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After getting the announcement from Paul Howes of the imminent publication of his “miserable little pamphlet“, I thought I’d get my hands on a copy and review it. Unlike the Canberra Press Gallery, who produced reviews of the book mere hours after it was released – presumably skimming through to the index to find the [...]
Labor lost the campaign but won the election. This means that our campaign was hardly a stellar effort. But despite that, despite the concerted effort by the Murdoch Press, despite the leaks, Labor has won the election. Now Labor has formed a minority government with the support of the independents Wilkie, Oakeshott and Windsor, it’s [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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