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Ready to Lead
Is Tony Abbott ready to be Prime Minister? Or, more to point, is the Australian public ready to vote for him? Of course, the answer to that question depends on what version of Tony Abbott we are thinking of. Is it the man that Annabel Crabb famously dubbed the Mad Monk – the socially conservative […]
A Shot in the Dark
Are Labor just really, really bad at politics? That’s a conclusion you could easily draw. I don’t think it is possible to blame the media alone for the negative perception of the Labor party (although certain sectors are certainly doing their level best to cement that perception). Further, whilst Tony Abbott is very good at […]
A SUPER Change
Bernard Keane’s piece in today’s Crikey got me thinking (paywalled, sadly for some of you…) The thrust of his piece is that, in short, superannuation concessions are incredibly expensive. He’s right about that. A graph provided as part of the piece demonstrates that superannuation concessions “cost” more than income support for seniors, education or defence. […]
Silencing Critics
Any of you who follow me on twitter or read my blog will by now have had enough of me talking about the right to silence changes in NSW. There is much more to say about that, and I have said those things in other places. The part relevant to this blog was the PM […]
The State of Play – NSW
“This election will be decided in Western Sydney.” Labor’s NSW Secretary Sam Dastyari, 26 February 2013 Well, sort of. The definition of “Western Sydney” varies widely depending on exactly what point you’re trying to make and what your vested interest is. But there can be no argument that Labor has some marginal seats there – […]
A Conroy of No Confidence
I’ve been referring to the Daily Telegraph as the “Daily TerrorGraph” for quite a while now. I don’t remember who I picked the expression up from, but it fits just so neatly with the reporting style of the newspaper. It’s not quite as apt as the alternative identity of her Melbourne tabloid sibling (“The Hun”) […]
The State of Play – NT
Electoral analysis is a whole different ball-game in the Northern Territory. Until the year 2000, the Northern Territory was only one electorate. For complicated constitutional and electoral reasons, that representative did not even have full voting rights until 1968. The territory has two representatives in the House of Representatives, and two Senators, with the Senators […]
All Hanson
Pauline is BACK! Well, sort of. Earlier this week she threatened to run for election to the Federal Parliament. As you would no doubt know, this would not be the first time that Ms Hanson had sat in the Federal Parliament. But a lot of water has gone under the bridge since that time. Her […]
Promising a Great Deal
Rooty Hill has never felt so popular. I’m not going to do the thing of running a search on Google and then breathlessly reporting the number of hits (mostly because it is pretty stupid) but I think it is safe that a LARGE number of stories have been written about the Prime Minister’s decision to […]
Necessity is the Mother of All…
“Tony Abbott doesn’t hate women! Just look at his policy for Paid Parental Leave!” Well, maybe. One policy doesn’t prove anything, really. I don’t think that anyone is convinced that Abbott is a great defender of women, just because of his paid parental leave plan. Certainly it pales in the face of the extremely effective attacks on […]
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