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The climate denialists in the Coalition has a simple message about the carbon price: It’s a tax. Taxes raise prices. Prices on electricity, fuel and other things therefore will go up. What about the alternative? The problem for progressives is that our arguments are nuanced. We don’t necessarily see the world in Manichean absolutes, black [...]
It now appears that Tony Abbott’s tactics in Parliament of consistent obstruction and negativity is directly lifted from the extreme Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell. While reading a profile on McConnell in The Atlantic Magazine, I came across a discussion of his tactics that seem remarkably familiar. But McConnell didn’t waste the crisis, either. He [...]
I’m inclined to agree with Peter Brent and Phil Quin when looking at the 2010 Victorian election: Brent: It looks like the Brumby government is gone and the Reasons are arriving. The Reasons follow the facts. Everybody has one. Transport, arrogance and so on. The usual ones and some others. There’ll be nagging and scolding [...]
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 [...]
There’s an article in Politico about how the Democrats are spending up big in marginal congressional races this year on behalf of Democratic congressmen who have run ads against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. As control of the House hangs in the balance, Democrats can’t afford to play favorites with their money down the stretch run [...]
After Tony Abbott won the Liberal leadership in 2009, the conservative political strategy has been one of reaction, ad hoc decisions and opportunism (“crisis pragmatism”), rather than clear, rational planning and preparation for the 2010 election. I think this has been evident in almost all of Abbott’s policies before the election – paid parental leave, [...]
Crikey today reported on the Essential Report’s recent poll of voter attitudes towards the independents Oakeshott and Windsor’s decision to back Gillard. It found that the Liberal voters disapprove. A lot. Indeed, Liberal voters are profoundly unhappy with the decision of the independents (and presumably Oakeshott and Windsor, specifically). Almost 90% of Liberal voters disapprove [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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