…and wants its climate change policy back. Rather than actually doing taking an emissions trading scheme policy to an election, we’re getting a “Citizens’ Assembly – to examine over 12 months the evidence on climate change, the case for action…
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Little Australia and the population ‘debate’
Bernard Keane has a good piece in this morning’s Crikey election special edition, reflecting on yesterday’s installment of the so-called population debate. Let’s remember that Julia Gillard linked the asylum seeker issue to infrastructure and sustainability issues in the first…
The view from Channel Nine II
For an explanation of why I’m writing these posts, see last night’s entry. So, from the vantage point of commercial news, tonight was all about the kids. (And, again, the election was bumped into second spot, this time by a…
Tagged with: bowman, Channel Nine, coorpooroo, education, Federal Election 2010, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, media, policy, schools, tax
Posted in federal election 2010, media
Posted in federal election 2010, media
Assessing the merits of a regional asylum seeker centre as policy
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,…
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
The view from Channel Nine
As I said on a previous post, the best way to get a handle on how most voters are perceiving the campaign is to watch the first ten minutes of a commercial tv news bulletin. By way of illustration, Channel…
Tagged with: Andrew Robb, Channel Nine, debt, deficit, Federal Election 2010, Joe Hockey, Julia Gillard, Paris Hilton, savings, Tony Abbott, Wayne Swan
Posted in elections, federal election 2010
Posted in elections, federal election 2010
The untold story of how Kevin 07 bit the dust
In a classroom not far from here last week the 6-year olds were being prepared to work in groups of four. Two in each group had obvious roles, leaving the other two to make up the numbers, as it were.…
Tagged with: Federal Election 2010, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Pamela Williams
Posted in elections, politics
Posted in elections, politics
Laurie Oakes’ National Press Club allegations redux
As you are all aware, Laurie Oakes decided to crap all over Julia Gillard’s strategy leading into the election campaign with his ‘Kirribilli’ question(s) at the National Press Club last Thursday. It included this: Is it true that there was…
Tagged with: Julia Gillard, Labor Leadership, Laurie Oakes, Pamela Williams
Posted in elections, politics
Posted in elections, politics
Endless rehashing of the Labor leadership change: supplementary thread
Since we’d like commenters to stay on topic, we are providing this thread for all those who wish to continue to discuss the merits of the change from Kevin Rudd to Julia Gillard.
Asylum Seeker debate ratchets up the rhetoric
A sampling of what’s around the papers this morning:
On the election trail
Tagged with: ALP, Federal Election 2010, Greens, Julia Gillard, Labor, Liberals, LNP, Paul Abbott
Posted in elections
Posted in elections
Open New Government thread
Today the Rudd ministry will be sworn in by the Governor General. I suspect there will be press conferences. Update by MB: Photo added, borrowed from The Age.
Tagged with: Australian election 2007, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, politics
Posted in government, media
Posted in government, media
For the past few years, the Federal Opposition, the union movement, the Greens and folks from various other quarters have used the WorkChoices package as a flag to rally around in opposition to the Howard Government. In political terms, this…
Tagged with: Australian Greens, Coalition, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Kim Beazley, Labor
Posted in Uncategorized
Posted in Uncategorized
Union bosses omnipotent, etc?
An intriguing email landed in my inbox on Friday. In two weeks’ time, the Australian Labor Party will meet for their National Conference, where they will thrash out their policies for the 2007 federal election. We have seven days to…
Tagged with: Federal election 2007, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Labor
Posted in activism, Federal Elections, politics
Posted in activism, Federal Elections, politics
