I see that Greg Barns has written a piece in ‘Online Opinion’ praising WA Liberal leader Colin Barnett. I have to say this visionary leader Barns refers to is not the fellow we generally experience in WA politics. That Barnett is negative, opportunistic and bent on defending the privileged […] Continue Reading…
January 13, 2004 | Graham
On the ‘net Greens handle election announcement the best
Last post on the use of the ’net and Queensland politics I was awarding points to the National Party for their www.governmentwaste.com.au site. This post when I look at the official sites of the major parties they aren’t doing so well.
Peter Beattie announced the election at 12:30 p.m. today. […] Continue Reading…
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January 13, 2004 | Graham
Springborg knocks-on
After listening to Lawrence Springborg’s press conference responding to Peter Beattie’s election announcement I’m almost ready to call the election to the government by an even larger margin than the one they have now. It was tentative, nervous and with mostly the wrong messages. Peter Beattie doesn’t […] Continue Reading…
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January 13, 2004 | Graham
Queensland election kick-off – the blame game
Peter Beattie has kicked-off the Queensland election and we now have a sketch of the first phase of play. At this moment there are four visible prongs to his strategy. Expect a few more tines on the pitchfork to appear later in the campaign.
The first prong is […] Continue Reading…
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January 13, 2004 | Peter
Dead Culture and Virtual Life
I recently wrote a piece in ‘Online Opinion’ about the way modern popular culture is stagnating, and what that means. I pointed out that in popular writing, music, TV, films and just about anything else that could be called culture, quality is deteriorating fast. These media are becoming ever […] Continue Reading…
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January 13, 2004 | Graham
Stop Press! Queensland to go to polls on 7th February.
Beattie will give a press conference at 12:00 noon Eastern Standard Time. I’ll do a post after I’ve heard it with some preliminary analysis. Will be interesting to see how the public wears an election being called right in the middle of their summer holiday. On […] Continue Reading…
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January 13, 2004 | Graham
Liberal State President admits party doesn’t comply.
As I announced here , BCC Councillor Margaret de Wit withdrew as a candidate in the Ryan preselection. It was reported in the Courier Mail this morning.
The interesting part of the Courier Mail report was its second last paragraph “Cr Catalbiano rejected Cr de Wit’s accusations about unfair […] Continue Reading…
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January 12, 2004 | Graham
Rumble in Ryan becomes a rattle
Michael Johnson can enjoy his holidays a little more this Christmas. Councillor Margaret de Wit has today announced that she is withdrawing from the preselection contest for Ryan. As per my previous post that means that Steven Huang is the only challenger to sitting member Johnson.
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January 12, 2004 | Peter
Does America Actually Have a Two-Party Political System?
The outstanding success so far of Democrat presidential hopeful and Governor of Vermont Howard Dean has been the biggest story in US politics since the rise of the new conservative push that put Ronald Reagan into office. Indeed, in a way it was that development – which the Democrats […] Continue Reading…
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January 12, 2004 | Graham
Swan bowls wrong pace.
Every government and opposition needs its Lilleys and Thompsons. Hawke had men like Keating and Walsh, Howard had Reith and now Abbott, Latham has Wayne Swan. These are people who can create mayhem by the way they bowl issues up to the opposition. Sometimes they have […] Continue Reading…
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