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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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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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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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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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Politics favours the brave
Politics favours the brave but never rewards the foolishly brave. And Turnbull is becoming the foolishly brave after the recent polling. Malcolm Turnbull has always been known as a ruthless opponent when he's set his sights on a target (brave); but he's…
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Iran: Release Protest Detainees
The Iranian situation continues and there still remains not nearly enough international attention or urgency. While there remain human rights abuses, the international community seems to be remarkably silent. And like the international community's…
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Human rights and Iran
Human rights is something I am very passionate about and Iran is providing a flashpoint for global attention on human rights. I'm tempted to rant about how democracy and human rights are being trampled in Iran, but I'd rather readers think about human…
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Blogging for change in Iran
The debate about whether blogging is a legitimate tool for political action and/or change will continue to rage. But at the moment there is a need to ensure there continues to be a momentum of discussion and commentary about what is happening in Iran.
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Tragic Turnbull and Cunning Costello
The Liberal Party continues to find itself stymied by the Costello merry-go-round until the other day or so the party faithful thought. Even now with his memoirs out, his official resignation signed and sealed, he has found new ways to keep the good [sic]…
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Victorian Liberals offer nothing new
The Victorian Liberals have nothing to offer. And to provide further proof to that is the launch of their "new" online attack advertisements. This time they've replaced Steve Bracks with John Brumby; true the content has been updated but they're still…
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What to make of Greens Fremantle victory
The Western Australian Greens have declared victory in the Fremantly by-election held on Saturday (16/05). This was after a long, hard campaign with very high stakes for the Greens and the WA Labor Party. For Labor it was another test of their electoral…
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Brimbank Council shamed yet again
There's not much that hasn't been said about the nepotism, corruption and outside political influences and retribution. Brimbank is well known to be a basket case of branch stacking and ballot stacking. Each local government election has an…
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Greenwash at large
Over the past few months there's been in my opinion greenwash at large. There has been a resurgence in the confusion surrounding the ability of individual households to take effective action against the worst of climate change. And it's being supported…
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LNP bloodbath begins
There will be some that will use the Liberal National Party's staggering loss on Saturday (21/03/09) as a good reason to split the party. Merged party supporters must be cringing at the months coming with hardliners like Mal Brough champing at the bit to…
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Queensland’s elections an insight into next federal elections?
The Queensland elections are being intently watched by political pundits and more intently watched by political hacks and apparachiks. There's reason for that. Simply put the Queensland elections are considered to be an insight into how the next federal…
The Australian political landscape at year's end
The past 12 months since the 2007 federal election has been an absolute roller coaster ride in the political world. And there has been a great deal of change and obviously upheavel in the former tight-knit and steadfast partners, like the Liberal…
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