It looks like Andrew Bolt’s Higgin’s announcement was in fact an April Fools Joke.
And a bloody good one too. I didn’t think he had it in him. Congrats.
Regardless, I think it’s a good indicator of how terminal the Libs situation is at the moment. In light of recent events, no development is too outlandish to […]
The influence of the blogosphere on the mainstream political discourse is a bit of a hobby horse of mine. It’s a big part of my dissertation at the LSE.
In this vein, I’ve thought for a long time that political organisations are missing an opportunity to try to influence mainstream media coverage through a coordinated online […]
Fresh off having his merger/marriage proposal effectively rejected by the Qld Liberals, Qld Nationals Leader Laurence Springborg has responded by upping the ante:
A day after the Queensland Liberals referred the merger issue to a federal party working group, Mr Springborg told The Australian yesterday it would be “a complete waste of time” to take on […]
The Finance Minister, Lindsay Tanner has a good Op-Ed in The Australian today advocating Labor’s emerging anti-Red Tape, deregulation agenda.
As with any speech or article Lindsay writes, there’s some conceptual jargon in it (’producerism’ as a description for the historical socialist regulatory impulse), but as is also usually the case, it doesn’t detract from a […]
While it’s not yet April Fools Day over here in London, yes I do realise that it’s April 1 in Australia at the moment.
However, in the previous post I am assuming that the timing of Bolt’s post at 12:03am 1/4/08 was to torpedo a story that Stephen Mayne was going to print today rather than […]
Frequent guest on the ABC’s Insiders program, Andew Bolt, is apparently seeking pre-selection for Peter Costello’s yet to be vacated safe seat of Higgins.
At least that’s what he seems to be implying this morning on his blog:
Stephen Mayne has been onto this story for a while, and for once he’s close to the truth. Given […]
James Snyder at the US National Bureau of Economics investigates Press Coverage and Political Accountability and finds that:
Federal spending is lower in areas where there is less press coverage of the local members of congress.
Hardly surprising really.
HT: Marginal Revolution
Those interested in following the vote ‘count’ in the Zimbabwe election can do so via the spirited This is Zimbabwe blog.
Early results are worrying; major delays in announcing returns, threats against the opposition discussing the results and a 50-50 split of seats amongst the first 20 seats returned.
With inflation running at over 100,000% (that’s not […]
I’ve written before about my general pessimism about the leading Democratic Presidential Candidate’s positions on Free Trade and more broadly, domestic economics in general, but Joe Lieberman has gone a step further today:
I say that the Democratic Party changed. The Democratic Party today was not the party it was in 2000. It’s not the Bill […]
While the NSW and Queensland Branches of the Liberal Party are busy working on their impersonation of a Pashtun society, The Age reports this morning that the Victorian branch is going gently into the night:
(R)ank and file membership of the Victorian party has fallen from a post-Whitlam peak of 33,000 in the 1970s to 13,000 […]