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and the ex-page returns 404 like it never existed. fail. The cached copy probably won’t last forever either.
Myself, I’m wondering if the Greens are going to be able to hold on to the staggering swing they have had advantage of this general election.
The Greens have a strong branding based on environmental issues. With both parties eschewing strong climate change policy in the run-up to the election, The Greens have probably picked up a noticeable amount of votes on that issue alone. It would be interesting to see what would happen to The Greens’ primary vote if either Labor or the Coalition took a strong stance to prevent climate change.
Very tough piece. Here’s one of the lighter moments:
They actually use the term incomprehensible but I think incredulous is the word they are looking for.
No greater example of this than the press conference we’ve just seen… Julia Gillard announces significant changes for pensioners, press pack asks about anything but — including “distractions”, Kevin Rudd and Mark Latham, who was there on 9′s payroll.
Then, finally, the first policy question… was the last question of the 40 minute press conference. Mind blowing.
“But one of the most frustrating things can be knowing what to read” … enter Wonk News!
“Fairfax is a small company”
Hilarity.
I really enjoy reading HCA transcripts sometimes:
GUMMOW J: “The United States is a country in which some millions of people are disenfranchised because at some stage in their life they were convicted of a felony, a sentence for which has long since been served. It is not necessarily an attractive place to go to for analogies if you are talking about franchise as we understand it in our country.”
… and a media release from AEC regarding the decision:
http://www.aec.gov.au/About_AEC/Media_releases/e2010/06-08.htm
Still waiting on the reasons, but the orders of the Court are here:
http://images.smh.com.au/file/2010/08/06/1755221/GetUp.pdf
Who would have thought that restricting the ability of people eligible and required to vote from getting on the electoral roll would be unconstitutional?
Neither of the major parties are going to legalise gay marriage anytime soon. When it comes to GLBTI equality, Labor certainly have made more progress recently though.
Despite the political realities, I don’t think that this is a reason for people to be quiet about marriage equality. Just because it isn’t likely to happen tomorrow isn’t a good enough reason to shut up about it.
Crikey also has an article from @andrewbolt: http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/08/04/real-andrew-bolt-is-wrong-says-fake-andrew-bolt/
Quite.
Agreed. I have no idea why Julia is just standing there and taking it whenever Tony says Labor have destroyed the economy. There is zero evidence that they’ve hurt the economy in any way and quite convincing evidence that they’ve managed a globally challenging economic episode with expertise.
I don’t see any reason not to tell the people repeatedly and forcefully.
You have to wonder why Labor aren’t carpet-bombing everyone with this stuff.
Guaranteed >50% more uptime than that other site.
Another below the line assistance site with all the group voting tickets and live editing.
As a side note, it looks like @abc_investigate has gotten past the backlog of questions and is now looking for who is actually behind onevote.com.au
Some reddit users were thinking that it came from the CDP due to this post on their website.
I thought the production quality of this was particularly high, even if I strongly disagree with the content.
The comments on the video are moderated, and the tag-line at the end of the piece was “This is not open for debate”. About the only good thing I have to say about the posters is the response to comments (which didn’t make it through moderation) talking about this quote:
Grog hands out some mighty fine advice to the ALP.
Yes! Great post.
I’ll make the same comment here as I did on reddit:
I was very interested to see how Penny would handle this inevitable question.
She was passionate and composed. There was real emotion evident in her manner and speech. It’s well worth a look (late in Episode 24: http://www.abc.net.au/tv/qanda/vodcast.htm).
Graham Richardson’s support for her course of action also made obvious its wisdom.
Gold.
It appears that AGs were not in on the series of memos out of APH on open government, innovation, FoI reform, etc.
Singularly unimpressive.
Obviously my original title was “gratuitous editorial spin” since it has been rewritten. So to make my point again, the only reason this article is interesting is because it’s a rare example of fear based political journalism from the ABC.
The political reality is that there is near enough to zero chance that the Greens would/could block supply. To do so, they would need:
a) the support of the Coalition, and
b) to be willing to burn much of the mainstream support they’re only just beginning to acquire.
The article deliberately makes the possibility of the Greens blocking supply seem much more realistic than it is, simply to try and find readers. That’s unfortunate.
P.S. I’m not a Greens voter, but fear based journalism really gets on my nerves.
… and, of course, the website itself: Election Leaflets.
Recommended by Bernard Keane. Bloody good read.