This is a second piece of analysis by Mark Bahnisch, which you can also read at Crikey!
The Victorian election is the first to be held since the crystallisation of the link between the drought and climate change has fundamentally shifted the politics of both the environment and infrastructure across […] Continue Reading…
November 24, 2006 | Graham
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November 24, 2006 | Graham
Lower House seats to watch for Greens influence
Because of the small sample from the Victorian election (only 254 responses), and the strong skew to the Greens, I haven’t done too much analysis of the data to-date. You can make some useful quantitative conclusions from our qualitative surveys when there is a large enough sample, and if […] Continue Reading…
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November 23, 2006 | Graham
Focus group on Victorian election
This is Mark Bahnisch’s analysis of our focus group last night, a version of which also appears in Crikey! today.
Victorian Premier Steve Bracks in an unguarded moment gave the game away – the election has been designed to be boring. Bracks is invoking the ghosts of the Kennett era […] Continue Reading…
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November 20, 2006 | Graham
Vic Liberals make correct call on Green preferences
If the New South Wales Liberals had been on the ball, the Greens would have had their first lower house beach-head in mainland Australia in Port Jackson. If the Liberals had preferenced the Greens’ Jamie Parker ahead of Sandra Nori, Parker would have won the seat.
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November 09, 2006 | Graham
Victorian Liberals – where the bloody hell are they?
If the coming Victorian election were voluntary it looks to me from our polling that the Liberal Party would be all but wiped out. When we do our online polls we always hear from a disproportionate number of Greens, about two-thirds the number of Labor voters you would expect, […] Continue Reading…
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November 06, 2006 | Graham
ABS wins the day at Liberal Convention
Various people are portraying it as a victory for their faction, but the only thing that can be said with certainty about last weekend’s Queensland Liberal Party convention is that it was a defeat for Santo Santoro. Whether it will remain a defeat for long remains to be seen. […] Continue Reading…
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October 31, 2006 | Graham
Framing the market
Nicholas Stern has produced a report Interesting to see the paranoid left fawning over a former head economist of the World Bank. The report attempts to take an economic view of the global warming theory and comes to the conclusion that we need to radically change our ways to […] Continue Reading…
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October 29, 2006 | Graham
Wayne Swan a casualty in the CO2 wars?
The Greenhouse debate seems to have swung firmly in the favour of the global warming alarmists, even as the science, and the IPCC reports, are tending in the other direction, and as happens when the public relations hacks really get their teeth into something, truth is replaced by […] Continue Reading…
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October 28, 2006 | Ronda Jambe
Ecumenical environmentalism
Like many Aussies, I have struggled to balance my revulsion for extreme Islam’s repression of women with an open-minded acceptance of different values. That balance tilts over when I fear for my own life style, given that in this country, women driving, voting and wearing short sleeved shirts is […] Continue Reading…
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October 27, 2006 | Graham
Hijab hysteria
You can’t strip a man of citizenship because he thinks that some women “ask for it”. Whatever the merits of Sheik Hilali’s comments, the response by some of his detractors, like Sunshine Coast MP Peter Slipper, is no better. You can’t on the one hand condemn Hilaly for being […] Continue Reading…
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