Labors legacy: six years of. what exactly?
The passing of time and the benefit of hindsight will dull the memory of strategic errors, destabilisation and in-fighting, while highlighting the governments legislative and policy record. In particular, it will be noted that the Rudd and. However, Rudd was more aware than some of his predecessors that Australia could not afford to be complacent about the challenges Australia would face from other economies in the region. In particular, he had long been concerned that��.
Politicians hiring consultancy firm to devise strategy
His party also won the election. Increasingly, standalone candidates across political parties are hiring professionals to devise their pre-election and post-election strategies and execute them, boosting the nascent political advisory business in India.
Key indices snap seven-day losing streak
On the political front, election trends showed that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) was heading for a landslide victory in Delhi assembly elections and that the party will form the next government in the state. As per the status available so far, AAP won 65.
Missing in action? Bill Shortens small target strategy is his.
John Quiggin: Some version of the small target political strategy is effectively forced on an opposition, meaning we should expect criticism of the government to come from elsewhere.. This unpopularity, which has grown over time as politics has become professionalised and poll-driven, pushes opposition parties towards a strategy of risk-avoidance and negativity. The success of the...in the meantime develop policies that would help him win the next election.
From government shutdown to stalled Asia pivot, signals of.
AAP. Most commentary on the US government shutdown concerns the apparent disregard some pigheaded Republicans have for the harm it could do to the American and global economies. While the shutdown will likely be. No matter how ugly the politics gets over the next fortnight, and no matter how much the Tea Party cannot bear to see Obamacare implemented, good sense will most inevitably win out.. Budget and debt ceiling impasse is a very big story.
To fulfil economic agenda, PM Narendra Modi must manage partys cultural right
Having risen through their own efforts they were uncomfortable with Congresss leftish policy of giveaways. Many, however, do not subscribe to Hindutva. Modi may have filled a political vacuum but he has created tensions in his party between the.
ABC staff to learn fate after $254m Coalition budget cuts
���I appeal to members of the Liberal party of Australia and the National party to think carefully about the power play now apparent in what is a Rupert Murdoch-directed ideological attack on the public broadcasters of this country... it is not just a.
An Offer They Cant Refuse | Foreign Policy
Will China win its 65-year war with Taiwan -- without firing a shot?. The 2008 election in Taiwan of Ma Ying-jeou, the head of the Kuomintang Party, helped: Mas party favors closer ties with China, unlike the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), which ran Taiwan for the. Inevitable or not, Beijing still faces the challenge of convincing Taiwan that unification is beneficial ��� and convincing its own people that patience continues to be the best strategy.
Hari Rao: An IT officer turns entrepreneur with carbon-free stove
On a Saturday afternoon, two of Bengalurus top hoteliers walked into a garage, off 11th Cross Road, Anepalya, a busy street in the city. C S Sunderraju and K Nagaraju, promoters of the 168-room Atria hotel in downtown, walked out an hour later with.
Shorten wins, but the ALP plays it safe with democracy
Bill Shorten is the new ALP leader, after an election contest where the votes of the rank and file party members were included for the first time.. Not since the 2010 National Review - undertaken by party elders Bob Carr, Steve Bracks and John Faulkner - has the party memberships views been given so much weight.. A more open competition might have helped the party renew further.. 16 May 2014 Shortens budget in reply: will it reshape voters memories?
Why AAPs free water promise in Delhi is careless populism.
The middle class euphoria over not paying water bills is clouding over the reality that the AAP is implementing a regressive policy measure, which helps the middle class more than the poor... This is a new party AAP. By the way you saying its seems YOU DO NOT WANT THIS PARTY TO DO WELL YET YOU WANT IT TO DO WELL. Come on give it a time. What your other parties (Congress and BJP) has done to this nation... No matter how many times you read it, you wont get it.
Confronting the right wing
Every social scientist is doubly a witness, first as a citizen and second as a scholar. As an academic who watches politics, I begin my observations often as a lament, as a bit of nostalgia and then add to them a touch of despair. Hope takes a bit of.
How top accelerators are becoming choosy about the startups they back
Going forward we will be looking at slightly mature companies, said Abhishek Mitra Gupta, the head of TLabs, which is run by Times Internet, a part of the Times Group that publishes The Economic Times.. While theyre giving them the next set of.
See pre-Budget rally; weak earnings a worry: Kotaks Bhatia
A: The entire Delhi elections -- if we go by the exit polls, we have Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) forming a majority government, which is a welcome development I think again the electorate has voted in a majority government which is always a good thing.
Arvind Kejriwal indicates he will be AAPs CM candidate
Instrumental in devising an unconventional campaign strategy for AAP during the last assembly polls, Kejriwal said he will be the face of the partys campaign this time as well. BJP has already announced that it will not project any chief ministerial.
Abbotts attempt to regroup means new policy uncertainty
On the vexed Medicare changes, Abbott later said while ���obviously we have some proposals which are out there already���, he had told the party room ���there would be no new proposals come forward without the broad backing of the medical profession.
Tony Abbott cant win the battle of ideas with no ideas.
Tony Abbotts negativity made him a formidable opposition leader, but the cynical opportunism of that time has held him back as prime minister.. You cannot win the battle of ideas if you have no ideas; you cannot run an economy on three-word slogans; you do not create jobs by saying ���no��� to everything; and you do not inspire people by misleading them. Before the election, the. The 2014 budget was not a plan for the future but an attack on the gains of the past.
Delhi: AAP has 70 separate manifestos for 70 Assembly.
Ads by Google. ALSO SEE AAP claims victory in Delhi polls, says clear win in 17 seats. Interestingly, in the MIS apartment,. Having small meetings is also a part of AAPs strategy as it helps to establish a personal contact which is perhaps not possible in large gatherings... He formed his own party just before the assembly election and grabbed the neutral and educated peoples vote share, which every one thought would go to the better party called TDP. At the end��.
Hey, big spender: why Campbell Newman loves his election hard-hat
The problem with not having publicly available cost benefit analyses from a voters point of view is that we have no way of checking whether our money is being well spent on the whatever-it-is, or whether we are just being conned into thinking that the.
Delhi Polls: BJP Needs to Decide | Swarajya
The Aam Aadmi Party has swept the Delhi elections, and the principal reason for that lies within the BJP, not in any AAP promises or hopes it generated.. The last time AAP won the Delhi elections, it rode the wave of the aggrieved (everyone in India is aggrieved, from Mukesh Ambani to me, but Arvind Kejriwal focused on a particular demographic of aggrievedness)���free water,.. Cong willingly engaged MIM-AAP deal as it helps them to derail a possible BJP win.
Joe Hockey and the ghost of Bob Menzies ��� Inside Story
Just as Menzies refused to accept the name ���conservative��� for the new party he helped found in 1944, he also strove mightily to convey the impression that the reality was otherwise, and with the help of propaganda, scare campaigns, the cold. and the time to step out from the shadow of Menzies who was no longer relevant (but not so irrelevant as to stop Tony Abbott from reprising the trope with his reference to ���forgotten families��� in his budget reply speech in 2011).
AAPs strategy, not ad budget, helped party win
NEW DELHI/KOLKATA: An advertising campaign that harnessed the resources of volunteers and used the media cleverly played a key role in the Aam Aadmi Partys unprecedented election victory in Delhi, say ad industry executives. While sources say the .
From honest John to Abbott the good bloke: selling.
AAP/Alan Porritt. One of the largest political graveyards is that occupied by former opposition leaders such as Mark Latham who promise in their first interviews to come out fighting. They excite their party base but alienate voters looking for pragmatic solutions.. To be fair to Labor, this is not an easy time to be in government, having to grapple with an economy in transition.. In the past 20 years, Labor has won two federal elections outright: 1993 and 2007. Both of��.
Delhi polls: AAPs win reflective of realignment in Indian politics
The AAP jhadoo that promised a cleaner, more transparent, corruption free, people centered administration seems to have swept all the opposition aside and won the party a victory of staggering proportions. As someone. One thing that has been.
AAP gets public support over Congress help for Delhi.
Delhis wait for a government might get over soon as the Aam Aadmi Party is extensively gauging public opinion on whether it should take Congress support or not through its SMS-web poll and by holding several. BJP sets target of winning 60 seats in Delhi Assembly elections, not to project any face. What opportunism, AAP grew up into typical politicians in double quick time; I guess that was inevitable, considering their mentor was none other than Congress!
Modi tsunami helps BJP sweep Haryana elections
The saffron party today created history by winning 47 of the total 90 assembly seats in Haryana requiring no clutches of an alliance from any political party to form the next government. The party also created a record on the Jat turf by raising its.
Labors Annastacia Palaszczuk faces biggest test yet in Queensland election
She was one of the few surviving Labor members, with the new opposition holding just seven of the 89 seats in state parliament. Leadership options were limited and expectations for Labors recovery were low. Insiders from both major parties said at the.
Xi Jinpings Three Easy Steps to a Clean China - Blogs
by Elizabeth C. Economy December 10, 2012. Chinas newly appointed leader Xi Jinping attends a meeting with foreign experts at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on December 5, 2012. (Ed Jones/Courtesy Reuters). Make first impressions count: Within the first month of Xi being selected as General Secretary of the Communist Party, the Party issued eight new guidelines for officials designed to help them clean up their act and be ���men of the people.��� Most of the new��.
Even if Labor wins the Victorian election, it will be trapped.
Both Labor and the Liberal party wont commit to preferencing, which favours the rightwing microparties: PUP, for example, or the conservative Christian outfits like Rise Up and Family First, the ancient Catholics of the DLP, the Shooters party. Photograph: AAP. Labor is trapped by its own mythology on the Greens: if they win the balance of power in the lower house by taking Melbourne and Richmond, Daniel ���no deals with the Greens��� Andrews must either allow the��.
Social Media Strategy Review ��� Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP.
With the 2014 General Elections closing in, the clash of the Indian political titans has moved to another level altogether and the advent of innovative digital marketing strategies have become an integral part of this paradigm shift... Post 2012, the party adopted a twin strategy which included connecting with more and more people but at the same time building an interest and the desire to stay connected by opening up the doors of IT cell, India 272+ and various other��.
7 Foods So Unsafe Farmers Wont Eat Them | Food Freedom
Where as you and Erin have probably discussed, there are good farms and bad ones, and the bad ones have a hard time managing and fixing their problems when they cant use any drugs to give their cattle some help... Today��� the UN is spearheading this same strategy for the global power elite, who do not want servile humans, whom they see as cannon fodder, to become healthy, wealthy or wise���. As the. ���Do not pity Barack Obama and the Democratic Party.
JandK polls verdict: BJPs Kashmir strategy falls flat
NEW DELHI: It may have got the largest vote-share in JandK, but BJP fell short of the ambitious goal it had set for itself: winning at least one seat from the Valley. Party. Pandits did not vote for us in enough numbers, Shias also have not really.