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Daylight Saving for South East Queensland Party candidates announced

March 4, 2009

Following the close of nominations for election candidates on Tuesday 3 March 2009, the Daylight Saving for South East Queensland Party (DS4SEQ) has announced that it will field 32 candidates at the election on March 21. In a media release [link to .pdf], DS4SEQ expresses delight at the number of candidates who nominated. From the [...]

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The Trouble with Twitter

March 4, 2009
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Connecting with voters using online tools and social networking is a popular campaign strategy in this election.  The Premier has gone with a web strategy that includes a dedicated website and blog that links to constantly updated profiles on all the major services such as Facebook, Twitter, Friendfeed, and Youtube.  Whether you agree with her [...]

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Candidates announced for the DS4SEQ party

March 3, 2009

A week ago we asked where are the Daylight Saving for South East Queensland candidates? and received a visit from the party advising that the candiate list would be released soon. The DS4SEQ party has now released their candidate list, running candidates in 32 electorates from Ashgrove to Yeerongpilly (although unfortunately not in Stafford, where [...]

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Queensland credit rating downgrade stirs the voters

February 28, 2009
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On Monday of last week Standard & Poor’s lowered Queensland’s credit rating from AAA to AA+, causing a stir in the media and the electorate. The rating downgrade has resulted in a 0.4% increase in the interest rate Queensland pays on its state debt, approximately $200M this year and increasing to $300M the following year. [...]

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Will social networking rule this Election?

February 26, 2009

While many scoff our politicians in their attempts to ‘connect’ with constituents by using the latest internet-based thingy or iFad, both the Labour and LNP marketing teams have been somewhat on the ball in ensuring their key candidates for Premier are all social-networked-up. Given the success Obama had in using things like YouTube and Facebook [...]

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