Mark Latham on 60 minutes
After all the publicity, and Mark Latham’s risible interventions into the campaign (and the press obsession with his stunts, leading to various actual policy announcements being “overshadowed”), the former Labor leader’s spot on 60 Minutes was underwhelming. Guy Beres sums [...]
Political thuggery and climate change
The University of Queensland’s survey of politicians on climate change (see also discussion on the earlier post) contained some disturbing information, including: Asked whether the planet was warming because of human activity producing greenhouse gases, 98 per cent of Greens [...]
Labor campaign launch
The ALP launches its campaign today in Brisbane. As I was saying earlier, it’s likely that Julia Gillard will focus on the economy, and weave together previous promises into a more focused narrative on Australia’s economic future. Announcements on education, [...]
2010 Election Roundtable #14
Please keep the general election campaign talk (trends, breaking news etc) on these Roundtables, and keep discussions on the other posts focussed on the topic presented by the author.
A selection of topical threads: [...]
Spotlight the Spin
A weekly look at media spin tactics. Elections may be nearly all spin, but that’s why it’s still worthwhile to look purely at the techniques and strategies being employed to influence opinion here. The non-election spin doesn’t stop for the campaign period, either.
Toy sales prompted “feel good” slant to Star Wars ending
This isn’t really news, surely? Many observers have claimed that toy/game sales have been the driving force behind Lucasfilms for years, although it’s an interesting insight into why Gary Kurtz jumped ship as producer before the making of Return of the Jedi.
Let Tony Be Tony (Boatphone edition)
Fresh from telling Barrie Cassidy this morning that the NBN’s favoured technology – “high fibre” – wasn’t the only way to deliver those intertubes, Mr Rabbit, according to Annabel Crabb on Twitter, is set to announce that he will have [...]
Richard Farmer does a bit of mythbusting on claims about The Greens
In an interesting post at Politicalowl, inspired by The Greens’ continued poll strength in House of Reps voting intention, Richard Farmer takes a look at the claim that The Greens always do worse on election day than in the polls. [...]
Newspoll Labor 52-48
Via GhostWhoVotes on Twitter, the Newspoll to be published tomorrow comes in with Labor on 52% and the Coalition on 48% two party preferred. Primaries are Labor 38 (steady), Coalition 41 (-1), Greens 14 (+1). Update: Interestingly, the ALP has [...]
State issues and Federal Election 2010
This morning, in response to the Galaxy Poll [see analysis here], Prime Minister Gillard warned that voters in Queensland and New South Wales needed to distinguish between her government and their unpopular state Labor regimes. Is she right that there’s [...]
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!
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