Lazy Sunday!
Since we don’t live by politics alone (I sincerely hope), what did people get up to this weekend? Join in, share some tales, regulars and lurkers all!
Since we don’t live by politics alone (I sincerely hope), what did people get up to this weekend? Join in, share some tales, regulars and lurkers all!
I have posted a short piece at the ABC’s Drumroll on The Greens’ national campaign launch earlier today in Canberra, which was discussed here at LP on this thread.
Originally posted at Left Flank. The NSW Senate race has produced a sideline of media commentary attacking Lee Rhiannon, the lead Greens candidate and until recently a NSW Upper House MP. Most of it has been along the lines of the socialist menace lurking beneath the apparently acceptable green exterior of the party. Paul Howes, [...]
The AEC has released the Senate group preference tickets online. For those who might not be aware of how this works, if you vote “above the line” (that is, if you put a 1 in one of the parties’ or grouped and ungrouped candidates’ box), then your preferences are allocated according to a ticket lodged [...]
The release of the bushfire royal commission‘s final report is a huge deal down here. There’s multi-page wraparounds on both the Sunday Hun and the Age, for instance. And while the initial focus, particularly in the Hun, has been on the competence or otherwise of several much-maligned heads of the emergency services, the recommendations of [...]
The Greens will be launching their campaign from Canberra today at 12.30 AEST. I’m hoping it will be shown live on ABC News 24, and if it is, I’ll be live tweeting the launch here and using the hashtag #greens.
The title borrowed for this post is that of Tim Dunlop’s excellent article on the deathly grip the media and politicians have each other in. Read the whole thing here. A couple of other excellent pieces on the performance of the political media, and its interconnection with pollies and political strategists, have come to light [...]
[Thanks to Lefty E in comments for the link to the Prime Minister going on the front foot at a press conference in Perth this afternoon.]
Jason Wilson has an excellent post over at Restless Capital on the history of political advertising, and a classification of the various types of ads. In case you need a reminder that some political ads have always been terrible, I offer this example cherrypicked from Wilson’s post:
The Coalition campaign has less money in the coffers than Labor, and if past indications are any guide, they’ll be holding back on their advertising spend for a blitz in the final ten days or so. It’s worth gazing into the near future to see what those ads might be all about. So far, the [...]
Please keep the general election campaign talk (breaking news etc) on these Roundtables, and keep discussions on the other posts focussed on the topic presented by the author.
An open thread, where at your weekend leisure, you can discuss anything you like.
Both Kim and I have made the point in recent days that the polls are narrowing for Labor, and that the election is a real contest. Now, news comes in of the latest Nielsen poll which has the Coalition ahead on the 2PP by 52-48. Primaries are 45% to the Coalition, 36% to Labor, and [...]
There’s been some discussion on another thread of Kevin Rudd’s hospitalisation for an operation to remove his gall bladder. I thought I’d remark that I’ve had the same operation – back in 2004 when I was in my early 30s. In my case, there were complications (I developed peritonitis as well), but it was still [...]
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