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1 - 24 Jul 2010 - Descent into barbarism? (letter), Richard Congram
She is a feminist committed to affirmative action whereby Labor women are entitled to preselection in a percentage of winnable parliamentary seats on the basis of their gender rather than merit.
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2 - 24 Jul 2010 - What's in store for Australia? (letter), (Mrs) Tricia Gibson
Sir Before an election is called to determine who should govern Australia could News Weekly inform its readers of some of the not so generally canvassed agendas of the parties vying for support from the voting public?
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3 - 24 Jul 2010 - OPINION: Broadband access could be an election issue, Francis Young
I believe that access to broadband will be an election issue for a large proportion of undecided voters (although not necessarily for the broader electorate) in the forthcoming 2010 federal election.
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4 - 24 Jul 2010 - UNITED STATES: Left abandons Barack Obama, Jeffry Babb
Kennedy over the line in the 1962 presidential election aided by Lyndon Johnson in Texas who like Daley benefited from a very strong voter turn-out particularly from among the dead.
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5 - 24 Jul 2010 - ESPIONAGE: Russian secret intelligence still very much in business, John Miller
All available evidence indicates that considerable time and effort and resources are put into the selection of suitable recruits and their training is exceptionally detailed.
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6 - 24 Jul 2010 - COLD WAR: Communist 'bombshell' rocks the Labor Party, John Ballantyne
First they vindicate the decision of a large part of Catholic Australia to veto the election of federal Labor governments by voting for the breakaway Democratic Labor Party after the Labor split of 1955.
7 - 24 Jul 2010 - POLITICAL PARTIES: The anti-family agenda of the Greens, Jerome Appleby
With the Greens vote surging and the possibility of their securing in the federal election not just more seats in the Senate but possibly for the first time one or more in the lower house it is a question that must be considered.
8 - 24 Jul 2010 - SAME-SEX ADOPTION: 'Inclusive' PC politics forgets the kids, Tim Cannon
Given the controversial nature of same-sex adoption in the community and with an election looming early next year it may be that a conscience vote for both major parties will result in substantial opposition to the Moore bill.
9 - 24 Jul 2010 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Will Gillard be any better than Rudd?, national correspondent
Regardless of the purported issues of the 2010 campaign including health the economy and climate change the federal election will be fought on two fundamental and competing propositions.
10 - 10 Jul 2010 - FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Beijing's softly, softly approach to Taiwan, Hong Kong, Peter Westmore
Chen emphasised Taiwans independence provoking ferocious threats of invasion from Beijing which undoubtedly contributed to Chens re-election in 2004.
11 - 10 Jul 2010 - EDITORIAL: Shuffling the deck-chairs leaves key issues unresolved, Peter Westmore
Whether media endorsement of her as Australias first female Prime Minister and Ms Gillards attempts to distance her government from the legacy of the Rudd years convince a sufficient number of people to abandon their critical faculties in the run-up to the next election only time will tell.
12 - 10 Jul 2010 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: No easy policy options for new PM Julia Gillard, national correspondent
Ms Gillards sudden though not entirely unexpected elevation to the prime ministership has already delivered Labor a much-needed fillip in the opinion polls and most pundits are declaring that Labor is now a near-certain winner at the coming election.
13 - 10 Jul 2010 - NATIONAL AFFAIRS: Julia Gillard's long-term agenda, John Ballantyne
The left-dominated media no doubt with an eye on the forthcoming federal election have bent over backwards to depict Julia Gillard as if anything a conservative.
14 - 26 Jun 2010 - ECONOMIC AFFAIRS: Thirty-year experiment with non-intervention, Colin Teese
Supposedly independent officials at the RBA were not immune from the pressure of politics as they wrestled with the management of their interest rate responsibilities at the time of the last election.
15 - 26 Jun 2010 - DEFENCE: Govt spending cuts put Army Reserve at risk, Ken Aldred
Reportedly the Defence Minister Senator John Faulkner has declined to sign off on implementation or release of these devastating proposals until after the coming federal election.
16 - 26 Jun 2010 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Kevin Rudd living on borrowed time, national correspondent
Rearguard action A compromise on the mining tax will be found - even if it means going to the election with the big two miners (BHP-Billiton and Rio Tinto) still fighting a rearguard action against the Government.
17 - 26 Jun 2010 - PAID PARENTAL LEAVE: Labour and Coalition reject equality for stay-home mums, Tim Cannon
The beleaguered Mr Rudd is keen to push the bill through without delay providing a much needed policy victory for Labor before the election.
18 - 26 Jun 2010 - EDITORIAL: Taxpayer-funded political advertising scandal, Peter Westmore
With tightly-fought elections due to be held nationally and in various states over the next 12 months voters are being inundated with political advertising masquerading as government information.
19 - 12 Jun 2010 - BOOK REVIEW: WHAT'S WRONG WITH ANZAC? The Militarisation of Australian History, by Marilyn Lake and Henry Reynolds, Bill James (reviewer)
The real heart of their objection to Anzac Day is their obvious fury that a genuine peoples movement a phenomenon which leftists are supposed to celebrate has spontaneously occurred (contra conspiracy theories about its being manipulated it was well under way before Howards election) without the masses seeking approval from their bien-pensants betters in the media and academe.
20 - 12 Jun 2010 - GREAT BRITAIN: Who will rescue Britain from its present madness?, Hal G.P. Colebatch
Daniel Hannan a Conservative Member of the European Parliament (MEP) has mentioned the case of a Mr Roy Newman who sick of being pestered by canvassers for the recent British general election wrote on his own window Get the lot out!
21 - 12 Jun 2010 - MIDDLE EAST: Why Turkey dispatched flotilla to Gaza, Joseph Poprzeczny
But the collapse of Communism in the 1990s and the emergence of the proto-Islamist Justice and Development Party (AKP) in 2002 and its re-election in 2007 has hastened the end of half a century of mutually beneficial contacts.
22 - 12 Jun 2010 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Rudd Government planned showdown with miners, national correspondent
It has now emerged that the Rudd Government deliberately laid the groundwork for a federal election to be pitched between wealthy mining companies and the rest of the working taxpayer population well before the May Budget.
23 - 29 May 2010 - Canberra power-grab (letter), Stephen Milgate
A growing number of voters must be asking why they should even bother voting in the next state election when parliamentarians are intent on handing over the constitutional functions of their state parliaments to the federal government or to COAG.
24 - 29 May 2010 - Tony Abbott alienating Australian families (letter), Suryan Chandrasegaran
He is obviously now compromising on principle to try to win the next election.
25 - 29 May 2010 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Labor's 'destroy Abbott' strategy may backfire, national correspondent
The Labor Party appears now genuinely fearful that Tony Abbott could pull off the most unlikely of victories at the coming election and has decided in response to go after him personally rather than campaign on its own record in government.
26 - 29 May 2010 - COVER STORY: A program for Australia's future, Patrick J. Byrne
Regardless of the federal election outcome Australia needs policies for industry and finance to handle the risks posed by the ongoing global financial crisis and from Australias two-speed economy.
27 - 15 May 2010 - AS THE WORLD TURNS: Canadian province may scrap human rights tribunal; Lithuanian president told to support Baltic gay march; UK Lib Dems' secret support base - Muslims; Stalin's Ukrainian famine; Why the left can't stand Sarah Palin,
idENGPRE011472010amp;lange UK Lib Dems secret support base - the Muslims British Muslims are abandoning their traditional support for Gordon Browns Labour Party and instead look set to back Nick Cleggs Liberal Democrats in this weeks election community organisers have found.
28 - 15 May 2010 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Verdict on the Kevin Rudd experiment, national correspondent
The race is now on for the Labor Party to get the election out of the way before the electorate wakes up fully to what its senior people inside the party worked out some time ago - that there is a serious problem with the Kevin Rudd experiment.
29 - 15 May 2010 - FAMILIES: How Henry tax proposals will undermine families, Damian Wyld
Given the proximity of a federal election adopting too many of Treasury Secretary Dr Ken Henrys ideas at this point would be electoral suicide.
30 - 01 May 2010 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Rudd gambles all on hospital reform, national correspondent
Clearly with Labors historic superior record on health Mr Rudd felt he had nothing to lose by going all out on hospital reform during an election year.
31 - 17 Apr 2010 - PAID PARENTAL LEAVE I: Rudd and Abbott schemes will punish stay-home mums, Colin Jory
The preferences of these parties might well determine who wins this years federal election; so both Mr Rudd and Mr Abbott should beware.
32 - 17 Apr 2010 - EDITORIAL: Broad approach needed to boat-people saga, Peter Westmore
The 100th boatload of asylum-seekers has arrived off north-western Australia since the election of the Rudd Government in December 2007.
33 - 03 Apr 2010 - Firemen hose down political correctness (letter), Name Supplied
Ms Morand could lose her seat of Glen Waverley at Victorias next state election with a swing of only 0.32 per cent.
34 - 03 Apr 2010 - LEGAL AFFAIRS: Human rights legislation through the back door, James Allan
Thats a polite way of saying nothing will happen before the next election.
35 - 03 Apr 2010 - BORDER CONTROL: Rudd's time bomb on a boat: asylum-seekers, Jeffry Babb
Before the 1975 election was even held I was employed by Senator Peter Sim (Liberal Western Australia) as his personal research officer - one of the very first research officers ever appointed to a backbencher.
36 - 03 Apr 2010 - SOUTH AUSTRALIA: Rann hangs on after big anti-Labor swing, Damian Wyld
After running the campaign line The Liberals - nowhere near ready Labor suffered within hours of election night both the resignation of long-time Attorney-General Michael Atkinson and a challenge to Deputy Premier Kevin Foley from MP Jay Weatherill.
37 - 03 Apr 2010 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: PM Rudd kicks off a very long campaign on health, national correspondent
The first debate of the 2010 election campaign staged recently at the National Press Club after another off-the-cuff decision by Kevin Rudd did little to shed light on the two parties policies.
38 - 20 Mar 2010 - BOOK REVIEW: GOING ROGUE: An American Life, by Sarah Palin, Len Phillips (reviewer)
Her book outlines the steps along the way with which we are generally familiar since the last American presidential election campaign but adds the kinds of detail that makes her story even more remarkable than it had seemed.
39 - 20 Mar 2010 - SOUTH AUSTRALIA: Can SA's Liberals topple Labor's Mike Rann?, Damian Wyld
The election campaign has been quite refreshing so far.
40 - 20 Mar 2010 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Rudd lays groundwork for health referendum, national correspondent
Kevin Rudd had been seriously considering holding a referendum on health since well before the last election - and now he looks as though he will have one.
41 - 06 Mar 2010 - ENERGY: Nuclear energy ... next generation power source, Peter Westmore
This reversed the position Barack Obama held during the presidential election campaign when he opposed a plan by his Republican opponent John McCain to build 45 nuclear power plants by 2030.
42 - 06 Mar 2010 - INSULATION SCAM: Wheel turns full circle for Peter Garrett, Peter Westmore
More broadly it damages the Governments credibility for economic management in the run up to the 2010 election.
43 - 06 Mar 2010 - ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: Federal, state governments veto northern development, Patrick J. Byrne
Limping through the first crucial sitting of the Parliament in an election year members of the Rudd Government are a worried bunch with marginal seat-holders fearing the worst and others developing doubts about the capacity of the Prime Minister to lead them over the long term.
44 - 06 Mar 2010 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Crisis of confidence in Rudd Government, national correspondent
Limping through the first crucial sitting of the Parliament in an election year members of the Rudd Government are a worried bunch with marginal seat-holders fearing the worst and others developing doubts about the capacity of the Prime Minister to lead them over the long term.
45 - 20 Feb 2010 - MEDICAL ETHICS: Euthanasia laws - coming to a state near you, Paul Russell
Paul Russell is upper house candidate for the Democratic Labor Party (DLP) for the South Australian state election on March 20.
46 - 20 Feb 2010 - OPINION: Can Abbott rescue Liberals from 'Ruddbullism'?, John Stone
By putting forward a conservative alternative to the progressive elite consensus the Liberals can win this years election insists John Stone.
47 - 20 Feb 2010 - EDITORIAL: Obama: from euphoria to nightmare in 12 months …, Peter Westmore
Barack Obamas election in November 2008 created a sense of euphoria which was reflected in his unprecedented personal popularity at home and accolades - including the Nobel Peace Prize - from abroad.
48 - 20 Feb 2010 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Kevin Rudd grows cooler on global warming, national correspondent
As recently as late last year it was the great moral issue of our time but in 2010 the issue of global warming appears to be fading in both urgency and importance for the Rudd Government with serious consequences in an election year.
49 - 20 Feb 2010 - COVER STORY: Lord Monckton interviewed on global warming and the ETS, Damian Wyld
And the clincher for me was that in the 186 pages of that draft of September 15 of the Copenhagen treaty there was not one mention of the word election democracy ballot or vote.
50 - 06 Feb 2010 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Can the Abbott-Joyce duo defeat Kevin Rudd?, national correspondent
Tony Abbotts elevation to the Liberal Party leadership and Barnaby Joyces appointment as Opposition finance spokesman has given the Coalition much-needed stability and the long-suffering rusted-on conservative supporters confidence that the next election will at least be competitive.
51 - 26 Dec 2009 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: The new Opposition team, national correspondent
Liberal surprise wins in the recent Bradfield and Higgins by-elections suggest that Mr Abbott may be more attractive electorally than he has so far been given credit for.
52 - 12 Dec 2009 - RUSSIA: Medvedev's desperate drive to modernise Russia, Joseph Poprzeczny
These ominous warnings are seen as being prompted by fears within the Kremlin that worker unrest such as broke out across Iranian cities after last Septembers disputed presidential election may emerge in Russia too.
53 - 12 Dec 2009 - ENERGY: Time for a new Coalition emissions policy, Patrick J. Byrne
Tony Abbott has promised that the Coalition will have a climate change policy at the next election.
54 - 12 Dec 2009 - SOUTH AUSTRALIA: Euthanasia bill defeated in SA, Damian Wyld
The real fight however is yet to come with a much less friendly-looking Legislative Council after Marchs scheduled state election.
55 - 12 Dec 2009 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Abbott's victory took media by surprise, our national correspondent
In fact if Turnbull had survived the Liberal Party would have remained bitterly divided with many MPs throwing in the towel in the lead-up to the election and the Nationals led by Barnaby Joyce splitting from the Coalition.
56 - 12 Dec 2009 - EDITORIAL: The challenges facing Tony Abbott, Peter Westmore
It was clear that if Malcolm Turnbull had remained leader he would have divided the party irretrievably on the issue of support for the Rudd Governments new emissions tax and would have presided over what Senator Nick Minchin described as a train wreck at the next election.
57 - 28 Nov 2009 - UNITED STATES: Obamacare: the ego has landed, Babette Francis
He has demonstrated this before in statements during his election campaign that he believed marriage should be between a man and a woman and at the same time assuring the homosexual lobby he wanted to repeal the federal Defence of Marriage Act which prohibited recognition of same-sex marriages.
58 - 28 Nov 2009 - NEW ZEALAND: John Key sells New Zealand short, Amy Brooke
The signs of yet another autocratic controller at the helm of what was represented as a mainstream political party were already emerging from underground shenanigans in the National Party control headquarters well before the election.
59 - 28 Nov 2009 - NATIONAL AFFAIRS: Rudd's 'Indonesia solution' has been in place since 2007, Peter Westmore
Despite Labors trenchant attacks on the Howard Governments Pacific Solution - under which asylum-seekers were processed offshore - it has now emerged that Kevin Rudds Indonesia solution has been in process since the 2007 election.
60 - 28 Nov 2009 - FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Afghanistan: Obama's no-win rhetoric, Peter Westmore
It is clear that Obama is caught between his pre-election rhetoric - that America should cut back its forces in Iraq and increase those in Afghanistan - and the increasing unpopularity of the war in Afghanistan where allied casualties are rising and the Taliban insurgency is seemingly capable of murderous bombings throughout the country.
61 - 28 Nov 2009 - COVER STORY: Brian Mullins (1925-2009): a true Australian hero, Gavan Duffy
Subsequently anti-Gair Labor MPs joined opposition Liberal and Country Party MPs to defeat his government on the floor of the House and in the subsequent election the Gair Government lost office.
62 - 28 Nov 2009 - POLITICS: Whither the Liberal Party?, Damian Wyld
As he came to the end of his life Menzies was prepared more than once to state that the Liberal Party had probably run its course and that its end was merely delayed rather than ultimately averted by the election 8230; of Malcolm Fraser recalled Santamaria noting that leadership can make or break a party.
63 - 14 Nov 2009 - ASIA: Taiwan's modified UN bid prospects rated as 'good', Ian H. McDougall
Mas career was written off years ago when he resigned as justice minister over corruption in a previous KMT government but he won election as mayor of Taipei when the KMT was desperate to find a candidate untainted by the KMTs black gold reputation.
64 - 14 Nov 2009 - BRAZIL: Lula's infatuation with tyrants and mass-murderers, Dr Augusto Zimmermann
After the disputed election more than 4000 Iranian protesters were arrested and hundreds killed some while being held in prison.
65 - 14 Nov 2009 - SOUTH AUSTRALIA: Will SA be the first state to legalise euthanasia?, Damian Wyld
This latter bill is being debated in the final days of the parliamentary session with parliament effectively prorogued in a few weeks time until the SA state election set for March 20 2010.
66 - 14 Nov 2009 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: The Rudd Government's asylum-seeker dilemma, national correspondent
But Kevin Rudd also knows that the Labor Party lost an election (2001) on immigration and that the majority of the Australians still have a low tolerance level for any administration which is not on top of one of the basic responsibilities of government - keeping its borders intact.
67 - 31 Oct 2009 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: The toughest job in Australian politics, national correspondent
Underestimated For example Dr Brendan Nelsons internal popularity was always underestimated by the media and he surprised many (including Malcolm Turnbull) when he narrowly emerged as Opposition leader after the last election.
68 - 31 Oct 2009 - COVER STORY / EDITORIAL: Australia's asylum-seeker policy unravels, Peter Westmore
In the run-up to the federal election in December 2001 which took place in the shadow of the Tampa affair the Howard Government promised to excise some hundreds of islands from Australias migration zone and to process asylum-seekers offshore.
69 - 17 Oct 2009 - BOOK REVIEW: THE MARCH OF PATRIOTS: The Struggle for Modern Australia, by Paul Kelly, Peter Westmore (reviewer)
Chapter 5 The death of neo-liberalism Paul Kelly begins with the statement The 1993 election extinguished more than John Hewsons dreams - it terminated the neo-liberal political experiment.
70 - 17 Oct 2009 - ENERGY: Nuclear power policy shift for Germany, Peter Westmore
The victory for Germanys Christian Democrats led by Chancellor Angela Merkel in recent national elections paves the way for a major shift in energy production towards nuclear power.
71 - 17 Oct 2009 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Mr Turnbull in a dilemma of his own making, national correspondent
In fact such is the fractious state of the party that there is now the distinct possibility that Mr Turnbull will now not survive until the election either departing voluntarily or through a forced resignation.
72 - 03 Oct 2009 - BOOK REVIEW: THE PLAN: Twelve Months to Renew Britain, by Douglas Carswell and Daniel Hannan, Joseph Poprzeczny (reviewer)
The pair co-founded Direct Democracy a small group of like-minded Conservatives who are committed to the wholesale decentralisation of political power and the direct election of decision-makers.
73 - 03 Oct 2009 - OPINION: No apology after latest outburst from PM Rudd, Bill Muehlenberg
He knew before the last election that he especially had to target evangelical Christians to get into office.
74 - 03 Oct 2009 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Union warning on China free trade agreement, national correspondent
The campaign is spearheaded by Dean Mighell a colourful union boss who achieved fame in the lead-up to the last election for a spat he had with Kevin Rudd after being recorded swearing and bragging about getting his workers a pay rise.
75 - 19 Sep 2009 - NCC Fighting Fund appeal (letter), Tom King
As we approach another election of great significance is it time to identify and back independent and proven Coalition candidates as opposed to the principal party alternatives who clearly identify with the dictionary interpretation of party being a social gathering for pleasure amusement or the like.
76 - 19 Sep 2009 - EDUCATION: Seeking a better deal for rural and regional students, Caroline Geoghegan
Ironically most of the young people who were being adversely affected had not been of voting age at that election.
77 - 19 Sep 2009 - FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Japan's new PM rejects 'market fundamentalism', Peter Westmore
The landslide victory of the Democratic Party of Japan in the recent general election has swept the Liberal Democratic Party into opposition in the most significant change in government in Japan since the LDP was formed in the early 1950s.
78 - 19 Sep 2009 - WATER: Water policy threatens Australia's food security, Patrick J. Byrne
In fact as News Weeklys 2007 federal election water brochure (PDF 458 KB) calculated the total federal government take of water could be at minimum 14 per cent of the Basins irrigation water or as high as 29 per cent of farmers water.
79 - 19 Sep 2009 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Assessing Rudd's stimulus package, national correspondent
Despite Opposition claims of mismanagement of the program the national schools upgrade will do more to ensure the re-election of the Rudd Government than any other single program.
80 - 05 Sep 2009 - BOOK REVIEW: FAIR WORK: The New Workplace Laws and the Work Choices Legacy, eds. Anthony Forsyth and Andrew Stewart, Peter Westmore (reviewer)
One of the major changes in the new legislation is that it reinstates trade unions to a central role in the process of establishing and enforcing awards reversing one of the major changes wrought by the Howard Government since its election in 1996.
81 - 05 Sep 2009 - EDUCATION: ALP's 'education revolution' copies UK's failed policies, Kevin Donnelly
The ALPs links with Britain include one-time schools minister David Miliband advising the then opposition in the lead-up to the 2007 election.
82 - 05 Sep 2009 - ASIA: Vulnerable Taiwan facing new trade challenges, Ian H. McDougall
President Mas election platform rested on deepening Taiwans engagement with its giant neighbour communist China.
83 - 05 Sep 2009 - SCHOOLS: 'Historic leap forward' to shake up WA schools, Joseph Poprzeczny
The move was taken by Education Minister Dr Liz Constable who until last Septembers state election had been an independent Liberal lower house MP since entering parliament in 1993.
84 - 05 Sep 2009 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: The Christian vote and Kevin Rudd, national correspondent
Kevin Rudd knows his prime ministership is at least in part owed to the substantial number of socially conservative Australians and Christians who voted Labor for the first time at the last election.
85 - 22 Aug 2009 - GOVERNMENT: Public service independence undermined by politicians, Colin Teese
The former Labor leader made fatal mistakes on the eve of the October 2004 federal election.
86 - 22 Aug 2009 - QUEENSLAND: Anna Bligh's Labor Government on the skids, Ron Munn
Earlier this year she decided to seek a mandate in her own right by calling an election for March 21.
87 - 22 Aug 2009 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Rudd Government bid to take over hospitals, national correspondent
Old-hand Canberra senior bureaucrats have a one-line response to Kevin Rudds intimations that he might take over the entire hospital system if he wins the next election.
88 - 08 Aug 2009 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Turnbull's judgement under a cloud, national correspondent
Just before the last election there was a Howard Government Cabinet leak which hurt an already despondent Liberal-National Coalition at a time when it was staring defeat in the face.
89 - 08 Aug 2009 - ENERGY: What can Australia do when the fuel runs out?, Joseph Poprzeczny
According to Archibald Canberra in the national interest needs to make urgent farsighted decisions that look far beyond the three-year election cycle on the nations liquid fuel situation.
90 - 11 Jul 2009 - COVER STORY: Behind the turmoil in Iran, Peter Westmore
The urban protests and violence in Iran - triggered by allegations of vote-rigging in the presidential election which saw the return of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad - are not simply a contest between the moderate former Prime Minister Mir Hosein Mousavi and the extremist President Ahmadinejad.
91 - 27 Jun 2009 - ASIA/PACIFIC REGION: East Timor consolidates stable democratic government, Peter Westmore
Two years after East Timors first national election in which the Marxist Fretilin Government was decisively defeated the countrys parliament has undertaken a series of major initiatives which will lay the foundations for a future based on the Christian values of this small nation.
92 - 27 Jun 2009 - IRAN: US conciliatory approach to Tehran backfires, Joseph Poprzeczny
Irans disputed election outcome represents a major foreign policy setback for the Obama Administration which has adopted a conciliatory approach towards the hard-line 30-year-old Islamic republic reports Joseph Poprzeczny.
93 - 27 Jun 2009 - UNITED STATES II: Cairo speech impressed Western media, not Islamic world, Peter Westmore
It was strange that these remarks were made just after the President had visited Saudi Arabia one of Americas strongest allies in the Arab world where he praised the wisdom of Saudi King Abdullah an absolute monarch who does not permit elections.
94 - 27 Jun 2009 - VICTORIA: The threats to Victoria's electricity and water, Patrick J. Byrne
The green lobby reinforced by the Greens Partys allocation of voting preferences in state elections has ensured that Victorias electricity-generating capacity has stagnated.
95 - 27 Jun 2009 - EDITORIAL: New South Wales puts Australian firms first, Peter Westmore
During the American Presidential election campaign last year Barack Obama promised that he would abandon the free trade mantra of the Republican Party and would support American industry and protect American jobs.
96 - 27 Jun 2009 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Peter Costello calls it a day,
Malcolm Turnbull now has a clear run until the next election.
97 - 13 Jun 2009 - INDIA: India's Congress alliance's strengthened mandate, Babette Francis
With the bad news about North Koreas nuclear bomb and missile tests and Chinas adventurism in the South China Sea Australia needs some good news and we have it in the results of the recent Indian elections.
98 - 13 Jun 2009 - NATIONAL AFFAIRS: Why Rudd's emissions trading scheme should be defeated, Peter Westmore
The Prime Minister put forward the scheme before the 2007 elections and is committed to proceeding with it to polish up his environmental credentials with voters.
99 - 16 May 2009 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Kevin Rudd backs down on climate change,
And despite his repeated claims that climate change is the great moral issue of our times Kevin Rudd has decided to deftly sweep the issue under the carpet until at least after the next election.
100 - 02 May 2009 - THAILAND: Land of smiles descends into turmoil, Ian H. McDougall
The current prime minister British-born and educated Abhisit Vejjajiva was installed without a new election after parliamentary manoeuvrings reportedly instigated by the military.
101 - 02 May 2009 - NATIONAL AFFAIRS: From Baghdad to Beijing: Labor's dodgy dealings, Joseph Poprzeczny
When Gough Whitlam refused to call an election to renew his governments mandate the Governor-General Sir John Kerr (who ironically had been appointed by Whitlam) used his reserve powers to withdraw Labors governing commission.
102 - 18 Apr 2009 - OBITUARY: Laurie Short: an Australian hero (1915-2009), Peter Westmore
Laurie Short emerged as one of the leaders of the rank-and-file opposition in Balmain and in 1944 he led the democratic opposition in the first national elections in the union but was soundly defeated in an election conducted by the Communist leaders of the union.
103 - 18 Apr 2009 - UNITED STATES: Republican Party in dire need of a leader, Joseph Poprzeczny
He says that the Republicans having lost two congressional elections to the Democrats and a presidential contest have begun turning their guns on each other.
104 - 18 Apr 2009 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Ex-Treasury chief slams Government and Opposition,
(But) whether or not there is a change in its leadership before the next election there is no doubt in my mind that other things being equal Labor could then be eminently beatable Mr Stone said.
105 - 04 Apr 2009 - BOOKS: SMACK EXPRESS: How Organised Crime Got Hooked on Drugs, by Clive Small and Tom Gilling, Joseph Poprzeczny (reviewer)
Interestingly in the 1974 federal election Mackay had stood as a Liberal candidate against the sitting MP Labors flamboyant Flash Al Grassby who served as minister for immigration in the first term of the Whitlam Government (1972-74).
106 - 04 Apr 2009 - F.D. Roosevelt and Obama's strategies (letter), Peter J. Talbot
In the last US presidential election many large corporations and high-income earners (e.g.
107 - 04 Apr 2009 - QUEENSLAND STATE ELECTION II: Leading abortion campaigner defeated,
Two female pro-abortion Labor MPs suffered huge swings against them in the March 21 Queensland state election.
108 - 04 Apr 2009 - QUEENSLAND STATE ELECTION I: Labor's Anna Bligh returns to power, Ken Francis
The ALP government of Anna Bligh was returned to power in Queensland in the election held on March 21.
109 - 04 Apr 2009 - COMMONWEALTH GOVERNMENT: Rudd Government's radical agenda by stealth, Jerome Appleby
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has betrayed the very Christian voters he assiduously courted at the last federal election writes Jerome Appleby.
110 - 04 Apr 2009 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Senator Steve Fielding's political challenge,
Family Firsts challenge is to build a sufficiently large constituency to outvote the Greens at the next election.
111 - 21 Mar 2009 - BOOKS: FATHER OF THE HOUSE: The memoirs of Kim E. Beazley, John Elsegood (reviewer)
Unfortunately for Beazleys career prospects in December 1949 the Chifley Labor Government lost the election and for the next 23 years the party remained in the political wilderness.
112 - 21 Mar 2009 - FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Behind East Timor's 10 per cent growth rate, Peter Westmore
The improved situation in East Timor is a direct result of the 2007 election when a coalition of pro-democracy parties defeated the ruling Fretilin Party.
113 - 21 Mar 2009 - COVER STORY: NCC denounces Labor's decision to fund abortions,
Lastly this decision is a betrayal of the many faith-based voters Mr Rudd sought to court prior to his election.
114 - 07 Mar 2009 - QUEENSLAND: Premier Bligh calls snap election, Ron Munn
Queensland Anna Bligh has justified calling an early poll on the grounds that election uncertainty is damaging Queenslands economy.
115 - 07 Mar 2009 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: The Costello question that refuses to go away,
Imagine if Peter Costello had assumed the leadership of the Liberal Party after the last election.
116 - 07 Feb 2009 - MEDIA: What to make of the Obama cult, Bill Muehlenberg
Let me conclude by saying that of course many people feel genuine happiness over the election of Obama.
117 - 07 Feb 2009 - QUARANTINE: Shake-up for Australia's quarantine system, Peter Westmore
The inquiry had been promised by the Labor Party before the 2007 federal election after the equine influenza outbreak and was given a broad-ranging brief when established early last year.
118 - 07 Feb 2009 - EDITORIAL: Where will President Obama take America?, Peter Westmore
Obamas election confirmed that whatever its problems the United States is truly a nation of opportunity.
119 - 20 Dec 2008 - OBITUARY: Max Teichmann (1924-2008) - Writer, academic and raconteur fondly remembered, John Ballantyne
It lost that election to James Scullins Labor Party (with Prime Minister Bruce like Howard in 2007 suffering the added humiliation of losing his own seat).
120 - 20 Dec 2008 - POLITICS: Key principles of democratic statesmanship, Hon. Tony Abbott MP
And of course in a democracy the only way to make a difference is to win elections.
121 - 06 Dec 2008 - Australian Christian Lobby responds (letter), Jim Wallace AM
I am surprised that the appropriateness of a question on the environment being put to parties before the last election would be criticised in this day and age and all the more with our Christian responsibility for stewardship.
122 - 06 Dec 2008 - EDITORIAL: Left-liberals to dominate Obama Administration, Peter Westmore
Election campaigns Emilys List one of the most important Democratic Party constituency groups says it is dedicated to building a progressive America by electing Democratic pro-choice women to office.
123 - 22 Nov 2008 - Absurd expectations about Obama (letter), M. Gordon
Sir Congratulations to Barack Obama on his election.
124 - 22 Nov 2008 - RULE OF LAW: The perils of a politicised judiciary, Bill Muehlenberg
That is why for example the results of the recent US presidential election have been so very crucial.
125 - 22 Nov 2008 - AUSTRALIAN POLITICS: A successful conservative party ready to rebuild, Professor David Flint AM
And yet it was only by presenting himself as leading a party little different from the Liberals that Kevin Rudd was able to win the November 2007 election.
126 - 22 Nov 2008 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: How long will Malcolm Turnbull last?,
The rapidly changing economic landscape has the experienced politicians in the Rudd Labor Government genuinely worried about their prospects at the next election.
127 - 22 Nov 2008 - EDITORIAL: How Barack Obama won, Peter Westmore
The decisive victory by Barack Obama the Democratic Partys candidate in the US presidential election has been received with rapturous enthusiasm by African-Americans and critics of retiring US President George W.
128 - 08 Nov 2008 - Christian Democrats' role in WA election (letter), Gerard Goiran
Sir I take issue with Joseph Poprzecnys analysis of Western Australias recent state election (WA Nationals opt for partnership not coalition News Weekly October 11).
129 - 08 Nov 2008 - SUPERANNUATION: Development bank needed for Rudd's nation-building, Patrick J. Byrne
The main issue with a government-controlled infrastructure fund is that it is too easily used for election pork-barrelling.
130 - 25 Oct 2008 - VICTORIA: Behind Victoria's radical new abortion law, Peter Westmore
At the time Ms Kirner described Emilys List as a national network of feminist women committed to supporting the election of radical feminists to parliaments and working for a range of issues on the radical feminist agenda including abortion law reform and the availability of government-funded childcare for women in paid employment.
131 - 25 Oct 2008 - NEW ZEALAND: November 8 election: Helen Clark's last hurrah?, Bernard Moran
Three Christian parties are competing in the election.
132 - 11 Oct 2008 - WESTERN AUSTRALIA: WA Nationals opt for partnership, not coalition, Joseph Poprzeczny
Western Australians had to wait 17 days after their September 6 2008 state election before a new government could be sworn in.
133 - 11 Oct 2008 - EDUCATION: Radical left-wing agenda in store for our schools, Kevin Donnelly
The weekend before last years federal election the Labor Opposition released a media statement headed Commitment to lift school standards.
134 - 11 Oct 2008 - ECONOMIC AFFAIRS: Why Congress has been wary about Wall Street bailout, Colin Teese
Perhaps hoping that his invisibility would protect his Republican Partys candidate in the forthcoming election from the worst of elector backlash.
135 - 27 Sep 2008 - ASIA: Rocky road ahead for Malaysia, Jeffry Babb
Anwar released from jail following the retirement of Mahathir recently regained his seat in the parliament in a by-election in his old electorate where his wife had been a seat-warmer.
136 - 27 Sep 2008 - STRAWS IN THE WIND: The undeserving poor / The bolt from the blue / Sarah Palin / Ladder-kickers / Peter Costello, Max Teichmann
Sarah has suddenly taken the election by the scruff of the neck.
137 - 13 Sep 2008 - BOOKS: THE ISRAEL LOBBY and US Foreign Policy, by John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt, Jeffry Babb (reviewer)
The Jewish vote will have a critical role in shaping the outcome of the November US presidential election.
138 - 13 Sep 2008 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Rudd's threat to close non-performing schools,
Furious unions Ms Gillard was given the job of having to placate the furious unions which had thrown enormous resources into backing Labor at the last election.
139 - 13 Sep 2008 - COVER STORY / EDITORIAL: How America's choice will affect Australia, Peter Westmore
In summary McCain supports a continuation of the Bush Administrations interventionist policies around the world while Obama is an American left-liberal whose election would reverse the policies of American administrations going back 40 years.
140 - 30 Aug 2008 - SPECIAL FEATURE: B.A. Santamaria, strategist and prophet, Cardinal George Pell AC
I remember a rather cynical priest friend of mine pointing out that until 1978 and the election of Pope John Paul II Bob went from quoting Pius XII to quoting Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
141 - 30 Aug 2008 - NATIONAL AFFAIRS: Remembering Menzies' "forgotten people", Jeffry Babb
The Labor Party won the election in 1946 basking in the glow of the Allies victory in World War II.
142 - 30 Aug 2008 - WATER: Radical plan to overcome water shortage,
Mr Peachey who is heading a team of candidates for WAs upper house in the states September 6 election wants the Commonwealth WA and SA governments to fund a pipeline and pumps to take water from the Ord River Dam at Kununurra to Kalgoorlie and to extend the pipeline across the Nullarbor to South Australia.
143 - 30 Aug 2008 - WESTERN AUSTRALIA: How Labor's Carpenter may cling to power, Joseph Poprzeczny
Western Australian Labor Premier Alan Carpenters decision to call a snap election for September 6 is seen across the political spectrum as a panic move.
144 - 30 Aug 2008 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Tougher times ahead as commodity boom falters,
In the lead-up to the last election Kevin Rudd repeatedly warned that Australia had to prepare itself for a post-commodity boom economy.
145 - 16 Aug 2008 - WESTERN AUSTRALIA: Opportunities for minor parties in WA election, Gerard Goiran
Furthermore significant changes brought about by new legislation to enshrine one vote one value are set to confuse the outcome for them at a state election which is now widely tipped to be called before the end of the year.
146 - 16 Aug 2008 - INTERNATIONAL TRADE: Why the Doha trade round collapsed, Colin Teese
And just how likely would this be in an election year?
147 - 16 Aug 2008 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Does Peter Costello have what it takes?,
To lose the next election or fail to make inroads into Kevin Rudds majority would do irreparable damage to his reputation and would arm his critics with ammunition to say: I told you so.
148 - 02 Aug 2008 - SCHOOLS: Will more computers help under-performing schools?, Kevin Donnelly
Remember last years election campaign promise in a policy document authorised by Kevin Rudd to revolutionise classroom education by putting a computer on the desk of every upper secondary student and by providing Australian schools with fibre-optic connections?
149 - 02 Aug 2008 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: How Rudd could avoid climate change backlash,
The Rudd Governments Green Paper on climate change seeks to strike a balance between doing something on climate change and ensuring that voters are not penalised to the point that they will turn on Labor at the next election.
150 - 19 Jul 2008 - REGIONAL COMMUNITIES: Could an Asian regional grouping work?, Colin Teese
The fact that it cannot agree on whether to condemn the dictator Robert Mugabe who having lost a democratic election has proceeded to jail his successful political opponents suggests a dysfunctional organisation.
151 - 19 Jul 2008 - WESTERN AUSTRALIA: WA Liberals sliding towards defeat, Joseph Poprzeczny
The crisis-wracked WA Liberal Party is in poor shape to unseat the Carpenter Labor Government at the next WA state election.
152 - 05 Jul 2008 - BOOKS: THE REVOLUTION: A Manifesto, by Ron Paul, Jeffry Babb (reviewer)
In more immediate terms Paul also has a strong following in the American West and if he breaks with the Republicans and endorses a libertarian candidate in the forthcoming US presidential election he could draw votes from John McCain the Republican candidate causing him to lose key states.
153 - 05 Jul 2008 - EUTHANASIA: Doctor-assisted suicide halted... for now, Tim Cannon
His organisations exit-poll of MPs at the state election revealed a legislature highly sympathetic to the assisted-suicide agenda.
154 - 05 Jul 2008 - OPINION: Why the Howard Government fell, Jonathan Lightoller
Was there a major tactical error in the Coalition promoting in an election year its final plank in labour market reform namely the controversial WorkChoices policy?
155 - 05 Jul 2008 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Two big unknowns for the Rudd Government,
And a majority of Opposition MPs by a considerable margin do not believe that Dr Brendan Nelson will be Liberal leader come the next election.
156 - 21 Jun 2008 - UNITED STATES: Is Obama equipped to lead the free world?, Joseph Poprzeczny
Over 35 million American voters backed either Chicago-based Senator Barack Obama or New York-based Senator Hillary Clinton in the Democratic Partys drawn-out Primaries to choose the partys candidate for the November US presidential election.
157 - 21 Jun 2008 - NATIONAL SECURITY: Soviet bloc espionage: setting the record straight, Warren Reed and Dr Christopher J. Ward
There was an obligatory nod in the direction of the Petrov case but as usual it was couched in terms of an alleged conspiracy between Prime Minister Robert Menzies and ASIOs second Director-General Brigadier Sir Charles Spry to time the Petrov defection for political purposes and deny Labor what was expected to be a clear win in the May 1954 federal election.
158 - 21 Jun 2008 - ECONOMIC AFFAIRS: What happens after cheap credit, oil and food?, Patrick J. Byrne
Rudds dilemma The Rudd Labor Government now faces a huge dilemma given its election promise to keep food prices down.
159 - 21 Jun 2008 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Whither the Nationals?,
The June 28 by-election for the Victorian federal seat of Gippsland is shaping up as a watershed for the Nationals which are grappling with a decision whether to exit the Australian political stage after a proud 88-year history.
160 - 07 Jun 2008 - OPINION: Democracy in disconnect: joining the dots, Warren Reed
In the run-up to last years federal election the Labor Party highlighted Kessings case when it committed itself to bringing in legal protection for public servants who made unauthorised disclosures in the public interest.
161 - 07 Jun 2008 - TRADE PRACTICES ACT: Will Liberals back Labor or small business?, Patrick J. Byrne
The Coalition passed the Birdsville Amendment just prior to its defeat in the 2007 federal election.
162 - 07 Jun 2008 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Rudd Labor Government wobbles for the first time,
The central message of his election campaign was based on promises to ease the cost-of-living pain for working families.
163 - 07 Jun 2008 - COVER STORY: UK green light for creation of human-animal hybrids, Tim Cannon
He went on to blame the outcome on a conspiratorial conservative bloc in the upper house whose obstinate behaviour added to the weight of calls for an early election...
164 - 24 May 2008 - COVER STORY: Rudd Budget targets 'middle-class' welfare,
Wayne Swans first Budget contained three central planks mdash; fighting inflation delivering on election commitments and rethinking the welfare system in Australia.
165 - 10 May 2008 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Daunting challenges for Swan's first Budget,
With a short three-year electoral cycle the newly-elected government knows it also has to build a bank for the promises it will make at the next election - a war-chest for securing a second term.
166 - 10 May 2008 - COVER STORY: Labor abandons small business, Patrick J. Byrne
The Australian article (April 28) claimed that the Rudd Labor Government was ready to introduce legislation to strengthen the Birdsville Amendment which went through parliament just prior to last years federal election.
167 - 26 Apr 2008 - SCHOOLS: What must be done to lift standards?, Kevin Donnelly
Leading up to last years election it was also obvious that the ALP at the federal level had copied much of the Howard Governments education agenda mdash; including A to E reports a back-to-basics approach to curriculum and worst of all according to the Australian Education Union guaranteeing the existing much-criticised SES formula employed to fund non-government schools.
168 - 26 Apr 2008 - AFRICA: World stands by as Mugabe inflicts terror in Zimbabwe, Peter Westmore
Robert Mugabe the president of Zimbabwe who was defeated in a popular election on March 29 but prevented the release of the official results has embarked on a widespread campaign of terror in rural Zimbabwe to intimidate people into supporting him in a second round of presidential elections.
169 - 26 Apr 2008 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Could Costello unite demoralised Liberals?,
In short it is a tough job with little likelihood of success at the next election.
170 - 12 Apr 2008 - BOOKS: THE LITERACY WARS: teaching children to read and write in Australia by Ilana Snyder, Bill James (reviewer)
Snyder also defends the notorious editorial in English in Australia which deplored the 2004 coalition election victory and called for teachers to prevent its repetition by educating future voters in so-called critical literacy.
171 - 12 Apr 2008 - OPINION: Twilight of the British Raj, Mark Braham
The ultimate responsibility must lie with the Attlee Labour Government that succeeded Churchill in the first post-war election in July 1945.
172 - 12 Apr 2008 - TAIWAN: KMT victory paves way for improved China ties, Jeffry Babb
Former Taipei mayor Ma Ying-jeou won Taiwans recent presidential election in a landslide paving the way for better relations with Australia the United States and mainland China.
173 - 12 Apr 2008 - EDITORIAL: Behind the bid for UN Security Council seat, Peter Westmore
The cost Mr Rudd has conceded that the cost of seeking a seat would be of the order of $30 million a large sum of money for a government which is preaching fiscal discipline particularly when the prospects of election are relatively poor.
174 - 12 Apr 2008 - COVER STORY: Red Star over Canberra, Joseph Poprzeczny
This has ominous echoes of Gough Whitlam in 1975 seeking $US500000 from Iraqs Baath regime to fund Labors election campaign (Melbourne Age November 15 2005).
175 - 29 Mar 2008 - INTERNATIONAL TRADE: Rudd Government to re-examine FTAs, Colin Teese
Even if other parties were prepared to negotiate with the US team is it conceivable in an election year that any deals done in the name of President Bush would be passed by a US Congress now controlled by Democrats?
176 - 29 Mar 2008 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Opposition needs new policies, not stunts,
But an election is a long way away and voters having just taken the rare decision to throw out a government are not even considering an alternative to Mr Rudd.
177 - 15 Mar 2008 - EASTERN EUROPE: Communist old guard still not defeatedJoseph Poprzeczny,
Election OSullivan visited Poland just before last years election saw the then Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynskis conservative government defeated by the more free-market-leaning Donald Tusk now Prime Minister.
178 - 15 Mar 2008 - NATIONAL AFFAIRS: Ten concerns about Rudd's first 100 days, Bill Muehlenberg
In the lead-up to last Novembers federal election Kevin Rudd carefully projected a public image of himself as a compassionate conservative with Christian leanings.
179 - 15 Mar 2008 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Will the economy spoil Rudd's party?,
Even on climate change Mr Rudd has adopted (an entirely sensible) cautious approach in response to the interim report by Professor Ross Garnaut who suggested Australia had to make deeper cuts to greenhouse emissions than had been promised by Labor at the election.
180 - 01 Mar 2008 - TAIWAN: Chen: Almost over, but not out, Jeffry Babb
Despite the fact that Taiwans presidential election takes place in just over a month and his party lags woefully in the polls Chen has proved he can still make waves.
181 - 01 Mar 2008 - STRAWS IN THE WIND: Hysteria in the House / US election campaign / "Say sorry" segment / The economy, Max Teichmann
nbsp; US election campaign Watching White House aspirant Barack Obama slowly eating up the Democratic vote and the rising tide of money coming to him from people booking a privileged seat on the bandwagon makes one realise what a momentous change is underway.
182 - 01 Mar 2008 - ECONOMIC AFFAIRS: Economic policy-making in conflict, Colin Teese
The problem is that any selection of the basket of goods is necessarily arbitrary: it may or may not accurately measure what has been the impact of price rises on consumers and business.
183 - 01 Mar 2008 - EDITORIAL: Timor troubles: the way ahead, Peter Westmore
In hindsight the violence was a result of divisions which emerged under the former Fretilin regime but were not resolved by the election.
184 - 16 Feb 2008 - FAMILY POLICY: Family-friendly policies at risk, John Morrissey
This is argued to be necessary to lessen the pressure on inflation to prepare Australia for life after the resources boom and to free up funds for the government to make good its own pre-election promises.
185 - 02 Feb 2008 - THE TORCH AND THE SWORD: A History of the Army Cadet Movement in Australia, by Craig A. Stockings, Michael E. Daniel (reviewer)
The election of the Hawke Labor Government in 1983 again saw withdrawal of government support this time from school-based units with resources being used to support regional cadet units.
186 - 02 Feb 2008 - Alternative to capitalism and communism? (letter), John G. Keegan AM
It is notable that neither contender in the recent federal election offered meaningful plans for reinvigorating our stagnant industry.
187 - 02 Feb 2008 - Who is running the country? (letter), M. Gordon
How ironic it is given the Coalition parties warnings in the last election about the prospect of unions running the government that we have had no less than Andrew Ferguson speaking out for the CFMEU.
188 - 02 Feb 2008 - OPINION: Who is the real Kevin Rudd?, Brian Peachey
The recent election was in fact close not a landslide which illustrates how pivotal was Rudds projected Christian image.
189 - 02 Feb 2008 - CULTURE AND CIVILISATION: Family values overlooked in the market-place, John Ballantyne
Most notorious of all in my opinion was the Coalitions response to a Western Australian referendum held on February 25 2006 - the same day as the WA state election - in which a substantial majority of WA voters said no to proposals to deregulate shopping hours and to introduce seven-day trading in the Perth metropolitan area.
190 - 02 Feb 2008 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Economic storm facing new government,
But the problem for Mr Rudd is that having deliberately raised expectations in the lead-up to the election about helping households balance their own budgets the reality of being in government is immediately proving much more problematic.
191 - 02 Feb 2008 - COVER STORY: TRANSPORT: End of the line for rail freight?, Antony O'Brien
- Antony OBrien is an historian freelance writer and author of Shenanigans on the Ovens Goldfields: the 1859 election (Artillery Publishing 2005).
192 - 22 Dec 2007 - John Howard's dignified farewell (letter), Frank Bellet
Sir John Howard in a dignified farewell speech which was typical of his high standard of decorum was somewhat hard on himself by taking full blame for the loss of the election.
193 - 22 Dec 2007 - STRAWS IN THE WIND: Christmas miscellany / Shopping spree / If the Liberals keep their nerve / One way of spending the surplus / Developing expensive tastes, Max Teichmann
nbsp; If the Liberals keep their nerve I had suggested that this wouldnt be a bad election to lose provided you didnt lose your trousers as well.
194 - 22 Dec 2007 - INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: US and Israel differ over Iran nuclear capabilities, Peter Coates
This can be interpreted to mean that any need for a US attack on Iran would be after the November 2008 US Presidential election and after Bush left office in January 2009.
195 - 22 Dec 2007 - FOREIGN DEBT: Last chance to avoid becoming a banana republic?, Patrick J. Byrne
Labors convincinging federal election victory was equally a repudiation of radical free-market policies of the past 25 years.
196 - 22 Dec 2007 - NATIONAL AFFAIRS: Can Rudd restore an impartial public service?, Colin Teese
We have just witnessed an election in which a long-serving government and its leader have been spectacularly rejected.
197 - 22 Dec 2007 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Liberals not knowing which way to turn,
With his anointed successor Peter Costello walking away the week after the election the party is going to be directionless and wounded for a considerable time.
198 - 08 Dec 2007 - DLP resurgence (letter), Peter Kavanagh MP
Sir At this election the Democratic Labor Party (DLP) stood Senate candidates in states other than Victoria for the first time in well over 30 years.
199 - 08 Dec 2007 - Bad economics (letter), Chris Hilder
The lack of skill and attention by the Coalition in recognising and regulating unfair markets and market failure is the core reason I believe why the Coalition lost the election despite aggregate economic growth.
200 - 08 Dec 2007 - STRAWS IN THE WIND: The WHY and HOW of Labor's victory / Now for the Delphic Oracle ..., Max Teichmann
The Liberals have suffered a very serious defeat the largest voter swing since Malcolm Frasers victory in 1975 in the Its Time election Part III.
201 - 08 Dec 2007 - ECONOMIC AFFAIRS: Can Australia avoid an economic downturn?, Colin Teese
No doubt Mr Kevin Rudd feels good about Labors November 24 election win - and so he might.
202 - 08 Dec 2007 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Has the Liberal Party any future?,
After suffering a devastating election loss in the middle of an economic boom the Liberal Party has two fundamental questions to ask itself.
203 - 08 Dec 2007 - EDITORIAL: After the landslide: the challenges ahead, Peter Westmore
In a speech in Adelaide during the election campaign he attacked the Liberals trade record saying In the absence of any industry policy on the part of the Howard Government all the eggs have gone into the one basket the resources sector.
204 - 24 Nov 2007 - CULTURE AND CIVILISATION: The massive assault on Judeo-Christian values, Mark Braham
Fearing for the future I write this article in the middle of the run-up to the Australian federal election on November 24.
205 - 24 Nov 2007 - SCHOOLS: The case for external, competitive exams, Kevin Donnelly
Given the competitive and high stakes nature of tertiary selection especially with courses such as medicine and law and the profound impact undertaking a degree has on a students personal development and career prospects one would like to think that whatever method of selection employed is fair rigorous and educationally sound.
206 - 24 Nov 2007 - OPINION: Economics isn't everything, Jeffry Babb
We were quite frequently asked to come in early to cover a special event such as an election but we still had to wait until 12 midnight to clock off.
207 - 24 Nov 2007 - STRAWS IN THE WIND: John Howard's last hurrah? / Putin's new Russian empire / Junk-food on children's television / Corruption in Victoria / Banking on Kevin Rudd, Max Teichmann
nbsp; Corruption in Victoria The Victorian Police corruption investigation is picking up speed and it is Labor Premier John Brumbys job to prevent a breakout at least until the federal election is over - just as Anna Blighs Queensland Labor Government has freely admitted that disgraced surgeon Dr Jayant Patels finally being extradited to Queensland will be held up until after the same election.
208 - 24 Nov 2007 - PACIFIC: Power struggle behind alleged Fiji coup, Peter Westmore
This party won the largest number of votes in elections in May 2006 and formed the government which was deposed last December.
209 - 24 Nov 2007 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: John Howard's last-ditch pitch to voters,
Enduring continuing bleak polls and facing the growing view of pundits - and worse still of voters themselves - that Labor may well win the election on November 24 Mr Howard dug deep both financially and philosophically to draw on two policy issues which lie at the heart of the values of his party - educating children and owning ones own home.
210 - 24 Nov 2007 - EDITORIAL: 2007 Federal Election contest enters final round, Peter Westmore
With the official launch of the parties campaigns the 2007 election is moving into its final stage with Labor maintaining the lead it has held in all the opinion polls throughout the year.
211 - 10 Nov 2007 - OBITUARY: A Labor Party statesman remembered - Hon. Kim Edward Beazley Snr. AO (1917-2007), Joseph Poprzeczny
Soon after the 1975 election it was revealed that the sacked Prime Minister Gough Whitlam had sought $US500000 from agents of Iraqs Baath regime (later led by the genocidal Saddam Hussein from 1979 to 2003) to help bankroll Labors 1975 campaign.
212 - 10 Nov 2007 - OPINION: A Rudd election win will be a disaster, Brian Peachey
If the Rudd-led Labor Party wins the November 24 federal election it will be a disaster for Australia.
213 - 10 Nov 2007 - DRUGS POLICY: Illicit drugs and the federal election, David Perrin
Australias high illicit drug use must become a federal election issue writes David Perrin.
214 - 10 Nov 2007 - STRAWS IN THE WIND: Victoria's hospital fiasco / Shooting fish in a barrel / Misreading America, Max Teichmann
This election with its me-too copycat antics is a chilling example of the worst kind of bipartisanship.
215 - 10 Nov 2007 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Why voters have turned on John Howard,
The Australian public has been subject to the longest election campaign in recent memory - a campaign which virtually started from the time Kevin Rudd was elected Labor Opposition leader in December last year.
216 - 10 Nov 2007 - RURAL CRISIS: Crocodile tears and hand-wringing over drought, Ben Rees
Well no doubt these factors do contribute to some degree but fundamentally what is confronting both political parties approaching this important federal election is development of appropriate rural policy for the 21st century.
217 - 10 Nov 2007 - EDITORIAL: Howard and Rudd - the Coke vs. Pepsi election?, Peter Westmore
In the history of Australian election campaigns I can think of no occasion when the Opposition tried to convince the electorate of its credibility by adopting the policies of the Government.
218 - 27 Oct 2007 - STRAWS IN THE WIND: Theatre of the bull-ring / More significant than the election, Max Teichmann
Today (October 14) we had the announcement of the federal election.
219 - 27 Oct 2007 - SOUTH AUSTRALIA: Surprises in store in SA's federal poll, Tom Walmsley
South Australia is set to play a pivotal role in deciding the federal election outcome writes Tom Walmsley.
220 - 27 Oct 2007 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Is Kevin Rudd set to trounce the Coalition,
John Howard has given himself a longer than usual six-week election campaign in the hope he can wear down Kevin Rudds landslide-threatening lead in the opinion polls.
221 - 27 Oct 2007 - EDITORIAL: Key issues that could determine the election outcome, Peter Westmore
If the opinion polls can be believed Kevin Rudd will be the next Prime Minister of Australia after the federal election on November 24 and Labor will secure an overwhelming majority in the House of Representatives.
222 - 13 Oct 2007 - INTERNET-FILTERING: YouTube launch of AFA election brochure,
The Australian Family Association has launched an election brochure Making the Internet Safe.
223 - 13 Oct 2007 - TERRORISM: After APEC: security review urgently needed, John Miller
Whichever party wins the forthcoming federal election will face a series of extremely difficult issues to resolve policies to review and actions to be taken in reorganising the counter-terrorism effort in this country.
224 - 13 Oct 2007 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Election outcome will shape Australia's future,
Could John Howards defeat at the forthcoming federal election spell the demise of the Liberal Party?
225 - 29 Sep 2007 - UNITED STATES: Questions over Republican nomination, Jerome Appleby
During that time he became involved in politics working in 1972 as campaign manager for Republican US Senator Howard Bakers successful re-election.
226 - 29 Sep 2007 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: John Howard's risky succession strategy,
But there still had persisted a widespread belief that the PM would be able to do what he had done for the past four elections and lead the Coalition to victory.
227 - 29 Sep 2007 - FEDERAL ELECTION 2007: NCC policy initiatives on biofuels and Internet safety, Patrick J. Byrne
The National Civic Council has launched two election brochures with policies promoting biofuels industry and family-safe internet-filtering.
228 - 15 Sep 2007 - INTERNATIONAL TRADE: WTO's Doha round staggers to a stalemate, Colin Teese
The old mandate was approved by a Republican-dominated Congress before the last US elections.
229 - 15 Sep 2007 - INTERNET FILTERING: Teenager bypasses 'useless' Govt porn filter, Anh Nguyen
The speed with which a young hacker has been able to bypass the filter has undermined the Howard Governments pre-election pledge to Australian families to protect their youngsters from exposure to inappropriate internet content.
230 - 15 Sep 2007 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Labor's cumbersome IR policy,
More time and effort was expended inside Labor on the second version of its industrial relations policy than on any other policy it will take to the election.
231 - 15 Sep 2007 - WATER: Federal water plan could wipe 2.9 per cent off GDP, Patrick J. Byrne
It cannot be done in the time framework of a state or federal election.
232 - 15 Sep 2007 - COVER STORY: Howard and Rudd: the Xerox men, Joseph Porprzeczny
Kevin Rudd has been so fearful of losing votes that he has turned Labor into a policy copycat party at least until election day writes Joseph Poprzeczny.
233 - 01 Sep 2007 - UNITED STATES: US presidential hopeful, Mitt Romney, Jerome Appleby
This possibility is not so far-fetched as it once was as Mitt Romneys credentials are as impressive as those of his two main rivals for the Republican nomination for the 2008 presidential election ex-New York Mayor Rudolph Guiliani and serving US Senator for Arizona John McCain.
234 - 01 Sep 2007 - QUEENSLAND: Revolt grows over forced council amalgamations, Peter Westmore
Despite widespread opposition the Queensland Premier Peter Beattie is pushing ahead with forced council amalgamations though federal Labor fears that it may cost Labor seats in the forthcoming federal election.
235 - 01 Sep 2007 - LABOR PARTY: Emily's List - who and what are they?, Babette Francis
Candy Broad MLC for Northern Victoria (whose recent bill to decriminalise abortion in Victoria has been deferred until after the federal election) is an Emilys List member and Joan Kirner is one of the driving forces behind the bill.
236 - 01 Sep 2007 - 2007 FEDERAL ELECTION: A green energy, green car policy, Patrick J. Byrne
237 - 01 Sep 2007 - EDITORIAL: Stock market turmoil: consequences for Australia, Peter Westmore
If this were to happen it would probably be a fatal blow to the Coalition Governments prospects in the forthcoming federal election.
238 - 18 Aug 2007 - STRAWS IN THE WIND: Has Howard missed the bus? / Victoria's new government / Mick-baiting / Smear, smut and smirk, Max Teichmann
The federal election is taking on an increasingly chaotic character with both main parties making - or appearing to make - policies on the run.
239 - 18 Aug 2007 - HOUSING: Stable families improve house affordability, David Perrin
With a federal election due in the next few months the issue of housing affordability is looming large as an election issue.
240 - 18 Aug 2007 - QUEENSLAND: Protests against forced council amalgamations, Ron Munn
Beaudesert and Boonah are some of the National Partys heartland and a large percentage of people relocating to the shire vote National in state elections and Liberal in federal elections.
241 - 18 Aug 2007 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Will Howard's career end in an election slaughter?,
Going into the last month of parliament before the federal election the polls suggest the latter but it is still premature to say with certainty that the Howard Government is finished.
242 - 18 Aug 2007 - EDITORIAL: The economy: John Howard's Achilles' heel, Peter Westmore
Mr Howard faces the 2007 federal election with his economic reputation under serious challenge.
243 - 04 Aug 2007 - STRAWS IN THE WIND: Bring back King Canute / The entertainers / Broadcaster's bias / Regime changes in Turkey and Pakistan?, Max Teichmann
I think that many of our pollies mdash; for example Wilson Tuckey mdash; have been misled by the success of Bob Hawkes 1983 overthrow of a leader just before an election which Bill Hayden would in fact have won.
244 - 04 Aug 2007 - CANBERRA AFFAIRS: Will Liberals dump Howard before election?,
There are serious concerns that unlike at previous elections John Howard has been unable to make a dent in Kevin Rudds popularity.
245 - 21 Jul 2007 - OPINION: Left-wing bid to discredit our Anzac tradition, Mark Braham
(Anti-Semitism did not play an important role in the elections that helped bring Hitler to power.
246 - 21 Jul 2007 - TAIWAN: Divisive politics alienate Taiwanese, Jeffry Babb
Coupled with the rise of China - simultaneously a competitor and an opportunity for Taiwan - was the election of President Chen.
247 - 21 Jul 2007 - STRAWS IN THE WIND: The gangs of Melbourne / Global yawning / Still looking for Dreyfus / Victimhood / A ship without a rudder, Max Teichmann
In Australia it is unlikely we will get any sense or worthwhile discussion on climate change until after the federal election if then.
248 - 21 Jul 2007 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Security nightmare for Australian authorities,
One of the defining quotes of the Howard era was the Prime Ministers 2001 election pledge: We will decide who comes to this country and the circumstances in which they come.
249 - 21 Jul 2007 - EDITORIAL: Democracy triumphs in East Timor, Peter Westmore
East Timors pro-democracy parties have gained at the expense of the Marxist Fretilin party in recent parliamentary elections.
250 - 07 Jul 2007 - STRAWS IN THE WIND: Saving Howard's bacon / What Arabs and Jews need most / Tony Blair's legacy, Max Teichmann
Their utter cynicism is even starting to produce another issue for the election which is this: on the states current performances who would want wall-to-wall Labor governments throughout Australia?
251 - 07 Jul 2007 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Howard's action on Aborigines long overdue,
When John Howard won the 2001 Tampa election he pledged to make Aboriginal affairs the priority of his third term as Prime Minister.
252 - 07 Jul 2007 - HUMAN RIGHTS: Canberra's silence about Chinese organ-harvesting, Peter Westmore
Beijing is the principal backer of the military junta in Burma where Aung San Suu Kyi continues under house arrest 16 years after she and her supporters won an open election.
253 - 23 Jun 2007 - RUSSIA: Russia's slide back into tyranny, Joseph Poprzeczny
This is a question which will need to be answered before the next presidential election due in early 2008.
254 - 23 Jun 2007 - STRAWS IN THE WIND: More backseat driving / Scenes from the rustic bootlickery / Who will rid us of this troublesome priest! / A hot time in the old town that night / The media slave market: American democracy at work, Max Teichmann
What Paul is saying is that advisers win or lose elections not candidates.
255 - 23 Jun 2007 - GOVERNMENT: Political appointments: the unseen costs, Warren Reed
With Australia now in election mode we need both parties to explain to us how they plan to arrest the drift here in these important areas of national security.
256 - 23 Jun 2007 - COVER STORY: Foiled terror attack on New York's JFK airport, John Miller
Threat downplayed Our attention has been all too easily diverted by such issues as climate change the phantom election campaign and the relative merits of John Howard and Kevin Rudd.
257 - 09 Jun 2007 - DRUGS POLICY: Drugs must be a federal election issue, David Perrin
This federal election must provide that new start.
258 - 09 Jun 2007 - STRAWS IN THE WIND: Workplace relations and human asset-stripping / The Tampa victory revisited / Another tinsel turkey for Auntie / Show and tell, Max Teichmann
The conservatives seem quite likely to lose the next federal election barring unforeseen developments and it will be because of this legislation; for the reaction against it started up a whole series of re-evaluations of the Prime Minister in the public mind.
259 - 09 Jun 2007 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Kevin Rudd attack on Howard comes unstuck,
At a minimum the affair will blunt planned attacks by the Labor Party and the ACTU on the Howard Governments WorkChoices laws in the lead-up to the federal election.
260 - 26 May 2007 - UNITED STATES: US Supreme Court bans partial-birth abortion, Charles Francis QC
Democratic candidates for the 2008 US Presidential election Hillary Clinton Barack Obama and John Edwards all denounced the Supreme Courts opinion in the strongest terms falsely inferring it was a threat to womens health.
261 - 26 May 2007 - STRAWS IN THE WIND: No kangaroo meat - thank you very much / Tony Blair - a class act / Vladimir the Cruel / Turkey - between a rock and a hard place, Max Teichmann
The next stage of this struggle is to be the election for the Presidency.
262 - 26 May 2007 - INTELLIGENCE CORNER: Shssh - don't mention the war!, John Miller
However 2007 is an election year and what better time for Australias enemies to make a point?
263 - 26 May 2007 - SCHOOLS: Choice would be eroded by centralisation, Kevin Donnelly
And in arguing for a more academically rigorous curriculum and higher standards the Federal Government has reaffirmed education as a key election issue.
264 - 26 May 2007 - EDITORIAL: East Timor: end of the Fretilin era?, Peter Westmore
The result augurs well for the parliamentary election due at the end of June when all the parties will stand slates of candidates.
265 - 26 May 2007 - COVER STORY: CANBERRA OBSERVED: Kevin Rudd still in front,
With up to six months until the election John Howard looks to be facing his toughest election since winning power in 1996.
266 - 12 May 2007 - BOOKS: THE OCCUPATION OF IRAQ: Winning the War, Losing the Peace, Amir Taheri (reviewer)
The party with which he associated did not do as well as expected in the last Iraqi general election shutting it out of key posts in the government.
267 - 12 May 2007 - SCHOOLS: Report slams school curriculum muddle, Kevin Donnelly
Staking out territory It is clear that both Kevin Rudd and Stephen Smith in an attempt to nullify education as an election issue are staking out territory previously the preserve of the federal Coalition Government.
268 - 12 May 2007 - LABOR PARTY: Australian union movement's last hurrah, Joseph Poprzeczny
If John Howard beats Kevin Rudd at the coming federal election unions may never again be determining players in Australian political life writes Joseph Poprzeczny.
269 - 12 May 2007 - NATIONAL AFFAIRS: Why Kevin Rudd leads in the polls, Colin Teese
Of course voter intentions are notoriously fickle and it remains true that nothing can be taken for granted - except that the only opinion poll which matters is the election itself.
270 - 12 May 2007 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Has Kevin Rudd made his biggest mistake?,
Kevin Rudd may have made a major miscalculation on his workplace relations policy giving John Howard the beachhead on which to claw back ground before the election.
271 - 12 May 2007 - EDITORIAL: Labor's uranium policy: when 'yes' means 'no', Peter Westmore
This is the policy which Labor will take into the federal election.
272 - 28 Apr 2007 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Kevin Rudd's character under scrutiny,
Kevin Rudds plan for becoming Prime Minister was to adopt a small-target approach similar to that used by John Howard in the lead-up to the 1996 election.
273 - 28 Apr 2007 - EDITORIAL: Implications of East Timor's election, Peter Westmore
Whatever the ultimate outcome of East Timors recent Presidential election it is highly likely that Fretilin will lose the forthcoming parliamentary elections.
274 - 28 Apr 2007 - COVER STORY: East Timor election: what's cooking?, Peter Westmore
East Timors recent Presidential election has been characterised by allegations of fraud and voting irregularities reports Peter Westmore.
275 - 14 Apr 2007 - STRAWS IN THE WIND: Why young people read less / NSW's Knight with the Mournful Countenance / Journalistic hooliganism / The Easter Rising, Max Teichmann
NSWs Knight with the Mournful Countenance There have been hundreds of opinions already offered on the New South Wales election and they display an unusual degree of congruity.
276 - 14 Apr 2007 - NSW STATE ELECTION: When will Liberals, Nationals ever learn?, Jim Manwaring
The latest New South Wales state election marks the 21st consecutive defeat for the Coalition in state and territory elections writes Jim Manwaring.
277 - 14 Apr 2007 - COVER STORY: Howard's Coalition - fewer options left as election looms,
With a federal election no more than six months away how can the Howard Government beat Labors ever-popular Kevin Rudd?
278 - 31 Mar 2007 - DRUG POLICY: Sweden's success in combating drug use, David Perrin
In Canberra the House of Representatives standing committee on family and human services is looking at the impact of illicit drugs on families and is due to report before the federal election.
279 - 31 Mar 2007 - INTELLIGENCE CORNER, John Miller
Our participation in that theatre of war is certain to be an election factor even if it masquerades as debate on national security.
280 - 31 Mar 2007 - WESTERN AUSTRALIA: Brian Burke's shadow government, Joseph Poprzeczny
Each saw behind-the-scenes moves involving local councillors and the bankrolling of council election campaigns.
281 - 31 Mar 2007 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Time running out for John Howard?,
Polls are consistently predicting a wipe-out for the Coalition at the election expected later this year.
282 - 31 Mar 2007 - EDITORIAL: Melbourne Cup field in Timor's Presidential election, Peter Westmore
East Timors presidential elections will be held on Easter Monday April 9.
283 - 17 Mar 2007 - STRAWS IN THE WIND: He knew not what he done, guv ... / Bring back our demonstrators - official! / Inspector Rex meets Robert Mugabe / The Balibo Five, Max Teichmann
Let us suppose that Burke really had captured Rudd who then went on to win the election.
284 - 17 Mar 2007 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Can Kevin Rudd handle the heat?,
Details of the first serious attack on Labor leader Kevin Rudd over the Brian Burke affair will be largely forgotten by the time the federal election comes around in October or November.
285 - 17 Mar 2007 - EDITORIAL: East Timor's democratic alternative, Peter Westmore
Next months Presidential election in East Timor will define the future of this small nation: whether the overwhelmingly Christian country of a million people continues to be ruled by a Marxist clique who want to establish a one-party state or whether the people put their trust in the main opposition parties who have formed an alliance for democracy.
286 - 17 Mar 2007 - COVER STORY: East Timor elections: Australia's role, Peter Westmore
East Timorese opposition leaders have called on Australia to help ensure that their countrys forthcoming elections are free and fair writes Peter Westmore.
287 - 03 Mar 2007 - INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: South Korean-US relations under strain, Sharif Shuja
The election of Roh Moo-hyun was part of a smooth democratic transition.
288 - 03 Mar 2007 - SPECIAL FEATURE: New light on Bob Santamaria, Patrick Morgan
Noted historian and author Patrick Morgan who has recently published a selection of B.A.
289 - 03 Mar 2007 - NATIONAL AFFAIRS: Water and ethanol - time to think big, Patrick J. Byrne
As part of Labors election platform NSW Premier Morris Iemma has promised two per cent mandated ethanol use by September increasing to 10 per cent by 2011.
290 - 03 Mar 2007 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: John Howard's election year dilemma,
Bush could prove to be a growing handicap as Australia moves into the critical months of an election year.
291 - 17 Feb 2007 - OPINION: My unhappy memories of Julia, Babette Francis
The election last year of Julia Gillard as deputy leader of the Labor Party brought back unhappy memories for Babette Francis.
292 - 17 Feb 2007 - SPECIAL FEATURE: The legacy of B.A. Santamaria, Tony Abbott MP
In 1994 he declined to give me a pre-selection reference on the grounds that it wouldnt do any good.
293 - 17 Feb 2007 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Eight months for Howard to claw his way back,
It is not inconceivable though highly unlikely that Prime Minister John Howard could delay the federal election until early next year.
294 - 17 Feb 2007 - SCHOOLS: Education or political indoctrination?, Kevin Donnelly
In her 2005 speech to the AEU national conference the union president Ms Pat Byrne bemoaned the success of a conservative cultural agenda evidenced by the re-election of the Bush Blair and Howard governments.
295 - 03 Feb 2007 - Messiah status for Labor leaders (letter), Frank Bellet
Fawning articles on Latham breathlessly written by members of the Canberra press gallery prior to the last election still make for interesting reading and a good laugh - that is if exaggeration and unintentional humour take your fancy.
296 - 03 Feb 2007 - No such thing as 'private' morality (letter), Gerard Goiran
Gerard Goiran Thornlie WA (Gerard Goiran is national deputy president of the Christian Democratic Party and has been endorsed as the lead Senate candidate in Western Australia at this years Federal election).
297 - 03 Feb 2007 - STRAWS IN THE WIND: Invisible premier / Victoria Agonistes / From log-rolling to White House / Another conspiracy? / Russian roulette / Media watch, Max Teichmann
presidential election nearly two years away no fewer than 20 Democratic politicians have already declared themselves as more than worthy to lead the party next time.
298 - 03 Feb 2007 - WORKPLACE RELATIONS: New laws exploit vulnerable employees, Tim Cannon
This re-invigoration was clearly evident in last Septembers Queensland state election won by the incumbent Beattie Labor Government.
299 - 03 Feb 2007 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Why Howard Government could fall this year,
John Howard starts a gruelling election year in an invidious position.
300 - 03 Feb 2007 - EDITORIAL: Are we in for another interest rate hike?, Peter Westmore
With a resurgent Opposition in an election year the Federal Government may pay the price for pursuing an economic agenda while ignoring its effects on the most vulnerable people in our community.
301 - 20 Jan 2007 - BOOKS: A MISCELLANY OF MEN, by G.K. Chesterton, Michael E. Daniel (reviewer)
He also reiterates the point that although Britain may be a democracy the ordinary person has little influence over the policies of the major parties and is presented with comparatively few options from which to choose when voting in an election.
302 - 20 Jan 2007 - SCHOOLS: Trojan horse in Classical Studies curriculum, John Kelly
Educationists quickly dismiss any talk of a crisis in school education as an election ploy by John Howards Federal Government.
303 - 20 Jan 2007 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Kevin Rudd - a more formidable Opposition leader?,
And they are now convinced Mr Rudd who is more media savvy and imaginative could be the man to return them to government if not at the next election then the one after that.
304 - 09 Dec 2006 - STRAWS IN THE WIND: Violence in Toy Town / There is nothing quite like free choice / Swatting insects / The future of Christians in the Middle East / The Golden Walking Stick Award, Max Teichmann
Violence in Toy Town I had no idea as I wrote this piece as to how Saturdays Victorian state election was going to go but what greatly surprised many of us was the dreadful standard of the Labor campaign.
305 - 09 Dec 2006 - ABORTION: Five doctors and a dead baby, Babette Francis
Timed to perfection in the week before Victorias recent state election an eminent Melbourne obstetrician and gynaecologist made an emotive plea for the decriminalisation of abortion reports Babette Francis.
306 - 25 Nov 2006 - Optional preferential voting rejected (letter), Bernie Lewis
In the recent September state election this gained Labor 59 seats (in a house of 89) with only 47 per cent of the primary vote.
307 - 25 Nov 2006 - STRAWS IN THE WIND: Sinister side to lunatic fringe / The gentle art of blackening reputations / Faces of vulnerability / The old refrain?, Max Teichmann
House of Representatives and Senate after the mid-term elections there is much that has changed and a lot that remains the same.
308 - 25 Nov 2006 - WESTERN AUSTRALIA: Taped calls incriminate ex-premier, minister, Joe Poprzeczny
The CCC is investigating Burkes role in directing funds to candidates contesting a south of Perth coastal and rural shire election to get a go-ahead for a $330 million holiday resort at Smiths Beach.
309 - 25 Nov 2006 - IRAQ WAR: Bush runs out of options, Peter Westmore
The Iraq Study Group has the difficult task of seeking a consensus when the Democrats and Republicans are deeply divided on the issues and when public opinion in America which drove the election result wants an end to U.S.
310 - 25 Nov 2006 - UNITED STATES: U.S. voter backlash against Bush's Iraq war, John Miller
elections (News Weekly November 11 2006) have been realised.
311 - 25 Nov 2006 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Howard's loyalty to U.S. faces severe test,
In the wake of President Bushs setback in the recent mid-term Congressional elections the Howard Governments unflinching support for the Iraq War is likely to be severely tested.
312 - 11 Nov 2006 - STRAWS IN THE WIND: The nuclear horror house / The return of religions / Arrogant Muslims / The hit-man society, Max Teichmann
Each federal election campaign - for that is what this Alan Jones business is all about - is more vulgar hypocritical and socially destructive than the one before.
313 - 11 Nov 2006 - VICTORIA: The ALP's abortion agenda, Babette Francis
It says that it will ask all MPs and candidates for parliament how they will vote in a conscience vote on decriminalising abortion and will publish all results on its website (www.cadoa.org) so that pro-life voters can know whom to vote for at the forthcoming Victorian state election.
314 - 11 Nov 2006 - WESTERN AUSTRALIA: Political identities probed by corruption body, Joe Poprzeczny
WAs two most powerful post-war political powerbrokers have been probed by the states Corruption and Crime Commission (CCC) that is investigating possible manipulation of Busselton shires May 2005 election reports Joenbsp;Poprzeczny.
315 - 11 Nov 2006 - ECONOMIC AFFAIRS: A clear lack of joined-up government, Colin Teese
In historical terms there has got to be something strange about a budget outside an election year which has so enthusiastically massaged the hip-pocket nerve.
316 - 11 Nov 2006 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Beazley relishes coming fight for workers' rights,
There is little doubt that the Howard Governments new laws which are now beginning to reshape the dynamics of industrial relations will play a major part in the next election.
317 - 11 Nov 2006 - EDITORIAL: Iraq after the U.S. elections, Peter Westmore
mid-term Congressional elections.
318 - 28 Oct 2006 - Queensland election (letter), Robert Bom
Sir In Hungary the Prime Minister admits to lying during the election campaign.
319 - 28 Oct 2006 - FOREIGN AFFAIRS: East Timor: the Cubans are coming,
Despite these warnings the Socialist Alliance candidate in the recent Queensland election indigenous Sam Watson is reported to have called on the Queensland Labor Government of Peter Beattie to invite Cuban doctors to Queensland as an emergency measure to address the horrific state of the health system ...
320 - 14 Oct 2006 - OPINION: The case for optional preferential voting, David Perrin
Eligible citizens are forced to enrol to vote and are also forced to vote at elections unless they are exempted by limited circumstances.
321 - 14 Oct 2006 - STRAWS IN THE WIND: The decline of Labor, the fate of Smith Street, Blair's departure and the Regensburg Address, Max Teichmann
Robert Ray views Labor as having lost its soul to a production line of control freaks; Dahleks who are self-serving ruthless leaders who would rather lose an election than their control of the faction and undoubtedly this is what has been happening.
322 - 30 Sep 2006 - Queensland election: why the Coalition lost (letter), Frank Bellet
Sir The Queensland state Liberals display of gross ineptitude in the lead up to the election is par for the course for these bumbling political amateurs.
323 - 30 Sep 2006 - ASIAN AFFAIRS: China's missile build-up threatens Taiwan, Cheng Wen-tsang
Ten years ago on the eve of the Taiwans first direct presidential election China test-fired several missiles into waters off the coast of Taiwan to intimidate its voters.
324 - 30 Sep 2006 - STRAWS IN THE WIND: Quadrant reaches 50 / Grassroots journalism / And another flies over the cuckoo's nest / Howard, Beazley and friends - the next 12 months, Max Teichmann
Things only have to go wrong in Afghanistan and Iraq with big Australian casualties and the election would turn right around.
325 - 30 Sep 2006 - QUEENSLAND: State election a no-show for Coalition,
What cost the Queensland Coalition any sign of significant forward momentum in the state election was much closer to home.
326 - 30 Sep 2006 - NATIONAL SECURITY: Is ASIO the Achilles heel of counter-terrorism?, John Miller
Evatt victory at the federal election which took place shortly afterwards.
327 - 16 Sep 2006 - STATE POLITICS: Queensland goes to the polls, Ron Munn
The Liberal Party has continued on its divided way with factions vying for leadership positions causing a disastrous leadership spill only weeks out from the election.
328 - 02 Sep 2006 - Premier Bracks hiding abortion plans (letter), Peter Kavanagh
Former ALP MP Carolyn Hirsh has reported that fearing a voter backlash Steve Bracks has made a secret pact to buy silence giving iron clad assurances guaranteeing that the ALPs policy will be implemented in Parliament - a priority at the top of his agenda after the election providing ALP MPs do not make a public fuss before the election.
329 - 02 Sep 2006 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Why the pressure to lift ban on cloning embryos,
Senator Patterson is a former Health Minister who is retiring from parliament and Senator Stott Despoja is a member of a party not expected to survive the next election.
330 - 19 Aug 2006 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Inflation: next test for the Howard Government, Peter Westmore
With an election due in about 18 months and the first poll since the 1998 GST election to be fought entirely on bread-and-butter issues Mr Howard is justified in outlining his concerns.
331 - 05 Aug 2006 - TAIWAN: Taiwan President rocked by scandals, Jeffry Babb
Taiwans President Chen Shui-bian has been in power since 2000 winning re-election in 2004 following a mysterious assassination attempt in his home-town which won him much sympathy among his wavering supporters.
332 - 05 Aug 2006 - OPINION: Robert Manne, the intellectual hero, Bill James
Left-wing dogma asserted that the defection had been manipulated by the then Liberal Prime Minister Robert Menzies to win an election.
333 - 05 Aug 2006 - STRAWS IN THE WIND: Israel and Hezbollah / Still call Australia home? / Night thoughts / Victoria and the pokies, Max Teichmann
Within two or three days of election Labors new premier Steve Bracks and one or two other cronies were being wined and dined at the Casino.
334 - 05 Aug 2006 - QUEENSLAND: Afraid of uttering the dreaded 'D' word, Ron Munn and John Morrissey
Why his Government took this step in a dry election year is clear.
335 - 22 Jul 2006 - NATIONAL AFFAIRS: Liberals turning to Whitlam-style centralism, Joseph Poprzeczny
His government since the 2004 election has created 24 so-called Australian Technical Colleges when state TAFE colleges were adequately meeting such educational needs.
336 - 22 Jul 2006 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Costello stays on ... for the time being,
Suffering hubris A rudderless Labor Party has been given powerful ammunition for its election campaign with the two Liberal leaders accusing each other of being liars and dishonourable arrogant and suffering hubris.
337 - 08 Jul 2006 - WESTERN AUSTRALIA: WA's Liberal Opposition shoots itself in the foot, Joseph Poprzeczny
Another identifiable though far smaller membership strata is MPs staffers who as well as safeguarding their jobs by joining branches are used by those MPs to look out for likely factional challengers particularly as preselections loom.
338 - 24 Jun 2006 - THE COLD WAR: Inquiry needed into Soviet subversion, John Miller
These range from the comparatively moderate views of the former Communist Party member Dr David McKnight to a number of academics obsessed with conspiracy theories who still believe that the CIA was behind the 1975 dismissal of the Whitlam Government and that the 1954 Petrov defection was engineered by Robert Menzies in order to win an election.
339 - 24 Jun 2006 - THE RULE OF LAW: What is wrong with a charter of rights?, Charles Francis QC
Where laws are created by parliament there is at least the opportunity to vote out the government at the next election; but where the laws are created by activist judges there is no ready solution.
340 - 24 Jun 2006 - STRAWS IN THE WIND: Beazley's nine lives / Over-selling Bill / Dodging the issues, Max Teichmann
And hes not going to lose another election trying to defend these racketeers or condone the troublemaking which these alienated elements stir up between Australia and its neighbours e.g.
341 - 24 Jun 2006 - WESTERN AUSTRALIA: Disgraced ex-premier Brian Burke resurfaces, Joseph Poprzeczny
Although Western Australian Liberals are presently being given little chance of winning the still long-way-off February 2009 election some within their ranks sense what may be the first sign of victory.
342 - 24 Jun 2006 - NATIONAL AFFAIRS: Snowy Hydro: the unresolved issues, Colin Teese
Nor has the decision of Mr Howard - in the run-up to a state election - done the state of New South Wales any economic favours.
343 - 24 Jun 2006 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Can Beazley win on workplace relations?,
The battlelines for the next election have now been drawn following Kim Beazleys bold decision to axe Australian Workplace Agreements (AWAs) if he wins office.
344 - 10 Jun 2006 - Misguided depiction of mental illness (letter), Ruth Webber
It is also incredibly insulting to Dr Gallops impressive record to imply that he left at the height of his career after a second convincing election win because he was unable to cope with a difficult job.
345 - 10 Jun 2006 - WESTERN AUSTRALIA: The self-inflicted wounds of Premier Carpenter, Joseph Poprzeczny
Understandably his emergence prompted a sigh of relief one not dissimilar to that in 1987 when Labor unexpectedly found itself without its two-election-winning leader Brian Burke who had signalled hed be leaving politics for diplomatic posts in Dublin and the Vatican.
346 - 10 Jun 2006 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Merger no answer to declining Nationals vote,
Its vote has declined election after election as its identity is swallowed up by the Liberal Party.
347 - 10 Jun 2006 - EDITORIAL: Timor crisis - Alkatiri's murky role, Peter Westmore
In elections conducted in 2001 for a Constituent Assembly Fretilin the only party with effective organisation won 55 of the 88 seats and has controlled the government since that time.
348 - 27 May 2006 - DLP not eclipsed by Family First (letter), Peter Kavanagh
Although the Democratic Labor Party (DLP) is referred to in the article only in the past tense it still exists of course and will contest this years Victorian state election as it has done for around 50 years.
349 - 27 May 2006 - Another view of Family First (letter), Gerard Goiran
Family Firsts Senator Steve Fielding holds his Senate seat in Federal Parliament with a primary vote of 1.88 per cent - which happens to be the exact equivalent percentage to the primary vote gained by the CDP Senate candidate in Western Australia at the same election.
350 - 27 May 2006 - STRAWS IN THE WIND: Indonesia and the islands / Victoria's new Liberal leader / More on that second oldest profession, Max Teichmann
They assume hell lose by a mile split the Liberals then face up to post-election meltdown seven months hence.
351 - 27 May 2006 - WESTERN AUSTRALIA : Inquiry rejects Kimberley fresh water plan, Joseph Poprzeczny
So much so that in December 2004 - just two months before WAs February 2005 election - the Geoff Gallop Labor Government launched an inquiry headed by retired University of WA economic historian Professor Reg Appleyard to look into the long-promoted idea.
352 - 27 May 2006 - NATIONAL AFFAIRS: Snowy Hydro's privatisation is theft, Peter Westmore
Mr Iemma is understood to want to use the $2 billion - which his state will gain through the privatisation - as a war chest for the next NSW election due late next year.
353 - 27 May 2006 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Labor leadership rumblings,
The sitting member Mr Bob Sercombe has declared he has no intentions of quitting before the next election.
354 - 27 May 2006 - THE ECONOMY: The Budget - populist and unsustainable, Colin Teese
In historical terms there has got to be something strange about a budget outside an election year which has so enthusiastically massaged the hip-pocket nerve.
355 - 13 May 2006 - ABORTION: National senator's key role in RU-486 fiasco, Babette Francis
The role of National Party Senator Fiona Nash in sponsoring and promoting the RU-486 Bill (the Therapeutic Goods Administration Amendment Bill) has been particularly damaging to the National Party especially in Victoria where the Nationals are facing an uphill battle to retain parliamentary seats and their party status at the state elections due on November 25.
356 - 13 May 2006 - POLITICS: WA Liberals, Nationals in self-destruct mode, Joseph Poprzeczny
Both parties are finding it increasingly difficult to man election-day booths.
357 - 13 May 2006 - EDITORIAL: Race riots reveal China's hand in Oceania, Peter Westmore
The riots were triggered by the election of Snyder Rini as Prime Minister by the island nations parliament.
358 - 29 Apr 2006 - THE WEST AND ISLAM: No alternative but to defend our values, Mark Braham
(Gen 26: 1-5) Absurd claim This absurd claim of Islam that these passages were Jewish forgeries is probably news to most Muslims who even if they had thought about it would follow the example of the slightly more than two out of three Germans who voted against Hitler in the last pre-Hitler era free election in November 1932 and put their doubts into the too hard tray.
359 - 29 Apr 2006 - STRAWS IN THE WIND: Labor misses the bus / All is vanity / Kosovo's mafia / When the bills come in / Open season on Christianity, Max Teichmann
Before I try to answer this Ill just say that the Left had an election-winner in this matter.
360 - 15 Apr 2006 - BOOKS: SHENANIGANS on the Ovens goldfields: the 1859 election, by Antony O'Brien, C. Burke (reviewer)
Democracy in the Victorian goldfields SHENANIGANS on the Ovens goldfields: the 1859 election by Antony OBrien Artillery Publishing PO Box 1188 Hartwell Vic 3124 Softcover: 128 pages Price: $29.95 plus $8 postage (Order from the publisher) European settlement in what is now the state of Victoria commenced in the 1830s.
361 - 15 Apr 2006 - Beazley's downside (letter), John McCarthy
Sir While it may be true that Kim Beazley remains Labors best bet as leader for the next federal election (Canberra Observed News Weekly April 1 2006) it is surely not because he possesses any outstanding talent charisma or articulateness but rather because the rest of the ALP front bench is so untalented and unattractive.
362 - 15 Apr 2006 - JAPAN: Quiet revolution in Japan's strategic thinking, Dr Sharif Shuja
The recent Japanese election - possibly the first in the country fought on the basis of policy rather than personality - delivered a resounding victory for Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and endorsed the next stage of his economic reform agenda.
363 - 15 Apr 2006 - STRAWS IN THE WIND: Count your fingers after you shake hands / Dragon's share / Moralists with ghoulish interests, Max Teichmann
He had helped launch the Gazprom consortium sending its pipeline under the Baltic sea: to cut out Poland the Baltic states and Ukraine - and he attended the signing ceremony 10 days before the German election.
364 - 15 Apr 2006 - TAXATION: NSW Liberal MP calls for tax reform for families, Peter Westmore
Because the child-care rebate was an election promise the Treasurer has indicated his reluctance to drop it.
365 - 15 Apr 2006 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: What Labor will do about uranium mining,
Five-mine policy If Labor were to win power at the next election it would either have to scrap uranium mining altogether - or change to a five-mine policy.
366 - 01 Apr 2006 - Kernot affair the start of the Democrats' rot (letter), John C. Massam
It has amazed me that the Australian Democrat vote has held up as long as it has until last weeks pasting in the South Australian election.
367 - 01 Apr 2006 - TASMANIA: Greens lose out in Tasmanian poll, Peter Westmore
The Tasmanian ALP won a third straight election victory on March 18 despite a small drop in its primary vote.
368 - 01 Apr 2006 - SOUTH AUSTRALIA: Liberal debacle in SA election, Tom Walmsley
With votes still being counted at the time that News Weekly is going to press results so far in the South Australian election have been a shock to many.
369 - 01 Apr 2006 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Beazley - federal Labor's last best hope?,
At his last test - the 2001 election - the Liberal Party and John Howard in particular ruthlessly homed in on Beazleys faults based on private polling in which people considered Mr Beazleys worst trait was his softness.
370 - 18 Mar 2006 - Anti-life politicians 'a useless commodity' (letter), Robert Bom
At the next federal election we need to take stock and remove from the marketplace the politicians who encouraged women to increase the rate of abortions.
371 - 18 Mar 2006 - TAXATION REFORM: Governments not facing the important issues, Colin Teese
As things stand with tax policy focused almost entirely on tax cuts any public discussion immediately becomes hopelessly enmeshed with election politics and timing - for quite understandable reasons.
372 - 18 Mar 2006 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Talentless, faction-torn Labor on the skids,
Trouble inside the Australian Labor Party has reached the point that Kim Beazley is no longer assured of leading his party to the next election.
373 - 18 Mar 2006 - EDITORIAL: Net foreign debt soars towards $500 billion!, Peter Westmore
It is not a good legacy for John Howard who has just completed 10 years in office and is looking forward to his fifth successive election in 2007.
374 - 04 Mar 2006 - SOUTH AUSTRALIA: March 18 election - personalities not policies, Damian Wyld
The 2002 state election produced a hung parliament with four independents including SAs sole National MP (not in coalition with the Liberals) holding the balance of power.
375 - 18 Feb 2006 - BOOKS: HEAD OF STATE: The Governor-General, the Monarchy, the Republic and the Dismissal, by Sir David Smith, David Flint (reviewer)
When he proposed to advise only a half-Senate election - which in no way would have resolved the crisis - the Governor-General acted.
376 - 18 Feb 2006 - EDITORIAL: Tide turns on global capitalism, Peter Westmore
The significance of Bachelets election is that Chile was the first country in Latin America to embrace the free market in the 1970s.
377 - 04 Feb 2006 - BOOKS: The Pope Benedict Code, by Joanna Bogle, Michael Gilchrist (reviewer)
However within these constraints a pope can bring his own style and gifts as Benedict has undoubtedly done even in the short period since his election.
378 - 04 Feb 2006 - TAXATION: Government's dilemma - "future fund" or tax cuts?, John Ballantyne
Or should it continue to hoard it until just before the next election and use it to fund its pre-election promises as it has done on previous occasions?
379 - 21 Jan 2006 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: The Coalition - a rocky road ahead for 2006,
But one thing is certain: the Howard Government will have an entirely new enemy which will make it its business to keep IR a politically hot issue right up until the next election - the ACTU.
380 - 17 Dec 2005 - Compulsory voting a necessity (letter), Greg O'Regan
Since 1925 after voting had been made compulsory more than 90 per cent of Australian electors have exercised their voting rights at Federal elections.
381 - 17 Dec 2005 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Contenders for the Howard succession,
Mr Costello however has encountered some troubled waters in recent times and the danger is that the marginal seat-holders whose number one concern is their own jobs may start urging Mr Howard to stay on for just one more election.
382 - 03 Dec 2005 - OPINION: The difficult dilemma of Australia's Muslims, Mark Braham
Such a result indeed occurred in the 1930 when Hitlers successes reversed the popular vote against him at the last free German election in 1932.
383 - 03 Dec 2005 - STRAWS IN THE WIND: Working women and pensions / One hand washes another: European-style / Those were the days, my friend / The burning Bush, Max Teichmann
Of November 12 1975 Parkinson writes: This was the day Whitlam ALP national secretary David Combe and far-left Senate candidate Bill Hartley discussed and then agreed to make approaches to Saddam Husseins Iraq using the good offices of Henry Fischer for a $US500000 gift to help fund Labors 1975 election campaign ...
384 - 19 Nov 2005 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Voters suspicious about workplace reforms,
First John Howard came within a knife-edge of being beaten at the 1998 election losing 13 MPs in one hit.
385 - 05 Nov 2005 - How democracies perish (letter), Mark Braham
In the last free election in Weimar Germany in November 1932 the Nazi vote was dropping dramatically - by 2 million votes - its percentage of the poll down from 37.4 to 33.1 and its Reichstag seats down from 230 to 196.
386 - 05 Nov 2005 - COVER STORY: CANBERRA OBSERVED: 'A dangerous moment for our democracy ...',
On the one hand a Prime Minister who invented the non-core election promise is using taxpayers money to fund advertisements telling us things are good and getting better.
387 - 22 Oct 2005 - NEW ZEALAND ELECTION: How Helen Clark snatched victory, Bernard Moran
Billed as the most exciting national election for decades New Zealand voters watched Labours leader Helen Clark and Nationals Don Brash steer through a series of mishaps and missteps until Labour sneaked over the line.
388 - 22 Oct 2005 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Howard's biggest gamble since the GST,
The changes may be ultimately good for the economy and for jobs though the proof of this will not be clear for several years; but in the meantime there is little doubt the changes will burn votes and probably seats at the next election.
389 - 08 Oct 2005 - Elite media's hatred of Bush (letter), Frank Bellet
In a comprehensive survey done among journalists in Washington prior to the last election Bush opponents outnumbered supporters by 12 to one.
390 - 08 Oct 2005 - STRAWS IN THE WIND: Germany and the hazards of proportional representation / Minefield Childcare and its critics / Latham diaries fall-out / State-federal jousting, Max Teichmann
Germany and the hazards of proportional representation In the recent September 18 German election that countrys conservative Christian Democrats plus the Free Democrats have not been able to improve on the vote they received in the preceding two elections.
391 - 24 Sep 2005 - Tony Blair and the Iraq War (letter), Marcus L'Estrange
Bush is the cats whiskers has also got it wrong in claiming the UK electorate reaffirmed PM Tony Blairs Iraq policy at the last general election.
392 - 27 Aug 2005 - NATIONAL AFFAIRS: Quarantine and trade policy - a deadly mix, Colin Teese
It was only after pressure applied during the election that it has been moved out again.
393 - 27 Aug 2005 - THE WAR ON TERROR: Tony Blair's U-turn on Islamic extremism, Peter Westmore
As long as these voted Labour the Blair Governments re-election in 2004 was almost a foregone conclusion.
394 - 27 Aug 2005 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Family First senator throws down gauntlet,
The Victorian senator who won a surprise election victory in the December election has forced some of the fervent economic rationalists inside the Howard Government into an urgent rethink - particularly those who declare themselves conservatives.
395 - 27 Aug 2005 - STRAWS IN THE WIND: The wages of spin is ... death? / First, the good news / Indoctrinating Muslims, and others / Hacks and spivs, Max Teichmann
Thus in the run-up to the May British election Pilger writing in the New Statesman on April 25 said: By voting for Blair you will walking over the corpses of at least 100000 people most of them innocent slaughtered in defiance of international law.
396 - 13 Aug 2005 - ECONOMICS: Ethanol and the national interest, Colin Teese
The so-called rescue package for the Queensland sugar industry cobbled together in the run-up to the last federal election is another example of a bad policy outcome driven by blind commitment to ideology rather than a careful look at what is actually needed and why.
397 - 13 Aug 2005 - COVER STORY: BRAZIL: The slippery road to communist dictatorship, Augusto Zimmermann
Since the early 1990s the party has openly declared its contempt for elections and the rule of law and has declared its preparedness to use violence in the pursuit of its political objectives.
398 - 30 Jul 2005 - Max wrong on tax (letter), Simon Greener
Labor has done nothing for us over the past 30 years and their income-splitting policy at the last election was a joke.
399 - 16 Jul 2005 - STRAWS IN THE WIND: US fury at Israeli arms sales to China / Not helping the poor / Turn of the tide? / Government's embarrassment, Max Teichmann
Thus Ghana one of the law-abiding good guys (and Kofi Annans state of origin) does have democratic elections and some growth.
400 - 16 Jul 2005 - PARLIAMENTARY DEMOCRACY: Defending the role of parliament, Senator Brian Harradine
That Senator Harradine should have faced and won six elections as an independent makes his achievements even more impressive he said.
401 - 16 Jul 2005 - LABOR PARTY: The lesson Labor still has to learn, Trevor Smith
Since last Octobers election there has been an attempt to rewrite history by claiming that Howard set Latham up on forest policy.
402 - 16 Jul 2005 - COVER STORY: Federal Labor's crisis of identity,
With each successive federal election increasing numbers of working-class and rural voters have been deserting Labor.
403 - 02 Jul 2005 - TRADE: 'Benign neglect' no answer to debt crisis, Colin Teese
In 1995 - not long before the Federal Election which saw Howard come to power - the Coalition campaigned with a debt truck warning that Australias foreign debt had reached the dangerous level of $170 billion - something which Howard and his new government were determined to fix.
404 - 02 Jul 2005 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Senator Brian Harradine retires,
The Tasmanian independent senator bid his farewell from the Senate this month after 30 years and six successive election victories.
405 - 04 Jun 2005 - Malice In Media Land, by David Flint, Charles Francis, AM, QC, RFD (reviewer)
It was internet bloggers not the media who proved the Vietnam war documents so damning to President Bush in the 2004 US election had been fabricated at a much later date.
406 - 04 Jun 2005 - DEVELOPMENT: Micro-credit - an antidote to poverty and political extremism, Pat Byrne
This is promoted through the formation of groups and centres developing leadership qualities through the annual election of group and centre leaders and electing board members when the institution is owned by the borrowers.
407 - 04 Jun 2005 - AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY: Behind the branch-stacking allegations, Peter Westmore
At least seven federal Labor MPs are under threat of losing preselection for their seats.
408 - 04 Jun 2005 - SCHOOLS: Teaching values and building character, Kevin Donnelly
Much of the education debate especially during the recent federal election has focused on issues like accountability academic standards and funding to government and non-government schools.
409 - 04 Jun 2005 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Alexander Downer - a field-marshal's baton in his knapsack?,
If Mr Howard decides to contest another election as many will urge him to do the next leadership of the party may not fall automatically to Costello.
410 - 21 May 2005 - OBITUARY: Tribute to Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen, Victor Sirl
As a politician Joh won some incredible election victories.
411 - 21 May 2005 - ENVIRONMENT: Kyoto Protocol unleashes the friendly atom, Peter Westmore
Referring to the Labour Partys recent election manifesto the London Times observed There is remarkably little said about the matter at all given the apocalyptic view that the Prime Minister apparently takes of the impact of climate change.
412 - 21 May 2005 - COVER STORY: CANBERRA OBSERVED: Costello's latest budget - do the figures add up?,
Secondly he has skewed the tax cuts to the middle to upper income levels who comprise a small percentage of the total workforce - presumably the plan will be to deliver tax cuts for the great bulk of Australians either next year or in the Budget preceding the next election.
413 - 07 May 2005 - CONSTITUTION: Dangers in Howard's new centralism, John Stone
In 2003 Howard blamed his Senate problems since 1999 on Opposition obstructionism when the much more important reason was the Coalitions dismal Senate performance in the 1998 GST election.
414 - 07 May 2005 - 1955 LABOR PARTY SPLIT: The Great Labor Split remembered, Frank Skully
His unilateral inclusion in the 1954 election policy speech of a number of uncosted extravagant and distributively regressive promises provoked justifiable outrage on the part of many Caucus members.
415 - 07 May 2005 - STRAWS IN THE WIND: Labor Agonistes / Blankety Blank / Gentlemen versus players / EU Light Opera, Max Teichmann
Perhaps the straw which broke the camels back was the proposal to remove at least three sitting federal members including two frontbenchers in favour of Right factional heavies plus the fact that Kim Beazley seems to be off on a celebrity preselection factional frolic all on his own in the grand Latham tradition e.g.
416 - 07 May 2005 - REGIONAL VICTORIA: Radical activists' campaign of sabotage, Peter Kelly
I had last visited the region during the last Federal Election campaign when I stood as an Independent candidate for the seat of Gippsland.
417 - 07 May 2005 - SCHOOLS: Give academic excellence a sporting chance, Kevin Donnelly
Since the election of the Cain/Kirner governments in the 1980s Labor Party policy has consistently downgraded academic excellence and competition.
418 - 23 Apr 2005 - STRAWS IN THE WIND: A society of hoons? / The Nobel committee's Syllabus of Errors / The triumph of Roma, Max Teichmann
(I assume our State Liberals are putting together a comprehensive law-and-order election package for more and more Victorians are depending on it.) Obviously there werent police there because we dont have enough.
419 - 09 Apr 2005 - AUSTRALIAN HISTORY: The Labor Split - 50 years on, Gavan Duffy
The resulting split and the emergence of the Democratic Labor Party - formed by people expelled from the ALP - cost the Evatt-led Labor Party a large number of votes in subsequent elections.
420 - 09 Apr 2005 - Selling the nation's assets (letter), D. Geraldine Lucas
Election time arrives again and they spend literally millions on advertising in an effort to be re-elected and keep themselves in office.
421 - 09 Apr 2005 - FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Australia, Indonesia to negotiate new treaty, Peter Westmore
She told Radio Australia I think with the re-election of Australian Prime Minister John Howard as well as the new Indonesian President coming in just four months ago there has been a serious effort to repair the tensions of the past ...
422 - 26 Mar 2005 - HONG KONG: China's man in Hong Kong quits, Peter Westmore
However the electoral college is due to disband by July 13 this year thus forcing the election to take place before that date - most probably on July 10.
423 - 26 Mar 2005 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Behind the skills shortage in the not-so-clever country,
At the last election it also promised to establish 24 new technical colleges throughout Australia - running a dual system virtually in competition with the states.
424 - 12 Mar 2005 - WESTERN AUSTRALIA: Gallop Labor Government returned to power, Richard Egan
Dr Geoff Gallops Labor Government has been re-elected for another four-year term in the Western Australian election held on February 26.
425 - 12 Mar 2005 - COVER STORY: The media elites versus the public, Prof David Flint
This intermingling leads inevitably to the selection of some news to fit the agenda of the commentator.
426 - 26 Feb 2005 - IRAQ: Shi'ite win in Iraq elections vindicates US role, Peter Westmore
The success of Shiite candidates in Iraqs first democratic general election will pose a new test for the country and vindicates the role of the Bush Administration in pushing ahead with the ballot despite daily car-bombings by Sunni insurgents.
427 - 26 Feb 2005 - SUGAR INDUSTRY: Anger at stalled sugar package, Pat Byrne
When the Federal Government announced a $444 million package for the sugar industry last year prior to the federal election it was to include two sustainability payments to help farmers through a transition phase towards reform a re-establishment grant to those wanting to exit the industry and an intergenerational package to assist transfer of the farm to the next generation.
428 - 26 Feb 2005 - SCHOOLS: The battle for our children's minds, Kevin Donnelly
Three years before Howard had headlined the non-existent children overboard; he had put race firmly on the agenda as an election issue and cynically manipulated the desperation and poverty of our Pacific neighbours.
429 - 12 Feb 2005 - STRAWS IN THE WIND: Iraq election and the problem of Iran / Bushrangers hanging around the hospitals / Climbing the ladder to nowhere, MaxTeichmann
Iraq election and the problem of Iran Polling has just finished in Iraq as I write this piece and a massive voter turnout appears to have occurred.
430 - 12 Feb 2005 - COVER STORY: Kim Beazley - Labor's only hope?,
Kim Beazley appears to have slipped back easily into the role he is very familiar with as his exhausted federal Labor Party colleagues take a rest from the acrimonious infighting and character assassination that has marred the party since the election.
431 - 29 Jan 2005 - Labor misrepresented (letter), Daniel Krips
The article states that the policy course embraced by Labor during the last years federal election campaign would have whittled away state aid to independent mainly religious schools.
432 - 29 Jan 2005 - RUSSIA: Putin, Communism, and Santamaria's hopes for Russia, R.J. Stove
As recently as December 2004 benefiting from the one-man-one-vote-once mentality so long exploited by black African tyrants Putin formally abolished the popular election of governors.
433 - 29 Jan 2005 - WA ELECTIONS: Labor's Geoff Gallop looking at defeat, Richard Egan
There has been a redistribution of Legislative Assembly seats since the 2001 elections.
434 - 29 Jan 2005 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Labor after the Latham experiment,
Mark Lathams leadership was doomed from election day on October 9 2004 but it took another three months for the reality to finally sink in.
435 - 29 Jan 2005 - NATIONAL AFFAIRS: Labor needs new direction as well as new leader, Peter Westmore
Labors defeat in last Octobers election owed something to Mark Lathams arrogance and wilfulness - encapsulated in his deal with the Greens over Tasmanian forests to secure Green preferences the imposition of rock star and extreme environmentalist Peter Garrett into a safe ALP seat in NSW over the heads of rank-and-file members and his blatant anti-Americanism.
436 - 29 Jan 2005 - TAX REFORM: Time to abolish income tax?, John Ballantyne
Since its re-election last October for a historic fourth term the Howard Coalition Government has a rare opportunity to fix Australias flawed tax system.
437 - 08 Jan 2005 - BOOKS: TREASON: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism, by Ann Coulter, Charles Francis, AM, RFD, QC (reviewer)
Treason is not always easy reading but for anyone who wants to understand the last 60 years of United States history and the present divisions which became so apparent in the recent Presidential election it is essential reading.
438 - 08 Jan 2005 - OPINION: Post-Latham: now for a real Third Way, Vern Hughes
Our State election campaigns have become a contest to build more prisons and to put more people in gaol.
439 - 18 Dec 2004 - EASTERN EUROPE: Ukraine turns to the West?, Peter Westmore
The future of Ukraine for 70 years part of the Soviet Union is in the balance following a disputed presidential election which was overturned by Ukraines Supreme Court.
440 - 18 Dec 2004 - INTERNET PORNOGRAPHY: Telcos in bed with pornographers, Tim Wallace
In the lead-up to the last election while hundreds gasped at the uncovering of child porn collections running into the tens of thousands of images the Liberal Party showed the limits of its commitment to family values when they conflict with business interests.
441 - 18 Dec 2004 - NATIONAL AFFAIRS: Where Labor failed itself - and Australia, Colin Teese
Since the election speculation and hand-wringing about the performance of the Labor Party has been rife - both inside and beyond the party itself.
442 - 18 Dec 2004 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Utter failure of the Latham experiment,
Former rock-solid Beazley supporters such as Queenslander Con Sciacca (who unfortunately lost his seat in the October election debacle) declared they had been wrong to doubt Mr Lathams abilities and enthusiastically endorsed the new leader.
443 - 04 Dec 2004 - US ELECTIONS: Christians eat lions in 2004 election, Don Feder
On Election Day Christians returned the favour.
444 - 04 Dec 2004 - STRAWS IN THE WIND: Uncharted territory / The Zamindars / Labor's performance / The Light on the Hill, Max Teichmann
Uncharted territory The elections just passed - viz.
445 - 04 Dec 2004 - FINANCE: Day of reckoning for Australia's debt binge?, Pat Byrne
The Howard Government kept the economy bubbling along on the back of a booming housing market helping it to win the recent federal election.
446 - 04 Dec 2004 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Talent gap widens between major parties,
One of the least publicised aspects of the 2004 election has been the widening of the gap in the talent pools of the respective major parties.
447 - 04 Dec 2004 - COVER STORY: The rise of Condoleezza Rice, Peter Westmore
Bush when he stood for election in 2000 and became the National Security Adviser in January 2001.
448 - 20 Nov 2004 - BOOKS: GETTING ON TRACK: A Business Plan for Australia, John Ballantyne (reviewer)
It tackles vital issues which were ignored by the media and both sides of politics in our recent federal election.
449 - 20 Nov 2004 - US Elections and abortion (letter), Frank Bellet
Bushs decisive win in the US election did not surprise me.
450 - 20 Nov 2004 - OPINION: Memo, Mark Latham: It's the family, stupid!, Babette Francis
Now you aim to have young progressive women on your front bench when it is their Emilys List policies which were responsible for your election debacle!
451 - 20 Nov 2004 - STRAWS IN THE WIND: Old Moore's Almanac / Twilight of the false gods / Abortions, holocausts, and death-wishes, Max Teichmann
Old Moores Almanac Watching the US election campaign and the actual voting processes was a delightful experience: not to be missed.
452 - 20 Nov 2004 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Latham in denial over election loss,
The Labor Party appears to be falling into the cycle of many parties languishing in long-term opposition - it is spending its energies fighting the last election campaign rather than the next one.
453 - 20 Nov 2004 - EDITORIAL: George W. Bush's new direction, Peter Westmore
The US elections held on November 2 were important for many reasons: the decisiveness of the final vote the significance of the outcome for President Bush what it tells us about America and what it means for the rest of the world.
454 - 06 Nov 2004 - OPINION: How I would tackle poverty, Claire Lindorff
Claire Lindorff a schoolteacher from Ballarat Victoria stood as a Democratic Labor Party candidate in the recent Federal Election.
455 - 06 Nov 2004 - MEDIA: Mark Latham's wrong turns, Tim Wallace
There was no time for analysis in between the mystery bus trips to classrooms and factories and rainforests - and then another deluge of even more important potentially election-swinging policies was upon us.
456 - 06 Nov 2004 - INDONESIA: Yudhoyono's new deal for Australia, Peter Westmore
This would head off the possibility of unilateral Australian military intervention against terrorists as foreshadowed by Australias Prime Minister during the recent election campaign or intervention in issues such as West Papua and Aceh which Indonesia clearly regards as its internal affairs.
457 - 06 Nov 2004 - INTEREST RATES: Myth and reality of Reserve Bank independence, Colin Teese
There are almost as many reasons put forward as to why Labor lost the Federal election as there are people to ask.
458 - 06 Nov 2004 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Labor in shock after its disastrous rout,
The mood of the party room in the first week back after the election was one of bewilderment but strangely without recriminations.
459 - 06 Nov 2004 - EDITORIAL: Why Bush is better for Australia ..., Peter Westmore
(October 17) In all of these issues friends of the United States will watch the election with bated breath as American policy inevitably affects developments throughout the world.
460 - 23 Oct 2004 - STRAWS IN THE WIND: Your good health / Costly hospitals / Voter discontent in Germany and Switzerland, Max Teichmann
Voter discontent in Germany and Switzerland Some German regional elections and a remarkable referendum result in Switzerland have passed most of our media by determined as they are by a gestalt of juvenile obsessions or by fashions.
461 - 23 Oct 2004 - US ELECTIONS: Bush still ahead in Presidential race, Peter Westmore
Following the success of terror tactics in bringing about the withdrawal of Spain and the Philippines the insurgents are now trying to effect a similar change in US policy through defeating George Bush in the US Presidential election.
462 - 23 Oct 2004 - FEDERAL ELECTION 3: Kicking the ladders away, Max Teichmann
This 2004 election had all the ambience of the referendum for a republic: watching Labor wearing its radical gear marching on to self-destruct.
463 - 23 Oct 2004 - FEDERAL ELECTION 2: Howard's opportunity, Labor's challenge, Peter Westmore
The Coalitions election victory and the prospect of a majority in the Senate is a triumph for John Howard and a disaster for Mark Latham whose political ambitions have been perhaps irreparably damaged.
464 - 23 Oct 2004 - FEDERAL ELECTION 1: Behind Labor's landslide loss,
At his first post-election press conference Mr Latham did not back Mr Crean or his deputy Jenny Macklin - yet it was Mr Latham who handed the Treasury portfolio to his predecessor when he became leader despite serious misgivings inside the party.
465 - 09 Oct 2004 - INDIA: Secularism an absolute necessity for India, Sharif Shuja
Had the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won Indias recent election power would probably have gradually shifted into the hands of Hindutva fanatics who were careful to play down the communal card.
466 - 09 Oct 2004 - CHINA: Hong Kong elections a clear win for democracy, Jeffry Babb
In a fiercely contested election in Hong Kong voters in their tens of thousands streamed to the polls on Sunday September 12 showing their clear preference for determining their own future despite the fact that Beijing-backed parties did make some gains.
467 - 09 Oct 2004 - FEDERAL ELECTION: Major parties gag candidates,
The debacle smacks of the infamous gag order Jeff Kennett put on Liberal candidates before the 1999 state election which became the single most decisive issue of a poll Mr Kennett narrowly lost.
468 - 09 Oct 2004 - EDUCATION: Behind Labor's church school 'hit list', Dr Kevin Donnelly
Mark Latham has indicated that he expects to win the election on the education issue Dr Kevin Donnelly reports.
469 - 09 Oct 2004 - EDITORIAL: Election auction ignores the real challenge, Peter Westmore
As Australias election approaches its climax leaders of both the Coalition and Opposition are engaged in a frantic bid to win the votes of key constituencies through spending the multi-billion-dollar government surplus unveiled by Treasury before the election.
470 - 09 Oct 2004 - ELECTION 2004: Will Labor, Liberal big-spending promises swing voters?,
John Howards election campaign has been more of a brazen game of defiance than a conventional appeal to the voters.
471 - 25 Sep 2004 - The Greens' dangerous naïvete, Peter Westmore
Fearing that the Greens might hold the balance of power in the Senate after the Federal Election or that their preferences will deliver marginal seats to Labor Coalition leaders have stepped up their attacks on the Greens policies.
472 - 25 Sep 2004 - ELECTION SPECIAL 3: Voters must challenge candidates on moral issues, Richard Egan
Recently as the Senate rose for the election it was poised to pass the Criminal Code Amendment (Suicide-Related Material Offences) Bill 2004 which would have made it an offence to promote or instruct in methods of suicide using the Internet.
473 - 25 Sep 2004 - ELECTION SPECIAL 2: Reversing the rural decline, Pat Byrne
Instead of acting on these reports the Government in the run-up to this election has just announced yet another inquiry by the Productivity Commission into the pork industry.
474 - 25 Sep 2004 - ELECTION SPECIAL 1: The real issues facing Australia, Pat Byrne
The 2004 Federal election campaign is being fought around taxation and family payments issues but may well be determined on security issues following the bombing in Jakarta of the Australian embassy Pat Byrne reports.
475 - 25 Sep 2004 - EDITORIAL: Jemaah Islamiah: the shocking evidence, Peter Westmore
Equally unlikely is the suggestion that the bombing was timed to coincide with the anniversary of the September 11 bombing in 2001 or the Australian elections.
476 - 25 Sep 2004 - NATIONAL AFFAIRS: Latham's campaign dilemma,
Despite the bravado it was always going to be difficult for the Australian public to get to know understand and trust Mark Latham in the short run-up between his elevation to leader last December and the Federal election.
477 - 11 Sep 2004 - Labor's foot-soldiers (letter), Frank Bellet
Sir The bright sparks in the Labor Party who thought up the idea of exhuming the Children Overboard carcass as a lead-up to the election and subsequently rounded up all the Howard-haters in the media to breathlessly follow suit should be either superannuated out of their jobs or transferred to something a little simpler for them such as running a raffle.
478 - 11 Sep 2004 - STRAWS IN THE WIND: Howard versus New Class Labor / Tap Tap. Who's there?, Max Teichmann
Howard versus New Class Labor Now that John Howard has called an election I hope youll study Katherine Betts paper in People and Place entitled People and Parliamentarians: The Great Divide.
479 - 11 Sep 2004 - OPINION: The case for new states in Australia, Don Ford
Thus neither party looks beyond the next election to Australias ultimate destiny.
480 - 11 Sep 2004 - INDIA: The economic test for India's new government, Sharif Shuja
The new government in its election campaign and speeches addressed the problems faced by farmers the lack of jobs for the people the inadequacy and poor quality of the most basic public services the hunger and despair that affect backward regions and the growing inequality.
481 - 11 Sep 2004 - FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Taiwan faces continuing threats from Beijing, Peter Westmore
He has pursued this approach since his election in 2000 most recently stating it in his inauguration speech last May when he was re-elected President of the Republic of China.
482 - 11 Sep 2004 - EDITORIAL: Issues for the Federal Election, Peter Westmore
The Prime Ministers election announcement though widely predicted in the media was still surprising in light of Labors clear lead in the opinion polls.
483 - 11 Sep 2004 - COVER STORY: Battle lines drawn for October 9 Federal poll, Peter Westmore
The battle lines have finally been drawn in what is shaping up as one of the closest elections in recent memory with interest rates trustworthiness and government services to be the dominant election deciders.
484 - 28 Aug 2004 - FAMILY: Hard-won victory on Marriage Amendment Bill, Richard Egan
This clearly created the risk that the Bill could not be voted on before the Parliament was dissolved for an election.
485 - 28 Aug 2004 - NATIONAL AFFAIRS: Mark Latham caves in on free trade deal,
Even Paul Keating managed to drag back voters in the 1996 election when Labor was routed.
486 - 14 Aug 2004 - Fishermen protest in marginal seats (letter), Bob Kennedy
Sir Peter Westmore in his editorial (News Weekly July 31) named a raft of primary industries which will probably cost the Howard government votes at the next Federal Election.
487 - 14 Aug 2004 - EDITORIAL: Australia and the Timor Gap Treaty, Peter Westmore
Delicate negotiations have been fouled by Labor leader Mark Latham who in an off-the-cuff interview late in July suggested that a future Labor Government would renegotiate the whole agreement in East Timors favour thereby ensuring that there will be no constructive negotiations until after the next election.
488 - 31 Jul 2004 - OBITUARY: Vale Martin Klibbe,
He further demonstrated his skills as a political organiser working on a number of election campaigns.
489 - 31 Jul 2004 - OBITUARY: Vale Brian Nash, Mark Posa
Brian was subsequently among those who were expelled from the Labor Party because they could not support a candidate who they believed was a supporter of the Communist Party and had been endorsed for a Federal seat in an election.
490 - 31 Jul 2004 - STRAWS IN THE WIND : Peacock Throne / The Stasi never died / Supersized, Max Teichmann
There is in fact little to choose between the Australian and East German groups as will emerge as we move to the election.
491 - 31 Jul 2004 - NATIONAL AFFAIRS: Boswell sees red over Senate marriage delay, Paul Russell
Both Labor and the Democrats were well aware that a delay in debate until October could see the Federal Election called in the interim causing the Bill to lapse.
492 - 31 Jul 2004 - QUARANTINE BREACH: Inquiry needed on citrus canker, News Weekly
The spokesman said the confidential agreement between AQIS and Pacific Century Production had been signed during the caretaker period in the lead-up to the 2001 federal election meaning Mr Truss could not have known about it.
493 - 31 Jul 2004 - AUSFTA: Will Green preferences sink trade agreement?, Colin Teese
But while all of this is both interesting and important some of Mr Colebatchs observations - at least by implication - connect AUSFTA quite closely to Australian politics in general and to the forthcoming election in particular.
494 - 31 Jul 2004 - EDITORIAL: Issues facing the Howard Government, Peter Westmore
Under the Australian political system unlike the US and most other countries which have fixed terms of office the final decision on when elections are called rests with the Prime Minister subject to the limitations imposed by the Electoral Act and the Constitution.
495 - 17 Jul 2004 - Sugar Package (letter), C.J. Mackee and Dawn B. Brown
First it is only for one year clearly designed to tide the Coalition over the Federal election.
496 - 17 Jul 2004 - Premier Beattie's ethanol 'mania' (letter), De-Anne Kelly BE MP
It surely cannot have escaped Mr Byrnes attention that Mr Beatties ethanol mania just happens to coincide with the forthcoming Federal election and the challenge of lifting Federal Labors standing in Queensland.
497 - 17 Jul 2004 - STRAWS IN THE WIND: Skimming administrative fat / What about Uganda? / 17 years of war, Max Teichmann
Before the Lawyers Overboard Election.
498 - 17 Jul 2004 - UNITED STATES: Curtains on Camelot, R.J. Stove
The 1960 presidential election was Americas closest between 1876 and 2000.
499 - 17 Jul 2004 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Latham affair lifts election temperature,
Mark Lathams extraordinary confess-all press conference during which he sought to end a stream of media reports about his past private life is yet another distraction on the road to the election.
500 - 17 Jul 2004 - COVER STORY: Indonesian elections ... and Australia, Peter Westmore
The first round of last weeks Indonesian Presidential election being counted as News Weekly goes to press will have important implications for Australia.
501 - 03 Jul 2004 - STRAWS IN THE WIND : Moving the lounge chairs in the retirement village / Still picking up the pieces / Selective indignation, Max Teichmann
Moving the lounge chairs in the retirement village The European Union elections for their assembly plus Britains own local elections have given the media much trouble.
502 - 03 Jul 2004 - EUROPE: New EU Constitution faces mounting opposition, Peter Westmore
Significantly parties and candidates critical of the new EU Constitution were elected in record numbers in the recent EU elections.
503 - 03 Jul 2004 - NATIONAL AFFAIRS: Profile of Mark Latham's star new recruit, Peter Westmore
After a public controversy Garrett said that he had cast a ballot paper at every election since 1994 as an absentee voter.
504 - 19 Jun 2004 - INDIA: What went wrong with the BJP?, Sharif Shuja
Sonia Gandhis Congress Party defeated the Vajpayee-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-dominated National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in the 2004 Lok Sabha elections.
505 - 19 Jun 2004 - CANADA: Health care primary focus in Canadian election, Jeff Babb
Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin has called an election for June 28 even though current opinion polls show his Liberal Government will likely lose its majority in Canadas lower house.
506 - 19 Jun 2004 - QUARANTINE : Biosecurity inflames fire blight fears, Victor Sirl
Before the next election Mr Howard should kill off this issue and leave Australias existing quarantine regime in place and after the election he might consider killing off the regime at Biosecurity.
507 - 19 Jun 2004 - FEDERAL: Labor Left hopes to pigeon-hole Marriage Bill, Peter Westmore
Having reluctantly decided to support the Howard Governments amendment to the Marriage Act in the House of Representatives left-wing Labor members plan to send it to a Senate Inquiry where they apparently hope it will languish until the Federal Election is called thereby forcing its abandonment.
508 - 19 Jun 2004 - CANBERRA OBSERVED : Coalition, Labor split widens over Iraq, News Weekly
More worringly though Bushs warning on any Australian pull-out signals that Australia will over the coming months become the focus of greater attention of terrorist groups in the countdown towards the Federal election.
509 - 05 Jun 2004 - COVER STORY: Mitsubishi - counting the cost of closure, Colin Teese
Its always hard to tell in an election year - especially with a government which appears to have its back to the wall.
510 - 05 Jun 2004 - TAIWAN: President Chen's olive branch to Beijing, Jeff Babb
In his inauguration speech Chen attempted to put to rest some of the controversy that dogged his recent presidential election campaign by reaching out to mainland China and the people of Taiwannbsp;- while taking into account the pro-independence faction that looks to him for a decisive break from the mainland.
511 - 05 Jun 2004 - SOCIETY: Gen X foots bills for baby boomers, John Ballantyne
The historian Macaulay once said that a politician thinks of the next election whereas a statesman thinks of the next generation.
512 - 05 Jun 2004 - AGRICULTURE: Dairy farmers fight for survival, Pat Byrne
Being an election year and dairy being a major factor in a number of very marginal seats Prime Minister John Howard recently spoke with farmers in several areas.
513 - 05 Jun 2004 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Is Howard Government running out of time?, News Weekly
The Hordern Pavillion event attracted 1200 of Mr Howards closest friends and is believed to have raised a not inconsiderable war chest of $300000 for the coming election.
514 - 05 Jun 2004 - EDITORIAL: Time running out for Marriage Act, Peter Westmore
A Family Court decision could be made in their favour and in any case if a Federal Election is called all Bills introduced into Federal Parliament lapse.
515 - 22 May 2004 - Europe's uncertain future, John Ballantyne
The departments of government says Jay are run not by elected ministers hoping for re-election but by appointed commissioners who never need votes.
516 - 22 May 2004 - AGRICULTURE: Sugar package, Clayton's package, Pat Byrne
Prime Minister John Howard has handed out a $444 million package to the sugar industry focused on one years relief and aimed at tiding the government over the Federal election.
517 - 22 May 2004 - EDITORIAL: Child care funding and the Budget, Peter Westmore
And all this to help win an election ...
518 - 22 May 2004 - COVER STORY: An election winning Budget?, Peter Westmore
Carefully targetted and timed perfectly to coincide with the coming election the substantial boosts to family take-home income will prove difficult for Labor to oppose and even more difficult to match or beat.
519 - 08 May 2004 - BOOKS: The Coming Of The Third Reich, By Richard J. Evans, Michael E. Daniel (reviewer)
However Evans argues that the Depression was the important catalyst as in the 1928 election - the last prior to the Depression - the Nazis scored a mere six per cent of the votes.
520 - 08 May 2004 - ASIA: Why Taiwan should be in WHO, Jeff Babb
Before last months presidential election in Taiwan the US undertook to assist Taiwan gain entry to bodies where statehood is not a requirement and undertook to actively promote Taiwans entry to the WHO.
521 - 24 Apr 2004 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Budget - next test for Federal Government, News Weekly
There is a big appeal in the idea of Fortress Australia - John Howard won the last election with this exact same policy.
522 - 24 Apr 2004 - FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Islamic militants threaten to derail Iraq hand-over, News Weekly
President Bush faces substantial domestic pressure to withdraw with both a Presidential election and Congressional elections to be held next November.
523 - 10 Apr 2004 - HONG KONG: Poll battle looms over democratic reforms, Peter Westmore
Chinas commitment to permit a democratic system to exist in Hong Kong will be put to the test in elections due to be held in Hong Kong next September.
524 - 10 Apr 2004 - TAIWAN ELECTION: Saved by commonsense, Jeff Babb
Taiwan has been on the verge of chaos following the narrow win of President Chen Shui-bian in the presidential elections held on Saturday March 20.
525 - 10 Apr 2004 - SOCIETY: Who benefits from drugs?, David Perrin
With this being a Federal election year drug issues should be firmly on the political agenda.
526 - 10 Apr 2004 - STRAWS IN THE WIND: The next Four Corners? / Granada, Max Teichmann
It might make a good election plank.
527 - 10 Apr 2004 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Latham Iraq gaffe signals the honeymoon is over, News Weekly
And will it make a difference to the election result?
528 - 27 Mar 2004 - INDONESIAN ELECTIONS: Indonesia taking control of its own destiny, Jeff Babb
Its a busy year for elections in Asia and nowhere is the situation more complex than in Indonesia.
529 - 27 Mar 2004 - ANALYSIS: Australia-US trade deal a monumental folly, Colin Teese
And we cant rule out the possibility that political considerations in the run up to an election will come into play.
530 - 27 Mar 2004 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Spending signals start of election campaign, News Weekly
At the same time the pre-election quick-fix policy agenda has become such a pattern in the Howard administration that it is producing the impression of a panicky government more interested in staying in power than in good governance and good long-term public policy.
531 - 27 Mar 2004 - COVER STORY: The PM, farmers, the FTA and the election, Pat Byrne
There is a sense amongst farmers that the industrys future lies solely in the PMs hands and that he will have one opportunity to get it right before the next Federal election.
532 - 13 Mar 2004 - Taiwan's necessary referendum (letter), Osman Chia
Sir I wish to congratulate Peter Westmore on his article Cliffhanger election will affect China relations (News Weekly February 28).
533 - 13 Mar 2004 - COVER STORY: Has Canberra gone bananas? Has Biosecurity Australia dropped its quarantine standards?, Pat Byrne
Less than two weeks after both the Queensland election and the announcement of a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the US the Federal Agriculture Department released three Biosecurity Australia reports recommending imports of New Zealand apples Philippines bananas and foreign pork.
534 - 28 Feb 2004 - BOOKS: The Electronic Whorehouse, by Paul Sheehan, Richard Egan (reviewer)
Sheehan cites Alan Ramseys view that the media after failing to help Labor secure a win at the November 2001 election subsequently sought to undermine the moral legitimacy of the Howard Government through a one-sided beat up about asylum seekers including the children overboard issue.
535 - 28 Feb 2004 - COMMENT: Getting history wrong - Ross Fitzgerald's 'The Pope's Battalions', Amy McGrath
Another indefensible misreporting occurs in the assertion referring to the Balmain Branch of the Federated Ironworkers Association (FIA) that In union elections in 1943 Shorts Trotskyists defeated Communist candidates by a two to one majority.
536 - 28 Feb 2004 - TAIWAN: Cliffhanger election will affect China relations, Peter Westmore
The Presidential election being held on March 20 in Taiwan will have important implications for relations with China and may set a model for a future multi-party democracy in China.
537 - 28 Feb 2004 - Free trade and sugar (letter), Margaret Menzel
Prime Minister Howard needs to look long and hard at the results of the Queensland State Election in the sugar seats.
538 - 28 Feb 2004 - DRUGS: Sweden turns off teenage drug tap, David Perrin
As 2004 is a Federal election year the various political parties must address the drug crisis as we cannot allow our teenagers to be damaged by drugs.
539 - 28 Feb 2004 - NCC holds successful 2004 National Conference, Pat Byrne
The recent National Civic Council 2004 Annual Conference at Melbourne University focused on the issues to be driven hard in the Federal political arena in this election year.
540 - 28 Feb 2004 - TRADE: Where does new free trade pact leave us?, Colin Teese
There will be an election within 12 months.
541 - 28 Feb 2004 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: New tactics needed to handle Latham challenge, News Weekly
Two alternate views on this election year emerged in the days after John Howards extraordinary backdown on the generous superannuation entitlements given to federal politicians.
542 - 14 Feb 2004 - BOOKS: FRAUDING OF ELECTIONS? by Amy McGrath, Peter Westmore (reviewer)
FRAUDING OF ELECTIONS?
543 - 14 Feb 2004 - COMMENT: Is President Bush really "dumb"?, Michael Scammell
You can tell that its a presidential election year in the US when Australian media commentators start labelling American presidents as stupid.
544 - 14 Feb 2004 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Latham catches government on wrong foot,
While making some concessions on tax cuts for the wealthy and blunting some harsh economic reform measures in a bid to appease the unions Latham was able to secure solid party backing going into the election year.
545 - 14 Feb 2004 - AGRICULTURE: Political will needed to solve dairy industry crisis, Michael Kearney
In election year political action is needed to get governments to address these issues.
546 - 14 Feb 2004 - ELECTION: How Labor outgunned the Coalition in Queensland, Victor Sirl
This report had to be written before the Queensland state election was held nevertheless the outcome of the poll was certain with Labor Premier Peter Beattie poised to win a third term.
547 - 31 Jan 2004 - TAIWAN: March election a key issue in China, Jeff Babb
Chens strategy is aimed at gaining him re-election in the presidential race not to cause a war.
548 - 31 Jan 2004 - ECONOMY: Amend Trade Practices Act to protect small business, Evan Jones
The movement of the relevant sections of the Trade Practices Act (relating to financial dealings) into the ASIC Act after the 2001 election was ill-informed.
549 - 31 Jan 2004 - CANBERRA OBSERVED : Vultures circle wounded Democrats,
The Labor Party at least appears to have learnt that disunity is death for a political party knuckling in under Mark Latham to at least give him a chance at the coming election but the behaviour of the Democrats has been one step beyond disunity.
550 - 31 Jan 2004 - COVER STORY: More surprises likely in Queensland poll, Peter Westmore
Victor Sirl reports that the Queensland election is full of uncertainties and surprises while the ALP has squandered some of its massive lead in the polls.
551 - 10 Jan 2004 - EDITORIAL: Battle lines drawn for 2004, Peter Westmore
Last month Federal Labor Parliamentarians dismayed by the inability of Simon Crean to match John Howard decided to gamble on a new-look Labor leadership electing Mark Latham to lead the party into the next Federal Election.
552 - 10 Jan 2004 - COVER STORY: Daniel Mannix: the man and his legacy, Michael Gilchrist
Santamaria held further discussions with Mr Holt arguing that 1963 was the time to take a decisive step on State Aid a step which could only prove beneficial to the Government at a Federal election.
553 - 13 Dec 2003 - TRADE: US-China exchange rate battle to affect Australian exporters, Jeff Babb
With the US manufacturing industry hurting particularly in the industrial mid-West states in the US that Bush must win to gain re-election the US Government is in a bind.
554 - 13 Dec 2003 - HONG KONG: Pro-democracy party triumphs in HK election, Peter Westmore
In a ringing endorsement of Hong Kongs pro-democracy movement District Council elections in Hong Kong gave victory to the Democratic Party headed by Martin Lee which won 93 seats while the pro-Beijing Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Kong Kong (DAB) lost 21.
555 - 13 Dec 2003 - COVER STORY : Does a new ALP leader mean a new direction?, Peter Westmore
However at a deeper level there have been enormous strains inside the party pent-up anger over the asylum seeker question and over Beazleys inability to differentiate himself from Howard at the last election.
556 - 29 Nov 2003 - LETTERS: Organised opposition, J.R. Barich
After all if Federal Labor win the next election we could end up with every Government in Australia in the ALP hands.
557 - 29 Nov 2003 - STRAWS IN THE WIND: Poleaxed / Tax Avoidance / Collateral damage, Max Teichmann
Labor would have won an election (crushingly too) for they collected a two-party support of 53 per cent.
558 - 29 Nov 2003 - QUEENSLAND: Labor falters, but where is the opposition?, News Weekly
Hansonism was essentially cultural conservatism with a flair of red hair and its success was illustrated in the 1998 state election where almost one in four Queenslanders decided they would vote for One Nation.
559 - 29 Nov 2003 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Illegal immigration returns as an election issue, News Weekly
Turning point elections have a habit of acquiring their own mythology in Australian politics and creating invaluable history lessons for all politicians.
560 - 15 Nov 2003 - TRADING BLOCS: Risks in the US Free Trade Agreement, Colin Teese
While all of these facts are staring us in the face our Prime Minister is rushing to complete an FTA with the US before the end of the year; apparently because he fears if it is not finished by then nothing can happen until after the next US election.
561 - 15 Nov 2003 - CANBERRA OBSERVED : The Greens' road-block to a double dissolution, News Weekly
Bob Browns antics during the visit of President George Bush gave Prime Minister John Howard a taste of what life might be like if the Greens dominated the Senate after the next election.
562 - 01 Nov 2003 - ASIA: Siberia - China's 'great game' to reshape Asian region, Jeff Babb
A satisfactory reconciliation of these claims would give Japans Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi an enormous boost in the polls before the looming election.
563 - 01 Nov 2003 - STRAWS IN THE WIND: Jim Cairns remembered, Max Teichmann
Not very long before the 1972 election when McMahon and company were obviously heading for defeat Cairns drove my wife and I up to a conference in Warburton where he and I were to read papers.
564 - 01 Nov 2003 - WATER: Federals distance themselves from 'The Living Murray', Patrick Byrne
Allan was elected in a by-election after the resignation of National Party figure Pat McNamara in the late 90s.
565 - 18 Oct 2003 - STRAWS IN THE WIND: Flying down to Rio / Shooting stars and black holes / Digging holes and filling them up again, Max Teichmann
In another barely reported state election this time in Bavaria Germanys most prosperous state Schroeders Social Democrats polled their lowest since the war.
566 - 18 Oct 2003 - LETTERS: WA capitulates on Competition Policy (letter), Pietro Giuliano
Despite assurances by the WA Liquor Minister Nick Griffiths that it would not surrender to the National Competition Policy on liquor matters - Labors election promise was to oppose deregulation of the liquor industry...
567 - 18 Oct 2003 - FEDERAL ELECTION: Deregulation, drought, the dollar and the $7.5 billion surplus, Pat Byrne
Do we have any political leaders with a vision beyond massaging marginal electorates with temporary projects using large budget surpluses in the run up to periodic elections?
568 - 18 Oct 2003 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Reshuffling the decks, News Weekly
In other words after three election wins he could afford to be generous.
569 - 04 Oct 2003 - LETTERS: Sugar industry (letter), De-Anne Kelly
The distress in the industry continues however despite the best intentions of the Australian Governments assistance packages and this could get worse if the Beattie Government is returned to power after the forthcoming State election with the same overwhelming majority.
570 - 04 Oct 2003 - DRUGS: Kings Cross injecting room's $2.4m road to nowhere, Michael D. Robinson
In his own words the four year funding extension will put the decision off until after the next NSW state election and it will be someone elses problem then.
571 - 04 Oct 2003 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Will Carmen Lawrence sink Simon Crean?, News Weekly
Carmen Lawrences election would be a monument to the failure of Creans plans to democratise the ALP and perhaps fatally undermine his position as parliamentary leader.
572 - 20 Sep 2003 - ASIA: Taiwan and United Nations membership, Jeffrey Babb
Part of Chens plan seeks to goad the PRC into threatening Taiwan which helped Lee win his election as a KMT candidate by standing up to Beijing.
573 - 20 Sep 2003 - COMMENT: Behind the fall of Pauline Hanson, Victor Sirl
The problem was fixed before the next state election.
574 - 20 Sep 2003 - ETHANOL DEBATE: Eminent doctors and scientists call for ethanol biofuel blends, News Weekly
In support of the Federal Coalition 2001 election commitment we advocate the expansion of the market for domestically produced renewable biofuels to reduce Australias dependence on imported petroleum spur rural economic development creating new jobs and tax revenue and improve environmental quality by reducing emissions of harmful pollutants and greenhouse gases.
575 - 20 Sep 2003 - STRAWS IN THE WIND: Rank and bile membership / ALP middle class, Max Teichmann
In Australia this can only work for a few elections and it only needs someone like Bob Carr to turn up embodying enough of the Howard social philosophy for many of the Liberal support base to move over to Labor.
576 - 20 Sep 2003 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Carr for Canberra?, NW
The cynical way the head office of New South Wales ALP has flown the Carr-for-Canberra kite after successfully shutting it down completely as an election issue only a few months ago is almost breathtaking.
577 - 06 Sep 2003 - NATIONAL PARTY: Why John Anderson should stay, Victor Sirl
According to media reports a number of his National Party colleagues are pressing him to make a decision soon so a new leader can be given time to establish himself in the job before the next election.
578 - 06 Sep 2003 - Australian Senate backs Hong Kong democrats against China, Victor Sirl
Yet under the Basic Law it is stated that it is possible for Hong Kong to eventually elect them all as well as the Chief Executive who is currently chosen by an election committee of 800 people the great majority of whom are under the influence if not control of Beijing.
579 - 23 Aug 2003 - PHILIPPINES: Filipino coup attempt destabilises Arroyo, Jeff Babb
Second little doubt seems to remain that the mutiny will now play a part in a larger plot to destabilise the Arroyo presidency in the year leading to the next presidential election in 2004.
580 - 23 Aug 2003 - NEW ZEALAND: The story behind the destruction of ANZUS, Bernard Moran
Then Muldoon called a snap election.
581 - 23 Aug 2003 - COMMENT: Feminist arithmetic, Babette Francis
It helps pro-abortion pro-affirmative action feminists win pre-selection and helps fund their election campaigns.
582 - 23 Aug 2003 - STRAWS IN THE WIND: Dictators and dark continents / Get Blair, Max Teichmann
Get Blair The long drawn out campaign to unseat Tony Blair started from the day after his election and followed upon an earlier struggle to keep him from the Labour leadership and incidentally thereby prevent Labour from regaining power after 18 years in the electoral wilderness.
583 - 23 Aug 2003 - ECONOMY: The housing boom: history repeats, Colin Teese
Well the warning signs have hit the Government with an election on the horizon.
584 - 23 Aug 2003 - EDITORIAL: Australia-US trade deal and the debt crisis, Peter Westmore
The Keating Governments largest quarterly debt figure peaked at $2.6 billion in 1995 prompting John Howard then in opposition to make the foreign debt an issue at the 1996 election.
585 - 09 Aug 2003 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: National Party and the Anderson legacy, News Weekly
Factors Mr Howards good working relationship with his deputy a desire for ministerial continuity combined with a fear of a precipitative exit of able senior and experienced ministers coupled with an aversion to by-elections were all factors in the PMs plea for Mr Anderson to stay.
586 - 26 Jul 2003 - Referendum question divides Taiwan, Jeff Babb
Chen also recently announced that there would be no direct flights between Taiwan and the mainland during his term in office which apparently contradicts an undertaking he gave during his election campaign to strengthen relations with the mainland.
587 - 26 Jul 2003 - GOVERNMENT: Democracy needs a professional public service, Colin Teese
There is more to good government than regular democratic elections.
588 - 26 Jul 2003 - Will Saddam win Phase II of the war? (letter), W. Adie
It was in Vietnam that we first saw in action the corrosive combination of ratings-driven TV and fabrication-prone press disinformed and profoundly parochial voters and Congress and poll-driven politicians focussed on re-election.
589 - 26 Jul 2003 - STRAWS IN THE WIND: Star Wars / Provocative, Max Teichmann
He just had to win that second election.
590 - 26 Jul 2003 - COVER STORY: Universities: battleground for next election?, News Weekly
It has been a long time since higher education was a central election issue in the federal political arena but all indications are that the next poll will be different.
591 - 12 Jul 2003 - DEFLATION: Is the world economy sailing into unchartered territory?, Pat Byrne
Next year George Bush Jnr faces another US presidential election.
592 - 12 Jul 2003 - COVER STORY: Will Telstra sale complete Liberals' takeover of Nationals?, News Weekly
Departure In fact there are persistent rumours that Mr Anderson will depart the stage as soon as the next election - before the telecommunications giant is sold.
593 - 28 Jun 2003 - AGRICULTURE: National water trading plan questioned, Pat Byrne
The Federal Government has placed water issues high on its list of priorities in the run up to the next election.
594 - 28 Jun 2003 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Why the Crean-Beazley issue is unresolved, News Weekly
At the 2001 election Mr Beazley and his supporters claimed to have saved the Labor Party from a terrible defeat after John Howard used the Australian Defence Force and asylum seekers rescued by the Norwegian Tampa to make his stand against illegal immigrants.
595 - 14 Jun 2003 - SOUTH ASIA: Can India, Pakistan reach an accommodation?, Sharif Shuja
US Special Forces in Pakistan are still hunting for Al-Qaeda militants while President Pervez Musharraf has already cracked down on madrassas (religious schools) and changed the countrys election system.
596 - 14 Jun 2003 - COMMENT: How deep is our 'killing culture'?, David Perrin
As well those that support the sanctity of human life position have shown in the past that they will not use their arguments in letter-writing campaigns or their votes at elections to protect the most vulnerable in our society.
597 - 14 Jun 2003 - Tax cuts for families? (letter), W.T. McCarthy
Families and students will suffer and naturally this will be reflected at the ballot box when the next election is called.
598 - 14 Jun 2003 - COVER STORY: House prices, mortgage rates to decide next election, News Weekly
Since then Crean has announced some constitutional plans for four-year terms and simultaneous state and federal elections.
599 - 31 May 2003 - President Vicente Fox and Mexico's demographic threat, R.J. Stove
Mexico like the USA underwent an epoch-making presidential election in 2000.
600 - 31 May 2003 - ECONOMY: Where the Budget leaves us, Colin Teese
Older readers of this journal will recall the days when on the morning after budget night the headline frequently was - except in an election year - smokes beer up.
601 - 31 May 2003 - Family Law Act: the damage continues, News Weekly
If ever the Parliaments talented Independents wanted an issue to pursue to consolidate their place at the next election the Family Law Act is it.
602 - 31 May 2003 - COVER STORY: The Twilight of the Elites, Professor David Flint
There can be no doubt that the elites suffered a devastating defeat in the Australian Federal election on November 10 2001.
603 - 17 May 2003 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Government sets itself a trap on Medicare, News Weekly
Labor and the Democrats will join forces to vote down the proposals in the Senate and Simon Crean would love nothing better than to fight an election on Medicare.
604 - 03 May 2003 - Will Alston repeat Keating's mistakes on media ownership?, Tim Wallace
Suich believes the Hawke Government wanted to give Murdoch and Packer enough commercial incentive to not exercise their formidable editorial power against Labors re-election prospects.
605 - 03 May 2003 - COVER STORY: Why Crean's departure won't rescue Labor, Peter Westmore
The Federal Labor Caucus apparent desire to switch leaders well before the next election possibly within weeks will do little to fix one of the fundamental problems facing the party - denial.
606 - 05 Apr 2003 - School students, demonstrations and the New Civics, Alan Barcan
The Australian Democrats are committed to direct election of their leader by party members.
607 - 05 Apr 2003 - How taxation hits families, Damien Tudehope
If tax cuts are promised ahead of the next election they wont appear in our pay packets until 2005 by which time the top rate will begin to kick in just above average weekly earnings.
608 - 05 Apr 2003 - NSW Election: Bob Carr's next four years, News Weekly
In spite of Bob Carrs overwhelming third-term victory in the New South Wales election there are a few hidden problems ahead for the NSW Labor Party.
609 - 05 Apr 2003 - Water rights: an emerging political issue in the Murray Darling Basin, Pat Byrne
The political reality is that the public outcry would see the government removed at the next election.
610 - 22 Mar 2003 - LETTERS: The vision thing (letter), Brain Handley
Sir John Brogdens political star flickering on the NSW election horizon is likely to fade quickly like that of so many other dripping wet small-l Liberals around the country.
611 - 22 Mar 2003 - MEDIA: Accord strikes a chord / 'Australian' shake-up a matter of opinion, John Styles
The 20th anniversary of the election of the Hawke Government predictably produced a stream of dewy-eyed journalism.
612 - 22 Mar 2003 - BIOETHICS: Embryo research and state laws, Richard Egan
Premier Carr if he wins the election will probably follow suit despite his advocacy of cloning human embryos for research.
613 - 22 Mar 2003 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: After Iraq: the challenge facing John Howard, News Weekly
Observers will remember that President Bush won the war (the first Gulf War) but lost the following election to Bill Clinton and in the process created nearly a decade of Democrat domination of the White House.
614 - 22 Mar 2003 - COVER STORY: The future ... after Iraq, Peter Westmore
However in the Middle East a by-election in Turkey has brought back into power Ercep Erdogan a strong supporter of military operations against Saddam Hussein.
615 - 08 Mar 2003 - ASIA: Taiwan: opposition parties combine for next poll, Jeff Babb
There was also speculation that Yu might run as vice president to Chen in the presidential elections due next year.
616 - 22 Feb 2003 - QUEENSLAND: Dangers in Qld Nats' move to become 'relevant', Victor Sirl
Many booth workers on election day come from pro-life groups.
617 - 22 Feb 2003 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: NSW Liberals in the spotlight as election looms, News Weekly
If Kim Beazley thought he couldnt get a run with his policies at the last federal election pity the new NSW Liberal leader John Brogden.
618 - 08 Feb 2003 - STRAWS IN THE WIND: False Dawn / Iraq another Vietnam? / UN: ideal and reality, Max Teichmann
The extent of the hijack can be seen with the election of Gaddafis man to chair the UN Commission on Human Rights.
619 - 08 Feb 2003 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Howard turns eyes to NSW poll, News Weekly
The state branches are showing clear signs of decay as each state election sends more sitting Liberals to the unemployment queue.
620 - 25 Jan 2003 - COMMENT: Sean Penn, Blue Heelers: the politics of celebrity, Michael Scammell
For example Olympic champion Cathy Freeman has stated her interest in a future career in parliament and at the recent Victorian state election ex-AFL coach Damian Drum and Olympic ski champion Kirsty Marshall were both elected to Parliament.
621 - 11 Jan 2003 - COMMENT: In the wake of the Cultural Revolution, Pat Byrne
According to the Partys former National Secretary Gary Gray Labor is now four times more dependent on corporate money for election campaigning than on the trade unions.
622 - 11 Jan 2003 - BIOETHICS: Embryo battle was worth the fight, Richard Egan
By the next round of State and Federal elections (excluding the 2003 New South Wales election) electors should know where every sitting member of the Commonwealth and State Parliaments stands on the destruction of innocent human life.
623 - 14 Dec 2002 - HISTORY: Revisiting the Dismissal, Kenneth Gee
The 30th anniversary of the election of the Whitlam Government prompts consideration of its dismissal three years later.
624 - 14 Dec 2002 - Ignored Australians (letter), Alan Barron
This must mean more bureaucratic interference in local pre-selection processes to enforce the 40 per cent rule.
625 - 14 Dec 2002 - VICTORIAN ELECTION: Cause of Liberals' decimation clear, Max Teichmann
John Brumby spoke for us all when in an exchange with Ted Baillieu on election night said the Liberals dont believe in anything.
626 - 14 Dec 2002 - COVER STORY: Why the Liberals were wiped out in Victoria, Peter Westmore
Behind the hype and headlines surrounding the re-election of the Bracks Labor Government in Victoria some important facts have been largely ignored.
627 - 30 Nov 2002 - BOOKS: Rethinking Peter Singer, Bill Muehlenberg (reviewer)
These are two of four quotes from philosopher Peter Singer that were featured in a quarter-page ad in the Australian newspaper during the 1996 Federal Election.
628 - 30 Nov 2002 - AGRICULTURE: US free trade deal: will it help sugar farmers?, Pat Byrne
He said that the prospects for the impending Doha Round of the WTO and the FTAA are both looking clouded for the Bush Administration because they would require big concessions from the US in the midst of a presidential election campaign the election is due in November 2004.
629 - 30 Nov 2002 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Medicare a 'sleeper' issue for Liberals, Labor, News Weekly
Any threat to dismantle Medicare as was done by John Hewson in 1993 would also give Labor the ultimate election scare weapon.
630 - 16 Nov 2002 - COMMENT: Lack of respect for early human life must be addressed, David Perrin
Before the last federal election the Howard Government approved the use of the morning after pill (Postinor 2) without any public debate.
631 - 16 Nov 2002 - QUEENSLAND: ALP browns off its rank-and-file, Victor Sirl
His snub did not occur without derision nor his warning that the unions might cost Labor the next election.
632 - 16 Nov 2002 - STRAWS IN THE WIND: Vanity, all is vanity / That was the town that was, Max Teichmann
The Australian Financial Review also reports a Barmy Army of British backpackers in a Sydney call centre trawling through Coles Myers share register and polling the 560000 shareholders as to how they would vote at this months company elections.
633 - 16 Nov 2002 - VICTORIA: Bracks launches shock bid for second term, Peter Westmore
His timing barely leaves time for any sort of election campaign.
634 - 02 Nov 2002 - ASIA: Behind Pakistan's Islamist revival, Dr Sharif Shuja
Recent elections in Pakistan show a marked increase in electoral support for Islamic parties.
635 - 02 Nov 2002 - EUROPE: New members, new problems for European Union, Max Teichmann
It is even plausible to date West Germanys decline from being one of the growth engines of the West to being a sluggish slowly-growing country with four million unemployed a budget deficit (concealed until after the recent election) and a string of big business failures - from that fateful reunification day.
636 - 02 Nov 2002 - ECONOMICS: Getting to work on the world economy, Colin Teese
Last weekend Labor became the first opposition party in fifty years to lose a seat at a by-election.
637 - 02 Nov 2002 - WESTERN AUSTRALIA: 'Unlawful' electoral changes: McGinty tries again, Richard Egan
The outcome of Labors increasingly desperate and arrogant attempts to secure its electoral reform agenda has significant implications for the next election in Western Australia due to be held in February 2005.
638 - 02 Nov 2002 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Vultures circle Crean after Cunningham debacle, News Weekly
Simon Crean can claim some mitigating circumstances for the Labor Partys unprecedented defeat in the New South Wales Cunningham by-election but this will not stop the vultures starting to circle around his leadership.
639 - 19 Oct 2002 - COMMENT: Dysfunctional Victoria, Babette Francis
A State election may be held in Victoria at any time after November 2002.
640 - 19 Oct 2002 - LETTERS: Superannuation and the ALP (letter), Robert Bom
The question for the electorate at the next election will be if they will allow the ALP and the unions to go ahead with this blatant piece of feather-bedding.
641 - 19 Oct 2002 - FINANCE: A $50 billion war chest for the ALP?, News Weekly
That would give a future Labor Government the ability to undertake enormous investment in the economy and a sizable war chest that would last for a number of election cycles.
642 - 19 Oct 2002 - STRAWS IN THE WIND: Yes - it is about oil, and arms, and ... doublethink, Max Teichmann
His half-term election is pending.
643 - 19 Oct 2002 - SOUTH AUSTRALIA: Social 'reforms': Rann's devious politics, Paul Russell
To prove the point: honoring an election promise Rann recently instigated a discussion paper on the issue of religious vilification and discrimination laws.
644 - 19 Oct 2002 - NATIONAL AFFAIRS: ALP Conference: triumph of 'spin' over substance, Peter Westmore
It was significant that the Secretary of the NSW Labor Council John Robertson pointed out that reducing union representation from 60 per cent to 50 per cent would not deliver one extra vote at the election.
645 - 05 Oct 2002 - LETTERS: On our own terms (letter), Michael Jardine
Australia should look to itself and remind politicians at the next election.
646 - 05 Oct 2002 - STRAWS IN THE WIND: Goodbye to all that? Surely!, Max Teichmann
If Labor really lost the election over Tampa it was on that night - for Beazley thereafter was stigmatised by the voters as a weak leader who could not even rule his own party and deliver on his commitments.
647 - 05 Oct 2002 - GERMANY: Floods, Iraq help Schroeder scrape back, R.J. Stove
Paradoxically both main candidates in the German election on September 22 - incumbent Social Democrat Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and Bavarias Christian Social Union Premier Edmond Stoiber - have every reason to be pleased with the result.
648 - 21 Sep 2002 - Indonesia: Who are the terrorists in West Papua?, Dr Greg Poulgrain
Indonesia has the worlds largest Muslim population under the leadership of President Megawati and is a secular state but this may change if she does not win the next election in 2004.
649 - 21 Sep 2002 - Singapore-style super scheme: interest stirs in ALP, News Weekly
As promised during the election campaign the Government is also proposing to phase down its iniquitous superannuation surcharge from 15 per cent to 10.5 per cent over time.
650 - 07 Sep 2002 - West Papua 40 years on, Greg Poulgrain
The political party Rais formed the National Mandate Party (PAN) gained only 7% of votes in the last general election but his role as king-maker is his strength.
651 - 07 Sep 2002 - POLITICS: Principles and pragmatism: the Democrats' demise, Colin Teese
Curiously both the major parties changed position on these policies at the same time - and the moment happened to coincide with the election of the Hawke Labor government.
652 - 07 Sep 2002 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Self-destructing Democrats: the real winners, News Weekly
But again in defence of Stott Despoja the last election was a relatively respectable result with the loss of one Senator to the Greens in New South Wales.
653 - 24 Aug 2002 - COMMENT: Can the ABC be saved from itself?, Bill James
At times its efforts descend into caricature as when it ostentatiously whips out the stop watches during election campaigns.
654 - 24 Aug 2002 - STRAWS IN THE WIND: Dizzy with success / Angry amnesiacs, Max Teichmann
He could say that you are watching a phoney war; to be followed by a phoney election.
655 - 24 Aug 2002 - ALP's problems deeper than pre-selections and branch-stacking, News Weekly
At the 2001 election - the supposed status quo poll in which the seats in the House of Representatives barely changed at all - Federal Labor recorded its lowest primary vote since 1906.
656 - 24 Aug 2002 - COVER STORY: Embryo experiments: are there any limits?, Peter Westmore
According to the Center for Responsive Politics the Utah Republican was the number one recipient of money from the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry when he ran for re-election in 2000.
657 - 10 Aug 2002 - WA Liberals' new policy positions, Richard Egan
The statements are for discussion and comment and along with further statements to be issued at the rate of at least one per month are aimed at preparing the Liberal Partys policy platform for the next State election due in early 2005.
658 - 10 Aug 2002 - New Zealand Labour forced into new coalition, Bernard Moran
Bernard Moran reports from Auckland on the outcome of the recent New Zealand election particularly the emergence of a new Christian-based party United Future New Zealand and Winston Peters New Zealand First.
659 - 10 Aug 2002 - Latham steals limelight from lacklustre ALP, News Weekly
On the other hand by the time the next election comes around after decades of useless welfarism Australians may be ready to embrace some serious new proposals at tackling long-term poverty in Australia.
660 - 10 Aug 2002 - COVER STORY: The future of the Australian Democrats, Peter Westmore
At the time Chipp said that the party would seek election to Parliament to keep other politicians honest.
661 - 27 Jul 2002 - STRAWS IN THE WIND: Empty vessels at the old corral / Short-termism, Max Teichmann
The future extends no further than the next election.
662 - 27 Jul 2002 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Telstra sale splits minor parties - but will it be enough?, News Weekly
Perhaps temporarily Meg Lees has recanted from her musings about selling Telstra agreeing to a pact with her parliamentary colleagues that the Democrats will not vote to sell until at least the next election.
663 - 27 Jul 2002 - COVER STORY: Why the Kashmir conflict won't go nuclear, Dr Sharif Shuja
Domestic pressures Mr Vajpayees Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Government is under mounting threat after losing a series of state elections to the opposition Congress Party and is also under attack for its poor economic management.
664 - 27 Jul 2002 - ICC: a clarification (letter), June Beckett
Indeed Ms Bishop only came into the picture after the last Federal election when the inquiry was virtually completed - the written submissions having been already lodged and all of the public hearings and oral evidence having been finalised.
665 - 13 Jul 2002 - AFRICA: Zimbabwe's agriculture, industry face meltdown, Peter Westmore
The countrys problems were compounded by Mugabes victory in Presidential Elections early this year - in an election which international observers said were rigged.
666 - 13 Jul 2002 - CANBERRA: Simon Crean's winter of discontent,
Labor hardheads appear to have already concluded that Crean is not going to lead the ALP to victory at the next election but there is no viable alternative on the horizon.
667 - 29 Jun 2002 - OPINION: Reflections on the British monarchy, Max Teichmann
Tony Blair achieved in the last British election the lowest voter turnout since 1931 while Chirac has just recently coaxed out the smallest number of French to vote in the history of the Fifth Republic (i.e.
668 - 29 Jun 2002 - Who will stand up for small business, rural Australia?, Colin Teese
At other end of the scale - whatever Liberals may say or think about merger - the National Party must face the uncomfortable fact that it is falling further behind at each election.
669 - 29 Jun 2002 - Ancient wisdom (letter), Michael Nelms
Whilst US leaders consider another election their rather large pork barrels and vested self-interests Mr Howards focus may be one more of perceived shorter term political expedience (starry eyed and all the way with LBJ?
670 - 29 Jun 2002 - Sectarianism rears its ugly head in Victorian ALP, News Weekly
The factional dispute also involves some bitter clashes over union elections - with Greg Sword and ALP Secretary David Feeney backing different tickets in balloting within the Health Services Union.
671 - 15 Jun 2002 - DRUGS: WA to go ahead with cannabis toleration, Richard Egan
Liberal leader Colin Barnett has said that his party will oppose the legislation and expects that drugs would become the main issue on which the next State election due in February 2005 would be fought.
672 - 15 Jun 2002 - LAW: ICC report tabled in Parliament, Richard Egan
The Committee circulated these for comments but noted that the Federal election was due and that no further progress on the inquiry was likely until the Committee was reconstituted in the new Parliament.
673 - 15 Jun 2002 - MEDIA: ABC's left-liberal Twilight Zone, John Styles
In the week following the Coalition election victory last November a distressed ABC listener phoned in with a warning for Sandy McCutcheon the presenter of Radio Nationals Australia Talks Back.
674 - 15 Jun 2002 - Nationals' survival depends on new agenda, News Weekly
At the 2001 election Tim Fischers old seat of Farrer went to the Liberals despite the Labor Partys best endeavours behind-the-scenes to help the Nationals retain the seat.
675 - 1 Jun 2002 - BOOKS: 'Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: A portrait of Paul Keating' by Don Watson, John Barich (reviewer)
This was studiously avoided by Mr Beazley in the recent election.
676 - 1 Jun 2002 - DEMOGRAPHY: Budget ignores an ageing Australia, Colin Teese
The Prime Minister has all but admitted that the Government bought its way back into office with a raft of pre-election giveaways; though he stops short of conceding that these have taken the budget into deficit and that now we taxpayers must foot the bill for the excesses.
677 - 1 Jun 2002 - EDITORIAL: The Budget - time for new directions, Peter Westmore
After the events of the past year - a big-spending federal election campaign the September 11 attacks on the US the Afghanistan war and the high cost of meeting the challenge of boat people and Australias East Timor operation - it was inevitable that Federal Government expenditures would blow out pushing the Budget into deficit.
678 - 18 May 2002 - HEALTH: The politics of AIDS in South Africa, John Whitehall
In 1995 after victory over apartheid the ANC sought to fulfil an election promise that the supply of essential drugs would be ensured.
679 - 18 May 2002 - Straws in the Wind: Le System / Apocrypha: Dave's lost column / Ides of March / Sin, Max Teichmann
For example Jacques Chiracs pitiful final speech before the second round of the Presidential election.
680 - 18 May 2002 - Languishing Labor fills its quota, News Weekly
While only the most optimistic Labor stalwarts were expecting a significant bounce from trading in Kim Beazley for Simon Crean the Opposition has simply been drifting and clearly would have lost another election had it been held this month.
681 - 4 May 2002 - Demons and Democrats: Kim Beazley's view, Kim Beazley
As we walked out Eddie Ward said to me Kim Ive got my slogan for the next election.
682 - 4 May 2002 - What Gusmao's election means for East Timor, Peter Westmore
The massive election victory secured by independence hero and former guerrilla leader Jose Xanana Gusmao in East Timors first presidential election will act as a brake on the Fretilin-controlled government after independence on May 20.
683 - 4 May 2002 - MEDIA: Shoot the messenger, John Styles
In particular Stone attacked what he saw as an attempt by many in the media to portray last years Coalition election victory as a trick a race election a rigged result and an illegitimate mandate.
684 - 4 May 2002 - When will John Howard step down?, News Weekly
In other words he might even call another election mid-term.
685 - 20 Apr 2002 - The high price of misplaced idealism, Andrew Bolt
Election promise The federal Labor Party went to the last election promising to scrap plans to build a replacement nuclear reactor at Lucas Heights for medical purposes and to also ban the planned uranium mine at Jabiluka despite incontrovertible evidence that nuclear power is the safest cleanest and most greenhouse gas-friendly source of baseload power.
686 - 20 Apr 2002 - Refugees: where do you stand? (letter), Michael Barr
Children overboard was the cry of choice by the Government during the election campaign.
687 - 20 Apr 2002 - Can the Public Service be depoliticised?, Colin Teese
The practice began with the election of the Whitlam Government in 1972.
688 - 6 Apr 2002 - HISTORY: Demons and Democrats: the story of the Labor Split, Frank Scully
He had made extravagant promises during the 1954 election campaign which they could not pay for.
689 - 6 Apr 2002 - UNITED STATES: Behind Washington's self-serving free trade rhetoric, Bob Browning
He also fears that democracies are being undermined by corporate interests being able to in effect buy elections.
690 - 6 Apr 2002 - New Zealand faces winter of discontent, Peter Westmore
With elections due in New Zealand by the end of the year the Labour Party may retain government despite lukewarm enthusiasm for the Government of Helen Clark which has seen a fall in its popularity in the opinion polls.
691 - 6 Apr 2002 - STRAWS: Selective amnesia / Slow boat to China / Tower of Babel, Max Teichmann
Come the last State election the regions and his party had had enough of him.
692 - 6 Apr 2002 - The facts behind the 'people overboard' affair, Peter Westmore
Media coverage of the people overboard affair last year supported Labor Party claims that the Defence Minister deliberately misled the Australian people about the incident illegitimately helping the government win the last Federal Election.
693 - 23 Mar 2002 - Demons and Democrats: 1950s Labor at the Crossroads, Victor Sirl (reviewer)
Labors federal parliamentary leader Herbert (Doc) Evatt having lost the 1954 election would denounce Bob Santamaria and his associates as evil infiltrators attempting to seize control of the party.
694 - 23 Mar 2002 - Comment: Enron's collapse - the net widens, Bob Browning
Enron chairman Ken Lay was Co-Chairman of the Bush re-election campaign and chairman of the host committee of the Republican National Convention in Houston in 1992.
695 - 23 Mar 2002 - Straws in the Wind: All you need is love / What's in a name?, MaxTeichmann
This latest exercise in manipulation seems simply part of an orchestrated campaign prepared before the Queens visit by people who lost the republic referendum and the election; this is the squalid payback.
696 - 23 Mar 2002 - Government's currency gamble goes bad, News Weekly
And there was a massive depreciation of the $A against the Greenback again almost coinciding with the election of the Howard Government.
697 - 9 Mar 2002 - Comment: Trust: a commodity in short supply, Bob Browning
Foremost on the local political front are allegations that the Howard Government benefited during the last election by either deliberate or negligent deceit over the Tampa refugees.
698 - 9 Mar 2002 - Will CHOGM bite the bullet, oust Mugabe?, Peter Westmore
Commonwealth sanctions led to the collapse of a white minority government in the country then known as Rhodesia in 1979 and free elections in Zimbabwe in 1980.
699 - 9 Mar 2002 - Media putsch overwhelms Governor-General, Dr Ian Spry QC
Dr Hollingworth had been appointed as Governor-General by Mr John Howard whose success in the 2001 Federal election had angered many journalists and others of the left.
700 - 9 Mar 2002 - The Hollingworth Affair, Peter Westmore
There has clearly been a good deal of revenge in the campaign against Hollingworth - payback for 1975 payback for the failure of the Republican referendum payback for Howards asylum seeker election win payback for Hollingworths silence on the same issue and finally payback for the great enemy of enlightened secular society organised Christianity.
701 - 23 Feb 2002 - United States: Is the terrorist threat being politicised?, Bob Browning
President Bushs senior political adviser Karl Rove has already told the Party faithful that Republicans will make the Presidents handling of the war on terrorism the centerpiece of their strategy to win back the Senate and keep control of the House in this years midterm elections (Washington Post January 19 2002).
702 - 23 Feb 2002 - Letters: True ALP position, Frank Bellet
Sir Simon Creans softening of Labors stance on illegal migrants will confirm the belief in the electorate that the ALP was half-hearted about its me-too approach on this matter going into the last federal election.
703 - 23 Feb 2002 - Bioethics: Cloning concerns must be addressed, David Perrin
Before last years federal election a large number of community leaders signed a statement opposing human cloning and also using stem cells from human embryos that cause the embryo to die.
704 - 23 Feb 2002 - Straws in the Wind: Andersen's Fairy Tales / Flying / Out of Africa, Max Teichmann
Six months after Blairs election his Government suddenly settled out-of-court for one-tenth of what the previous government was demanding.
705 - 23 Feb 2002 - 2002 NCC National Conference - Building the Movement, Pat Byrne
He said that during the last Federal election campaign the NCC had backed the campaign to establish a new Development Bank - vital for the future of many businesses for the development of new enterprises and for regional development.
706 - 23 Feb 2002 - Family First rises, Democrats fall, in South Australia poll, Paul Russell
An absence of rattles notwithstanding the state election campaigns of both Liberal and Labor lacked anything that might have offered the voting public of South Australia a clear choice at the February 9 poll.
707 - 23 Feb 2002 - Reality finally bites Democrats' leader, News Weekly
During the course of the federal election campaign there were two striking newspaper pictures of Natasha Stott Despoja.
708 - 23 Feb 2002 - COVER STORY: New Zealand's Economic U-Turn, Peter Westmore
People who anticipate that the whole thing is going to turn to custard by election time late this year are unduly hopeful of disaster he commented.
709 - 9 Feb 2002 - Comment: Terrorism, refugees and the the populist resurgence, Bob Browning
In France the centre-right President Jacques Chirac is expected to fight the next election emphasising immigration security and law and order.
710 - 9 Feb 2002 - East Timor: Opposition warns of Fretilin power grab, Peter Westmore
Leaders of Opposition parties in Dili capital of East Timor have warned that Fretilin the left-wing party which won a majority of votes in Constitutional Assembly elections six months ago intends to hold on to power for five years before holding elections for the National Parliament.
711 - 9 Feb 2002 - Straws in the Wind: Old crooks and new / Paying the piper, Max Teichmann
The latest growth area for such mythical representations from Concerned Australians is the world of snakeheads and their clients being detained under Australian law under policies recently re-endorsed in the election.
712 - 9 Feb 2002 - A tale of two legacies, Davydd Williams
Political spin-doctors are once more strutting their stuff in the South Australian election ensuring that real issues are obscured behind glossy presentations slogans and clicheacute;s.
713 - 9 Feb 2002 - South Australia: Close contest looms in SA Election, Paul Russell
Many within their ranks seemed resigned to the inevitability of the party filling the opposition benches at the next election.
714 - 9 Feb 2002 - Canberra Observed: Simon Crean faces a horrible year ahead, News Weekly
After the 2001 election there should be no illusions about being government in exile - by the end of this term Labor will have been out of office almost 10 years.
715 - 9 Feb 2002 - Cover Story: Water - Australia's most urgent priority, Peter Westmore
It is easier for governments to focus on short-term issues such as the next budget or the next election than on the long-term future of Australia.
716 - 26 Jan 2002 - Letter: Exports and imports, Rowell Walton
He may be able to win an election on the issue of protecting our borders from some poor boat people but he certainly has proven to have no desire to protect our economic borders!
717 - 26 Jan 2002 - Policy not structure the problem for National Party, Brian Handley
After every federal election there is the inevitable party political post mortems in which the winners (who are grinners) evaluate why they are so popular with the electorate and the losers why they are on the nose.
718 - 12 Jan 2002 - Trade: Debt will return to haunt us, Colin Teese
Readers will remember at the time of that election the then Shadow Treasurer Mr Costello alerted us to what he called the Labour debt truck.
719 - 12 Jan 2002 - US welfare cuts coming home to roost?, Bob Browning
As the US mid-term election year approaches the Democratic Party is beginning to think along the lines it did during the Clinton presidential campaign against the previous President Bush: Its the economy stupid!
720 - 12 Jan 2002 - Media - Selective indignation / Ideological consistency, John Styles
The editorial concluded Labor will have to do much more than put new faces on its front bench if it is to recover from Saturdays election rebuff.
721 - 12 Jan 2002 - Books: Demons and Democrats - Re-evaluating Labor's disastrous 'Splits', Bill Hayden
Regrettably we are treading some of this path as is demonstrated in the proclivity for some politicians especially at elections to get tough with law and order responses to what are really deep-seated social problems.
722 - 12 Jan 2002 - Canberra Observed: Howard understands ALP better than it knows itself, News Weekly
Prime Minister Howards third election win over an opponent who was far and away the most liked and respected Opposition Leader in recent memory was a remarkable feat made even more so by the fact that his government had just introduced the most onerous and despised new tax system in recent memory.
723 - 15 Dec 2001 - Letter: Reinvention, Tony O'Brien
Sir John Styles summation of the Democrat leaders reaction to the events on election night (NW December 1) left something unsaid.
724 - 15 Dec 2001 - Media: Parliamentary press gallery poll predictions, John Styles
A News Weekly source reports that the results of another pre-election opinion poll are about to be published.
725 - 15 Dec 2001 - Western Australia: Gallop's drug 'compromise', Richard Egan
The release of this response had been promised for October but was deliberately held back until after the Federal election.
726 - 15 Dec 2001 - Straws in the Wind: Insiders, celebrities and Tic-Tac men, Max Teichmann
If the crash occurred close to an election then the Government would be bailed up with new familiar armies of louts disrupting the airports and the streets.
727 - 15 Dec 2001 - National Day of Action over banks' job cuts, Victor Sirl
The Labor leader took this concept into the recent election attracted no community support for it but rejected Will Baileys call for an inquiry into the effects of bank deregulation and the feasibility of a new Commonwealth-style bank.
728 - 15 Dec 2001 - Canberra Observed: After the election: new look for both sides, News Weekly
However the Victorian Senator has never been a Minister was relegated to third spot on the Liberal Senate ticket before the last election and only got back into the Senate through DLP preferences.
729 - 01 Dec 2001 - WA family debate hots up, News Weekly
If the legislation can be delayed until Parliaments session ends for Christmas the Government may use the summer break to reflect on the strength of the public reaction to its plans; Labors recent Federal defeat; and the inexorable reality that if Premier Geoff Gallop and his colleagues want a second term they cant afford to alienate too many more voters between now and the next State election due in February 2005.
730 - 01 Dec 2001 - Letter: Queue jumping, Peter Golding
Sir One of the more interesting aspects of the recent Federal election result was the complete failure of the self-appointed eacute;lites to influence the voters on the issue of asylum seekers.
731 - 01 Dec 2001 - MEDIA: ABC electioneeringJohn Styles, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, media bias, election coverage
On November 10 2001 Federal election day time differences meant that ABC TVs national poll coverage started at 6.00 pm in New South Wales Victoria and Tasmania 5.30 pm in South Australia 5.00 pm in Queensland 4.30 pm in the Northern Territory and 3.00 pm in Western Australia.
732 - 01 Dec 2001 - Straws in the Wind, Max Teichmann
So much has already been said written and spluttered about the election that the only things left unsaid are the true bits.
733 - 01 Dec 2001 - LAW: International Criminal Court leads to legal uncertainty, Richard Egan
The Treaties Committee which has been inquiring into whether it is in Australias national interest to ratify the ICC Statute since October last year circulated the exposure drafts and indicated that it expected its inquiry to continue after the Federal election.
734 - 01 Dec 2001 - Interview: Will Bailey answers development bank critics, Peter Westmore
Will Bailey former head of the ANZ bank gained widespread media coverage during the Federal election campaign over his call for a public inquiry to examine the effects of bank deregulation and to investigate the feasibility of establishing a new government-backed development bank.
735 - 01 Dec 2001 - Queensland: Boswell beats Hanson, but what now?, Victor Sirl
This means that in an election where the Government was returned with an increased majority the Nationals have lost seats and perhaps a ministerial post.
736 - 01 Dec 2001 - Canberra Observed: Election outcome - reality and dreamland,
Despite the appearance of a status quo election result on November 10 the political landscape has been radically altered and the balance has swung decisively toward conservatism in Australia.
737 - 01 Dec 2001 - Editorial: Policies for John Howard’s agenda, Peter Westmore
During the recent election campaign the Prime Minister John Howard released a series of action plans which foreshadow substantial government investment in a range of areas including increased assistance for Australian industry and greater government expenditure on health education tourism the environment and other areas.
738 - 17 Nov 2001 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Baby bonus signals sea-change in family policy, News Weekly
A funny thing happened along the way to the Federal Election - commentators began to wake up to what is arguably the most pressing social and economic problem facing Australia.
739 - 17 Nov 2001 - Letter: What jobs?, Marcus L'Estrange
Sir The two million Australians searching for work must be wondering when it is their turn to rate a mention in the election campaign.
740 - 17 Nov 2001 - ECONOMICS: Development Bank - a boost for regional enterprise, Dr Mark McGovern
The call by former ANZ Chief Will Bailey for the political parties to support a government inquiry into bank deregulation and the feasibility of establishing a new development bank highlights the forgotten issue in the election campaign - the need for enterprise and regional development.
741 - 17 Nov 2001 - Straws in the Wind: The great wombat race / Inch by inch / Escobar lives!, Max Teichmann
The great wombat race By the time most readers have had a chance to start devouring this issue of News Weekly the election will be over.
742 - 17 Nov 2001 - Editorial: Election 2001 - The issues which must be addressed, Peter Westmore
Due to printing deadlines this comment had to be written before the Federal Election was held; however it will reach you a few days after the election when the outcome will be known to all.
743 - 17 Nov 2001 - Cover Story: Widespread support for Development Bank, Pat Byrne
During the election campaign widespread support emerged for the call by former ANZ Chief Will Bailey for the major parties to support a public inquiry into the effects of bank deregulation after 16 years and into the feasibility of establishing a new government-backed development bank.
744 - 03 Nov 2001 - Law: Family Court redefines man, Richard Egan
Having heard the case in May 2001 he chose to deliver his judgment on October 11 which means the month-long appeal period expires on November 12 immediately after the Federal election.
745 - 03 Nov 2001 - Straws in the Wind: Varieties of evil / Russian fears / My enemy's enemy is my friend, Max Teichmann
Triggered by the new terrorist threat it was foreshadowed by the election of George W.
746 - 03 Nov 2001 - Canberra Observed: Nationals looking down the barrel, News Weekly
Whatever the outcome of the election on November 10 the National Party is the party most likely to end up with fewer seats than it holds in the current Parliament.
747 - 03 Nov 2001 - Election 2001: When will the parties support a new bank?, Pat Byrne
He called on the major political parties to make a commitment before the Federal election into holding a public inquiry next year.
748 - 03 Nov 2001 - Editorial: Why the ALP could win by default, Peter Westmore
As the major parties move into the last fortnight of the campaign the outcome of the election is quite uncertain - not only due to the complex interaction of the war in Afghanistan with domestic issues but also the different voting patterns between WA and Queensland on one hand and the south-eastern states on the other; and complex preference deals involving the minor parties.
749 - 20 Oct 2001 - MEDIA: Mutual admiration / "Beazley-class" subs, John Styles
Mutual admiration Ive got to congratulate the beginning of your program Kim Beazley told 7.30 Report presenter Kerry OBrien during an election special on October 5.
750 - 20 Oct 2001 - Straws in the Wind: Come in, Spinner, Max Teichmann
Come in spinner The election is upon us and the pundits are already saying it will be a close affair.
751 - 20 Oct 2001 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: The 'other' election on November 10, News Weekly
The other election being contested on November 10 is that for the Senate which while failing to attract the same media attention as the contest for control of the Treasury benches is vitally important in deciding who will control the balance of power in the Upper House for the next few years.
752 - 20 Oct 2001 - EDITORIAL: Issues for the forthcoming election, Peter Westmore
The announcement by Prime Minister John Howard of a Federal Election on November 10 was overshadowed by the commencement of Allied attacks on Taliban sites in Afghanistan and the reprisals threatened by terrorist chief Osama bin Laden.
753 - 06 Oct 2001 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Close election still likely, News Weekly
The volatility of opinion polls is causing both sides of federal politics considerable heartburn and consternation in the lead-up to the announcement of the date of the Federal Election.
754 - 22 Sep 2001 - FAMILY: Well-being of families and nation intertwined, Peter Westmore
The election of the Whitlam Government in 1972 is portrayed often as a turning point in Australia ...
755 - 22 Sep 2001 - CANBERRA: Asylum seekers bring ill tidings for Beazley and the ALP, News Weekly
It is more likely that Beazleys minders have been trying to paint a picture of their boss as a kind of an anti-politician in the weeks leading up the election proper a modern leader who dares to be different from the crisp white shirted dark-suited mould.
756 - 08 Sep 2001 - STRAWS IN THE WIND: Bleak House, The gravy boat, The rights of children, Max Teichmann
One knows that an election must be soon upon us - the new Australian type - to judge from the non-stop hysteria from the Opposition and the media blackout of most relevant political information.
757 - 08 Sep 2001 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Northern Territory election: why the CLP lost, News Weekly
And so it was with the recent Northern Territory elections where the Labor Party surprised many by taking power in what had been the proverbial one-party state since self-government two-and-a-half decades ago.
758 - 25 Aug 2001 - Trade: Minister's equanimity as US lamb exports get the chop, Colin Teese
lt is understandable Trade Minister Vaile is in no hurry to bring this unpalatable fact to the attention of Australian farmers especially in an election year.
759 - 25 Aug 2001 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: 2001 Census: strange role of Bureau of Statistics, NW
The hero of the Census form fight is now an ex-politician former Liberal Member for Cook in New South Wales Mr Stephen Mutch who lost pre-selection for his seat to former deputy NSW liberal leader Bruce Baird before the 1998 election.
760 - 11 Aug 2001 - Western Australia: WA Liberals' preference deal could be decisive, Richard Egan
At the Western Australian State Liberal Partys Conference held on the weekend of July 28-29 it was decided over the opposition of Prime Minister John Howard to allow individual candidates for the Federal Election to make the final decision on their how-to-vote cards.
761 - 11 Aug 2001 - Straws in the Wind: Peter's Friends, Max Teichmann
The long march to the election becomes more painful and carbuncular with the passage of each day.
762 - 11 Aug 2001 - Canberra Observed: Telstra creates headache for Beazley pledge, News Weekly
Gottliebsen described the politics as messy and in the understatement of the year declared that it could not happen before an election.
763 - 11 Aug 2001 - Cover Story: The building industry's Royal Commission, Peter Westmore
Some Labor spokesmen denounced the Royal Commission as politically motivated and in this were joined by sections of the media which described it in terms such as a pre-election building industry Royal Commission.
764 - 28 Jul 2001 - Straws in the Wind, Max Teichmann
Mr Abbotts remarks come on the eve of the Aston by-election.
765 - 28 Jul 2001 - Trade lessons for small countries, Colin Teese
An important by-election was looming and public feeling against the takeover was running high.
766 - 28 Jul 2001 - COVER: Dumped imports threaten Golden Circle, Victor Sirl
Queensland contains a number of marginal seats and could prove a crucial and decisive battleground at the coming Federal election.
767 - 28 Jul 2001 - EDITORIAL: The message from Aston, Peter Westmore
For Governments by-elections are always risky as they give the electorate the opportunity to vote against the Government without bringing about its defeat.
768 - 14 Jul 2001 - Books: The China Threat - How the People's Republic Targets America, Bill Gertz, Dr I.C.F. Spry QC (reviewer)
Election contributions from Chinese sources (which despite outcries have never been properly traced) reflected Chinese gratitude for the loosening of trade restrictions.
769 - 14 Jul 2001 - The Media, John Styles
Arent they of course some of the votes Mr Beazley is counting on to help Labor across the line in the Federal election expected later this year?
770 - 14 Jul 2001 - Dissenters highlight dangers in UN report, Richard Egan
It seems unlikely in an election year that the Howard Government would be so foolish as to ratify this Statute which would be seen by many already disillusioned supporters as a surrender of Australian sovereignty.
771 - 14 Jul 2001 - Canberra Observed: Electoral map shows uphill battle for Coalition, News Weekly
While the Coalition appears to have been winning the political debate over recent weeks and pulling back Labors big poll lead in the process a closer analysis of the crucial seats where the forthcoming election will be fought shows just how difficult the task of winning a third term will be for John Howard.
772 - 30 Jun 2001 - Is news what the Big Six say it is?, Bob Browning
Political advertising revenue for the US media shot up from $80 million in 1980 to $1 billion during the last US Federal election.
773 - 30 Jun 2001 - Out of Ireland, Anthony Cappello
On June 7 (the same day as Britains general election) Ireland held a referendum which was to determine if it was to ratify the Treaty of Nice.
774 - 30 Jun 2001 - Hague self-destructs: so why won't the Tory Party?, R.J. Stove
Setting a new record for uselessness as Leader of the Opposition Hague enjoys the distinction of not having won a single by-election.
775 - 30 Jun 2001 - Straws in the Wind, Max Teichmann
Every year every election they are told the systems going to be fixed.
776 - 30 Jun 2001 - National affairs - One.Tel collapse- shades of Fawlty Towers, R.J. Stove
If Kim Beazley promised to sack Fels on Labors first day in power he would look even more inevitable an election-winner than he does now.) It is difficult to suppress a hearty cheer at Adrian Tames remarks in Melbournes Sunday Herald Sun on June 10: Every time some 20-year-old master of the universe steps outside the stock exchange long enough to tell us that nobody could have possibly predicted the latest downturn and really no one is to blame the mask of competence slips further.
777 - 30 Jun 2001 - Canberra observed - Beazley falters in pre-election " phoney war", News WeeklyNews Weekly, National Civic Council, Beazley,Canberra observed, elections Labor, Coalition,
What can be deduced from the peculiar manoeuvrings and tactics which have been conducted by the major parties over the past two months for what has become the phantom early election?
778 - 30 Jun 2001 - Editorial :Winning elections ... or governing the country?, Peter Westmore
For the first four years after its election in 1996 the Howard Governments program was dominated by the pursuit of free market economics continuing the former Labor Governments sell-off of public utilities like Telstra Qantas and government railways; deregulating industrial relations and industries such as dairying and wool; pushing ahead with National Competition Policy; and introducing a new tax system built around the introduction of the Goods and Services Tax (GST).
779 - 16 Jun 2001 - Books: 'THE LIFE AND SOUL OF THE PARTY: A Portrait of Modern Labor', by Brett Evans, Michael Conner (reviewer)
The Life and Soul of the Party is an election-year homage to the ALP.
780 - 16 Jun 2001 - Wanted - a genuine British opposition, R.J. Stove
This News Weekly issue went to press before the outcome of Britains June 7 election was known but all polls forecast a second Blair landslide.
781 - 16 Jun 2001 - The Media, John Styles
As The Sydney Morning Herald editorialised: Until this week Mr Beazley had argued plausibly enough that Labor could only state its policy objectives but not the timing of implementation when Treasury provided an up-to-date assessment of the economic situation during the election campaign.
782 - 02 Jun 2001 - Is the political system for sale?, Bob Browning
Following the 1998 election the AEC reported that: The AECs experience is that since the inception of a national disclosure scheme more than 15 years ago there has been an unwillingness by some to comply with disclosure; others have sought to circumvent its intent by applying the narrowest possible interpretation of the legislation.
783 - 02 Jun 2001 - AFFA stalls on NZ apples issue, Pat Byrne
The US farm sector strongly supported the election of President Bush.
784 - 02 Jun 2001 - Budget sets stage for election campaign, News Weekly
Peter Costello has bought the Howard Government time but not an election victory in his sixth and possibly last federal budget.
785 - 02 Jun 2001 - Indonesia's next President?, Greg Poulgrain
They now favour Megawati whose PDI-P party (Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle) gained most seats in the election but not a majority.
786 - 19 May 2001 - Books: 'Wombats War Whitehall', by W.K. Allen, Arthur J Ballingall (reviewer)
Today of course the public is thoroughly accustomed to receiving almost daily from all levels professional leaks of confidential government business intended to damage the incumbent government of whatever party it happens to be - and reaching plague proportions in any election year.
787 - 19 May 2001 - Books: 'God's Name In Vain', by Stephen L. Carter, Peter Westmore (reviewer)
Some church agencies however have attempted to influence political processes at election time - although there is little evidence that they have had much effect.
788 - 19 May 2001 - Why the domestic market is so important., Colin Teese
Perhaps it is associated with what may be thought advantageous from such action in an election year.
789 - 19 May 2001 - Victoria abandons marriage, David Perrin
With a Federal election due later this year John Howard and Kim Beazley will be appealing to many married couple for their support.
790 - 19 May 2001 - Straws in the Wind - Straws II, Max Teichmann
So a $2 million Constitutional Commission to study Upper House Reform has been set up presumably to produce a report just before the next election which Bracks can use as an election issue.
791 - 19 May 2001 - Straws in the Wind, Max TeichmannNews Weekly, National Civic Council, Max Teichmann , S11, M1, economic rationalism, police,
They plan to run election candidates.
792 - 19 May 2001 - Canberra Observed - Private opinions politicise High Court, News WeeklyNews Weekly, National Civic Council, Justice Kirby, High Court Judges, impartial, education funding,
Given the intensity of the recent political debate between the Coalition and the Opposition Labor Party over education funding these were explosive words particularly in an election year.
793 - 5 May 2001 - Letter: Defence priority, Greg Byrne
And if Howard is beaten at the next election the Liberals will elect a trendy to lead them and hell be as bad as Beazley.
794 - 5 May 2001 - National Affairs: Behind Costello's veto of Woodside takeover, Peter Westmore
The decision by the Federal Treasurer Peter Costello to block the hostile $10 billion Shell takeover of Woodside Petroleum followed concerted pressure on the Treasurer by the Prime Minister John Howard WA Liberal MPs who saw that the takeover would decimate the party in the next Federal Election and Woodside itself.
795 - 5 May 2001 - Canberra Observed: What a Beazley Government means, News Weekly
Beazleys tactic borrowed from the one John Howard was alleged to have used prior to the 1996 election is to make himself and the ALP the smallest possible target while encouraging the hard men of the Labor Party such as Wayne Swan Simon Crean and Senator John Faulkner to go out bashing the Government until as many voters as possible are alienated before the election proper.
796 - 21 Apr 2001 - ECONOMICS: Victims of the "new economy", Bob BrowningNational Civic Council, News Weekly, new economy, free trade, rational economics,
Political injections of soft money reached a record of nearly $500 million in the last election.
797 - 21 Apr 2001 - THE MEDIA, John Styles
Marr savagely attacked the Archbishop across a range of issues from an allegation Dr Pell helped to rescue John Howards re-election to the Archbishops attitude to drug injecting rooms and of course homosexuals.
798 - 21 Apr 2001 - LETTERS, William R. Smith, Rev Fred Nile
Maybe with the coming federal election wheat and cane farmers should keep this in mind.
799 - 21 Apr 2001 - New Voluntary Euthanasia Bill in SA, Paul Russell
In the midst of the media hubbub Adelaides Sunday Mail opinion columnist Andrew Holman summed up the concerns of many South Australians: Here we have a crisis with the Australian dollar problems with unemployment people living in poverty etc etc and along comes one Democrat in our own backyard - SA Deputy Leader Sandra Kanck - who says she wants euthanasia to be an election issue.
800 - 21 Apr 2001 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Costello's future linked to Howard's fate, News WeeklyNational Civic Council, News Weekly, Peter Costello, John Howard, Leadership, Fedral election, treasurer, Labor, Liberal
Peter Costello has finally put to an end all speculation of a challenge to John Howards leadership this side of the Federal election according to a discreetly placed Sydney newspaper report.
801 - 7 Apr 2001 - LETTERS, De-Anne Kelly, Peter Wilkinson, Alan Barron
(News Weekly March 10 2001) but he presents a distorted and may I venture incorrect view of the reasons for the election outcome in Queensland.
802 - 7 Apr 2001 - THE MEDIA, John Styles
This soft ride for the Bracks Labor Government is a continuation of the media treatment the ALP received during the 1999 State election campaign.
803 - 7 Apr 2001 - QUEENSLAND: Horan has the hardest job in Queensland, Victor Sirl
To both former party members and supporters who have abandoned the party at the ballot box Horan has this to say: We have been listening to the people and to the grass roots that will connect the Party to those people who have chosen on the last two state elections to give their support to others.
804 - 7 Apr 2001 - Straws in the Wind, Max Teichmann
NATOs response has been pusillanimous while Bush even before his election started signalling that the US wished to disengage from this damned spot.
805 - 7 Apr 2001 - New Zealand sets up a People's Bank, News Weekly
Labour was ousted at the next election and only regained power with the help of the Alliance in 1999.
806 - 7 Apr 2001 - EDITORIAL: IMF or UN intervention - what's the difference?, Peter Westmore
Reform continues Despite the Governments recent setbacks in Queensland WA and the Ryan by-election both the Prime Minister Howard and Treasurer Costello emphatically declared that the process of economic reform must continue.
807 - 24 Mar 2001 - LETTERS, Ross Lightfoot, Peter Townsend
Their objective in relation to any of the other political parties is to achieve representation for the million people who voted for One Nation at the last Federal election.
808 - 24 Mar 2001 - THE MEDIA, John Styles
Depending on the result for this quarter they may go into the next election having to choose between the party that gave us the recession we had to have and those who courtesy of the GST gave us the one we didnt have to have.
809 - 24 Mar 2001 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Can Howard "placate the crocodile"?, News Weekly
In a bid to avoid repeating the Keating madness of delusion and denial of his final year in office Howard and his team have gone to the opposite extreme in response to mounting evidence of a resentful and ruthless electorate which is determined to vent its spleen in an election year.
810 - 10 Mar 2001 - COMMENT: Paul Lyneham - Australia's H. L. Mencken, R.J. Stove
If the Coalition does not win a Federal election soon this was written during Hewsons campaign many of its members might have to consider retraining for real jobs.
811 - 10 Mar 2001 - THE MEDIA, John Styles
The recent state election results suggest that it has also become a symbolic one.
812 - 10 Mar 2001 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Competition Policy the next to go?, News Weekly
Mr Samuels recent response to critics of the policy after the Queensland election is a case in point.
813 - 10 Mar 2001 - COVER STORY: Nationals: the last hurrah?, Thomas Bradley
The recent Queensland State Election involved a number of interesting messages.
814 - 24 Feb 2001 - LETTERS, Jocelyn Maxwell, Peter Westmore, John Rogers
The coming federal election I suggest will in a large part be about values and not class.
815 - 24 Feb 2001 - THE MEDIA, John Styles
Both papers Irvine and Kincaid reported had endorsed Clinton for election and re-election but have now run editorials criticising his behaviour.
816 - 24 Feb 2001 - WESTERN AUSTRALIA: ALP rides One Nation to victory, Richard Egan
Most of the swing against the Government went to One Nation whose vote was 9.5% statewide about the same as the 1998 Federal election but spread unevenly ranging from 2.8% in Courts seat of Nedlands to 28% in Greenough.
817 - 24 Feb 2001 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: WA result shows Coalition's dilemma, News Weekly
Extraordinary as it may seem Prime Minister John Howard may have been done a small favour by the poor showing of his coalition colleagues in the Western Australian and Queensland state elections.
818 - 24 Feb 2001 - EDITORIAL: A time bomb under the Howard Government, Peter Westmore
Even before the Queensland election it was obvious that the re-emergence of One Nation will have major repercussions for all the main parties and more generally for the direction of future government in Australia.
819 - 10 Feb 2001 - Books: 'A Short History of Australian Liberalism", by Gregory Melleuish, Martin Sheehan (reviewer)
There has been a backlash against this form of liberalism in recent years in the form of the election of the Howard Government in 1996 on an explicitly anti-political correctness platform and in the Pauline Hanson movement.
820 - 10 Feb 2001 - Comment: Pollies protest too much Comment: Pollies protest too much, Michael Scammell
Perhaps politicians of all persuasions could become a little less hyperactive and take up this cue - though in an election year this is hardly likely.
821 - 10 Feb 2001 - The Media, John Styles
a Townsville disc jockey was reported to have asked Queensland Opposition Leader Rob Borbidge during a recent election interview.
822 - 10 Feb 2001 - Straws in the Wind, Max Teichmann
the medias permanent rigged election campaign was foresworn.
823 - 10 Feb 2001 - Canberra Observed: Family trusts - will government bite bullet?, News Weekly
And in the context of an election year in which even the Governments most optimistic boosters concede is going to be difficult to secure a third term the tax on trusts seems like an unnecessary handicap.
824 - 10 Feb 2001 - Queensland: Election outcome difficult to forecast, Brian Mullins
Only one thing is certain in Queenslands current political scene: there will be a State Election on February 17.
825 - 10 Feb 2001 - Western Australia: Much at stake in WA poll, Richard Egan
After eight years in power the Court Government is facing possible defeat or at least a significant reduction in its present 13 seat majority when Western Australian voters go to the polls on February 10 in the first of a series of State and Federal elections for 2001.
826 - 27 Jan 2001 - Letter: Major parties are different, Chris Baker MLA
Sir I was impressed with the well-balanced contribution in your December 2000 edition by Mr Richard Egan concerning the forthcoming WA elections.
827 - 27 Jan 2001 - Comment: Small business - not whingers, just forgotten, Frank Lindsey
Menzies had the foresight to recognise the increasing irrelevance of his party (of which Ellicott later wrote) and in 1974 confided that he had not voted for the Liberals at the previous Federal election.
828 - 27 Jan 2001 - The Media, John Styles
John Ashcroft a former Missouri governor went into last Novembers election as an incumbent Republican senator.
829 - 27 Jan 2001 - Canberra Observed: The year of the elections, News Weekly
With five possibly six elections due to be held around the country this year Australian voters are going to be bombarded with promises on an unprecedented scale.
830 - 16 Dec 2000 - WA POLITICS: WA election - can the Court Government survive?, Richard Egan
The next Western Australian election will be held on a Saturday between 3 February and 24 March 2001.
831 - 16 Dec 2000 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Queensland Labor sinks in electoral rorts, News Weekly
Premier Peter Beattie who faces an election in March has so far managed to distance himself from the affair and the polls show him maintaining a high standing in the community despite the biggest scandal in Queensland since the Fitzgerald era.
832 - 2 Dec 2000 - Straws in the Wind, Max Teichmann
Instead of it being the class/income divide supposedly animating their election contest a far more disturbing split has emerged - racial/ethnic political warfare.
833 - 2 Dec 2000 - THE MEDIA, John Styles
Mayhem in the US election count On 13 November as the impasse in Florida continued why did The Australians Cameron Forbes describe the behaviour of the Bush camp as increasingly reprehensible?
834 - 2 Dec 2000 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Country voters won't buy rural road scheme, News Weekly
If there is no fall by the middle of next year there will be justifiable panic on the backbench and Howards re-election hopes will be in very serious trouble.
835 - 2 Dec 2000 - COVER STORY: U.S. Elections - And the winner is ... Alan Greenspan!, Peter Westmore
Alan Greenspan the Chairman of the US Federal Reserve was not a candidate in either the US Presidential or Congressional elections but he stands to be the big winner from the stalemate which has emerged on Washingtons Capitol Hill.
836 - 18 Nov 2000 - INTERVIEW: Democracy needs a "virtuous" society - George Weigel, News Weekly
Taiwan a few years ago had the first genuinely democratic presidential election in five thousand years.
837 - 18 Nov 2000 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Vote rigging - the ripples widen, News Weekly
The woman Karen Ehrmann was sentenced to three years jail for her deception during a 1993 local government election and a 1998 Mundingburra State poll.
838 - 4 Nov 2000 - National Affairs: Economic conversion for Democrats' leader?, Colin Teese
Is she one might ask with an eye to the next election trying to ride a rising tide of objection to an idea (economic rationalism) ahead of any change of direction of the main parties.
839 - 4 Nov 2000 - United States: Clinton’s legacy to determine U.S. presidential poll, Martin Sheehan
The 2000 US presidential election campaign will probably go down as one of the dullest in modern times.
840 - 21 Oct 2000 - Asia: Is Hong Kong's democracy finished?, Martin Sheehan
DHong Kong people returned to the polls in September in their second election for the Legislative Council since the handover of the former British colony to China in 1997.
841 - 21 Oct 2000 - STRAWS IN THE WIND: What peace process?, Max Teichmann
He judges that most Israelis and Diaspora Jews will rally around a my country right or wrong party or coalition at the coming election producing what Muslims everywhere would see as a no concessions chauvinist government.
842 - 21 Oct 2000 - Canberra Observed: PM's "body surf" swamps ALP, News Weekly
In fact if John Howard went to an early election now he would surely win.
843 - 21 Oct 2000 - The Economy: Australia risks being left out in the cold, Pat Byrne
Probably hell shift that policy into high gear after the US presidential election in a few weeks.
844 - 7 Oct 2000 - Cover Story: Oil: who is blackmailing whom?, Colin Teese
Unless the government can find a way around the problem which preserves the revenue base - while at the same time maintaining the viability of the truckers - fuel prices could become an election loser in their own right.
845 - 23 Sep 2000 - National Affairs: Manufacturers, farmers: a natural alliance, Colin Teese
It means voting for Labor at least for one election.
846 - 23 Sep 2000 - National Affairs: East Timor: Whitlam was the culprit, News Weekly
This deadlock was broken on November 11 1975 when the Governor-General sacked Mr Whitlam and appointed Malcolm Fraser as caretaker Prime Minister to conduct elections a month later.
847 - 9 Sep 2000 - BOOKS: The triumph of spin over substance, Peter Westmore (reviewer)
price: $27.95 These two recently-published books examine the election of Tony Blairs New Labour in 1997 from complementary perspectives: Philip Gould is an advertising executive and British Labour man who played a key role in the transformation of the British Labour Party from a traditional left-wing socialist (but non-Marxist) Party into a pragmatic poll-driven party dominated by intellectuals.
848 - 9 Sep 2000 - As the World Turns,
Instead of a cakewalk for Democrats a competitive election is shaping up - one that might just give Republicans control of the three branches of government.
849 - 9 Sep 2000 - THE MEDIA, John Styles
(In his own modest way Knight has said his association with the Olympics has ruined his chance of ever becoming Premier.) However right at the bottom of a separate panel containing a selection of Carr quotes the NSW Premier reveals that the real reason has less to do with modesty and more to do with being a poll-driven politician: The electorate has told us and the previous government it does not want the Olympic Games politicised.
850 - 9 Sep 2000 - COVER STORY: Inside the World Economic Forum, Colin Teese
The US Presidential and Congressional elections are upon us.
851 - 9 Sep 2000 - EDITORIAL: A way out of the debt trap, Peter Westmore
Election heat All this is bad news for a government which faces an election in a little over a years time.
852 - 26 Aug 2000 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Why Howard’s IVF hand-grenade rattled ALP, News Weekly
The IVF question has the potential to go all the way through to the next election possibly as a trigger for a double dissolution.
853 - 12 Aug 2000 - The $7 Billion Minerals Grab: The fight for control of Australian mining, News Weekly
This is the easy option which will help the governments re-election prospects A government seriously interested in maintaining Australian control over its industries would tighten the conditions under which overseas-owned corporations purchase companies in Australia.
854 - 12 Aug 2000 - Canberra Observed: What’s behind the Carr for Canberra push?, News Weekly
Barring the unlikely but not impossible scenario of Beazley throwing in the towel himself there is virtually no prospect of the ALP dumping him before the next election.
855 - 15 Jul 2000 - Law: Death penalty debate resurfaces in USA, Martin Sheehan
As the presidential election campaign gears up in the US the debate around capital punishment is also building strength.
856 - 15 Jul 2000 - Media: GST ads unchained media bias, John Styles
It even included he said the $16 million cost of the original tax reform campaign the Government ran prior to the 1998 federal election.
857 - 15 Jul 2000 - Straws in the wind, Max Teichmann
But you assure people that you will come up with the answers before the election.
858 - 15 Jul 2000 - Families: The hollowing of the middle class continues, Pat Byrne
In the wake of the rise of One Nation the backlash against the Howard Government at the last election and the defeat of the Kennett Government in Victoria The Australian newspaper recently devoted a week of feature articles to reporting on the distribution of income and wealth in Australia after 17 years of economic rationalism.
859 - 1 Jul 2000 - Letter: Benalla by-election postscript, Kevin O'Neill
Sir Reference the Benalla by-election the Kennett Government was perceived to have spent billions improving metropolitan transport while neglecting the bush.
860 - 1 Jul 2000 - East Asia: Japanese election: more of the same?, Marcus L'Estrange
East Asia: Japanese election: more of the same?
861 - 1 Jul 2000 - Straws in the Wind, Max Teichmann
Certainly the media has been conducting a daily cacophonous election of its own dating back at least from 1992 but now gaining in recklessness demonology and the creation of confusion with the passing of every day.
862 - 1 Jul 2000 - Canberra Observed: National Party caravan still hitched to Coalition, News Weekly
But after the recent redistribution Anthony holds the seat by less than 1 per cent and 6500 angry park residents will not help his re-election chances in the poll due late next year.
863 - 17 Jun 2000 - ASIA: New era for Taiwan, Jeff Babb
The Kuomintang (KMT) ruled Taiwan without interruption until the election of President Chen.
864 - 17 Jun 2000 - LETTERS, Various
The outcome was that at the last election Sitiveni Rabukas party won almost double the number of primary votes but Mr Chaudhry the first Indian leader of the opposition Labour Party had all the support from the Fijian Indians and thus because of the preferences the ethnic Fijian vote was diluted to the extent that an Indian-led government attained office.
865 - 17 Jun 2000 - Straws in the Wind, Max Teichmann
We seem to be in for a long March season (pardon the pun) possibly up til the next election seeing that Labor is showing so few signs of producing a coherent or plausible policy mix and that the Democrats are really two parties and the Greens are ....
866 - 3 Jun 2000 - United States: Manipulating the next generation, Michael Scammell
It is generally considered that the adoption of this strategy in the mid-1990s reinvented the Clinton Presidency from a progressive left-leaning office to a middle ground blancmange winning Clinton the 1996 election.
867 - 3 Jun 2000 - Comment: Traditional supporters not buying what Coalition is selling, John Styles
In the wake of the National Partys narrow but nevertheless spectacular loss in the Benalla state by-election on May 13 The Australian newspapers cartoonist Peter Nicholson summed up the situation.
868 - 3 Jun 2000 - Canberra Observed: National Party vanishing ignominiously, News Weekly
Various state and federal elections have been sending SOS signals to the party hierarchy for more than a decade now but its leaders seem incapable of understanding what is happening in their own heartland.
869 - 6 May 2000 - AFRICA: Zimbabwe violence discredits Mugabe, Dr Ian Spry, QC
But these were simply scapegoats sacrificed by Mugabe before the forthcoming election to produce an illusion that corruption is being fought and to forestall inquiries into Mugabes own affairs.
870 - 6 May 2000 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: PM moves to "reinvent" the Coalition, News Weekly
Can the Coalition reinvent itself into a compassionate conservative government over the next 18 months in time for the next Federal election?
871 - 6 May 2000 - EDITORIAL: Regulating the casino economy, Peter Westmore, National President of the National Civic Council
Prior to the 1996 election the Liberals were so concerned at the level of foreign debt that they ran a debt truck showing the minute-to-minute growth in the debt.
872 - 22 Apr 2000 - POLITICS: Straws in the Wind, Max Teichmann
Up to seven Labor Legislative Councillors now know they can stay on for another eleven years assuming they can beat their non-Labor opponents at the next election.
873 - 22 Apr 2000 - TAIWAN: Opposition wins presidential election, Jeff Babb
Taiwan set off into uncharted waters following the win in the recent presidential elections by Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) candidate Chen Shui-bian.
874 - 22 Apr 2000 - RUSSIA: What Vladimir Putin's election signifies, Vladimir Bukovsky
875 - 22 Apr 2000 - Why Liberal and ALP economic policies are indistinguishable, News Weekly
The ALP now relies on the corporate sector to provide three times as much as the trade unions for its national election campaigns according to recently retired ALP National Secretary Gary Gray.
876 - 22 Apr 2000 - EDITORIAL: The "stolen generation“, Peter Westmore, National President of the National Civic Council
Despite Mr Howards aversion to the Northern Territory law his unwillingness to override his Northern Territory colleagues who had just won a by-election on the issue left him vulnerable to accusations of weakness and indecision.
877 - 8 Apr 2000 - ECONOMICS: How globalisation puts profits before people, Bob Browning
Bob Browinings writings are available on the internet at www.sprint.au/rwb When the Social Democrats seemed poised to win the Swedish election in 1994 the managing directors of four of the countrys biggest international companies threatened publicly that if taxes were raised investments totalling 50 billion Skr would be at risk.
878 - 8 Apr 2000 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Divisions exposed in ranks of Victorian, NSW Liberals, News Weekly
Prime Minister John Howards biggest problem in deciding the timing of the next election may not be the GST but internal problems in the Liberal Party.
879 - 8 Apr 2000 - RURAL: Anger at NP inaction over low farm prices, News Weekly
Mounting resentment at the failure of the Federal Government to address the problems of primary producers in coastal Queensland threatens to boil over into a loss of seats to independents or the Opposition at the next election.
880 - 8 Apr 2000 - EDITORIAL: Mr Howard’s circuit-breaker, Peter Westmore, National President of the National Civic Council
As the Liberal-National Party Coalition Government prepares its Budget for the year 2000 it faces the reality that its survival in next years election will depend upon finding a circuit breaker to bring its increasingly alienated rural heartland back to the Coalition.
881 - 25 Mar 2000 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Immigration policy: whose view will prevail?, News Weekly
On the other hand a population policy has now been taken up by the Labor Party and will form part of its platform for the next election.
882 - 25 Mar 2000 - FAMILY: Mr Howard’s "forgotten people": Australia’s families, John Styles
The Melbourne paper reported that John Howard planned to resurrect the controversial families policy as the central plank of his election strategy.
883 - 25 Mar 2000 - POLITICS: SA swings away from major parties, Mark Posa
In his article Jaensch showed that at the election in 1938 Independent candidates won 40 per cent of the vote giving them 14 seats plus one Single Tax candidate.
884 - 25 Mar 2000 - PAKISTAN: Feudalism: root cause of Pakistan’s malaise, Sharif M Shuja
He acted more like a despot after his landslide election victory in 1997.
885 - 25 Mar 2000 - TAIWAN: Taiwan election presents new challenge for Beijing, News Weekly
As News Weekly goes to press the people of the Republic of China (Taiwan) are preparing to vote in Presidential Elections in which the communist regime in Beijing has found itself siding with its old enemies of the Kuomintang which has run Taiwan since being driven into exile from the mainland in 1949 against the Democratic Progressive Party which has supported a referendum on independence from the mainland.
886 - 11 Mar 2000 - VICTORIA - Return of the Rust Bucket state?, Max Teichmann
But it isnt all right and a number of my friends are saying that Labor in Victoria has already lost the next election.
887 - 11 Mar 2000 - Has Beazley got the "ticker" for a tough line on GST?, News Weekly
Beazley also pleaded guilty of being a prolix politician (speaking in a lengthy and tedious manner) and admitted the next election would be his last chance as Labor leader.
888 - 26 Feb 2000 - CANBERRA OBSERVED: Bush tells Canberra it won't be cajoled, News Weekly
Both the Government and the ALP know the value of the bush vote at the next election.
889 - 26 Feb 2000 - ASIA: Taiwan's poll a rowdy, close run thing, Jeff Babb
Taiwans raucous democracy is full of vigor in the lead-up to the presidential election on March 18.
890 - 26 Feb 2000 - AUSTRIA: Haider: a warning rather than a threat, Max Teichmann
When polled as to how they would vote in a new snap election - Haiders vote had risen from 27 per cent to 37-44 per cent.
891 - 26 Feb 2000 - NATIONAL AFFAIRS: Kernot's leadership ambitions: unfinished business?, John Styles
My ambition is to have the Labor Party elected at the next election and have Kim Beazley as Prime Minister but theres an awful lot of hurdles for me in that until I get to that position.
892 - 26 Feb 2000 - COVER STORY: Power, strikes and privatisation, NCC
In the 1998 Federal Election the Liberal/NP Coalition was returned to office but its majority was cut from 44 to just 13.
893 - 15 Jan 2000 - INDONESIA - Indonesia's dangerous year, Dr Greg Poulgrain
Subsequently however the auditors found discrepancies that seemed to implicate the Golkar party and then President Habibie who was the leading Golkar candidate in the approaching presidential elections in November.
894 - 15 Jan 2000 - ECONOMICS - Seattle conference: what did it all mean?, News Weekly
After all every year is an election year for the US.
895 - 15 Jan 2000 - CANBERRA OBSERVED - Peter Costello: when will he run?, News Weekly
But it was politically inept and a godsend for the Labor Party giving Opposition leader Kim Beazley an issue to run with right through until the next federal election.
896 - 15 Jan 2000 - Contents, News Weekly
Indonesias dangerous year (page 6) Indonesias tumultuous 1999 saw the election of a new President East Timors referendum and its aftermath and centrifugal forces released which have begun to pull he Indonesia apart.
897 - 15 Jan 2000 - BOOKS: 'Robert Menzies: A Life', by A.W. Martin, Peter Coleman (reviewer)
When he won his first election 50 years ago Menzies seemed just the man to kick out the planners and regulators the socialists and kill-joys.
898 - 18 Dec 1999 - CANBERRA OBSERVED - Business tax: now the 'hard sell', News Weekly
Hitting all these people adds up to a considerable number of Liberal and swinging voters - exactly the people the Government should not trying to antagonise going into the next election.
899 - 18 Dec 1999 - Contents, News Weekly
New Zealands swing to the Left (page 8) The election of a Labour-dominated coalition in New Zealand did not come as a surprise.
900 - 04 Dec 1999 - England's countryside: reformed to oblivion, Professor Roger Scruton
The disappearance of rural England will be noticed only some time beyond the next election; and the attempt to prevent it will not win many votes here and now.
901 - 04 Dec 1999 - CANBERRA OBSERVED, News Weekly
Boat people population policy and the ALP The recent panic about armadas of illegal immigrants descending on Australia over the coming months has disguised what is likely to be one of the sleeper issues in the lead-up to the next federal election.
902 - 13 Jun 1998 - New Struggle, New Agenda, New Strategy, Patrick Byrne and Brendan Rodway
And if the global lesson of the twentieth century does not serve as healing inoculation then the vast red whirlwind may repeat itself in entirety Aleksandr Solzhenitstyn New York Times November 28 1993 The electorate delivered its judgment on Labors headlong rush down the path of globalisation at the last Federal election.
903 - 03 May 1997 - How Germany handles interest rates, B.A. Santamaria
Reduced to 100000 rural holdings compared with over 200000 in the 1960s; with a massive rural debt of approximately $17 billion; interest rates at around 15% p.a.; both coalition parties are losing the sympathy and support of the very country people who voted so overwhelmingly against the Keating Government in the last election.