RSPT debate rolls on
One aspect of the calls to sort the RSPT out in order to give the government ‘clear air’ (which I think emanate more from the journosphere than from Labor MPs, with the probable exception of Gary Gray)...
View ArticleTwiggy Forrest wants more; miners up ante on Gillard
The Financial Review is full of quotes from Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest today: Labor powerbrokers removed then prime minister Kevin Rudd just 24 hours before he was to make a significant policy shift on...
View ArticleHow important are campaigns?
Political scientist and Macquarie University Professorial Fellow Murray Goot has a very interesting article in the Sydney Morning Herald today: In the past 10 elections, the gap in the level of...
View ArticleUpload your election leaflets!
The other day I wrote a post asking people to describe election leaflets they’re receiving. These are important indicators of what’s going on, because they distil the messages the campaigns want to...
View ArticleRoundtable: an Abbott government
In a post at The ABC’s Drumroll, and in comments on the link thread here, I’ve been critical of the fact that a concentration on the horse race, on internal ALP dramas, and Julia Gillard’s political...
View Article“Let Julia Be Julia”
Julia Gillard has just been on ABC News 24, saying she’s tearing up the script, and will henceforth campaign in a manner that eschews scripted lines. This is the “Let Julia Be Julia” strategy, which...
View ArticleNewspoll’s state by state breakdown; and “sandbagging” Queensland marginals
Newspoll has released the state by state breakdown of its latest poll. Sample sizes, when disaggregated this way, are fairly small, ranging from 445 in SA to 765 in NSW. That translates to a margin of...
View ArticleMiles to go before he sleeps
… though although I’m nodding to Robert Frost’s famous poem, read at John F. Kennedy’s inauguration, I don’t think Mr Abbott is going without sleep because he has promises to keep: on his own...
View ArticleGerry Harvey’s rent seeking and Australian politics
In writing about the risible campaign for taxing online consumption, it’s perhaps fair to note that Gerry Harvey has been loudly proclaiming that it wasn’t all idea, but he’s been copping all the flak....
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Queensland Labor wipeout and LNP-slide #qldpol
Image credit: Pandora Karavan. It’s bad news for Labor and Greens supporters in Queensland, just under one week out from the state election. The Galaxy Poll today has the LNP poised to win up to 70...
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