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Search The Punch keywords http://www.thepunch.com.au/search/ http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/SAs-whispering-campaign-has-Adelaide-by-the-balls/ Things are reaching fever pitch in the City of Pubs Slash Churches. The election that everyone thought was going to be a low-key shoe-in for Labor has turned out to be quite the ride. There haven’t been any really sexy promises – there’s not enough spare cash around. There’s been a Liberal Party pledge to have a good hard look at a particularly pesky roundabout. South Australia’s one-way freeway might end up being a two-way freeway, which just draws embarrassing attention to the original decision to make it only go one way. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Antony McMullen) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/SAs-whispering-campaign-has-Adelaide-by-the-balls/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/SAs-whispering-campaign-has-Adelaide-by-the-balls/#item2636 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:00:12 +0000 Bruce Hawker is the director of Hawker Britton and is advising the Rann Labor Government on its campaign. We are now at the business end of the South Australian election campaign and the contest is going down to the wire. After years of internal division the Liberal Party had - until this week - managed to develop an appearance of unity on the back of Mike Rann’s problems following the Michelle Chantelois allegations. With four leaders in four years and little more than a veneer of unity following an acrimonious leadership spill involving former deputy leader Vickie Chapman and current leader Isobel Redmond, the Liberal campaign settled on a “small target” strategy. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/SA-election-A-party-that-cant-run-itself/ Bruce Hawker is the director of Hawker Britton and is advising the Rann Labor Government on its campaign. We are now at the business end of the South Australian election campaign and the contest is going down to the wire. After years of internal division the Liberal Party had - until this week - managed to develop an appearance of unity on the back of Mike Rann’s problems following the Michelle Chantelois allegations. With four leaders in four years and little more than a veneer of unity following an acrimonious leadership spill involving former deputy leader Vickie Chapman and current leader Isobel Redmond, the Liberal campaign settled on a “small target” strategy. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Antony McMullen) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/SA-election-A-party-that-cant-run-itself/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/SA-election-A-party-that-cant-run-itself/#item2634 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:00:12 +0000 Bruce Hawker is the director of Hawker Britton and is advising the Rann Labor Government on its campaign. We are now at the business end of the South Australian election campaign and the contest is going down to the wire. After years of internal division the Liberal Party had - until this week - managed to develop an appearance of unity on the back of Mike Rann’s problems following the Michelle Chantelois allegations. With four leaders in four years and little more than a veneer of unity following an acrimonious leadership spill involving former deputy leader Vickie Chapman and current leader Isobel Redmond, the Liberal campaign settled on a “small target” strategy. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/SA-election-Why-Mike-Ranns-time-is-up/ Jamie Briggs is the federal Liberal member for the South Australian seat of Mayo. In his book, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, the exiled Czech novelist Milan Kundera, explains how to rewrite a states history: “The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory.  Destroy its books, its culture, its history.  Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history.  Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was.” Mike Rann must own a dog eared version of this book if his Punch interview is anything to go by. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Antony McMullen) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/SA-election-Why-Mike-Ranns-time-is-up/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/SA-election-Why-Mike-Ranns-time-is-up/#item2633 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:00:12 +0000 Bruce Hawker is the director of Hawker Britton and is advising the Rann Labor Government on its campaign. We are now at the business end of the South Australian election campaign and the contest is going down to the wire. After years of internal division the Liberal Party had - until this week - managed to develop an appearance of unity on the back of Mike Rann’s problems following the Michelle Chantelois allegations. With four leaders in four years and little more than a veneer of unity following an acrimonious leadership spill involving former deputy leader Vickie Chapman and current leader Isobel Redmond, the Liberal campaign settled on a “small target” strategy. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/bunny-boilover/ It’s been pilloried in song by Paul Kelly as a stuffy and boring place where nothing interesting ever happens, but if someone made a film about the past five months of politics in the City of Churches it would probably attract an MA rating. Economically and culturally South Australia is humming along. Just 10 years ago, in the backdraft of the $3.15 billion collapse of the State Bank on Labor’s watch, it was an economic basketcase which young people were queuing to leave. Last Thursday, on the day I started this piece by sitting down with Premier Mike Rann, the national employment figures confirmed that SA has yet again registered the lowest jobless rate in the land. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Antony McMullen) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/bunny-boilover/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/bunny-boilover/#item2610 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:00:12 +0000 Bruce Hawker is the director of Hawker Britton and is advising the Rann Labor Government on its campaign. We are now at the business end of the South Australian election campaign and the contest is going down to the wire. After years of internal division the Liberal Party had - until this week - managed to develop an appearance of unity on the back of Mike Rann’s problems following the Michelle Chantelois allegations. With four leaders in four years and little more than a veneer of unity following an acrimonious leadership spill involving former deputy leader Vickie Chapman and current leader Isobel Redmond, the Liberal campaign settled on a “small target” strategy. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/its-the-lot-of-the-opposition-leader-to-humiliate-oneself/ South Australian Opposition Leader Isobel Redmond, who’s first action when she won the post was to ban swearing in the party room, has today said she’d be happy to be tasered. So having 50,000 volts of electricity shot through your body might not be as embarrassing as say, sniffing a colleague’s chair, or being outed as having carried a teddy bear around in your uni days, but it’s pretty stupid. And it makes you wonder what we’ve done to deserve politicians who think we’re so easily bought with cheap stunts. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Antony McMullen) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/its-the-lot-of-the-opposition-leader-to-humiliate-oneself/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/its-the-lot-of-the-opposition-leader-to-humiliate-oneself/#item1534 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:00:12 +0000 Bruce Hawker is the director of Hawker Britton and is advising the Rann Labor Government on its campaign. We are now at the business end of the South Australian election campaign and the contest is going down to the wire. After years of internal division the Liberal Party had - until this week - managed to develop an appearance of unity on the back of Mike Rann’s problems following the Michelle Chantelois allegations. With four leaders in four years and little more than a veneer of unity following an acrimonious leadership spill involving former deputy leader Vickie Chapman and current leader Isobel Redmond, the Liberal campaign settled on a “small target” strategy.