This campaign is apparently different because it is the Federal Election Campaign During Which Twitter Was In Existence 2010! Its a Twampaign.
July, 2010
The elusive magic number on population
Daily Media Wrap: Kevin10 appears as a far more subdued campaign version of Kevin07, Gillard and Abbott prepare their tasty morsels for debate and how can population be sustainable without discussing immigration?
Election Tracker: Day 4 — Rudd in Griffith…Gillard in western Sydney (again)…Abbott visits Hey Hey
Just four days down and the election candidates continue to burn up the jet fuel. It’s been a campaigning frenzy, with both Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott keen to visit the key battlegrounds in the first week.
Keane’s talking points: Abbott was right to go on Hey Hey
Even the zombie format of Hey Hey rates higher than Kerry’s Corner.
Campaign Crikey morning edition Day 5: it’s about soil
“I don’t think this is a immigration debate…I think it’s bringing into play issues about water about soil about city planning about infrastructure and services, about getting skilled people where we need them.”
Julia, get your message straight
Voters have every right to be confused by Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s mixed messages about sustainability and immigration, writes Paul Kelly.
Rove and co. dig for Democrat dirt
Karl Rove and another former top Bush strategist have joined forces to a launch a massive new muckraking operation in time for the US senate elections later this year. Last month alone their organisation, American Crossroads GPS, generated US$5.1 million in anti-Obama revenue.
The population debate just got a little bit worse
If you thought the population debate couldn’t get any worse, you were wrong – very wrong.
Facebook hits the 500 million mark
It’s official: Facebook has a hell of a lot of members. The social networking giant has hit the 500 million milestone, with more than half that number visiting the site daily and sharing around 30 billion items of content every month.
Hey hey, that was embarrassing
Backstage Tony Abbott looked confident and in his element but when he fronted the cameras last night on Hey Hey It’s Saturday things took a dive. He is, however, not the first pollie to have looked awkward on live TV.
Julia and Tony take note: the sleeper issue is awakening
Industrial relations will be a key issue in the federal election - and not just for Tony Abbott. The workplace practice of independent contracting is under threat and is likely to become a thorn in Julia Gillard’s side, especially in marginal seats, writes Robert Gottliebsen.
Mongolian nomadic way of life in deep freeze
Two decades after the collapse of communism, Mongolia may be on the verge of a new turning point following a devastating winter which destroyed a fifth of the nation’s livestock. Mongolia may be saved, however, by its abundance of natural resources, writes Tania Branigan.
The Media Monitors' Top 20: The Media Monitors’ Top 20
Joe Hockey returns from virtual silence to jump in to the campaign head first, showing he’s down with the kids well enough to know that Paris is so retro she’s back in now and there’s nothing the jugend like better than a bad Paris Hilton joke…
Who won the news cycle?: Nearly a nil all draw
The Government lot kept on about WorkChoices but the Opposition managed not to make things worse.
Campaign Crikey Leftovers: Emmo on cucumbers, Libs seek Feedback, marsupial ode
In today’s Campaign Leftovers: Emmo’s portfolio greatly expanded, Libs seek feedback and of all the marsupials …
Figures prove $250m Free TV rebate to be a total crock
The federal government’s decision earlier this year to give the major commercial TV networks a $250 million rebate on their licence fees to help fund Australian content has been exposed as a complete crock.
The Coalition is fundamentally at odds with the RBA
The Coalition’s economic policy is fundamentally at odds with the views of the Reserve Bank. If it was Labor, we’d never hear the end of it.
Has China reached its tipping point?
Chinese workers have become increasingly strident in their demands for bigger pay packets. Has China reached its tipping point, asks Karen Malay of Business Spectator?
Daily Proposition: Go for a run, fun or otherwise
Amber Jamieson ran 10km in a fun run on the weekend. She says that to brag, but also to encourage you to do the same. It hurts like hell, but the bragging rights are the reward.
The gender gap widens — and who encapsulates ‘Australian values’?
While men are more ambivalent, it’s now clear Australian women like Julia Gillard as their PM.
WorkChoices zombie rises
Contradicting his own commitment not to change IR legislation isn’t the only problem with Tony Abbott’s savings proposal on union ballots. It goes much much further than Workchoices did.
Straight horror porn good, gay zombie porn banned
So, filming supposedly-alternative ladies with breast implants actually getting terrorised in the woods is fine with everyone. But a presumably cheeky zombie satire featuring consenting actors poking their dicks in rubber cement is a crime, writes Andrew Tijs.
