Endless rehashing of the Labor leadership change: supplementary thread
Since we’d like commenters to stay on topic, we are providing this thread for all those who wish to continue to discuss the merits of the change from Kevin Rudd to Julia Gillard.
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. What are they hoping that we won’t talk about this week because it’s old news now? Let’s give those stories some oxygen, link to blogs discussing them, and reanimate their shambling zombie corpses.
Asylum Seeker debate ratchets up the rhetoric
A sampling of what’s around the papers this morning:
Gulf Oil spill: nightmare over?
It is a sign of how cautious the main parties have become in the wake of numerous publicity gaffes that nobody was prepared even to hint that the nightmare of oil billowing into the clean waters of the Gulf was over.
Laurie Oakes' 'Kirribilli' intervention
As you are all aware, Laurie Oakes decided to crap all over Julia Gillard’s strategy leading into the election campaign <a href=”http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/head-down-prime-minister-laurie-oakes-is-giving-the-source-bottle-a-fair-old-shake/story-e6frg6zo-1225892382294″ target=”_blank”>with his ‘Kirribilli’ question(s)</a> at the National Press Club last Thursday. For exactly 24 hours it was the [...]
On the election trail
Continue your discussion of the opening salvos in the active election campaigns.
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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!
Galaxy: Labor 52-48, but a pox on both your houses
Possum reports on the first poll released during the election campaign – Galaxy, which comes in with essentially the same numbers as last time, bar a drop in The Greens’ primary vote to 13%, with the one point lost going [...]
Quick link: Jeff Sparrow on "Moving Forward"
Jeff Sparrow at the Overland blog:
Galaxy 52-48 but a pox on both your houses
Possum reports on the first poll released during the election campaign – Galaxy, which comes in with essentially the same numbers as last time, bar a drop in The Greens’ primary vote to 13%, with the one point lost going [...]
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