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Political journalists contribute significantly to misinformation about Australia’s political process, policies and civil society. They distort and distract, and with only a few exceptions their gutter-obsessed herd-mentality results in myopic and shallow commentary. Over at the Political Sword (an excellent blog whose authors’ commentary rivals that of the most experienced Press Gallery hack), Ad Astra [...]
Ad Astra over at The Political Sword has a very interesting post about Julia Gillard’s citizens assembly policy. It’s a long post and it is all worth reading. I’ll excerpt a fairly large part below: I suppose we should not be surprised that most journalists have sneeringly dismissed the proposal by Julia Gillard to convene [...]
One of the political commentators I can’t stand is Annabel Crabb. It’s probably her insufferable smugness, but so often when I read her columns I’m struck by the notion that she doesn’t really understand how politics, parliament or our democracy actually works. “What’s the government been trying to say this week? I don’t know…” she [...]
If you read Adam Bandt’s blogs and media releases, you’d be forgiven for thinking that he was the best thing since sliced bread. Adam Bandt’s campaign is all about how sending him to parliament is somehow “historic”. He campaigns on the slogan that he would be the first Greens MP to be elected at a [...]
I’ve written here about how the Greens Party are burying the record of first ever Federal Greens MP Michael Organ in order to promote Adam Bandt yet another white male lawyer (a second being the Greens candidate for the state seat of Melbourne). Cath Bowtell is the Labor candidate for Melbourne. If elected, she would [...]
A quick search of Facebook reveals that Tony Abbott has a massive presence on Facebook. Tens of thousands of people are fans. Unfortunately, most of those people aren’t fans of Tony’s, but of sanitary napkins or of leaving the country if he’s elected. The biggest fan page for Tony Abbott is “Friends don’t let friends [...]
By making history and sending the first ever Green to the lower house, Melbourne will send an enormous message to all the parties that these issues are important and need to be agitated and pushed in parliament. So says Adam Bandt, wannabe Greens Party candidate for the seat of Melbourne (emphasis mine). The campaign being [...]
Tony Abbott said that he won’t change the Workplace Relations Act in his first term of government, and Eric Abetz says the only “tweaks” will be to regulations. Significant changes to the industrial relations regime in Australia is possible through regulation changes, and to amendments to other Acts. For example, the Higher Education Workplace Relations [...]
Wayne Swan is to surpluses what Paris Hilton is to celibacy. They remember it once existed, but they’ll never see it again. Joe Hockey, today at the launch of the Liberal Party’s economic policy. While Tony Abbott laughed Hockey’s use of a woman’s sexuality for political purposes as Joe being a “good communicator”, it’s statements [...]
On day three of the 2010 Federal Election the Greens Party did a preference deal with Labor. It was widely reported as some kind of master stroke, or devil pact. According to the Greens Party, the decision was made on the basis of climate change policy: The government’s campaign spokesman, Chris Bowen, said the deal [...]
Just when the election starts off, pre-eminent progressive blog Larvatus Prodeo has suffered an attack (and/or code malfunction) that has effectively taken it off air. While they are continuing to blog on a WordPress hosted blog, I must say that this downtime is extraordinarily bad timing.
When I got up this morning, instead of cartoons on Channel Nine, there was live coverage of Julia Gillard’s trip to the Governor General’s resident at Yarralumla. The election was being called. All this week, I’ve heard “insiders” say it would be called today, so I’m sure they’ll be gratified that they’ve been proven right. [...]
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