Tony Abbott and the God question
The first few days of Tony Abbott’s leadership have seen a concerted effort by the conservative commentariat to decry any criticism of his reactionary policies on women’s rights and social issues as ‘anti-Catholic’. A number of points need making about [...]
"Ghosts go along with us to the end…"
So, what happens if the Opposition, and their media echo chambers, tried every Howardian trick in the book, and nothing worked? Possum explains the significance of the latest polling numbers: With the phone poll average in the sidebar now showing [...]
Political media FAIL
Richard Farmer: No government this morning. For the first time since I have been preparing the breakfast media wrap for Crikey I could not find a story to list this morning that quoted a Federal Government Minister. The whole attention [...]
Turnbull, Hockey or Abbott?
It looks rather like the Liberals are going with the Gadarene swine option. If Joe Hockey becomes leader, then no doubt it will be characterised as a “save the furniture” tactic. But how persuasive is a party that will have [...]
Legacy wars
It was the political debate of last week, and we missed it. But that’s ok – so did most of the rest of the population, I would imagine. The columns of The Australian were full of the ‘legacy wars’ – [...]
The Liberals' two hour strategy
In discussing Joe Hockey’s latest musings on the need for tens of billions of dollars of spending cuts yesterday, I wondered whether the Libs had conceded the next election, and were trying to position themselves for the one after. I [...]
Rudd vs. The Australian
Some time ago, I made some observations on the significance of Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard’s attacks on various News Limited papers, and on The Australian. The thrust of that commentary was that – the immediate antecedents of the stoush [...]
Newspoll: Labor 59-41
… and Malcolm Turnbull is approaching Brendan Nelson territory with the PPM at 66-19 in Kevin Rudd’s favour. Of course, political scientists know leadership isn’t that big a factor (and Turnbull’s inability to patch over the same divisions that plagued [...]
Live by the sword…
Julie Bishop‘s been copping it from unnamed “senior Liberals” for her poor performance as shadow Treasurer, who’ve helpfully implied Malcolm Turnbull shares their worries, and suggested a few names to replace her (Dutton, Robb, Hockey) for good measure. While Bishop [...]
The ABC of Drumming up some online opinion analysis
By Mark Bahnisch on January 15, 2010
When the ABC’s Drum was launched, Margaret Simons cited a piece by Media Watch host Jonathan Holmes on internal discussions of ABC journos writing opinion pieces, which I referred to in this post: Simons then looks at the cult(ure) of [...]
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