Despite my election-related criticisms of the Greens political party, the deal announced today between Julia Gillard and Bob Brown is a good one. Prime Minister Julia Gillard has agreed to a swag of demands from the Greens as part of a formal deal to join forces as Labor tries to secure a parliamentary majority. Immediately [...]
Blogging will recommence when the count is resolved
by admin on 23. Aug, 2010 in Blog
In the mean time, enjoy this graph from Google Trends, that shows the last 30 days of Google searches for Labor (blue) and Liberal (red), and below that, a graphic displaying the last 1000 tweets following #ausvotes. That is all. Thank you.
Five articles I’m reading today
by admin on 22. Aug, 2010 in Blog, Politics
Rebuild the Party A pro Republican renewable website aimed at rejuvenating their grassroots. As Republicans, we face a choice. Either we can spend the next several months — or years — trying to figure out what just happened, excusing our defeat away as a temporary blip or the result of a poor environment, and waiting for [...]
Election Diary, day 35: Why I’m betting on Labor
by admin on 20. Aug, 2010 in Blog, Elections
On the eve of the election, I’ve punted $300 on Julia Gillard being elected as Australia’s first female Prime Minister. I’ve also already voted – on Tuesday – joining over 12.5% of my fellow Australians who voted before Saturday. (I voted Labor, in case you were wondering, both in the House of Reps and the [...]
Good news for Tony Abbott: Off the deep end on climate change
by admin on 17. Aug, 2010 in Blog, Elections, Environment
Tony Abbott has gone off the deep end when it comes to climate change, expressing the view that the climate has cooled in recent years. This view alone – the equivalent to believing the sun rotates around the earth or that the world is only 6000 years old – is enough to disqualify Tony Abbott [...]
Great news for Tony Abbott: Liberals’ economic credibility trashed
by admin on 16. Aug, 2010 in Blog, Economics, Politics
The Newspoll before the election has great news for Tony Abbott: the Liberals’ lead in polling on the economy has been trashed by Abbott’s economic innumeracy. For the last three weeks, Tony Abbott has refused to accept a debate with Julia Gillard on the economy (or any other issue). Labor has responded by running ads [...]
There are swinging voters, and swinging voters
by admin on 14. Aug, 2010 in Blog, Campaigning, Elections
I read an article about what makes a swinging voter and questioned how they made up their mind which way to vote. One of the comments on the article was by a purported swinging voter wrote about how they made up their mind: As a swinging voter myself, I am neither influenced by handouts, nor [...]
Great News for Tony Abbott: Tony Abbott is not a tech head, doesn’t understand economics either
by admin on 11. Aug, 2010 in Blog, Opinion, Politics
There was a lot of reporting about Tony Abbott’s interview on 7:30 Report last night about the Liberal’s risible broadband policy. Tony Abbott repeatedly said “I don’t claim to be any kind of tech head in all of this”, basically admitting he didn’t have the faintest clue about his own policy. After all, no one [...]
There IS a News Ltd campaign against Labor
by admin on 11. Aug, 2010 in Blog, Elections, Politics
Crikey’s editorial tries to debunk the idea that there is a systematic campaign run by The Australian and News Limited against Labor. A more likely scenario is that the blunt and sometimes nasty coverage in News Limited newspapers of the government in general, and Julia Gillard in particular, is the collateral result of dumbed-down editorial [...]
Greens claim Labor’s achievements as their own
by admin on 09. Aug, 2010 in Blog, Elections
The Greens Party has released a leaflet in Chisholm listing its achievements in the Senate under the slogan “Delivering outcomes for Australia”. The leaflet is available on the Election Leaflets website, but I’ve put the image below. If you can’t read the list of dot points of so-called Greens Party achievements, I’ve typed them out. [...]
Dear Richard
by admin on 04. Aug, 2010 in Blog, Politics
Just left this comment over at Richard di Natale’s blog. Looking forward to a response. Hi Richard, I can understand that you are frustrated that there is no price on carbon. Perhaps if you were in the Senate, you would have crossed the floor against your colleagues and voted in favour of the CPRS (as [...]
The Greens Party support citizens’ assemblies on everything but climate change
by admin on 03. Aug, 2010 in Blog, Politics
Adam Bandt (or maybe one of the Greens Party apparatchiks) wrote on the official Adam Bandt Facebook page: We already have a “citizen’s assembly” to deal with climate change, Prime Minister: it’s called Parliament. I’ve already spoken to people in Melbourne who are disappointed and angry at Labor’s latest climate greenwash and delay. People often say [...]
Adam’s amazing pitch to Melbourne
by admin on 03. Aug, 2010 in Blog, Elections
Adam Bandt is the white male lawyer running for the Greens Party in the seat of Melbourne. His pitch is that somehow his own election is “historic” because he would be the first ever Greens Party candidate elected to the lower house in a general election (as opposed to a by-election). Apparently a Greens Party [...]
The “boring” election
by admin on 31. Jul, 2010 in Blog, Elections, Opinion, Politics
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 [...]
The Climate Change Citizens Assembly
by admin on 31. Jul, 2010 in Blog, Elections, Environment, Politics
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 [...]
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