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 [...]
The tax debate we’re sort of having
The launch of the Coalition’s tax policy (which is mainly about taxes they oppose, and two further reviews of the Henry Review) was “overshadowed” by Mark Latham yesterday, and by “Treasury leaks” today, with the only bit that really made [...]
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 [...]
Live Tweeting the Swan/Hockey encounter on the 7.30 Report
Read LP’s tweets here. Update: Well, that was most unenlightening. Joe Hockey has seemed to be in a very grumpy mood all campaign, and he was allowed to get away with his usual bizarre contradictions. Swan’s lines on infrastructure and [...]
Tanner: Vacuous media lacks credibility
Lindsay Tanner speaks some typically good sense in an opinion piece today on the topic of the leaks and the media. Read the whole thing here.
The view from Channel Nine VII
Continuing an irregular series commenting on how the election looks to commercial tv viewers: commercial free to air is the biggest single source of information for voters. Channel Nine led today with a local protest by fisherfolk “venting their fury” [...]
Julia Gillard fights back against Downer and the Liberal chattering classes
[Thanks to Lefty E in comments for the link to the Prime Minister going on the front foot at a press conference in Perth this afternoon.]
Tony Abbott’s Big Brother play
I have a post over at the ABC’s Drumroll Campaign Diary, looking at how the focus on Labor leaks allows Tony Abbott to “fly under the radar”, and avoid proper scrutiny.
Labor’s bite sized policies on mental health and disability
Let’s face it. Everyone’s more interested in discussing leaks and polls than policy in this campaign. Why is this? In part, it’s because of the political theatre of the horse race and the personality contest, and in part because of [...]
The political-media death spiral [Roundtable]
By Mark Bahnisch on July 31, 2010
The title borrowed for this post is that of Tim Dunlop’s excellent article on the deathly grip the media and politicians have each other in. Read the whole thing here. A couple of other excellent pieces on the performance of [...]
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