Last night I watched the ABC TV coverage of the Western Australian re-election count. It was an interesting result. With 68.7% of the vote counted, the governing Liberal/National Coalition won 36.8% (a swing of -7.5%), Labor 21.8% (-4.8%), Greens 15.9% (+6.4%), Palmer United 12.5% (+7.5%), and others 13.0% (-1.6%). In other words, there were significant …
Tag: Framing
Oct 28 2013
Tony Abbott and the politicization of tragedy
While I was blogging about anti-politics, unseasonal bushfires were raging through New South Wales. This has happened as Australia’s new Prime Minister Tony Abbott and his Liberal/National Coalition prepare to scrap the meagre climate policies of the previous government. On 16 October, Greens MP Adam Bandt wrote in the Guardian: Abbott is failing in what …
Oct 26 2013
Anti-politics 6: Delegitimizing the Abbott government
This is the final part of a series about the Australian “anti-politics” attitude and how the green left should respond to it. Part 1 lays out evidence for the attitude and speculates on its causes. Part 2 argues the green left needs to distance itself from political elites. Part 3 discusses how we should communicate …
Oct 24 2013
Anti-politics 5: Courting conservatives
This is the fifth part of a series about the Australian “anti-politics” attitude and how the green left should respond to it. Part 1 lays out evidence for the attitude and speculates on its causes. Part 2 argues the green left needs to distance itself from political elites. Part 3 discusses how we should communicate …
Oct 23 2013
Anti-politics 4: Discrediting neoliberalism
This is the fourth part of a series about the Australian “anti-politics” attitude and how the green left should respond to it. Part 1 lays out evidence for the attitude and speculates on its causes. Part 2 argues the green left needs to distance itself from political elites. Part 3 discusses how we should communicate …
Oct 22 2013
Anti-politics 3: Time to demand a real climate policy
This is the third part of a series about the Australian “anti-politics” attitude and how the green left should respond to it. Part 1 lays out evidence for the attitude and speculates on its causes. Part 2 argues the green left needs to distance itself from political elites. This part discusses how we should communicate …
Oct 21 2013
Anti-politics 2: We need a green populism
This is the second part of a series about the Australian “anti-politics” attitude and how the green left should respond to it. Part 1 lays out evidence for the attitude and speculates on its causes. This part argues the green left needs to distance itself from political elites. In Part 1, I concluded that Australians …
Precarious Climate
- Vote for a real opposition party, not Labor
- Australian climate voting guide
- Defending Assange 7: Trump’s tyranny
- Defending Assange 6: Britain’s bullshit
- Defending Assange 5: Ecuador’s excuses
- Defending Assange 4: “Russiagate” rubbish & media malignment
- Defending Assange 3: Sweden’s salaciousness
- Defending Assange 2: Obama’s obfuscation
- Defending Assange: The value of Wikileaks
- The Extinction Rebellion begins in Australia