That was quick: ALP anti-Abbott ad on trust
The full video of the 7 30 report interview can be found here.
Giddens' requiem for New Labour
One of New Labour’s intellectual architects (or court theorists), Anthony Giddens, looks back on the New Labour ‘project’. His article in the New Statesman is a disappointing one, which doesn’t actually show much reflection or much awareness of the dissonances [...]
Peter Van Onselen's war against Class Warfare
Apropos of the AWU’s Resources Super Profits Tax ad [reproduced here on LP], Peter Van Onselen has written a piece in today’s Australian warning Paul Howes of the dire consequences should he engage in that cardinal sin, appearing to advocate [...]
Gillard/Rudd meme reality check
There’s been a bit of discussion about the latest installment in the media narrative, the Gillard breathing down Rudd’s neck meme, on the latest Spin thread. I should add to the list of tricks used to propel a non-story along [...]
Education, elitism and meritocracy
The Economist speculated this week that the Conservative/Liberal Democrat Coalition government in the UK might come to be seen as “government by the southern rich for the southern rich”. Skepticlawyer has an interesting post at her eponymous blog, riffing off [...]
Political attention spans
The most interesting question, for me, in the latest Essential Research poll is this one: Thinking about the Federal Budget – how much attention did you pay to this week’s Federal Budget? <img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/files/2010/05/budgetattention1.png" This is for one of the [...]
The ETS election we never had
We’ve spent a fair bit of time, justly, concentrating on what Mr Denmore called in his guest post “churnalism” – the recycling of PR spin in the guise of news, stirred into to a toxic cocktail of misinformation with a [...]
Newspoll 50-50
… and Galaxy agrees (but see Possum on preference allocations). As The Poll Bludger says: According to taste, the two taken together show Labor either staunching the flow or failing to turn the tide. The primaries in Newspoll (37-43-12 to [...]
Spotlight the Spin
A weekly look at stories various PR people tried to bury in the tail end of the news cycle before this last weekend. Also, what stories are the headpieces stuffed with straw spinning for us first thing this week, and what particular advantage do they hope to gain thereby?
Lazy Sunday!
Since we don’t live by politix alone (I sincerely hope), what did people get up to this weekend? Join in, share some tales, regulars and lurkers all!
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