When the two-party preferred vote is finalised, Labor will be comfortably ahead on that too. By Abbott’s own reckoning, this gives Gillard more legitimacy than Howard had in 1998.
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September, 2010
Mungo MacCallum: Mungo: hey innumerates, look at the scoreboard
Hamilton: Gruen’s gift to the advertisers
The Gruen Transfer encourages Australia’s young “best and brightest” to devote their lives — not to finding a cancer cure, teaching indigenous kids or campaigning against climate change — but to making clever TV ads for front groups created by the tobacco industry.
Keane: the good and very bad of the Gillard line-up
There are some worthy promotees in the first proper Gillard Ministry, but the plotters have been rewarded.
Greens: flick go the shares when it comes to ABC coverage
In all the talk of new paradigms in the reporting of politics, one thing is surely true: much more attention should be paid to the Greens.
Rich pickings: happy joint b’day to Packer and Murdoch jnr
What do you get the wealthy entrepreneur who has everything?
Public transport: time for a new plan
Yes, even green cars have negatives, but we should focus on ways of civilising the beast, writes Alan Davies, of the Melbourne Urbanist blog site.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: The Australian’s election coverage
Crikey readers have their say?
Morning Market Report: Markets up as Wall St extends rally
Wall St closed up 47 overnight, extending their nearly two week rally.
Daily Proposition: Experience life on the Fringe in Sydney
A Tiny Chorus is something else again. It puts me very much in mind of the Python cliche ‘and now for something completely different’. Not only different. But absurd. But also touching and beautiful. Just one of dozens of shows at this year’s Sydney Fringe Festival.
Media briefs: Media briefs: Sandra’s prime-time move? … stepping on bras … The Oz’s spam ads …
Byrne’s good, but Sully rules Ten. With Ten launching its new 2.5 hour evening news lineup soon, speculation is mounting as to who will take the anchor role in their 6-6:30pm national news bulletin. During this week’s Mediaweek podcast, there had been some speculation from Sunday Telegraph media journo Richard Clune regarding the host role. During the […]
Cox: whatever happened to the women’s ministry?
Privileging the extra input of the women’s perspectives is still necessary because there are still only four women in a Cabinet of 20 and a further two in outer ministry of 10.
Video of the Day: First Dog on the Moon does Insiders
Crikey’s own celebrity cartoonist First Dog on the Moon made his long awaited return to Insiders on the weekend, starring in ‘Talking Pictures’ with Mike Bowers to discuss the best in political cartoons and photos from the week.
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours
Is science disappearing from the Aunty? What is with the ABC and Science these days? The latest reporter to join Catalyst is supposed to be worth listening to because she wrote a book on being green, not because she has strong scientific credentials. The award-winning natural history department has been closed down. The last one […]
Political snippets: Of rats, dogs and saints
Every Labor MHR has power now. Choosing a ministry when every member of your team has the potential to bring down your government is no easy matter. Put one nose badly out of joint by not offering a job, or in some cases not offering the right job, and the majority can disappear in one […]
Crikey Says: Voters don’t want politics-as-usual
It’s clear from both this week’s and last week’s Essential Report data that Liberal voters — who make up not much under 40% of the electorate — are very grumpy about the outcome of the hung Parliament.
If Don Draper was selling Twitter
A clever mock-up of vintage style advertisements spruiking new media. How would have Facebook been sold in the 1960s? “For leisure or labour…” says the tagline.
Meet the man behind BPGlobalPR
As the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico worsened, the popularity of Twitter spoof profile @BPGlobalPR — an inept and amusing PR firm attempting to quell public outrage — grew exponentially. The Awl interviews the man behind the witty one-liners.
America: land of the feeble, home of the weak?
The amount of lies, hate and confusion swirling around the United States right now about Muslim people and Barack Obama is staggering. This isn’t what America is supposed to be about, writes Nicolas Kristof.
Polishing Nine’s new women’s-only GEM
Get ready for the launch of Nine Network’s new digital channel aimed at women over 35, named GEM (general entertainment and movies). Expect classic female Wife Swap and Random Acts of Kindness, with Nine CEO dubbing it “a warm and classy channel.”
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Get ready for WikiLeaks to start gushing
The combat part of the Iraq War may be over, but WikiLeaks is expected to soon reveal secret reports and data from a whopping 500,000 events in the Iraq War, making it the WikiLeaks biggest document dump so far. Media outlets including Newsweek will investigate and publish the leaks.
