If this election proves anything, it proves that both parties have taken the notion of polling driven strategy to ever greater heights. Once, policies were road tested via focus groups to guage their acceptability and to refine selling points. Now,…
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Assessing the merits of a regional asylum seeker centre as policy
Tagged with: address, ALP, asylum seekers, Coalition, debate, East Timor, Eureka Street, Federal Election 2010, focus groups, Frank Brennan, humanitarianism, immigration, Julia Gillard, Labor, Lowy Institute, media, political communication, polls, refugees, regional processing centre, speech, Timor Leste
Posted in federal election 2010, government, immigration
Posted in federal election 2010, government, immigration
Federal election 2010: The ghost of culture wars past
Gary Sauer-Thompson at Public Opinion has skewered David Burchell’s latest op/ed, which includes a typification of two different types of voters:
Tagged with: ALP, climate change, culture wars, david burchell, Federal Election 2010, globalisation, Labor, neoliberalism, sociology, sustainability
Posted in elections, environment, Howardia, immigration, sociology
Posted in elections, environment, Howardia, immigration, sociology
Why are voters shifting from Labor to The Greens?
John Quiggin has endorsed The Greens. Read why at his blog. I haven’t finally made up my mind, but I think I’m probably going to switch my vote from Labor to The Greens this time too, for similar reasons. The…
Tagged with: ALP, crowdsourcing, endorsement, Federal Election 2010, John Quiggin, Labor, polls, The Greens
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Posted in elections
On the election trail
Tagged with: ALP, Federal Election 2010, Greens, Julia Gillard, Labor, Liberals, LNP, Paul Abbott
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