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15/11/2007 12:00:00 AM 0
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Even if Kevin Rudd wasn’t quite from a town called Hope, yesterday's ALP campaign launch was all a tad Clintonesque, as was the contrast with the Coalition launch on Monday, writes Mark Bahnisch.
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13/11/2007 12:00:00 AM 3
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At yesterday's policy launch, John Howard and his merry band did their utmost to confirm Paul Keating’s adage that their view of a modern Australia is coloured by a serious streak of nostalgia for the white picket fence, writes Mark Bahnisch.
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12/11/2007 12:00:00 AM 0
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Maybe Australian journos don’t spend too much time following American politics. For reasons which are completely obscure, there was a bit of a "shock horror!" beat up about American pollsters advising the Labor Party, writes Mark Bahnisch.
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9/11/2007 12:00:00 AM 1
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If there’s one thing we’ve learned from the Howardian culture wars, it’s that postmodernism is evil. Stick to the facts and memorise the dates, get the narrative straight. But this election campaign is nothing if not postmodern, writes Mark Bahnisch.
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8/11/2007 12:00:00 AM 0
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We haven’t heard anything about aspirational nationalism in this campaign. If you cast your mind back to August, it was John Howard’s new big philosophical idea. Boldly going where no nonsensical phrase had gone before – back to the future, and all that. writes Mark Bahnisch.
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7/11/2007 12:00:00 AM 0
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The release of Senate preference tickets has revived speculation that our very own Pauline Hanson might be about to revive her own political career. So is the spectre of Queensland’s past returning to haunt the nation? Probably not, writes Mark Bahnisch.
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26/10/2007 12:00:00 AM 0
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There was a forerunner of things to come in the 2004 election campaign when John Howard announced a new quasi-system of "Australian technical colleges." In truth, these colleges hardly matter. The symbolism is all, writes Mark Bahnisch.
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25/10/2007 12:00:00 AM 1
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It hasn’t escaped anyone’s notice that Malcolm Turnbull has been backing away from any prospect of nuclear power at a rate of knots this week. Presumably all the members and candidates in the marginals are similarly on message. Certainly Herbert MP Ted Lindsay has, writes Mark Bahnisch.
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16/10/2007 12:00:00 AM 0
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Last night’s TV grabs had Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard visiting the Ipswich hospital in the heart of Blair. Blair, first won by Liberal MP Cameron Thompson running against Pauline Hanson in 1998, is a very different seat after the redistribution, writes Mark Bahnisch.
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15/10/2007 12:00:00 AM 0
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The Courier-Mail is this morning touting a Galaxy Poll which purports to show Labor winning only two additional seats in Queensland – Bonner and Moreton, writes Mark Bahnisch.
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13/09/2007 12:00:00 AM 0
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Labor now has the happy prospect of being able to suggest that a vote for Howard would be a vote for an unstable and leaderless government if he were to be re-elected. Who would take over?