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By Anna Winter on September 3, 2008
Yesterday the WA Labor Party took the strange step of releasing its internal polling publicly, rather than pretending to some journo that it was an uncontrolled leak. They claim that Labor faces losing the election on Saturday, and are hoping [...]
Posted in Polls, State/Territory Elections | Tagged Alan Carpenter, ALP, Colin Barnett, internal ALP polling, internal party polling, Labor, Liberal Party, polling, WA election 2008, WA election latest polls, Western Australia |
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 |
By Anna Winter on August 25, 2008
After the Great Debate 05, it was always going to be a staid affair. Last time, Barnett used the forum to announce his plans for the “Far Canal“. The Howard Government wouldn’t speak in support of it, and then he [...]
Posted in Media, State/Territory Elections, Women | Tagged Alan Carpenter, ALP, Brian Burke, candidates debates, Colin Barnett, Geoff Gallop, great debate, Labor, leaders debates, Liberal Party, Noel Crichton-Browne, political debates, WA election 2008, Western Australia, women in politics |
By Anna Winter on August 25, 2008
With just under two weeks left until the earliest WA election in 100 years, the main story of the campaign is a Premier trying to position himself as a strong and decisive leader, and an opposition trying to paint him [...]
Posted in Perth, State/Territory Elections | Tagged Alan Carpenter, ALP, Brian Burke, CCC, Labor, Liberal Party, WA election 2008 |
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 |
By Kim on August 16, 2008
The Poll Bludger has a comprehensive post on what’s happening in the WA state election. The polls are showing it might be a close run race, with a 51-49 result from Newspoll and basically a dead heat in Westpoll (albeit [...]
Posted in Polls, State/Territory Elections | Tagged Alan Carpenter, Colin Barnett, Labor, latest polls, Liberal Party, Newspoll, polling, The Poll Bludger, WA election 2008, Western Australia |
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 |
By Anna Winter on August 11, 2008
There are some interesting power games and shifts happening in WA politics at the moment, which make this state election slightly more interesting than it would otherwise be. I’m sure they will have very little effect on the outcome of [...]
Posted in State/Territory Elections | Tagged Alan Carpenter, ALP, Brian Burke, CCC, factional politics, independent Labor, Julian Grill, Labor, Labor factions, labor party, ministerial resignations, political scandal, WA election 2008 |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 11, 2008
There’s a fair bit of analysis of and commentary on the Northern Territory election results around the blogosphere. The Poll Bludger is progressively updating late counting, while Tim Dunlop discusses the low turnout. Antony Green also looks at the impact [...]
Posted in State/Territory Elections | Tagged Alan Carpenter, ALP, blogosphere, Chris Bowen, Clare Martin, Coalition, Country Liberal Party, Julie Bishop, Kevin Rudd, Labor, labor party, Northern Territory election 2008, Paul Henderson, Peter Beattie, political journalism, Rudd government, Stephen Smith, Terry Mills, WA election 2008 |
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 |
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 |
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