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Election 2013: Day 23 (or, come sail your ships around me) 27 Aug 2013 | 04:46 pm
Today was about Kevin Rudd and the navy. He gave a speech at the Lowly Institute in which he stated: The Government will establish the Future Navy Taskforce that will provide advice to the Governmen...
Election 2013: Day 22 (or, I guess the mandate is written between the lines) 26 Aug 2013 | 05:20 pm
Over the weekend the Liberal Party launched their campaign and Kevin Rudd denied Julia Gillard had a mandate to introduces the carbon tax. Let start with Kevin Rudd. So there he was on Insiders, and...
Wages Breakout (or lack thereof) Graphs 26 Aug 2013 | 09:29 am
My Guardian Post today is on the wages breakout claims by Eric Abetz. I’m putting some graphs here because they couldn’t all fit in the post.
Election 2013: Day 19 (or, the litmus test) 24 Aug 2013 | 10:33 am
A very quick blog post today because last night I was moderating the Our Say Forum for candidate in the seat of Fraser and so didn’t have time to write a post yesterday, and today is Saturday so I pre...
Election 2013: Day 18 (or, The moment I wake up, Before I put on my makeup…) 22 Aug 2013 | 06:13 pm
Today, the day after the second debate, the election campaign was a bit muted. Maybe it was because there was a story that the make-up artist for the debate last night thought Rudd was rude (or at le...
Election 2013: Day 17 (or, not quite a jocular conversation) 21 Aug 2013 | 08:14 pm
A very quick post tonight. I had a pretty hectic day delivering a speech on social media to public servants, which meant I was away from my desk for about 4 hours and I have a stack of other writing t...
Election 2013: Day 16 (or, Frankly my dear, I don’t think they giver a damn) 20 Aug 2013 | 04:52 pm
Today was an odd one of the election. There were a couple new policies released, but it wasn’t much of a big deal. It was such a bit of a nothing day that ABC’s 7:30 Report didn’t even get round to r...
Election 2013: Day 15 (or, throwing the costings out with the bath water) 19 Aug 2013 | 06:27 pm
So the big splash for the Libs in the friendly Sunday papers was all about babies. Well no, but that was the way it was spun. It was actually about Abbott’s 3 year old paid parental leave scheme. You ...
Election 2013: Day 12 (or, this sewer has no bottom) 16 Aug 2013 | 05:07 pm
Today was not a good day to be an Australian voter. We were treated today as though we are a bunch of racists. People like to say that voters are to blame for the asylum seeker policies. I don’t thin...
Election 2013: Day 11 (or, my thought bubble is more concrete than yours) 15 Aug 2013 | 05:09 pm
And so today Kevin Rudd hoped on a plane and went north with a plan. He was the man with a plan. And being a man with a plan in a plane heading north is a good thing. Unfortunately it seems the plan ...