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By Mark Bahnisch on June 17, 2010
While I’m doing the quick links thing, here’s an excellent article in Inside Story by Peter Brent of Mumble on why dumping Kevin Rudd for Julia Gillard would be the easiest way for Labor to lose this year’s federal election.
Posted in Federal Elections, Media, Politics | Tagged ALP, Federal Election 2010, inside story, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Labor, leadership challenge, leadership instability, media narrative, Mumble, Peter Brent, Rudd government |
By Kim on September 13, 2008
Junior whip Siobhain McDonagh, an “arch-Blairite”, has been sacked by Gordon Brown for calling for a leadership challenge. Here’s an interesting tidbit: In another sign of discontent about Mr Brown, 12 Labour MPs have written a joint article for the [...]
Posted in Politics | Tagged gordon brown, Labour, leadership instability, political narrative, Siobhain McDonagh, UK politics |
By Kim on August 18, 2008
Props to Peter Hartcher at the Sydney Morning Herald for actually including some vaguely sensible commentary in his column on the Nielsen preferred Liberal leader polling, and not beating it up as “Voters Want Costello!”. Perhaps the Fairfax crew are [...]
Posted in Howardia, Media, Politics, Polls | Tagged $weetie, brendan nelson, Coalition, John Howard, John Lyons, leadership crisis, leadership instability, Liberal Party, mainstream media, News Limited columnists, Nielsen Poll, Peter Costello, Peter Hartcher, political commentary, political journalism, Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian |
By Kim on August 16, 2008
I forget who first compared the breathless expectation that the News Limited meejah and the Liberal party are indulging in over Peter Costello’s non-decision making to Kremlinology, but in the wake of the thousands of words wasted on idle speculation [...]
Posted in Howardia, Media, Politics | Tagged $weetie, brendan nelson, Coalition, Dennis Shanahan, John Howard, John Lyons, leadership crisis, leadership instability, Liberal Party, mainstream media, News Limited columnists, Peter Costello, political memoirs, The Australian |
By Kim on August 9, 2008
The supposition I had – shared by Lyn at Public Opinion – that even the diehard Milnes and Shanahans of News Limited might give up on their “Costello for Saviour” campaign in the absence of anything actually happening has been [...]
Posted in Media, Politics | Tagged $weetie, Coalition, Dennis Shanahan, leadership crisis, leadership instability, Liberal Party, mainstream media, News Limited columnists, Paul Keating, Peter Costello, web and politics |
By Kim on August 7, 2008
What do you do if you’re a columnist for the Opposition Organ and nothing is actually happening in the Peter Costello Leadership Story? Write about Chrissy Pyne’s Facebook status updates as if they’re news, that’s what! Score one zero for [...]
Posted in Media, Politics, The Web | Tagged $weetie, Christopher Pyne, Coalition, Dennis Shanahan, leadership crisis, leadership instability, Liberal Party, mainstream media, News Limited columnists, Paul Keating, Peter Costello, web and politics |
Newspaper understands poll shock! And Costello breaks silence!
By Kim on August 18, 2008
Props to Peter Hartcher at the Sydney Morning Herald for actually including some vaguely sensible commentary in his column on the Nielsen preferred Liberal leader polling, and not beating it up as “Voters Want Costello!”. Perhaps the Fairfax crew are [...]
Posted in Howardia, Media, Politics, Polls | Tagged $weetie, brendan nelson, Coalition, John Howard, John Lyons, leadership crisis, leadership instability, Liberal Party, mainstream media, News Limited columnists, Nielsen Poll, Peter Costello, Peter Hartcher, political commentary, political journalism, Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian | 9 Responses