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Monthly Archives: March 2012
Farewell To A Gentleman: Dale Baker Dies, Aged 73
The Australian political community has lost a gentleman this week, with the death yesterday of former South Australian state Liberal leader Dale Baker after a long battle with motor neurone disease. He was 73. Baker spent 12 years in the … Continue reading
Don’t Forget: The Red And The Blue Is On Twitter
Just a reminder to all readers that The Red And The Blue is on Twitter; it’s been a long time now since I have made note of the presence of this column on Twitter, and I thought it appropriate to … Continue reading
Federal Newspoll: Coalition Leads Labor 57-43
I wasn’t going to post tonight, but there’s a new Newspoll for The Australian tomorrow showing voter support returning to massacre levels against the ALP after Kevin Rudd’s miserable little leadership challenge, with the Coalition now polling 57% on the … Continue reading
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Tagged Australian Labor Party, Australian politics, Coalition, Elections, Julia Gillard, Liberal Party, opinion polls, politics, Tony Abbott
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Finally Gone, Yet Finally Listening: Anna Bligh Quits Parliament
Queensland’s Labor government, led by Anna Bligh, was spectacularly obliterated at yesterday’s state election; today, in breach of a promise, Bligh — whilst I was at 40,000 feet, returning to Melbourne — resigned the ALP leadership and with it, her … Continue reading
2012 Queensland Election: Live Updates
From 6.30pm (AEST) on Saturday 24 March, this page will regularly update progress in the state election count with comment on trends, totals and the outcome generally. Readers outside Queensland can follow at 7.30pm local time. To keep up to … Continue reading
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Tagged Anna Bligh, Ashgrove, Australian Labor Party, Campbell Newman, Kate Jones, LNP, politics, Queensland, Queensland Politics
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Queensland State Election: Editorial, The Day Before
Queenslanders go to the polls tomorrow, in an historic election set to terminate that state’s 14-year-old Labor government and sweep Campbell Newman’s LNP to office in a landslide. Today I provide an endorsement, and state my reasons for doing so. … Continue reading
Queensland Galaxy Poll: LNP 60%, ALP 40%…Labor Is Finished
The first statewide poll we’ve seen in Queensland for a month is out; Galaxy shows the LNP leading Labor by a 60-40 margin after preferences. This is the first evidence that Anna Bligh’s dirt-and-smear campaign has sealed her government’s fate, … Continue reading
CMC Clears Campbell Newman; Panic Stations At Queensland Labor
And thus, the myth explodes; Queensland’s CMC has exonerated LNP leader Campbell Newman of any misconduct arising from the sordid allegations of the ALP; now, the desperate and doomed Labor government of Anna Bligh must brace for electoral Armageddon. The … Continue reading
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Tagged Anna Bligh, Ashgrove, Australian Labor Party, Australian politics, Campbell Newman, CMC, LNP, politics, Queensland, Queensland Labor, Queensland Politics
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Queensland Election: It’s The Lie That Gets You
In August 1974 — confronted with the choice between resignation from office or certain impeachment and conviction over the Watergate scandal — US President Richard Nixon drily remarked to an aide that it’s not the cover-up, but the lie; it’s … Continue reading
The Poll We Missed: Essential Research Finds Coalition Ahead, 56-44
In and around the ALP leadership contest, Bob Carr’s appointment to the Senate and to the Foreign ministry, Julia Gillard’s reshuffle, and issues involving Wayne Swan and Campbell Newman, Essential has quietly found support for the Coalition rising to 56-44 … Continue reading
