Tag Archives: Australia Decides 2013

He’s going to lose the election in five days but at least he got to have an Aaron Sorkin-esque exit 🙂

The latest Galaxy Poll shows the LNP pulling ahead in two party preferred polls.  It’s not an unassailable margin but at this point, a betting man would be wise to put money on Tony Abbott and the conservatives regaining power in September. This is a disappointing development to say the least.  The only positive I take out of it is ...

“I don’t oppose Islam as a country, but I do feel that their laws should not be welcome here in Australia,” she said, apparently oblivious to the fact that Islam is a religion, not a country. In any case, Ms Banister doesn’t have a problem with Jewish Kosher food. “Jews aren’t under Haram, they have their own religion which follows ...

ETHICS Committee chair Peter Dowling has stepped aside over a sexting scandal. Overnight it was reported that a state MP had been exposed as a serial sexter, sending images to his secret mistress including a picture of his penis plonked in a glass of red wine. In addition, Ethics Committee chairman and Redlands LNP MP Peter Dowling has confirmed he ...

I can’t believe this is our third goddamn federal election where one of the main talking points is how to stop asylum seekers coming to Australia by boats, which they are perfectly entitled to do.  The.  Third.  Goddamn.  Time.

How to campaign entirely on sound bytes and slogans, without even the faintest idea of what your policies actually are :/

A week ago, Labor was staring down the barrel of electoral annihilation in September.  Julia Gillard was somehow losing a popularity contest against conservative leader Tony Abbott who typically ranked at about a 35% approval rating.  Labor were looking at losing by ten points in two party preferred polls and that had been consistent for about six months. So last ...

On Wednesday of this week, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced the much anticipated date for this year’s federal election – September 14th.  That’s right!  Australia is going to have a long election cycle, America style. What’s in store for the next eight months? Things started low-key enough at Australia’s monolithic news media company News Ltd.  They broke the news ...