Daily Media Wrap: We’re in a political wasteland, a hung parliament, with no clear PM and power hanging in the hands of five MPs: four independents and a Green. Now what?
August, 2010
Crikey says: your new reality
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D-day plus 1
There are five seats still in doubt, with a base result of 70 seats for Labor and the Coalition. If a minority Coalition government eventuates – and this seems the most likely outcome – it would presumably be keen to set up some double dissolution triggers, writes William Bowe.
A pain in the arse: a diary about living with cancer
Jonty Este is a 48-year-old journalist living in Sydney and suffering from bowel cancer. He talks about the emotional struggle his family endures as he heads into surgery.
Theatre review: August: Osage County, a modern-day classic
August: Osage County won a Pulitzer and five Tonys. It is, says Curtain Call’s Lloyd Bradford Syke, “the finest modern play, and production, I’ve ever seen”. A Chicago theatre company delivers in Sydney.
The (Aussie) September issues
The September Issue is the traditional bumper fashion issue of the year for the glossies, and Erica Bartle breaks down the top five Aussie mags, from Vogue’s fifties fever to Madison’s spring fling.
The final tally: both sides in the red, in a miserly campaign
When Kevin Rudd said “this reckless spending must stop”, he set a new pattern for election promises that both sides have stuck to pretty well in 2010. We have had one of the most parsimonious campaigns of recent times.
Wankley Awards: The lamest campaign questions
More than a month of election campaigning under a bright media spotlight produces a lot of questions to leaders. A bunch of them are awful. Many are Wankley-worthy. Here’s the worst.
Voters react to the leaders, issue by issue
Crikey has the Roy Morgan PolliGraph results to the Brisbane forum this week, conducted ‘live’ in Seven Melbourne’s studios with a balanced audience of 80 voters — 30 were intending to vote Labor, 30 were intending to vote L-NP and 20 were undecided or intending to vote for other parties.
Milne: Greens’ vision for renewables obscured by coal dust
One of the most troubling and baffling casualties of this campaign has been the renewable energy sector. This is particularly baffling because renewable energy is massively popular in the community and has been repeatedly demonstrated to be technically ready to power Australia at a competitive price. The public response to Beyond Zero Emissions’ 100% renewable […]
Time to take back politics
Didn’t like the election campaign? Bad luck — you’re paying for it and you have no choice but to vote for the parties responsible for it. Unless we stop contracting out our politics and ramp up scrutiny of the media.
Housing still giving Wall Street the wobbles
When I saw Wall Street falling last night under the weight of disappointing economic data it was clear that the housing crisis in the US is still affecting the economy in a way many Wall Street analysts can’t understand, writes Robert Gottliebsen of Business Spectator.
Essential: all locked up on election eve
We’re all locked up, says Essential Research in its final poll before the election. Only the Greens can be confident.
The writes and wrongs of election coverage
This morning the nation’s newspapers made their traditional editorial recommendations to readers on who to vote for, endorsing predictably but with decided lack of enthusiasm.
Possum: penultimate polls and the Greensurge
The spooky similarity between the ALP 2010 versus Coalition 2004 polling patterns continue.
‘Politicians: Hot or Not?’ — the results are in
In the interests of furthering knowledge of good looking candidates tended to beat the not so good looking we selected eight House of Representative seats at random and asked readers to indicate, from looking at pictures alone, the candidate they expected to win.
Who won the news cycle? Abbott storms home for the last gasp win
Tony Abbott, as a race caller would put it, has stormed home in this election campaign and won the last day of proper campaigning in a canter.
A pain in the arse: a diary about living with cancer
Jonty Este is a 48-year-old journalist living in Sydney … This is the second in an irregular series about his experiences living with cancer.
The Crikey contest swings to the Coalition
There’s little doubt about which side Crikey readers think has finished off the campaign better.
Rundle: Gillard versus Abbott — the culture war is personified
Tony Abbott should he prevail, will most likely be held in check by a Labor-Green Senate. The Right are expecting or pretending they expect that Julia Gillard, should she prevail, will shed her moderate and piecemeal political image, and emerge again as the Victorian leftie.
Well hung: Tony Windsor on independence and the ‘pathetic’ campaign
Crikey has been profiling the independents who could hold the balance of power in their hands. We’ve spoken to Queensland maverick Bob Katter and Lyne MP Rob Oakeshott, today we bring you New England MP Tony Windsor.
Policing political advertising in Australia
Legal and advertising experts have slammed the Advertising Standards Bureau for refusing to act on complaints about Tony Abbott’s infamous “red arrow” campaign ad, writes Colin Cosier.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: The night before the election dawn
Crikey readers have their final say on the election.
