Showing posts with label Austria. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Austria. Show all posts
Monday, September 30, 2013
Thursday, September 26, 2013
Austrian elections - quick look
quick impressions from looking at the party webpages...
FPO - usual populist "we'll give you more money", "we'll give scummy others less", "look after ourselves and screw the rest (love your neighbour, for us that's other Austrians"
Interestingly apart from posters, hard to find their positions, need to go several links down, and then just find PDFs of party grounding documents.
http://www.fpoe.at
http://www.fpoe.at/dafuer-stehen-wir/
http://www.fpoe.at/fileadmin/Content/portal/PDFs/_dokumente/2011_graz_parteiprogramm_englisch_web.pdf
SPO - relying heavily on the "things are better than in most other EU countries, we've done a good job, let us continue" . Probably safest tactic, and in fairness situation is very good, and people should appreciate that.
http://spoe.at/
http://spoe.at/positionen
OVP - since in Government can't complain, but also seem to want to push themselves forward. Though also quite populist with '7000 tax allowance', "420,000 new jobs" - more free stuff, great!
But, and some kudos due, do have a link to convince people to bother to vote.Even if framed to support their platform, does combat apathy (though cynic could argue it's them and SPO would gain most from the apathetic middle getting involved, and balancing the revved up right wing, which is probably more motivated to vote)
Again apart from some slogans, after brief navigation of the page couldn't find any list of principles, policies.
http://www.oevp.at/Kanzlerwechsel.psp
Greens
As someone pointed out - the ones with the posters of lambs!
Most dramatic webpage, opens with video of traffic, logging, rubbish and melting glaciers...and some lots of ex-government ministers from the other parties in courtrooms!
Once get past that - there's the lamb! Am almost wondering if the lamb is runnig for office....
http://www.gruene.at/
http://www.gruene.at/2013-start
At least they, (or the lamb) has an easy to find election programm (main slogans, clean world, clean politics) - but again links to a pdf, which doesn't even open up automatically in the browser (as other pdfs do).
one has to wonder is it technical incompetence that makes it hard to quickly get the facts (surely an important factor in webdesign in the digital scant attention age) or do they just want to gloss over the details!
In Summary :
Socialists : we're doing grand, let's keep going on together
Conservatives : more jobs, less tax, more family.
Rightwinger : Right-whingers more like. More for us, less for 'them'. all of them.
Greens : Lambs.
FPO - usual populist "we'll give you more money", "we'll give scummy others less", "look after ourselves and screw the rest (love your neighbour, for us that's other Austrians"
Interestingly apart from posters, hard to find their positions, need to go several links down, and then just find PDFs of party grounding documents.
http://www.fpoe.at
http://www.fpoe.at/dafuer-stehen-wir/
http://www.fpoe.at/fileadmin/Content/portal/PDFs/_dokumente/2011_graz_parteiprogramm_englisch_web.pdf
SPO - relying heavily on the "things are better than in most other EU countries, we've done a good job, let us continue" . Probably safest tactic, and in fairness situation is very good, and people should appreciate that.
http://spoe.at/
http://spoe.at/positionen
OVP - since in Government can't complain, but also seem to want to push themselves forward. Though also quite populist with '7000 tax allowance', "420,000 new jobs" - more free stuff, great!
But, and some kudos due, do have a link to convince people to bother to vote.Even if framed to support their platform, does combat apathy (though cynic could argue it's them and SPO would gain most from the apathetic middle getting involved, and balancing the revved up right wing, which is probably more motivated to vote)
Again apart from some slogans, after brief navigation of the page couldn't find any list of principles, policies.
http://www.oevp.at/Kanzlerwechsel.psp
Greens
As someone pointed out - the ones with the posters of lambs!
Most dramatic webpage, opens with video of traffic, logging, rubbish and melting glaciers...and some lots of ex-government ministers from the other parties in courtrooms!
Once get past that - there's the lamb! Am almost wondering if the lamb is runnig for office....
http://www.gruene.at/
http://www.gruene.at/2013-start
At least they, (or the lamb) has an easy to find election programm (main slogans, clean world, clean politics) - but again links to a pdf, which doesn't even open up automatically in the browser (as other pdfs do).
one has to wonder is it technical incompetence that makes it hard to quickly get the facts (surely an important factor in webdesign in the digital scant attention age) or do they just want to gloss over the details!
In Summary :
Socialists : we're doing grand, let's keep going on together
Conservatives : more jobs, less tax, more family.
Rightwinger : Right-whingers more like. More for us, less for 'them'. all of them.
Greens : Lambs.
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Child Well-Being in Rich Countries
Child Well-Being in Rich Countries
Austria : 18th overall
Material well-being 7th
Relative child poverty rate 9th
Child poverty gaps 8th
Child deprivation rates 13th
Percentage of children reporting low family affluence 14th
Health and safety 26th
Infant mortality rate 16th
Low birthweight 20th
Child and youth mortality rates (aged 1 to 19) 19th
Immunization rates 34th'
Educational well-being 23th
Educational achievement by age 15th
Preschool enrolment rates 15th
Participation in further education 28th
NEET rate 15th
Behaviour and risks 17 -
Exposure to violence
Fighthing 18th
Being bullied 25th
Health behaviours
Overweight 15th
Eating fruit 10th
Eating breakfast 23th
Exercise 3th
Risk behaviours
Teenage births 16th
Smoking 25th
Alcohol 16th
Cannabis 8th
Housing and environment 12th
Environmental safety
Homicide rate 2th
Air pollution 15th
Housing
Rooms per person 15th
Multiple housing problems 13th
Austria : 18th overall
Material well-being 7th
Relative child poverty rate 9th
Child poverty gaps 8th
Child deprivation rates 13th
Percentage of children reporting low family affluence 14th
Health and safety 26th
Infant mortality rate 16th
Low birthweight 20th
Child and youth mortality rates (aged 1 to 19) 19th
Immunization rates 34th'
Educational well-being 23th
Educational achievement by age 15th
Preschool enrolment rates 15th
Participation in further education 28th
NEET rate 15th
Behaviour and risks 17 -
Exposure to violence
Fighthing 18th
Being bullied 25th
Health behaviours
Overweight 15th
Eating fruit 10th
Eating breakfast 23th
Exercise 3th
Risk behaviours
Teenage births 16th
Smoking 25th
Alcohol 16th
Cannabis 8th
Housing and environment 12th
Environmental safety
Homicide rate 2th
Air pollution 15th
Housing
Rooms per person 15th
Multiple housing problems 13th
Friday, March 23, 2012
Something rotten in the state of Austria
Although from last year, an illuminating series of articles on the recent corruption scandals in Austria.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,791113,00.html
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,791113-2,00.html
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,791113-3,00.html
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,791113,00.html
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,791113-2,00.html
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,791113-3,00.html
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