It’s hard to overstate just how unglamorous the Labor launch was. They couldn’t have got any plainer than if they’d headed down to the nearest park and watched Julia Gillard speak from a bench.
August, 2010
Cox: the weird and wonderful world of Senate preferences
If you want to be sure who you are voting for in the Senate this Saturday, vote below the line and fill in each square with a number. Candidates often have several
The callous anti-stimulus
campaign
Efforts to criticise the Government’s stimulus packages come from critics who want to permanently enfeeble the public sector.
He’s fixed his hair, but Rupert still stuck in black and white
A central point that should not be forgotten when Murdoch talks about newspapers and his vision for them in America: He’s never had a paper here that’s worked. Never. Not one, writes Michael Wolff of Newser.
We don’t need stronger banks, we need stronger regulation
We don’t need stronger banks, we need stronger regulation. And if that doesn’t work we should have a super profits tax on the banks, writes Dr Richard Denniss.
Campaign Crikey leftovers: Climate debate fizzer … Women don’t rate Abbott … but Twitter loves him …
In today’s campaign leftovers: confusion reigns at Melbourne Uni, Abbott beats MasterChef on Twitter, Crikey omen bet update and Mel and Kochie will bring the funny on election night.
Star f-ckers, beer, getting frisked: voting in London is polls apart
Voting … that’s ticking all the right boxes in London, is a mostly beer-and-skittles experience, writes Crikey reader Jessica Crouch from London.
Essential’s state-by-state breakdown: a minority Coalition government?
NSW is Labor’s problem, state, not Queensland, data from Essential Research suggests. NSW is poised to swing and swing hard against the government.
The Greens … win Denison? It won’t happen
Much of the speculation that the Greens can take Dension centres on a Melbourne scenario: that the Greens can do better than the Libs, then will out-gun Labor on Lib preferences, writes Peter Tucker, editor of the Tasmanian Politics website.
What we think we know about federal elections
This is probably a good time to stand back and try to say some general things about what we know about Australian electoral behavior, and particularly about the election record of first-term governments.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: The great disinterested electorate
Crikey readers have their say on the election. Why don’t more voters care about the election? How does Mark Latham rate as a journo?
Morning Market Report: Markets react to uninspiring data
Economic data wasn’t inspiring with the Empire Manufacturing Index having a smaller-than-expected rise to 7.1, factory orders fell as did US Homebuilder sentiment.
Media briefs: Debate on the debate … Age of falling circulation …
There might be another pre-poll debate between Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott. Plus, Fairfax talk about falling circulation and other media tid bits of the day.
Daily Proposition: Go see some political stand-up comedy
Political junkies are often apprehensive about stand-up comedy. Afterall, why pay a comedian to be inappropriate when Mark Latham will do it for free? Political Asylum comedian Scott Abbot says his show is different.
Rundle essay: failure to launch? — Labor’s ‘realism’ is a fantasy
By now, I would imagine that the half-dozen or so people in the higher echelons of the Labor Party who retain any trace of a social vision are fit to spit about the continued shellacking that the party keeps getting from its supposed friends and allies.
Political snippets: Online readers tune out of election
The big voting day gets closer and the interest seems to get even less.
Video of the Day: Walking with Johnnie
Yeah, we know this is an advertisement for booze, but rarely is such an ad constructed so elegantly. Go for a stroll with actor Robert Carlyle as he narrates the story of Johnnie Walker in this beautifully shot and immaculately rehearsed single-take commercial.
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours
ABC host sailing close to the wind. Which ABC radio host in a capital city put to air stories on two separate days last week about residential high-rise development in the inner city, without telling listeners she actually lives in the area? No declaration of interest by the host in the slightest way. The stories, which included interviews, sailed […]
Crikey Says: Keep the kids out of it
It’s one thing for a gossip rag to roll around in this stuff about Tim Mathieson’s daughter. It’s another thing for the nation’s highest selling newspaper to concoct a story around it.
Wright: Real Julia lied at the launch
It’s absolute bollocks that Julia Gillard did an off-the-cuff speech yesterday at the Labor campaign launch with no notes, despite her staffers attempt to convince the media. Tony Wright has the photo evidence.
PHOTO GALLERY: Desperate Pakistanis fight for food
Pakistan floods are wrecking havoc in a nation already struggling for stability. These photos show how dangerous life there is.
Bacteria pass the smell test
A new study from British scientists has revealed that bacteria - not exactly regarded as the most intelligent kind of life on Earth - have a sense of smell. The finding was discovered after vials of bacteria reacted to the scent of ammonia.
