Labor’s donations advantage vanished at the 2010 election, new data from the Australian Electoral Commission shows.
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Crikey Says: Australian 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.
It’s the Greens’ day, anyway you look at it
The passage of the government’s carbon pricing package is a major victory for the Greens. Even if it’s so weak it needs to be bolstered by an extensive array of taxpayer spending
Guarding the Left flank: gay unions and Labor’s primary vote
A new poll shows supporting same-sex marriage would boost Labor’s vote — but mainly at the expense of the Greens.
Kisses all round as clean energy bills pass the House
When the last vote finally came to adopt the 18 clean energy bills as complete package, former Slater & Gordon lawyer Adam Bandt broke into a broad grin, his election night pronouncements 14 months ago having born fruit.
Ghosts of climate policy past haunt our Clean Energy Future
It’s an old refrain, but the closer we get to the Clean Energy Future legislation ducking and weaving its way through parliament, the more we are reminded of the ghosts of the current proposal’s stepmother, the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, writes Giles Parkinson of Climate Spectator.
Carbon tax: key changes reflect the Greens, Garnaut
There are some key changes from Rudd’s CPRS that reflect both the influence of the Greens and Ross Garnaut in its development.
$3.2b later, Ferguson loses in the ARENA of renewables
Martin Ferguson’s department has been stripped of responsibility for billions in renewables programs as the Greens demand greater certainty for the sector.
ASIO gets its new powers — and no one will tell us why
Labor and the Coalition combined to give ASIO new powers last night. We still don’t know why.
Jericho: Egad! The Green goblins have arrived
The Greens, who received 13% of the vote in the Senate, now hold 11% of the seats in the Senate. Amazing! Controversial! Their evil plan has begun and, god luv ‘em, they’ve seriously screwed with the minds of the Press Gallery, writes Greg Jericho.
Expect the unexpected from a Greener Senate
It has taken the best part of a year, but the full consequences of last August’s election have now played out. History tells us to expect the unexpected.
What will lure people back to political parties?
Until parties empower their members and can convince them they can achieve something positive for society, voters won’t be interested.
No recovery for a leader too much like the man she knifed
Julia Gillard has not been able to give voters a sense of who she is beyond the woman who knifed Kevin Rudd.
Plebiscite a key to making Abbott’s life easier
The words of the NZ PM on emissions trading hinted at why Tony Abbott ran with a poorly-devised plebiscite stunt.
Essential: is ‘cost of living’ a partisan issue?
When it comes to perceptions of “cost of living pressures”, voters see the issue differently according to how they vote.
Essential: the Labor Party … trashing its brand since 2009…
The extent of Labor’s brand damage is once again apparent, today’s Essential Report shows.
Chewing up the Greens — the Israel boycott backlash
The Greens have been labelled, in media and political discourse, as “extremists” for the NSW arm’s position on BDS. But how reasonable and representative is the mainstream debate on this issue, asks Associate Professor Jake Lynch?
Essential: forget the surplus, voters say, and save us from cuts
Most voters would rather the federal government delay its back to black strategy and extend the deficit to stave off service cuts and tax hikes.
Crikey Says: The magic S word
Today Bernard Keane writes of a time when politicians treated voters like they actually had half a brain …
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 […]
Suspending disbelief in the carbon debate
There may be less to the current brawl over carbon pricing than meets the eye, given how close, and inconsistent, both the major parties are on the issue.
Essential: Labor edges up, but voters rate Rudd as PM …
Labor has edged ahead in today’s Essential report poll - but Julia Gillard doesn’t compare favourably to her predecessor.
Essential: Labor only facing disaster, not apocalypse, in NSW
Labor’s vote is worsening in NSW, according to Essential Research’s new poll, although it’s only facing a shattering defeat, not the annihilation suggested by other polls.
