Stop gloating, lefties? #notw
(We all know only lefties gloat. Brendan O’Neill told us.) So, Margaret Simons, writing in today’s Crikey, probably rightly, suggests that the latest revelations in the #notw phone hacking saga imply that to Rupert’s crown, no woman or man of [...]
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 [...]
Quick link: Bernard Keane on why it wasn’t leaks that gutted Labor
Bernard Keane in today’s Crikey, contesting the Labor claims that all would have been rosy had it not been for leaks: But Labor is in trouble. Its problems aren’t so much, as was suggested by some commentators, that it is [...]
Possum needs a job!
If anyone wants to employ “one economist possum, slightly used, occasionally abused, good with numbers and other stuff. Intermittently snarky but always well humoured”, please see Possum’s post at Pollytics. I’d be very sad to see Possum become a less [...]
Rundle’s riposte to Keane on citizen apathy
Last week, I published a piece at The Drum refuting Bernard Keane’s claim that the current state of our politics is somehow primarily our fault as citizens. Yesterday, in Crikey, Guy Rundle also responded: Here we come back to Bernard [...]
Rudd’s words won’t hurt Labor, but it’s about more than hurt feelings
From today’s Crikey email: Former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd last night gave an interview to Phillip Adams on Late Night Live. This morning, Brisbane’s sole metropolitan newspaper characterised his successor Julia Gillard’s response as an apology to Queenslanders for hurting [...]
Refuting Bernard Keane: It’s not all our fault
Bernard Keane stirred things up a bit over the last few days in Crikey, with a provocative claim made in a two part series that the malaise of contemporary politics was fundamentally the fault of us citizens. We’ve outsourced politics, [...]
Quick link: The view from Western Sydney
Bernard Keane has reproduced a very interesting Labor leaflet being distributed in the NSW electorate of Macquarie at Crikey. Go read.
Links post: Why the Labor leadership change shows our political system is broken
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 [...]
Links post on the spill and the Gillard ascension
Some interesting articles around the web this morning to highlight: Jeff Sparrow at The Drum asks some searching questions about the personalisation of politics and its relationship with our democratic deficit, while The Poll Bludger and Mumble present contrasting takes [...]
Quick link: Matthew Ricketson on how the 24/7 media cycle helped overthrow Rudd
By Kim on July 1, 2010
Mark’s article in The Drum last week honed in on the role of the media in Rudd’s downfall (among other issues raised). Now Matthew Ricketson, Professor of Journalism at the University of Canberra, has written an excellent essay for Crikey [...]
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