boys club”, but I’m very interested to see – for the first time I can think [...]
Posted in Advertising, Feminism, Masculinity, State/Territory Elections, Women | Tagged Alan Carpenter, ALP, Colin Barnett, Deirdre Willmott, Feminism, Labor, Liberal Party, Liz Constable, Sociology, Troy Buswell, WA election 2008, women in politics | 12 Responses
Is Alan Carpenter the new Peter Beattie?
By Mark Bahnisch on August 13, 2008
Discussion of the Northern Territory election results continues to be framed in terms of its possible implications for WA, where Alan Carpenter also went early. There are at least two problems with this narrative – first that there’s no evidence [...]
Posted in State/Territory Elections | Tagged Alan Carpenter, ALP, Bob Quinn, Bruce Flegg, CCC, CMC, Colin Barnett, Jim Elder, Labor, Labor factions, Lawrence Springborg, Liberal Party, Mike Kaiser, ministerial resignations, Nationals, Northern Territory election 2008, political scandal, Queensland, Queensland election 2001, Queensland election 2006, Sheperdson Inquiry, Troy Buswell, WA election 2008, Western Australia | 18 Responses
Day 1 of the WA State Election…and we're all bored already.
By crankynick on August 7, 2008
In a fit of predictability, incumbent Labor Premier Alan “I used to be a credible journalist, don’t you know” Carpenter is promising “vision, leadership, and stability” – the last one of the three, at least, might play to Labor’s strengths. [...]
Posted in State/Territory Elections | Tagged Alan Carpenter, Colin Barnett, labor party, Liberal Party, Troy Buswell, WA election 2008, Western Australia | 57 Responses
WA election called
By Mark Bahnisch on August 7, 2008
…so the Poll Bludger reports. Looks like Alan Carpenter is taking a leaf out of the Peter Beattie book and dashing to the polls while the opposition is still mired in leadership confusion and disunity.
Posted in State/Territory Elections | Tagged Alan Carpenter, Colin Barnett, labor party, Liberal Party, state government, Troy Buswell, WA election 2008 | 11 Responses
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