Is Julia Gillard the new Bob Hawke?
It probably hasn’t escaped folks’ attention that Julia Gillard has expanded the scope of her rhetoric about being consultative beyond the issues of governance, cabinet processes and caucus decision making. In all the statements she’s made since becoming PM, she’s [...]
Tony Abbott's mental health policy gambit
The political lens has been focused squarely on the government, more or less since the budget way back in May, and the announcement of the RSPT. That’s continued to be the case over the last week with everyone parsing all [...]
ABC claims move against Rudd is on
ABC tv news has just claimed that a move against Kevin Rudd’s leadership is on tonight, emanating from Victoria and including “senior ministers”. Tomorrow is the last sitting day of this session of parliament. There’s nothing on the web so [...]
RSPT debate rolls on
One aspect of the calls to sort the RSPT out in order to give the government ‘clear air’ (which I think emanate more from the journosphere than from Labor MPs, with the probable exception of Gary Gray) is that there’s [...]
Quick link: Why dumping Rudd would be stupid
While I’m doing the quick links thing, here’s an excellent article in Inside Story by Peter Brent of Mumble on why dumping Kevin Rudd for Julia Gillard would be the easiest way for Labor to lose this year’s federal election.
Possum on how exactly super profitable mining companies are
There’s been some discussion on another post about Possum’s piece on the super profitability of the mining industry, so I think it’s appropriate to have a dedicated thread for the topic. Possum’s post is here. Peter Martin has picked out [...]
Media narrative demands Rudd's head on a platter according to Newspoll timetable
By way of ‘progressing the story’ from Saturday’s round of demands for Kevin Rudd’s political execution from has been Labor figures and mining company director Keith De Lacy, The Australian‘s caravan has moved on. Over the weekend, the paper made [...]
Doom or salvation for Rudd Labor?
I continue to be quite surprised at the levels of panic about the Labor party’s current polling predicament, and some of the reactions. The government’s response to the Nielsen poll yesterday was to point out that Tony Abbott stands a [...]
The Rudd government's RSPT advertising campaign
Anyone who’s been watching commercial tv recently would have noticed lots and lots of ads for Kevin Rudd’s National Health and Hospitals Network. Although they come in the guise of information, they strongly mirror the Prime Minister’s rhetoric. Now we’ve [...]
Quick links: What's wrong with the media this election year?
By Mark Bahnisch on June 17, 2010
A couple of very interesting articles popped up in my rss reader today: Media Watch host Jonathan Holmes on the distortions of ‘he said, she said’ journalism (with particular reference to the RSPT) and University of Sydney Emeritus Professor Rodney [...]
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