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Round-up of election coverage Day 2

Thursday, January 15th, 2004

The Courier Mail sprang quickly into action with a four page wrap around, but most of its coverage missed the mark. It appeared to readily accept that the “Foster-Care reforms” were the real reason for calling the election this week in an article that started with this paragraph “QUEENSLANDERS will go to the polls on […]

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How prepared were they?

Wednesday, January 14th, 2004

I thought the fact that Lawrence Springborg had to fly down to Brisbane meant that he was taken by surprise, but today I was told that the Nationals were actually running ads on TV in the morning, so maybe not. At least one Liberal Candidate, Dr Bruce Flegg advised his campaign supporters on Monday that […]

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Merri Rose – Opposition chewing the wrong bone

Wednesday, January 14th, 2004

My life is full of essays I was going to write, and last week I was going to write an essay saying that if the Opposition couldn’t handle the Families Department Child Abuse Scandal more effectively then they had no chance of winning the state election. I didn’t realize that this week the Minister for […]

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On WA Politics

Wednesday, January 14th, 2004

I see that Greg Barns has written a piece in ‘Online Opinion’ praising WA Liberal leader Colin Barnett. I have to say this visionary leader Barns refers to is not the fellow we generally experience in WA politics. That Barnett is negative, opportunistic and bent on defending the privileged position of his core supporters, like […]

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Springborg knocks-on

Tuesday, January 13th, 2004

After listening to Lawrence Springborg’s press conference responding to Peter Beattie’s election announcement I’m almost ready to call the election to the government by an even larger margin than the one they have now. It was tentative, nervous and with mostly the wrong messages. Peter Beattie doesn’t need to worry about the protest vote going […]

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Queensland election kick-off – the blame game

Tuesday, January 13th, 2004

Peter Beattie has kicked-off the Queensland election and we now have a sketch of the first phase of play. At this moment there are four visible prongs to his strategy. Expect a few more tines on the pitchfork to appear later in the campaign. The first prong is a re-run of the 2001 State election […]

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Dead Culture and Virtual Life

Tuesday, January 13th, 2004

I recently wrote a piece in ‘Online Opinion’ about the way modern popular culture is stagnating, and what that means. I pointed out that in popular writing, music, TV, films and just about anything else that could be called culture, quality is deteriorating fast. These media are becoming ever more formulaic, banal and dull. On […]

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Stop Press! Queensland to go to polls on 7th February.

Tuesday, January 13th, 2004

Beattie will give a press conference at 12:00 noon Eastern Standard Time. I’ll do a post after I’ve heard it with some preliminary analysis. Will be interesting to see how the public wears an election being called right in the middle of their summer holiday. On the assumption that nothing will really start properly in […]

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Liberal State President admits party doesn’t comply.

Tuesday, January 13th, 2004

As I announced here , BCC Councillor Margaret de Wit withdrew as a candidate in the Ryan preselection. It was reported in the Courier Mail this morning. The interesting part of the Courier Mail report was its second last paragraph “Cr Catalbiano rejected Cr de Wit’s accusations about unfair delays, saying the preselection ballot could […]

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Rumble in Ryan becomes a rattle

Monday, January 12th, 2004

Michael Johnson can enjoy his holidays a little more this Christmas. Councillor Margaret de Wit has today announced that she is withdrawing from the preselection contest for Ryan. As per my previous post that means that Steven Huang is the only challenger to sitting member Johnson. de Wit pulled out after being threatened that if […]

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