So far, the major parties’ use of the internet during this election has been a bit average. I blame the media. And the parties. And the social media expert gurus (SMEGs).
July, 2010
Third win just as sweet for Contador
Spanish rider Alberto Contador was able to rise to the challenge and win his third Tour de France on Sunday, in one of the most dangerous tours in the race’s history.
Election ’10:
$1 billion and counting
Policy Watch: Both sides, after savings are removed, are tracking at just over $1 billion in campaign commitments so far.
Election 2010: $1b and counting, the Wimp, the Wuss and the Worm, Labor holds 10-point gap, the Australian forces in the WikiLeaks docsCox: why gender could be a standalone factor in the election
Maybe if the major parties offered some policies that engage more vision and excitement about the future, gender change alone may not seem so exciting, says Eva Cox.
Who won the news cycle? Take no notice of worms
Our noble little Crikey Election Indicator has not taken any notice of those worms that slithered across our screens last night declaring Julia Gillard was the election debate winner.
Australian forces in Wikileaks’ Afghan War Diary
Whistleblower website Wikileaks recently released its explosive Afghan War Diary. Australian forces appear throughout it, mostly under the code AUS RTF, writes Luke Miller.
Essential: Labor holds, Abbott further adrift
Labor retains its strong lead in the latest Essential Report, while Tony Abbott simply isn’t doing it for voters.
Talking the Town: Bennelong despatch: McKew serves it up to ‘good looking’ JA
Bennelong is one of the most ethnically diverse electorates in the country.
Gruen: try building a bridge to deal with population problem
The ALP has tried half-heartedly to make itself the party of infrastructure. But without a chequebook, it’s largely spin, writes Nicholas Gruen.
Cash-for-carbon a clunky addition to a mess of subsidies
Labor’s cash-for-clunkers initiative just adds another subsidy to the many in the motor vehicle sector — some of which directly contradict the point of Saturday’s announcement
Crikey’s Election Tipping extravaganza is go
Just when you began to suspect that this election campaign was lacking a little excitement, along comes our Crikey Election Tipping contest to liven things up.
Mungo MacCallum: The Wimp v the Wuss
Never has the Prime Ministership of Australia been contested by such a pair of abject, craven, weak-kneed, whey-faced, chicken-hearted, lily-livered, jelly-bellied milksops. And what a lead up to the so-called Great Debate: The Wimp versus The Wuss, says Mungo MacCallum.
Babcock hearing misses the point: look at the execs
While the Babcock & Brown circus continues in the Sydney Federal Court, business commentators seem to be missing the point.
Afghanistan leaks: what the world is saying
International news organisations have published extracts from secret military documents detailing the United States’ involvement in the war in Afghanistan over the weekend. Eloise Keating wraps the coverage.
Separating politics and war
Jeff Sparrow (“Should politicians attend military funerals”) seems to be catching up with arguments advanced by the Australia Defence Association for many years, writes Neil James, executive director, Australia Defence Association.
Daily Proposition: Daily Proposition: watch an edgier, grittier teen soapie
It’s been a long time coming, but Skins is finally back on Australian TV. It’s been four months since the show’s fourth season concluded in the UK and now, finally, Australian audiences get to see it, writes Matt de Neef.
This day in Crikey: Tuesday, 26 July, 2005
Tuesday, 26 July 2005, Sluggo Richardson, the reporter who shouldn’t be on air, by Paula Piccinini.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Citizens on the Citizens’ Assembly
Crikey readers weigh in on Gillard’s climate Citizens’ Assembly plan, plus politicians at military funerals and the heart as a verb or noun debate continues.
Morning Market Report: Stress test not strict enough
Europe released the results of the “stress test”. Only 7 small unlisted banks failed but the whole process was criticized for not being strict enough.
Media briefs: 3.96m watch MasterChef … what’s up with iView? … how a dead teen burnt down a house …
In today’s Media Briefs we look at ABC’s iView tunnel vision, a grizzly story picked up by News Limited and the love/hate relationship the world has with Facebook.
Campaign Crikey leftovers: Campaign Crikey Leftovers: Smith on population and Rupert’s ‘evil’ … Thomson leaflet watch … trawling Barker’s Facebook
Dick Smith’s amusing News rant. Small Australia advocate Dick Smith’s call for a Frank Bainimarama-style ejection of News Limited from Australia is worth re-hashing in full. Yesterday on Helen Dalley’s Sky News show, the gadgets millionaire went on the warpath, claiming that The Australian had become so wedded to the big end of town’s cheap […]
Political snippets: RBA to do the right thing by the government
The June quarter producer price index figures out from the Australian Bureau of Statistics this morning suggest that the government will not have to worry about a rise in official interest rates disrupting its election campaign.
Video of the Day: The Mystery Guitarman
Are you suffering through a nasty bout of Monday-itis? Time to take a chill pill and bask in the sassy tunes of YouTube’s Mystery Guitarman. He’s, like, a totally hip dude.
