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 [...]
CPD post: Reviewing the policy contest
During the election campaign, LP will be cross-posting selected items from the Centre for Policy Development’s discussion of policy issues, Thinking Points. Readers may also be interested in the CPD’s collection of policy ideas and priorities for the next term, [...]
Kevin Rudd’s Radio National interview with Phillip Adams
Former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has given his first interview since losing the premiership. Rudd spoke tonight to Phillip Adams, and you can read the transcript here. The deposed Labor leader appealed to voters who might have misgivings about the [...]
Let's ban postmodernism!
I think it was klaus k who once suggested on this blog that we should completely eschew the word “postmodernism”, so vacuous and meaningless has it become. That seems a proposal worth reviving when you read an astonishing take on [...]
Trioli Redux; Murdoch's ABC frontier
I’m not really one for breakfast television, but I’d be interested in hearing from anyone who’s seen the new ABC2 Breakfast show, which debuts today. It will also be streamed online. With Virginia Trioli as one of the hosts (the [...]




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