Category: Clive Palmer

07 Apr

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WA result: Normal (anti-political) programming resumes

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Ludlam Milne Siewert

For most of the Left the re-election, on a big swing and record vote, of Greens Senator Scott Ludlam will be the most cheering news from the WA Senate special election. The Greens campaign was carried out with a large army of enthusiastic and youthful volunteers — door knocking and staffing phone banks (the latter […]

Filed under: ALP, anti-politics, Christine Milne, Clive Palmer, democracy, Featured, Greens, Scott Ludlam, social democracy, the Right, Tony Abbott

11 Sep

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Caught up in Labor’s crisis: The Greens in 2013

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Bandt

My post-election analysis, including the contradictions of the Greens vote, went up at the Overland website on Tuesday. Lots of good discussion and debate in the comments, also. The Greens’ entry into the alliance was made possible because it took advantage of the rejection of both major parties in 2010, but with the ALP in […]

Filed under: Adam Bandt, ALP, Clive Palmer, Featured, Greens, Liberal Party, Tony Abbott