Comments on: Imploding, Iemma calls on Channel Nine News

By: Sponge Boy

Sponge Boy — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

When rodents jump from a sinking ship, they don’t usually look for another one. What have these guys ever DONE or WON?

By: Joseph Elliott

Joseph Elliott — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

The trouble with media people running political offices is that their gut instinct is to react principally to the media. Press secretaries live and die by their press outcomes. Promoting them to strategy roles just sees media criticism and image take precedence over strategy and (shock horror) long term public policy outcomes. You can’t run a government on day to day headlines.

By: Dave Liberts

Dave Liberts — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

“You can’t run a government on day to day headlines.” Where have you been living for the last decade, Joseph Elliot? Oh, you meant you can’t run GOOD government on headlines? Well, sure, that’s a different story.