Julia 2010 : the caretaker election / edited by Marian Simms and John Wanna.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Simms, Marian, editor.

Wanna, John, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gillard, Julia.

Elections--Australia.

Elections.

Political campaigns--Australia--History.

Political campaigns.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (384 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Canberra, Australia : ANU E Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This book provides a comprehensive coverage of one of Australia’s most historic elections, which produced a hung parliament and a carefully crafted minority government that remains a heartbeat away from collapse, as well as Australia’s first elected woman Prime Minister and the Australian Greens’ first lower house Member of Parliament. The volume considers the key contextual and possibly determining factors, such as: the role of leadership and ideology in the campaign; the importance of state and regional factors (was there evidence of the two or three speed economy at work?); and the role of policy areas and issues, including the environment, immigration, religion, gender and industrial relations. Contributors utilise a wide range of sources and approaches to provide comprehensive insights into the campaign. This volume notably includes the perspectives of the major political groupings, the ALP, the Coalition and the Greens; and the data from the Australian Election Survey. Finally we conclude with a detailed analysis of those 17 days that it took to construct a minority party government.

Contents:

Preliminary; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Contributors; 1. The Caretaker Election of 2010; Part 1. Leaders, Ideologies and the Campaign; 2. Diary of an Election; 3. Bad Governments Lose: Surely there is no mystery there; 4. The Ideological Contest; Part 2. The Media and the Polls; 5. The New Media and the Campaign; 6. To the Second Decimal Point:How the polls vied to predict the national vote, monitor the marginals and second-guess the Senate; 7. Debates, Town-Hall Meetings and Media Interviews

8. May the Less Threatening Leader of the Opposition Win: The cartoonists' view of election 2010Part 3. The Parties' Perspectives; 9. The 2010 Federal Election:The Liberal Party; 10. The Australian Labor Party; 11. The Greens; Part 4. The States and Regions; 12. New South Wales; 13. Victoria; 14. South Australia; 15. The Northern Territory; 16. Tasmania; 17. The Australian Capital Territory; 18. Queensland; 19. Western Australia at the Polls:A case of resurgent regionalism; 20. Rural and Regional Australia:The ultimate winners?; Part 5. Policies and Issues

21. Managing Gender: The 2010 federal election22. Immigration Issues in the 2010 Federal Election; 23. The Influence of Unions and Business in the 2010 Federal Election: Claims of 'slash and burn' and 'still no response and no answers'; 24. Environmental Issues and the 2010 Campaign; 25. Religion and the 2010 Election: Elephants in the room; Part 6. Election Results; 26. The Results and the Pendulum; 27. Electoral Behaviour in the 2010 Australian Federal Election; 28. Seventeen Days to Power: Making a minority government

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 28, 2016).

ISBN:

9781921862632

1921862637

Publisher Number:

10.26530/OAPEN_459304