By Mark Bahnisch on August 2, 2010
… is that you don’t talk about what you decide in the West Wing. As about a million people have already observed today, announcing that the switch has been flicked to a “Let Julia Be Julia” strategy, while it might [...]
Posted in federal election 2010 | Tagged campaign strategy, Federal Election 2010, Julia Gillard, spin, Stephen Smith, strategists, Tony Abbott, Wayne Swan, West Wing |
By tigtog on July 23, 2010
Seriously, just how many senior members of Cabinet really need to be present for every single NSCC meeting?
Posted in federal election 2010, Government, Media | Tagged Australia, Elections, Labor leadership, leaks, spin |
By Mark Bahnisch on May 18, 2010
There’s been a bit of discussion about the latest installment in the media narrative, the Gillard breathing down Rudd’s neck meme, on the latest Spin thread. I should add to the list of tricks used to propel a non-story along [...]
Posted in Media, Polls | Tagged challenge, first term, Guy Beres, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, leadership, liberal leadership, media narrative, Polls, popularity, Richard Farmer, spin |
By tigtog on April 12, 2010
A weekly look at stories various PR people tried to bury in the tail end of the news cycle before this last weekend. What are they hoping that we won’t talk about this week because “it”s old news” now? Let’s [...]
Posted in Media | Tagged news cycle, PR, spin |
By tigtog on April 6, 2010
We might have this as a regular beginning of the week feature – what stories did various PR people try to bury in the tail end of the news cycle over this last weekend? What are they hoping that we [...]
Posted in Media | Tagged news cycle, PR, spin |
By Mark Bahnisch on March 16, 2010
In comments on my thread on the failure of the Abbott parental leave thought bubble to halt a move back to Labor in the polls (and the reasons why), I observed that Possum’s observation provides further confirmation that it was [...]
Posted in Media, Polls | Tagged ALP, approval rating, Coalition, Kevin Rudd, Labor, leadership, Liberal Party, mark latham, Media, New Labor, Newspoll, parental leave, partisanship, polling, Polls, preferred Prime Minister, soft vote, spin, state labor, The Australian, Tony Abbott, undecided vote |
By Kim on February 22, 2010
Tony Abbott, we’re told, is “real”. Able to mix with the battlers (just like Joe Hockey, another product of the North Shore Jesuit Fathers, and just like yet another, Barnaby Joyce, the accountant in the Akubra), he’s “authentic”. Kevin Rudd [...]
Posted in Federal Elections, Politics | Tagged authenticity, Barnaby Joyce, battlers, Coalition, conservatism, Federal Election 2010, Geoffrey Barker, George W. Bush, ideology, Jesuit Fathers, Joe Hockey, Kevin Rudd, Liberal Party, North Shore, Policy, private schools, spin, symbolism, Tony Abbott |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 11, 2010
Bernard Keane in today’s Crikey email:
Posted in Climate change, Culture, Education, Politics, Sociology | Tagged bernard keane, climate change policy, Culture Wars, education revolution, federalism, John Howard, Kevin Rudd, managerialism, myschool, Paul Keating, political culture, political sociology, Politics, roof insulation, Rudd government, spin, state labor, stimulus, Tony Abbott |
By Mark Bahnisch on December 9, 2009
Tony Abbott appears to have taken that gospel saying about being “cunning as a serpent” to heart, if not the bit about being “gentle as a dove”. The problem with the media cycle these days for the political obfuscator is [...]
Posted in Climate change, Howardia, Politics | Tagged Alan Jones, battlers, climate change denialism, climate change policy, cprs, ets, John Howard, Kevin Rudd, Lateline, Liberal Party, market solutions, Nationals, political strategy, Politics, spin, Tony Abbott, WorkChoices |
The Liberals' two hour strategy
By Mark Bahnisch on September 11, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in Media, Politics | Tagged Alister Drysdale, business, business spectator, Coalition, commentariat, Dennis Shanahan, economic management, Joe Hockey, John Howard, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull, media cycle, media management, opposition, Paul Kelly, Politics, Polls, press gallery, punditariat, question time, Rudd government, Sky News, spin, The Australian, tweeting, twitter, Wayne Swan | 38 Responses