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By Guest Poster on August 16, 2010
Melbourne University has set up an election blog, with commentary from some of its staff and students. Among its contributors is Dr Lauren Rosewarne, a Lecturer in Public Policy in the School of Social and Political Sciences. Some of Lauren’s [...]
Posted in federal election 2010 | Tagged Barnaby Joyce, Federal Election 2010, Lauren Rosewarne, mark latham |
By Kim on August 16, 2010
After all the publicity, and Mark Latham’s risible interventions into the campaign (and the press obsession with his stunts, leading to various actual policy announcements being “overshadowed”), the former Labor leader’s spot on 60 Minutes was underwhelming. Guy Beres sums [...]
Posted in federal election 2010, Film, TV, Video etc, Media | Tagged 60 minutes, Channel Nine, Federal Election 2010, mark latham, Media |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 13, 2010
That’s a question I’ve asked, and answered at The Drum.
Posted in federal election 2010 | Tagged Federal Election 2010, mark latham |
By Kim on August 12, 2010
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. I’m boycotting Channel Nine tonight, because I fear that the Mark Latham “controversy”/60 [...]
Posted in Film, TV, Video etc, Media | Tagged 60 minutes, Bob Hawke, broadband, Channel Nine, channel seven, commercial news, ekka, Federal Election 2010, mark latham, Penrith RSL, political communication, Rooty Hill, Tony Abbott, TV, veterans affair |
By Kim on August 11, 2010
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. There mustn’t be any Oakes/Latho self-referential “news” tonight, because wild weather and record [...]
Posted in federal election 2010, Media | Tagged Andrew Robb, broadband, Channel Nine, commercial tv, costings, Federal Election 2010, Julia Gillard, Laurie Oakes, leak, mark latham, news, political communication, Tony Abbott, Treasury, Wayne Swan, welfare policy, welfare reform |
By Kim on August 10, 2010
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. … is all about Mark Latham. The election may as well not have [...]
Posted in federal election 2010, Media | Tagged Federal Election 2010, Julia Gillard, Laurie Oakes, mark latham |
By Kim on August 9, 2010
I remarked earlier today that Labor has obviously adopted a communications strategy designed, in part, to short circuit the media focus on “distractions” and polls, and to bypass the circus taking place somewhere in Sideshow Alley, where Mark Latham lurks. [...]
Posted in Activism, blogosphere, federal election 2010, Media, Sociology, The Web | Tagged #ausvotes, abc news 24, Annabel Crabb, bernard keane, blogosphere, distractions, Federal Election 2010, GrogsGamut, james massola, journalism, journalists, Julia Gillard, mark latham, narrative, Pavlov's Cat, Policy, press conference, press pack, Q&A, Qanda, Rooty Hill RSL, roundtable, sideshow, twitter |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 7, 2010
Originally published at the ABC’s Drumroll campaign blog. I’ve been largely tuned out of the election campaign today, enjoying a friend’s visit and popping into town to buy a couple of books to read. So I’ve only seen two snippets [...]
Posted in federal election 2010, Media | Tagged 60 minutes, abc news 24, double dip recession, GFC, journalism, journos, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, mark latham, Media, media circus, nick harmsen, press conference, press gallery |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 5, 2010
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 [...]
Posted in federal election 2010, Queensland | Tagged abc news 24, ALP, Anna Bligh, Crikey, Federal Election 2010, interview, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Labor leadership, late night live, marginal seats, Mark Bahnisch, mark latham, Phillip Adams, Polls, Queensland, the drum |
By Kim on July 22, 2010
Bernard Keane has a good piece in this morning’s Crikey election special edition, reflecting on yesterday’s installment of the so-called population debate. Let’s remember that Julia Gillard linked the asylum seeker issue to infrastructure and sustainability issues in the first [...]
Posted in federal election 2010, Howardia, Immigration | Tagged asylum seekers, Big Australia, Federal Election 2010, Immigration, infrastructure, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, little australia, mark latham, population, Scott Morrison, sustainability, Tony Burke, western sydney |
By Mark Bahnisch on April 16, 2010
Peter Black from Electronic Frontiers Australia asked me to contribute to a series of posts the EFA is publishing to draw attention to its current fundraising campaign. Please consider donating to the EFA in order to fund its continued work [...]
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, Blogging, Ethics, Government, History, Life, Policy, Politics, Sociology, The Web | Tagged ALP, biopolitics, Bob Carr, Capitalism, censorship, civil liberties, efa, electronic frontiers australia, expertise, Francis Fukuyama, freedom, governance, governmentality, ideology, internet filter, labor party, labourism, left, mark latham, michel foucault, neo-liberalism, New Labour, personal freedom, Policy, political communication, rationality, risk society, social democracy, socialism, Sociology, state labor governments, statism, stephen conroy, ulrich beck |
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