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September 7, 2010
Australia Parliamentary reforms wide ranging and all but locked in (The Age) Leave a comment
Australia Government instability might lead to stability – at least of the make-up of parliament (Sydney Morning Herald) Leave a comment
Australia DLP tumbles Fielding (The Age) Leave a comment
Australia “The system’s awesome and doesn’t need fixing (except for the parts that do)”. Whut? (Sydney Morning Herald) Leave a comment
September 6, 2010
Australia Coalition MPs giving up on government (Herald Sun) Leave a comment
Australia “Polls and media foment instability”, says guy from media who uses polls to foment instability (Sydney Morning Herald) Leave a comment
Australia “The constitution needs fixing” (The Age) One comment
Australia Oakes: About bloody time we got some reform (The Daily Telegraph) Leave a comment
Australia Queensland the new Florida (The Courier Mail) Leave a comment
Australia Push poll determines that a majority of voters don’t understand the Westminster system. (Daily Telegraph) 4 comments
Australia If Labor and Greens act like the Liberals, they won’t be able to govern. (Australian) One comment
September 3, 2010
Australia “research has shown that social conservatives are the heaviest consumers of online pornography” (Crikey) One comment
Australia Apparently the idea of a Gillard government is surprising to pretty much everyone in the media. It’s not like a pair of random bloggers have been calling it for weeks. (The Australian) One comment
Australia Abbott’s billion dollar bri… uh, promise, doesn’t look good for his budget image (The Punch) Leave a comment
Australia “Difference of opinion” is now, apparently, a valid excuse. Attention students: if you flunk an exam, call it a difference of opinion, you’ll be fine (The West Australian) Leave a comment
Australia Antony Green surprised that Greens voters can think for themselves (Wile E. Coyote) One comment
September 2, 2010
Australia Wilkie backs Gillard (ABC) One comment
Australia Actual quote : “Jim Wallace is such a cunt.” (Groupthink) Leave a comment
Australia Gillard’s negotiation style doing her more favours than Abbott’s is for him (The Daily Telegraph) Leave a comment
Australia Greens’ push for easier voting a step closer (The Age) Leave a comment
Australia Nationals’ racism might be a major disincentive for Oakeshott (The Australian) Leave a comment
Australia Why the obsession with opinion polls? They suck! (The Punch) 2 comments
Australia Fred Nile likes porn. A lot. (And blames the Sex Party, naturally) (Sydney Morning Herald) 2 comments
Australia Defence Dept. leakers get defence industry jobs. Hmmm. (The Age) Leave a comment
Australia Right-wing journalist upset that younger, online journalists aren’t right-wing. Who knew? (Australian) 2 comments
Australia Come for the article on the Greens-Labor coalition, stay for the comments likening the Greens to the Inquisition (SMH) Leave a comment
Australia Paul Kelly outs himself as a partisan douchebag. (Australian) 2 comments
September 1, 2010
Australia Serious political analysis on Crikey about the Greens-Labor deal. I know. I was surprised too. (Crikey) One comment
Australia Fielding might still get back in. (But he’d be irrelevant) (Sydney Morning Herald) Leave a comment
Australia Nationals likely to get more ministries (which in turn makes it harder for the Coalition to attract the indies) (Weekly Times) Leave a comment
Australia Same sex adoption up for a conscience vote in NSW (The Daily Telegraph) 2 comments
Australia Tasmania recognises gay marriage (ABC's Lateline) Leave a comment
Australia Flynn makes sure that Boothby isn’t alone in having votes invalidated due to improper handling (AEC) Leave a comment
Australia AEC drops almost 3000 votes from the tally in Boothby. Good thing the result isn’t very close… Oh wait. (AEC) Leave a comment
Australia In a new record, Antony Green makes the rest of his article irrelevant in the first line. (ABC) Leave a comment
August 30, 2010
Australia Flaking on climate change obviously cost Labor votes, but here’s how many (The Australian) Leave a comment
Australia Oakeshott: I’m a conservative, but the coalition doesn’t seem to even be in the game (The Australian) Leave a comment
Australia Last time Abbott pledged to be “kinder, gentler”, he followed up by being the first Minister to be turfed out of parliament in 4 decades.  Shades of ‘compassionate conservatism’, anyone? (Sydney Morning Herald) Leave a comment
Australia Ex-Labor, ex-Green independent thinks a Labor/Green coalition would hold (The Australian) Leave a comment
Australia Racist country? Nah, it’s just the brown people who’re a problem. (The Australian) Leave a comment
Australia Team vs individual sport can be indicative of personality? Really? Thank you Captain Obvious. (The Punch) Leave a comment
Australia With the NBN in limbo, development is in chaos. (Libs stalling development? Wow) (The Australian) Leave a comment
August 27, 2010
Australia Fielding clings to last shred of relevance (The Australian) 2 comments
Australia Abbott’s maybe gambling on a new election. May as well put a round in the revolver and give it a spin. (Sydney Morning Herald) Leave a comment
Australia No-one look now, but the Libs are doing their best impression yet of a stable political party (NT News) Leave a comment
Australia Liberal coalition has 73. But they’re not special, so does the Labor kind-of-coalition. (The Daily Telegraph) Leave a comment
Australia Member for Boothby has sour grapes. About… winning? (The Australian) Leave a comment
Australia Abbott’s ‘leaks’ fig leaf not covering as much as he (and most of us) would like (The Age) Leave a comment
Australia Indies not asking for 2 ‘key’ reforms (The Australian) Leave a comment
August 26, 2010
Australia Cory Bernardi explains why the Greens will kill Jesus, eat your children, and ban Liberals (Hardcore Conservative) 3 comments
Australia At least two newly elected Coalition MPs may have breached the constitution. (Herald Sun) Leave a comment
Australia Abbott’s refusal to let treasury cost his promises could cost him the indies (The Australian) Leave a comment
Australia In general, he seems not to be doing himself any favours. Why would he be avoiding transparency? (Herald Sun) Leave a comment
Australia Gillard, on the other hand, seems to be doing some mighty fine wooing (Sydney Morning Herald) Leave a comment
Australia Abbott to Wilkie: Hey, sorry about all that trying to ruin you guff. Now that we’re friends, can I have your vote? (The Age) Leave a comment
Australia Until this is all sorted, a lot’s on hold. Some of it even important (The Age) Leave a comment
August 25, 2010
Australia Penbo calls Katter an “old-school agrarian socialist”, thus neatly jumping the shark and the gun at the same time. (Punch) Leave a comment
Australia Yet more “wait and see” (The Age) Leave a comment
Australia Windsor wants both sides’ election promises properly costed before negotiations begin (he’s looking at you, Abbott) (Sydney Morning Herald) Leave a comment
Australia With Labor doing everything it could to lose, how incompetent must the Coalition be to have not won outright? (The Australian) Leave a comment
Australia Paul Kelly laments the lack of scrutiny of the Greens by the media. If only he knew someone in the media that could help (The Australian) Leave a comment
August 24, 2010
Australia Gillard touts ‘alignment’ with Greens as a boost for a Labor government’s stability (read: Greens will block Coalition supply, so accept the inevitable: it’s us or a new election) (The Australian) Leave a comment
Australia Tuckey’s replacement could continue to be a pain in the arse for Coalition (The West Australian) Leave a comment
Australia Oakeshott proposes unity cabinet (ABC) 3 comments
August 23, 2010
Australia Looks like the Liberal Party in Bennelong learnt some lessons from the SA Labor Party in Mawson (YouTube) One comment
Australia “if you think that there is any more poisonous hatred than that which exists between a regional sitting Liberal and a National Party type sniffing round his electorate, then you haven’t been paying attention” (The Drum) One comment
Australia The seat to watch. (AEC) Leave a comment
Australia Doogie Howser MP still cautious about victory (NineMSN) Leave a comment
Australia Broadband, climate change and trade protections all big issues for anyone who wants votes from the independents. (The Daily Telegraph) One comment
Australia Oakeshott happy to head back to polls (Sydney Morning Herald) 5 comments
Australia We’re apparently supposed to be impressed by the Libs, Nats and LNP getting more first pref votes between them than Labor alone. Right. (The Punch) One comment
Australia Katter up for grabs (and good work slagging him off on national TV, Joyce and Truss. That’ll do wonders for you) (The Courier Mail) Leave a comment
August 20, 2010
Australia Bogan Bribe Watch – August 20th (Things Bogans Like) 5 comments
Australia Any publicity is good publicity, except when one of your candidates has a child sex conviction. Right, Democrats? (Advertiser) One comment
Australia Don’t hate the player, hate the game… Unless it’s the Greens. Then they’re all commies. (Australian) Leave a comment
Australia Can the “this election is actually really close” twaddle be any more transparent? (Australian) Leave a comment
August 19, 2010
Australia Nauru a lot worse for refugees than Abbott would have us believe (Herald Sun) Leave a comment
Australia Most boat arrivals still refugees, making this quite a slippery political football (The Australian) 3 comments
Australia Gillard wins not-debate, barely (The Australian) Leave a comment
Australia Election night TV. Woo! (Neeeeerrrrrd)
http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/election-night-a-tv-event-20100818-12dpg.html
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Australia Abbott abandons budget honesty, doesn’t even cost all promises (Sydney Morning Herald) Leave a comment
Australia If you vote Greens, you are stupid and ugly and your mother dresses you funny (Herald Sun) 4 comments
Australia What a vote for the Greens really means (SMH) Leave a comment
August 18, 2010
Australia Wendy Francis and the floodgates of immorality (Groupthink) 2 comments
Australia Final count on enrolled electors for the 2010 Federal election. (AEC) Leave a comment
Australia Unions dropping Labor for Greens (The Age) One comment
Australia Cracks in Coalition’s financial façade (The Age) Leave a comment
Australia No more farmer love for Nationals? (The Weekly Times) Leave a comment
August 17, 2010
Australia GetUp would like to ask… What about boat people? (GetUp) 3 comments
Australia And if nothing else, it’s a great way to sell the whole package (The Australian) Leave a comment
Australia Abbott offers to pay people for being… employed? (Herald Sun) Leave a comment
Australia Coalition could benefit from donkey vote (I’m not talking about its base, either) (The Australian) Leave a comment
Australia Stott Despoja (politely) calls Latham a moron (The Age) 6 comments
Australia Coalition policies good for the rich, bad for the average Aussie? You must be joking! (Herald Sun) Leave a comment
Australia GetUp victories have far-reaching consequences (Sydney Morning Herald) Leave a comment
Australia Make sure your vote counts in the Federal 2010 election (Electoral Commission) Leave a comment
August 16, 2010
Australia Tony Abbott on Q&A live thread (qanda) 7 comments
Australia Polling still, barely, in Labor’s favour. (The Australian) 11 comments
Australia Stupid voters likely to blame government for things out of government’s control (The Australian) 8 comments
Australia Everyone’s a coward. Duh. How about some policy for once? (The Australian) One comment
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