The ABC, balance and right wing propaganda
I don’t know if anyone saw The Drum this afternoon? (And I don’t know if there are any audience/ratings figures for ABC News 24, but I’d be very interested if anyone does…) We had a panel composed of two ABC [...]
Work smarter, not harder
If you believe the ABC news headline, Martin Parkinson is doing a fine turn as our national slave-driver, exhorting Australians to work harder. Or, alternatively, you could read the actual speech, which says nothing of the sort.
A tale of two Labor post-mortems
It’s interesting to contrast reports of two ALP reflections on the election result – one in Crikey on the thoughts of Victorian MP Martin Foley, and one in The Drum on a meeting of the NSW Right, penned by Glenn [...]
Greens plant some rural seeds
Perhaps the most significant of the ABC’s “My Vote” videos (where voters talk about their electorate and the issues that concern them) features the delightfully and aptly named Sid Plant, a farmer from the Darling Downs in Queensland. Plant, like [...]
The ABC’s pursuit of Wayne Swan on “leaks”
Mark commented last night that a lot of time that could have been better spent on the 7.30 Report joint interview with Wayne Swan and Joe Hockey was wasted on a discussion of “Treasury leaks”. I won’t call it a [...]
The Gruen Greens ad goes more than viral
A lot of people reading here have probably seen the Greens ad from the “Pitch” section of Gruen Nation last night:
Week 2 of the campaign: The week that wasn’t
Please consider this a roundtable to reflect on the second week of the campaign in toto. Specific comments on particular issues in the campaign, or recent developments, should appropriately be placed on posts devoted to those issues.
My piece at The Drum on the political execution of Kevin Rudd
I’ve just had a piece published at the ABC’s The Drum on what I think the broader implications of the extraordinary series of events we’ve witnessed over the last 24 hours or so are. For the convenience of LP readers, [...]
ABC claims move against Rudd is on
ABC tv news has just claimed that a move against Kevin Rudd’s leadership is on tonight, emanating from Victoria and including “senior ministers”. Tomorrow is the last sitting day of this session of parliament. There’s nothing on the web so [...]
Facebook, privacy and social utility
The biggest story in social media over the last couple of months has been the rapid decline in trust between Facebook and its users. Far from being a phenomenon restricted to techie activists, Facebook’s campaign to push an ever increasing [...]
Links post: Why the Labor leadership change shows our political system is broken
By Mark Bahnisch on June 26, 2010
In my article in The Drum on Kevin Rudd’s political execution, I wrote: … we must now ask ourselves whether politics as usual allows any leader to wrestle with the great moral challenges of our time. Because those challenges are [...]
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