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Election Reader – July 26, 2010

By tigtog on 2010-07-26 • ( 2 )

Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed. What did I miss? Please share what you've been reading (and writing!) in the comments. Punditocracy: Week 2 – “The focus appears to be on deciding who “won”, without considering the… Read More ›

The Leadership Debate

By tigtog on 2010-07-26 • ( 5 )

Your thorts? Or did you watch something else instead? Our house watched Top Gear while I watched it on the web.

Memories: Norman Gunston November 11, 1975

By tigtog on 2010-07-23 • ( 13 )

despite how many people were highly perturbed and critical of the way in which Whitlam lost office as PM, the voters overwhelming preferenced Whitlam’s ouster, Fraser, at the subsequent election.

National Security Committee Meetings and past and present PMs

By tigtog on 2010-07-23 • ( 8 )

Seriously, just how many senior members of Cabinet really need to be present for every single NSCC meeting?

Elections and volunteering

By tigtog on 2010-07-20 • ( 7 )

what I’m particularly interested in is GetUp!’s call for volunteer activists to be part of GetTogethers aiming to coordinate local action within their electorates, focussing on 3 main issues for the 2010 Federal election

QFT: Waleed Aly on what really drives the population debate

By tigtog on 2010-07-20 • ( 25 )

…so much of this “population” debate is really about the crap nature of services and infrastructure in the outer suburbs of our cities

Election Watch Open Thread

By tigtog on 2010-07-13 • ( 11 )

~~Who knows? We might have an election date by the end of the week.~~ UPDATE 2010-07-17: The election will be on August 21.

Threads of Doom and the lurch to the right

By tigtog on 2010-07-09 • ( 16 )

While my wonkish side is partly thrilled to see so many people critically engaged with public policy for once, for them to come to it from a place of disappointment, suspicion and resentment over a previous incomplete understanding of the system is far from ideal.