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Elections in South Australia and Tasmania
The South Australian and Tasmanian elections' campaigns are moving at a fevered pitch. D-day for each state's Labor governments is rapidly approaching with the each state heading to the polls on 20 March. There has been no end to rumours of dirty tricks…
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The trouble with Tories
The trouble with Tories is that more often than not what they say and what they do are mutually exclusive. In some case it seems some Tories have a higher propensity for exhibiting a complete disconnect with reality and what is actually happening “on…
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What Have The Unions Done For Us?
"What Have The Unions Done For Us?" This is an excellent example of how to do a viral video in an Australian political context.
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A special kind of “lost in the wilderness”
Tony Abbott, Julie Bishop and Eric Abetz, with Barnaby Joyce are proving to be the most successful formula for losing elections. The “cute” in your face attempt by these inept politicians (throw in Jamie Briggs and Alex Hawke for good measure) will…
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The state of electronic civil disobedience in Australia: 2010
Analysing and presenting an account of Australian electronic civil disobedience (ECD) has become somewhat of a yearly series for me, having written something like this for the last 5 years. In the past year there has been a significant increase in the…
Confronting electoral reform
There has been a lot of muck-raking lately about the federal government's “stalled” electoral reform and campaign finance more specifically. A lot of it has focussed on who and which companies/unions and have dolled out what amounts and when. In…
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7 iPhone apps for activists
There is little doubt that the iPhone is a very popular 3G mobile phone. Its popularity is likely to increase on the back of Apple's launch of the iPad. It is also a mobile phone that is gaining popularity among activists in Australia for a variety of…
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Altona By-election Brief
Australians will head to the polls for a federal election sometime later this year and until the exact date is to be announced decided, any number of theories and speculative guesses abound. However political junkies will also no doubt be aware that this…
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Victorian politics in 2010
This year promises to be an extraordinarily interesting year for Victorian state politics. At end of 2009 there were a number of controversial decisions from the State Labor Government including a half-baked attempt to roll out the state’s new public…
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Abbott committed to climate confrontation
New federal Liberal leader Tony Abbott says he will try to heal the wounds in the party, but there are already cracks appearing. from http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/12/01/2758982.htm
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The Shifting Sands of Australian Politics
The Liberal Party of Australia is experiencing a significant power shift in its state branches with some surprising results having federal consequences.
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Without Vaccine, Australia Shrugs Off Swine Flu without a H1N1 vaccine
Well to those of us who are keeping up with the truth about H1N1 were watching for the figures when they came in from Australia which being in the southern hemisphere just finished their flu season and has summer coming. Whereas here in the United…
Is Australia becoming increasingly insular?
It has been my growing belief that Australians, courtesy of mainstream media, is becoming more insular as a nation. It strikes me as strange the major shift from European (with the exception of ABC and SBS) news and current affairs to a more US news and…
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Net filtering and ECD
Late last week there was a great story about anonymous online activists using electronic civil disobedience (ECD) to express their outrage at the continued effort to censor the Internet by Australian Communications Minister Senator Stephen Conroy and the…
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State holding back better tram timetables
It would seem that few mainstream media outlets felt it necessary to publish a detailed article about the Victorian government's refusal to consider a reasonable proposal to improve tram timetables. The proposal from Keolis, the new tram operator, would…
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Queensland’s Stolen Wages
Now this isn't the first time I've blogged about stolen wages, and you can rest assured knowing it won't be the last time either. On this particular occasion it's the issue of Queensland's stolen wages. Just to fill you in; in 2002, former Premier…
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International Youth Day
There are many things in the world that tend to be over looked far too often in debates surrounding climate change. One of those things are young people. It might sound like a cliche but young people are the future and we are the custodians of their…
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Our rights still under assault
Unremarkably the Rudd Labor government wants to introduce further changes to the anti-terrorism laws. The kinds of changes that will further erode our existing meager civil liberties. However, it isn't entirely surprising that Rudd (via Attorney General,…
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