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By Anna Winter on July 25, 2010
Recent polling suggests that WA is getting much better for the ALP. The resolution of the mining tax and the ALP’s attempts to smooth over the asylum seeker issue are probably part of the reason for this. I think it’s [...]
Posted in federal election 2010, Religion | Tagged ALP, atheism, Don Randall, Julia Gillard, Latika Bourke, Polls, religion and politics, Western Australia |
By Mark Bahnisch on June 13, 2010
This weekend’s seen the latest installment in the ‘media narrative’; demands in The Australian for either a Labor leadership change or a quick cave-in by Kevin Rudd to the mining industry on the RSPT (which would, of course, in the [...]
Posted in Federal Elections, Media, Politics, Polls | Tagged ALP, Australian Greens, campaign, Coalition, Federal Election 2010, Galaxy, Geoffrey Barker, graham richardson, Greens preferences, inside story, Julia Gillard, keith de lacy, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Liberal Party, media narrative, Miners, mining industry, Nielsen, Peter Walsh, Poll Bludger, Polls, possum, preferences, Queensland, resources rent, resources tax, rspt, Senate, The Australian, The Greens, WA, Western Australia, Westpoll |
By Kim on April 21, 2010
As I observed last night, the Opposition’s first reaction to the COAG deal* on health and hospitals reform was to blather on about “a great big new bureaucracy” (which isn’t as catchy as “a great big new tax”, but is [...]
Posted in Federal Elections, Health, Policy, Politics | Tagged COAG, Coalition, Federal election 2007, Federal Election 2010, GST, Health, hospitals, Kevin Rudd, Liberal Party, liberals, National Health and Hospitals Network, Peter Dutton, Policy, political strategy, Senate, Tony Abbott, WA, Western Australia |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 4, 2010
Possum has an invaluable table of Coalition seats at risk, based on the latest Newspoll quarterly polling (of which, more commentary here from The Poll Bludger). It’s interesting to observe that the great majority of the seats at most risk [...]
Posted in Federal Elections, Polls | Tagged Coalition, Newspoll, polling, possum, quarterly Newspoll, Queensland, seats, Western Australia |
By Guest Poster on October 23, 2009
Rewi blogs at Oqurum and this post was originally posted there. In an earlier post I briefly discussed the issue of civil rights in Australia, particularly as to how we justify infringing rights in order to deal with specific segments [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Law | Tagged Authoritarianism, Barnett government, Colin Barnett, freedom, police powers, surveillance, Western Australia |
By Anna Winter on July 21, 2009
Labor MP Vince Catania last night announced he was quitting the Labor party and joining the Nationals, the party whose support helped Colin Barnett become Premier after the close state election last year. A former member of the upper house, [...]
Posted in Politics | Tagged Brian Burke, Eric Ripper, Vince Catania, WA Labor, WA nationals, Western Australia |
By Mark Bahnisch on October 2, 2008
This time last year, we were all feverishly anticipating the calling of the federal election, which was less than a fortnight away. Now, courtesy of the quarterly Newspoll geographical and demographic analysis we can track where and with whom the [...]
Posted in Climate change, Economics, Education, Federal Elections, Policy, Polls, Water | Tagged ALP, Anna Bligh, bernard keane, carbon pollution reduction scheme, Climate change, climate change policy, COAG, coast to coast labor, Colin Barnett, education policy, education revolution, emissions trading, Federal election 2007, judith brett, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Lindsay Tanner, Murray-Darling, Newspoll, pensions, Polls, psephological analysis, quarterly Newspoll, Queensland, Rudd government, schools, South Australia, tax policy, WA election 2008, Wayne Swan, Western Australia |
By Anna Winter on September 8, 2008
Saturday’s election result in WA means the possibility of the political commentator’s dream: the hung parliament. Labor has suffered a massive swing, and now it’s probably going to come down to who can convince the Nationals to make a deal. [...]
Posted in State/Territory Elections | Tagged Alan Carpenter, ALP, Brendon Grylls, Colin Barnett, Labor, Liberal Party, Nationals, WA election 2008, WA election results, WA nationals, Western Australia |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 8, 2008
I was very interested to watch interviews with both Alan Carpenter and Brendon Grylls on the 7 30 Report tonight. The punditariat – and Kerry O’Brien – seem to have no awareness of the specific history of the WA Nationals [...]
Posted in State/Territory Elections | Tagged Alan Carpenter, ALP, Brendon Grylls, Labor, WA election 2008, WA election results, WA nationals, Western Australia |
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 |
By Kim on September 6, 2008
WA goes to the polls today. Prediction, speculation, reports, links, etc, welcomed. Possum and The Poll Bludger have rounded up the latest polling, which suggests a very close race. Election bloggy goodness: Worst of Perth and the WA Greens both [...]
Posted in Polls, State/Territory Elections | Tagged Alan Carpenter, ALP, Colin Barnett, Labor, Liberal Party, WA election 2008, Western Australia |
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