Labor’s donations advantage vanished at the 2010 election, new data from the Australian Electoral Commission shows.
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Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Sock puppets are not real people
Crikey readers have their say.
Newspoll: Gillard consolidates her lead
The latest Newspoll has the Coalition two-party lead at 54-46, down from an aberrant 57-43 a fortnight ago. The Coalition is down four points on the primary vote to 44%, reports William Bowe.
Newspoll: 57-43 to Coalition
The latest Newspoll has Labor recovering three points from their record low primary vote last time, but continuing to languish on 29%, reports William Bowe.
Rundle's ruminations: Labor has neither the brains nor strength to fix its problems
Labor’s leaders would have to be political geniuses to manoeuvre themselves out of the current fix — and they ain’t no geniuses.
Newspoll: disaffection for both parties
Newspoll has the Coalition lead up from 56-44 to 57-43, from primary votes of 27% for Labor (down two), 47% for the Coalition (steady) and a solid 14% for the Greens (up two), reports William Bowe.
The Power Index Power Shots: Kroger joins call to ban political donations … it’s prawns, Moet and satire for yachties …
They call him ‘the Pope’, Don Farrell is number six on our list of Political Fixers. Also Michael Yabsley gets the backing of Liberal Party grandee Michael Kroger over banning political donations, it’s prawns, Moet and satire for the yachties at Hamilton and Phil Green’s chance to give back.
Reith v Abbott: the early 90s wants its zeal back
The tensions between Tony Abbott and Peter Reith have deep roots in recent Liberal history. The former minister’s eagerness to prevent a return to “the Fraser years”, unencumbered by the party presidency, will be fascinating to watch.
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.
Abbott makes Irish joke of Liberals’ economic cred
Tony Abbott’s incapacity to handle the basics of economic policy is hurting his party.
Political snippets: A very fair question for the Prime Minister
Prime Minister Julia Gillard knows how to ask a fair question. It’s a pity she doesn’t know how to answer it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Fukushima wrecks the already problematic finances of nuclear power
Financing new nuclear power stations is difficult enough at the best of times. Fukushima will make the maths even harder for years to come.
The Opposition says
Seriously, they might as well rename the ABC News “The Opposition Says”, since nowadays it seems to be their default method of opening any story about Australian politics, argues Jeremy Sear,
New angle for the Coalition? Asylum seekers and child p-rn…
A Liberal senator has gone fishing trying to connect asylum seekers and child pornography.
The ideology dividing both parties
Ideology and personalities are usually the stumbling blocks to political unity. But they work in quite different ways in the Liberal and Labor parties.
Grattan: Morrison’s disgraceful effort
Michelle Grattan fires up over MP Scott Morrison’s non-apology for his “insensitive” comments about asylum seekers attending funerals, declaring that Abbott needs to “get back the discipline”, before the Opposition unravels completely.
Hockey stands aside from Islamophobia campaign
Scott Morrison’s attempt to exploit the funerals of the Christmas Island victims forms part of a series of attacks on Muslims from sections of the Liberal Party.
Senior Liberal staffer: Hockey must go
Joe Hockey should be forced to leave his position as Shadow Treasurer after he undermined colleague Scott Morrison and manipulated the funerals of asylum seekers for political benefit, writes an anonymous senior Liberal Party staffer.
Crikey Blogs / Monday, 1 August 2011
There are dangers of a political party publishing comments as if it were a media organisation. On the Liberal Party’s liberal.org.au website, comments inciting violence against the Greens remain, notes Jeremy Sear.