Weekly Whimsy
This week’s whimsy is brought to you by one very clever elevator advert. Please share any bits and pieces you have come across recently that have surprised, delighted, intrigued or otherwise positively engaged you.
Truth in political advertising
With the interest in legislating truth in political advertising, it might be pertinent to link to this Parliament of Queensland committee report from 1996 discussing the matter. One key point from the report is that any attempt to legislate truth [...]
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:
The Time Warp ad
I quite like this one. According to the opposition, though, it’s a “smear campaign”. Anyone else seen any good ads recently?
Political advertising roundtable
Jason Wilson has an excellent post over at Restless Capital on the history of political advertising, and a classification of the various types of ads. In case you need a reminder that some political ads have always been terrible, I [...]
“If you can’t govern your party…”
By Mark Bahnisch Over the weekend, I read Annabel Crabb’s Rise of the Ruddbot. It’s fascinating to take a trip back to a time when a Liberal leadership team of Tony Abbott and Julie Bishop seemed fanciful. Just as much [...]
Twiggy Forrest wants more; miners up ante on Gillard
The Financial Review is full of quotes from Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest today: Labor powerbrokers removed then prime minister Kevin Rudd just 24 hours before he was to make a significant policy shift on the resource super profits tax, mining magnate [...]
What if the mining industry backs down?
Such is the impact of the 24 hour news cycle and the eternal present it creates that commentators seem unable to contemplate what comes next, and seem to assume that what has happened before will always happen again. So we’ve [...]
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 [...]
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