The Press Gallery were awfully excited to start the Parliamentary year.
Articles by Patrick Baume 
The Media Monitors' Top 20: So what do Kevin Rudd and Novak Djokovic have in common?
They’re not team players. Luckily for Novak he plays an individual sport.
The Media Monitors' Top 20: Wilkie the winner out of pokies debate coverage
So impressive how all the political commentators have realised that when Julia Gillard talks about not having the numbers in the Parliament to pass Andrew Wilkie’s pokies reforms, she means her own numbers, not the crossbench.
Gambaro’s flame burns bright and quick
Teresa Gambaro’s moment in the sun was as brief as it was ripe,.
Roxon in the news thanks to the new role
Nicola Roxon was off to a busy start to the year in her new role as Attorney General.
Who got the most media mentions this year?
Last year it was close to a three-way tie at the top, with Tony Abbott wedged between the two prime ministers of 2010, at the end of the year doubtless still cursing that he hadn’t become the third prime minister of 2010. At the end of this year Abbott’s party has moved to a commanding […]
The Media Monitors' Top 20: Brickbats for Gillard’s cabinet reshuffle
Not too many bouquets for the Prime Minister for the last big piece of political news of the year.
The Media Monitors' Top 20: All eyes on Slipper’s speaker appointment
Sorry folks, no-one gets the chance to vote either for or against Mr Slipper ever again, but I’m sure he’s taken your comments seriously nevertheless…
The Media Monitors' Top 20: The independents bowl over the big guns for coverage
The return to domestic issues after weeks of CHOGMs, APECs, G20s and assorted other acronyms brought Julia Gillard back to the field a little.
Gold Coast Games a boon for Bligh
There’s nothing a Press Gallery hates more than relative political stability.
The Media Monitors' Top 20: Greens make the headlines with carbon tax-mania
The passing of the carbon tax saw the Government and Greens battling each other once again to take all the credit.
The Media Monitors' Top 20: Albanese benefits from sky high Qantas coverage
Regarding the media’s coverage of Qantas, it all became about who said what to who and when .
The Media Monitors' Top 20: Like Black Caviar, State Premiers are out front due to CHOGM
The imminent CHOGM had the Premiers well up the list, particularly host Colin Barnett.
The Media Monitors' Top 20: Gillard’s as popular as Quade Cooper is in New Zealand
A Cabinet leak added to the Prime Minister’s woes, with much of the media taking it as a sign of imminent collapse.
The Media Monitors' Top 20: Rudd the apple of the media’s eye
Rudd got up to three-quarters of Gillard’s coverage in a week that was meant to be all about the carbon price.
The Media Monitors' Top 20: Wayne Swan peaks due to tax summit
The tax summit helped push Wayne Swan up to second, swapping places with the happy little vegemite down at the Foreign Office.
The Media Monitors' Top 20: Kevin Rudd’s more Dane Swan than Wayne Swan
He’s baaaack. It’s looking decidedly like a three horse race, at least in volume of coverage terms, with the Prime Min…er, I mean Foreign Minister, getting three quarters of Julia Gillard’s coverage this week.
The Media Monitors' Top 20: Asylum seeker issue pushes carbon pricing aside
Extraordinarily, the focus has moved so completely to the asylum seeker issue that Greg Combet actually fell six places and Greg Hunt moved off the list altogether.
The Media Monitors' Top 20: Rudd stays in the leadership spotlight
While most of the other supposed contenders for the top job drifted well down the list this week, one K Rudd stayed well in the top five.
The Media Monitors' Top 20: Gillard reaches new lows
Julia Gillard’s Annus Horribilis reached new lows.
The Media Monitors' Top 20: The press go into Craig Thomson overdrive
The Craig Thomson issue continued to take up much of the political oxygen.
The Media Monitors' Top 20: Nothing like a scandal to get the press as Thomson moves up the charts
Craig Thomson was of course the PM’s most pressing immediate headache this week
The Media Monitors' Top 20: A disturbing increase in normalcy in political coverage
State politics continued to take up a greater proportion of the political discussion and Tony Abbott was back to second after making a splash pretty much on his first day back.
The Media Monitors' Top 20: Malaysian deal boosts Chris Bowen’s press
Chris Bowen put his sternest no exceptions face on, as the complexities of the asylum seeker issue continue to mount up.
The Media Monitors' Top 20: State politics grabs headlines for a change
State politics finally got a look in this week after Federal issues dominating political coverage for several months.
