What are the major parties promising in terms of mental health services? Crikey journalist Andrew Crook and the CDP’s Julia Hosking find out.
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PromiseWatch 2013: the NBN and broadband policy
CPD researcher Julia Hosking and Crikey’s Andrew Crook find out where the parties stand on the National Broadband Network.
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PromiseWatch 2013: Newstart Allowance comparison
Crikey’s PromiseWatch project zeroes in on pledges over the Newstart allowance. Crikey’s Andrew Crook and Centre for Policy Development researcher Julia Hosking investigate the parties’ dole claims.
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Labor’s electoral fate: only terrible, not disastrous
Labor’s poor performances in 2010 may ensure it only loses the next election, rather than being wiped out.
READ MORENBN zero or hero? Why framing matters
Senior lecturer at the University of Melbourne’s Department of Accounting Dr Alison Parkes takes a look at framing, or the way the media presents information. It could give you a whole new outlook on life.
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What’s your problem with public transport, Mr Abbott?
Tony Abbott’s announcement that a Coalition government will fund new freeways in Australia’s major cities but not public transport projects has no logical justification, writes Alan Davies.
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Essential: Labor supporters, look away now
The latest polling by Essential Research shows the public is judging the ALP more harshly than a year ago and the Coalition is ahead on almost every front, after a horror fortnight for Julia Gillard.
READ MOREOur sordid triangle of xenophobia over 457 visas
Labor’s exploitation of the 457 visa issues is just part of an attempt by all three parties to exploit immigration fears. Politicians are accusing each other of being soft, as the immigration debate plumbs new depths.
READ MORETips and rumours
Who’s writing the Coalition’s policies? … horse meat quite tasty, thanks … Crikey’s pick for pope …
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Abbott’s adviser hates wind farms, doubts climate change
Tony Abbott’s latest Coalition policy statement remains short on climate policy detail. More worrying is his selection of a noted anti-wind farm advocate and climate change sceptic as lead business adviser.
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The real cost of opposition policies … or lack thereof
Refusing to release policies ahead of an election is sensible for an opposition. But there’s a terrible cost when they return to government — the muscles need stretching first.
READ MOREThe Coalition’s leaked policy notes: what you found
Readers have been running the ruler over the Coalition’s “speaker’s notes” leaked by Crikey yesterday. Here are the best responses …
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Coalition’s policies? We’ve got ‘em — well, sort of
Crikey has obtained the Coalition’s internal policy bible for backbenchers. And we want readers to start going through it.
READ MORECoalition’s talking points delve into a bag of rhetorical tricks
The Coalition’s daily talking points obtained by Crikey provide an insight into the basics of political spin.
READ MORETime to call the asylum seeker ‘impasse’ what it really is
There is no “impasse” on asylum seekers, there is only bloodyminded evil from the Coalition.
READ MORESpeaking of media independence, how does Aunty fare?
A Crikey analysis of the political leanings of ABC journalists finds more end up in the Coalition camp than the Labor one.
READ MORELabor could be cycling toward its doom
The same pattern keeps repeating: a party wins government federally at the high point of its fortunes, then the tide starts to run out again and it loses seats at state level until eventually it loses federally as well and the cycle starts again.
READ MORECome in Spinner: when political rhetoric comes back to haunt you …
One of the great things about shameless use of rhetoric and ridicule is that it inspires backbenchers to bay for more. One of the less great things is that it can come back to haunt you. Take Joe Hockey, for example…
READ MOREAbbott’s nanny state could expose kids to lesser levels of care
Tony Abbott’s thought bubble on government funding for nannies may expose children to lesser levels of care as well as assisting more affluent women to exploit many less powerful ones.
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Abbott’s nostalgia for Howard’s Oz is no basis for an economic policy
Nostalgia is a fine political tool if you can use it and half his luck if Abbott can make it work for him. But it’s no basis for an economic policy.
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Do the Liberals have a conscience on gay marriage?
The media narrative is overwhelmingly obsessed with Labor’s position on the same-s-x marriage issue and the Coalition’s much larger anti-gay contingent has mostly been given a free pass.
READ MOREAustralian political parties are dying, and fast
Australian political parties are cossetted by compulsory voting, public funding and exemptions in areas such as privacy. But despite those protections, they are dying, and quickly.
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Offended by ‘nanny state’, Coalition wants more censorship on gambling
The Coalition has proposed greater internet censorship as part of its counter-proposals on gambling reform. The US experience shows it doesn’t work.
READ MORERundle: carbon tax a monument to Labor, and testimony to a burial
The carbon tax will be Labor’s historical triumph; if a post-Labor Senate can lock it in, then it will be, for the Gillard government, a monument –- and like all monuments, testimony to a burial.
READ MOREMedia inquiry has to do more than gather dust
It appears the government has decided to conduct a media inquiry, with details to be announced this afternoon.
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