Good news and bad news from Essential Research
The latest Essential Research report, covering the first week of June, contains some reassuring findings but also some which are seriously disturbing. First, the good news. The report finds that the Rudd government continues to hold a two-party-preferred lead (52/48) [...]
"I didn't realise… how ignorant I was" – Andrew Johns
UPDATE 2010-06-17: Now AFL gets to have a similar discussion after Mal Brown’s “cannibal” comments. Still doesn’t if you ask me. The shorter version is that last Wednesday Andrew Johns, assistant coach of the NSW State of Origin team, made [...]
Spotlight the Long Weekend 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 politics alone (I sincerely hope), what did people get up to this weekend? Join in, share some tales, regulars and lurkers all!
Saturday Salon
An open thread, where at your weekend leisure, you can discuss anything you like.
Compulsory paternity leave
For all the grimness of the crime at its center, the Danish whodunit The Killing (which concluded on SBS on Wednesday night) sometimes felt like it was set in some progressive fantasyland, a land where politicians backstab and conspire against [...]
Some super profitable companies could pay 58 per cent tax
That’s pretty much what Wayne Swan said in this exchange on the Four Corners report on the RSPT: SARAH FERGUSON (to Wayne Swan): The Minerals Council is arguing, as are major players in the industry, that they’ll be facing a [...]
The imaginings of the conservative mind
Dave at qednet <a HREF="notes that former Hawke-era Labor politician, and long-term IPA employee Gary Johns, seems to have picked up on the post I did on the Greens and their little media splash on high-speed rail. Johns’ op-ed piece [...]
Use of running means in temperature graphs
Climate Progress has a post highlighting that according to NASA the 12-month running mean global temperature has reached a new record in 2010. You can read all about it there, including the full reprint of the Discussion section of the [...]
Media narrative demands Rudd's head on a platter according to Newspoll timetable
By Mark Bahnisch on June 14, 2010
By way of ‘progressing the story’ from Saturday’s round of demands for Kevin Rudd’s political execution from has been Labor figures and mining company director Keith De Lacy, The Australian‘s caravan has moved on. Over the weekend, the paper made [...]
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