Cheerful, chubby and fresh-faced, like a well-scrubbed piglet, Paul Barry profiles David Feeney, who comes in at #10 on our list of political fixers. Also try some of our other Power Shots from the rest of the Power Index team.
ALP
Newspoll: 56-44 to Coalition
The Coalition’s two-party lead has eased to 56-44 from 58-42 a fortnight ago and support for the carbon tax is up six points to 36%, writes William Bowe.
Latham’s Media Watch Dog Watch: ALP types love to nude up
Gerard Henderson’s Liberals may keep their Collins Street clothes on, but let me assure you, the ALP has always been at one with nature, reveals Mark Latham.
Morgan: 51.5-48.5 to Coalition
The latest Roy Morgan face-to-face poll shows little change on the previous result from a fortnight ago. But preselection news for the next electoral cycle heats up, reports William Bowe.
Guy Rundle: The strange twilight nature of the war in Afghanistan
Prime Minister Gillard’s and Opposition leader Abbott’s words on Lance Corporal Andrew Jones and Lieutenant Marcus Case showed the strange twilight nature of the war.
Newspoll: 52-48 to Coalition
Relatively good news for Labor from Newspoll, which shows the Coalition’s eight point two-party preferred lead cut to four, reports William Bowe.
Pollies grumble at writers’ fest: ‘good govt and ALP are strangers’
Can the ALP survive? And if so, what form will it be in? There was huge interest in this topic at the Sydney Writers’ Festival.
Gillard mixes language of the Right with rhetoric from the Left
Julia Gillard gave a speech on jobs at the Sydney Institute, which almost everyone only heard what they wanted to hear. And what they seemed to want to hear was that Julia Gillard was beating up on unemployed, writes Greg Jericho.
The 2010 Australian election study
The latest Essential Research is in, with one particular graph showing when voters decided who they were voting for in last year’s election, reports William Bowe.
Possum: Crashes and rebounds for Labor
Plugging all the latest political polling data fit to print, we can see how the two party preferred Pollytrend has changed, from a sharp downturn for the government in late February, to a recovery in recent weeks. Possum Comitatus explains.
Anthony Chisholm and Nick Martin duke it out for Nat Sec post
Fears are growing among senior ALP figures that mooted Karl Bitar successor Anthony Chisholm would serve as a part-time National Secretary to allow him to helm Anna Bligh’s bid for a second elected term in office.
Feminists — the faceless women of the ALP
Is Labor so on the nose right now, that no-one can acknowledge what a remarkable job the ALP has done supporting women? asks “faceless woman of the ALP” Tanja Kovac, National Co-ordinator of EMILY’s List Australia.
Political snippets: Dear Labor MPs: remember, we don’t have a majority government
Don’t let the majority rule. Just as there are many in the Liberal and National parties having difficulty accepting that they did not win the last election, there are a fair number of Labor Party MPs who don’t understand that their lot are not in control of the Parliament either. Greens senator Christine Milne put it […]
What voters think of a carbon price
Over the next 12 months, we’ll have more polls on pricing carbon than we can poke a stick at. So it’s worth taking a squiz at where public views of carbon pricing sit at the starting gates of what will probably be a bit of a rollercoaster, writes Possum Comitatus.
Broken promises and price rises
Welcome back to the politics of climate change, Australian style, which wrecks leaderships, sunders parties and induces bizarre alliances as a matter of course.
Secret ALP review blames Gillard for election debacle: source
As the Australian Labor Party’s National Executive meets in Brisbane today to digest the Bracks-Faulkner-Carr review into the party’s disastrous 2010 election campaign, Crikey can reveal that the report’s sealed sections contains serious personal criticisms of Prime Minister Julia Gillard.
Post-poll ALP review to home in on direct election
The Bracks-Faulkner-Carr post-election review into the current state of the Labor Party will recommend radical revamps to the party’s rapidly congealing internal structure, including multiple direct election proposals to belatedly re-energise the grassroots.
Nielsen: 54-48 to Coalition
The first Nielsen poll for the year has the Coalition opening up a 54-46 lead on two-party preferred. Labor’s primary vote is 32%, with the Coalition on 46% and the Greens on 12%, writes William Bowe.
Crikey Says: Crikey says: once more, with feeling
“What we really want to see in our leaders is sincerity and conviction. We want to be able to trust them.”
Miners big on donations, but not on disclosure
Several companies and individuals have been identified in Liberal and Labor documents as making donations, but were not recorded on the AEC website as having made any returns, as they’re required to do.
Political donations: SA and Tassie rolling in election dough
Political donations data released by the Australian Electoral Commission yesterday shows a multi-million jump in donations for South Australia and Tasmania — the two states that held elections over the audit period.
Political donations give and take
The Australian Electoral Commission released political donations data today for 2009-10, giving us an insight into what political parties received from donors between 7 and 19 months ago.
Mayne on donations: Vic Libs still richest political division in the country
The Victorian Liberals clearly remain the richest political division in the country. No one else can claim to own $50 million worth of shares.
Fund flood recovery with NBN ahead of a levy, say voters
Essential Report’s latest poll offers bad news for Labor, with voters backing delaying or scrapping the NBN, and delaying a return to surplus, over a one-off levy, reports Bernard Keane.
Morgan: 50.5-49.5 to Labor
The first federal opinion poll of the new year is from Morgan’s face-to-face surveying last weekend, covering 855 respondents. However, the obvious systematic bias to Labor in Morgan face-to-face polling, once factored in, points to a fairly solid lead for the Coalition, reports William Bowe.
