While there’s a million and one articles on the internet about how Obama built his success on social networks. There are fewer articles about how local candidates’ campaigns used social networking to promote their candidacy. I’ve previously written about one instance of a local campaign – the governor race in Virginia – using text message [...]
Going local – social networking for politicians
by Alex on 02. Dec, 2009 in Blog, Campaigning, Elections
More double dissolution speculation
by Alex on 28. Nov, 2009 in Blog, Elections, Politics
With the spectacular self-immolation of the Liberal Party this week (see the spill Twitter chatter here), speculation about a double dissolution on climate change is mounting.
Last night, several political insiders expressed their belief that it was in Labor’s interests to go to a double dissolution when (if?) the Liberals delay the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme [...]
LEAN Conference Booklet
by Alex on 04. Aug, 2009 in Portfolio
The Labor Environment Action Network had its national launch at the ALP National Conference Fringe. As part of this launch, the LEAN distributed conference booklets to hundreds of ALP conference delegates and members.
The brief for this project was to show that LEAN was a professional, environmentally-focused organisation with a strong, authoritative policy agenda.
As copywriting was [...]
Labor must assert its economic credentials
by Alex on 01. Jun, 2009 in Economics, Opinion, Politics
The recent spate of reporting of polls demonstrates that Labor must continue to assert its strong nation building narrative and economic credentials.
Labor and Kevin Rudd correctly judged the public’s mood by decrying the excesses of extreme capitalism and neoliberalism, and forging a renewed social-democratic path.
Despite the baying of the press gallery and conservative columnists and [...]
Doug Cameron on Parliamentary Lobbying
by Alex on 02. Mar, 2009 in Blog
An insightful video of Senator Doug Cameron on lobbying Parliament in Australia.
Doug gave this talk at a forum organised by the NTEU Victorian Division at the end of February. He kindly agreed to talk to a camera afterwards.
Parliamentary Lobbying – Lessons from the other side – with Senator Doug Cameron from NTEU Victoria on Vimeo.
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ABCC should protect workers, not prosecute them: ILO http://post.ly/SGCS [alexanderwhite]
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@the_kennel And how will the Greens Party prevent political compromises being made with a two-year carbon tax, given the current senate? [alexanderwhite]
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@the_kennel On carbon taxes and why they are as flawed as trading schemes: http://bit.ly/cBBV30 [alexanderwhite]
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Hooray for stock photos. RT: @climateprogress: Big Oil uses fake “Americans” to attack fake “energy taxes.” http://bit.ly/c6VReV [alexanderwhite]
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@the_kennel And voting for a flawed two-year carbon tax is better than a flawed ETS, how exactly? [alexanderwhite]
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Liked VoteVets.org Ad: "Tough".
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@the_kennel Nothing is what the Greens Party voted for when they voted against the CPRS (which really was better than nothing). [alexanderwhite]
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