Publications

In The Conversation (11.7.14) Adrian Beaumont analyses the ALP’s recent polling at State and Federal level, concluding that the Queensland ALP has some chance of winning

With two reminders of the traumatic 2011 Queensland floods this week, who should take credit for ‘getting us through’? Campbell Newman and the Brisbane floods »

A Queensland poll suggests the premier, Campbell Newman, and more than half his MPs face losing their seats at next year’s election.  The ReachTEL poll of

In a July 2014 ‘Essential’ poll of 1002 Austrlian respondents, 37 per cent considered the Queensland government to be “not very” or “not at all” trustworthy

Dr Danielle Miller and Dr Rae Wear argue:  ‘The Labor Party has traditionally stood for social justice, even if practice has not always followed principle.  Thomas

Lucas Walsh writes in The Conversation (23.6.14) about the problems of young being marginalised in the political system: ‘Research has found that young people continue to

Emeritus Professor Roger Scott discusses the Federal and State budgets, commenting that:  ‘The voting public is justifiably suspicious that the current taxation arrangements are grossly unfair

Deja vu Queensland under the Newman Government:  ‘There’s a worrying thread running through decisionmaking in Canberra’, writes Rodney Tiffen in Inside Story (6 June 2014): ‘Since

The US Tea Party movement: debt crises, guns and illegal aliens » Joe Hockey, ideology and the Tea Party »

1984 doctoral thesis by Ann Scott on education policymaking under the Joh Bjelke-Petersen Government.  The thesis examined the impact of interest groups on education policymaking at

Graeme Orr and Emily Howle write in the Brisbane Times (23.5.14) how the votes of tens of thousands of vulnerable people are threatened by voter ID requirements.

Human rights lawyer Harry Hobbs argues in the Brisbane Times on 23 My 2014 that the Attorney-General should drop his electoral reform legislation:  ‘Queensland’s recent history