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By Mark Bahnisch on September 24, 2008
I’m planning at some stage in the reasonably near future to write a longish post about Anna Bligh’s prospects (and I wouldn’t comment on Mike Rann’s, not being a resident of South Australia, and thus I don’t think able to [...]
Posted in Elections, Federal Elections, Polls, Queensland, State/Territory Elections | Tagged 1983 federal election, 1987 federal election, 2006 Queensland election, 2009 queensland election, ALP, Anna Bligh, Bob Hawke, Joh Bjelke-Petersen, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Lawrence Springborg, LNP, Mike Rann, News Limited columnists, Newspoll, Peter Beattie, political analysis, polling, Queensland Labor, Queensland politics, SA Labor, The Borg |
By Kim on September 22, 2008
ACNielsen has Labor behind the Liberals on primaries 42-41, the first time the Libs have been ahead of Labor in the Nielsen poll since September 2006. Labor leads in the 2PP 52-48, and Kevin Rudd leads Malcolm Turnbull on PPM [...]
Posted in Media, Polls | Tagged ACNielsen poll, ALP, brendan nelson, Dennis Shanahan, Kevin Rudd, Labor, liberal leadership, Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull, News Limited columnists, Newspoll, opposition leader, Polls, polls analysis, psephological analysis, Rudd government |
By Kim on September 18, 2008
Oks, there’s got to be some way to work this into a drinking game. Just to prove that political tragics are rooly cool like the kidz on West Wing and not strange nerds really. Possum has enabled a feature on [...]
Posted in Media, Polls | Tagged Dennis Shanahan, liberal leadership, Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull, News Limited columnists, Newspoll, political commentary, polling analysis, Polls, Possum Comitatus, psephology |
By Kim on September 15, 2008
I’ve got a question about the Costello memoirs. Is anyone going to rush down to the bookshop today and hand over $55 of their hard earned for a copy? I mean – courtesy of the neverending promo show – we [...]
Posted in Books, Writers & Writing, Media, Politics | Tagged 2007 federal election, ALP, Andrew Robb, brendan nelson, Costello memoirs, John Howard, Kevin Rudd, Labor, liberal leadership, Liberal leadership instability, Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull, News Limited columnists, Peter Costello, Rudd government |
By Phil on September 14, 2008
In The Blogging Revolution Antony Loewenstein takes us on a personal journey through some of the more difficult places in the world to blog. Iran, Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Cuba and China. It’s a timely book on the importance and [...]
Posted in Activism, Blogging, Books, Writers & Writing, Developing world, Media, Politics | Tagged Antony Loewenstein, bloggers, Blogging, blogosphere, Book review, Christian Kerr, David Burchell, media analysis, media studies, News Limited columnists, The Blogging Revolution |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 14, 2008
As noted here and here, I attended the Walkley Foundation’s Future of Journalism event in Brisbane yesterday. Courtesy of the lovely folks at the ABC, the sessions were all recorded and will be viewable online, so that absolves me from [...]
Posted in Blogging, Media, Politics, Sociology | Tagged australian media, Blogging, blogosphere, citizen journalism, creative economy, cultural studies, fairfax sackings, future of journalism, future of journalism brisbane, future of media, future of newspapers, journalism, journalists strike, MEAA, media analysis, media commentary, media ownership, media studies, Mike Carlton, News Limited, News Limited columnists, professional identities, public sphere, punditariat, quality journalism, Sociology, sociology of blogging, sociology of media, sociology of professions, sociology of work, Walkley Foundation, workplace restructuring |
By Kim on September 11, 2008
Now that the Howard gubbermint is ancient history – except in the memoirs of the ghost of Peter Costello who wants you to know that Howard LIED six times and failed to hand him the leadership on a platter (ps. [...]
Posted in Education, History, Howardia, Media, Politics | Tagged ALP, Anna Clark, Culture Wars, education policy, history curriculum, History wars, howard government, John Howard, Julia Gillard, keith windschuttle, kevin donnelly, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Liberal leadership instability, Liberal Party, Manning Clark, national curriculum, News Limited columnists, Peter Costello, Rudd government, stuart macintyre |
By Kim on September 2, 2008
In the wake of the punditariat’s latest game of deconstructing each parliamentary interjection by The Great Pretender and wistfully wishing his incoherent comedy lines on the public, it’s worth taking a step back and asking whether – even if you [...]
Posted in Media, Politics | Tagged Christian Kerr, Glenn Milne, liberal leadership, Liberal leadership instability, Liberal Party, News Limited columnists, parliament, parliamentary theatrics, Paul Keating, Peter Costello, political invective, press gallery, question time |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 2, 2008
As Dennis Atkins observes, Brendan Nelson yesterday took what appeared to be a calculated gamble in breaking the convention that senior pollies don’t comment on the Reserve Bank’s interest rate decisions. Nelson called for a cut of 50 points in [...]
Posted in Economics, Media | Tagged ALP, Blogging, blogosphere, brendan nelson, cash rate, Christian Kerr, emo man, interest rate cut, interest rates, Kevin Rudd, Labor, liberal leadership, Liberal leadership instability, News Limited columnists, Peter Costello, political blogging, reserve bank, Rudd government, Wayne Swan |
By Kim on September 1, 2008
Somehow I’m not feeling the Costello excitement: After Gillard taunted him in the parliament last week about his publisher’s motto, “books with spine”, he responded: “If she bought a copy, I might sign it for her. She could take it [...]
Posted in Media, Politics | Tagged brendan nelson, Glenn Milne, liberal leadership, Liberal leadership instability, Liberal Party, News Limited columnists, Peter Costello |
By Kim on August 23, 2008
Poor old $weetie must have been feeling attention deprived. The “will he, won’t he?” stories had run out of any possible oxygen, so he opened a Senator’s office, and attacked the Labor party on economic management. The drooling in the [...]
Posted in Economics, Media, Politics | Tagged ALP, andrew bolt, brendan nelson, Dennis Shanahan, economic management, interest rates, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Liberal leadership instability, Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull, News Limited columnists, Peter Costello, political journalism, punditariat, Rudd government, Wayne Swan |
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By Kim on September 18, 2008
Oks, there’s got to be some way to work this into a drinking game. Just to prove that political tragics are rooly cool like the kidz on West Wing and not strange nerds really. Possum has enabled a feature on [...]
Posted in Media, Polls | Tagged Dennis Shanahan, liberal leadership, Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull, News Limited columnists, Newspoll, political commentary, polling analysis, Polls, Possum Comitatus, psephology | 18 Responses