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
Posted in elections
Posted in elections
On the election trail
Tagged with: ALP, Federal Election 2010, Greens, Julia Gillard, Labor, Liberals, LNP, Paul Abbott
Posted in elections
Posted in elections
YouTube, campaigns and TEH STOOPID
Last month, I linked to Rachel Maddow‘s rather groovy video deconstruction of the campaign asylum. Rachel’s worth watching again, taking on the Republicans (and Hillary) on Iraq: Incidentally, we could do with a better debate on Iraq – not just…
Tagged with: Coalition, Federal election 2007, John Howard, Labor, politics&govt, Video
Posted in Climate change, elections, Federal Elections, Film, TV, Video etc, Howardia, Iraq
Posted in Climate change, elections, Federal Elections, Film, TV, Video etc, Howardia, Iraq
Labor premiers do the differentiation? And other reflections on Mohamed Haneef
There were some suggestions on the thread about Mohamed Haneef that the Labor response to wedges is for Rudd or a shadow minister to agree with the government, only to have Premiers and other state Labor figures cast doubts as…
Tagged with: authoritarian, intolerance, Labor, politics&govt, sociology, war & conflict
Posted in Authoritarianism, Crime, Developing world, elections, Howardia, immigration, Law, politics, Terrorism
Posted in Authoritarianism, Crime, Developing world, elections, Howardia, immigration, Law, politics, Terrorism
Preferred PM Theorem
In an unexpected guest post at The Poll Bludger, The Government Gazette maintains the rage: Kevin Ruddâs prime ministerial ambitions lie in tatters today after yet another devastating opinion poll, this time from ACNielsen. For all the ignorant whingeing levelled…
Tagged with: Coalition, Federal election 2007, Kevin Rudd, Kim Beazley, Labor
Posted in Federal Elections, media, Polls
Posted in Federal Elections, media, Polls
Open Labor Conference thread
Meanwhile, up here in Brisvegas, I’ve just noticed on my stumble home from the Valley Jazz Festival, The Curious-Snail headline for tomorrow is framed by a huge picture of Rudd, and the headline reads something like “This man will help…
Tagged with: Federal election 2007, John Howard, Kevin Rudd, Labor
Posted in Federal Elections, politics
Posted in Federal Elections, politics
That speech!
Perhaps we’re giving it too much attention (given that it was a pile of negative dross and dire warnings that if Labor does anything about global warming YOUR JOB WILL DISAPPEAR and anyway, union bosses will soon drag us back…
Tagged with: Coalition, Federal election 2007, Labor, politics&govt
Posted in Federal Elections, Howardia, politics
Posted in Federal Elections, Howardia, politics
Be your own focus group
As Ken L reports over at Surfdom, Howard is flicking the switch to philosopher king, giving a speech in Brisbane today which as Guy at Polemica writes, is supposed to “position him as a political visionary”. Mr Howard will today…
Tagged with: Coalition, Federal election 2007, John Howard, Labor, politics&govt
Posted in Federal Elections, Howardia, Markets, politics
Posted in Federal Elections, Howardia, Markets, politics
Dennis Glover's avoidable ignorance
In another thread, commenter amused has written that: The effect of not having to go out, and actually mix with the hoi polloi to do your reporting is becoming obvious, as is the effect on the quality of ‘reporting’ (if…
Tagged with: Bob Brown, Coalition, Federal election 2007, John Howard, Labor, NSW Election 2007
Posted in environment, Federal Elections, media, politics, State/Territory Elections
Posted in environment, Federal Elections, media, politics, State/Territory Elections
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
Psephological prediction time!
In his electoral analysis piece published at On Line Opinion, Mark wrote earlier this month: But at the same time every move in this year’s political game is compared against the Latham-Howard contest of 2004. The latest “character issue” to…
Ruddock wants to ban Star Wars
Well, possibly. HeathG at Catallaxy links to media reports of a new thought bubble from Emperor Palpatine…er…Ruddock to ban material that “advocates terrorist acts”. In the wake of stories in the Daily Terrorgraph about various Muslim clerics circulating rather inflammatory…
