Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott were still on the campaign trail debating the carbon tax, but the media is finally starting to move on…
Articles by Patrick Baume 
The Media Monitors' Top 20: NotW scandal steals carbon tax oxygen in Oz media
The News of the World controversy certainly took some of the coverage away from the carbon price this week.
The Media Monitors' Top 20: Press goes (Lady) Gaga over carbon tax
Lady Gaga received almost three times as much television coverage this week as Bob Brown and Wayne Swan combined.
The Media Monitors' Top 20: Greens hubris a tour de force
It was all about Green hubris and another pre-announcement of an announcement amongst commentators this week.
The Media Monitors' Top 20: A bad week for brand Gillard
This was always going to be a difficult week, and the majority of media coverage has started to focus not just on Julia Gillard’s future but the future of the entire brand.
The Media Monitors' Top 20: Gillard’s loss is Abbott’s gain
Tony Abbott now regularly getting more than half the coverage of the PM, who copped another bad couple of polls in the last couple of days
The Media Monitors' Top 20: Carbon tax, refugees and war get Gillard coverage. Shock.
Julia Gillard’s carbon tax and asylum seeker policy continued to get attention.
The Media Monitors' Top 20: The Opposition and its climate position steal the show
Tony Abbott is clearly leading the volume on television again this week — attacking a celebrity always helps on that front.
The Media Monitors' Top 20: The Oprah Winfrey … er … Bob Katter show draws the crowds
Do we need more Bob Katters? Probably not?
The Media Monitors' Top 20: Dude, where’s my PM?
Latest polls seem to indicate that Tony Abbott clearly won the Budget battle, but most commentators put it down to a total switch off by the electorate to anything this Government has to say, good, bad or indifferent. Many were predicting it would be almost impossible for Julia Gillard to turn this around even with […]
The Media Monitors' Top 20: Wayne Swan moves in to the spotlight
Wayne Swan’s presentation remains dead ordinary, but his messaging has been reasonably good in the wake of the budget.
The Media Monitors' Top 20: No Gold Logie for Gillard … but there was an Osama…
Julia Gillard’s attendance at the Royal Wedding and comments about the death of Osama bin Laden kept her well ahead this week.
The Media Monitors' Top 20: It was all about Julia this week
Plenty of fluffy coverage for the PM about the standard nice things that leaders say to each other in public, destined to only get fluffier as the royal wedding lands upon us.
The Media Monitors' Top 20: Combet runs a Mokbel as Rudd’s media coverage sleeps with fishes
Greg Combet making his first ever top three appearance.
The Media Monitors' Top 20: Stephen Smith’s week not one out of the Wayne Bennett playbook
Stephen Smith and the ADFA scandal totally dominated broadcast coverage of politics this week.
The Media Monitors' Top 20: The Media Monitors’ Top 20
John Robertson copped quite a few lightning bolts from Labor’s Mt Olympus before being elected unopposed in NSW (another good look that, isn’t it?) with most media commentators vacillating between “dumb choice” and “who cares, probably good to use him up before the A-team comes in”. Robbo has the same benefit as his predecessor of […]
The Media Monitors' Top 20: New premier nearly as busy as PM
The new premier of NSW neck and neck with the PM on media mentions this week after he snuck over the line by 25 seats and the Labor Party immediately fell into the self-obsessed infighting that largely got them to this position in the first place.
The Media Monitors' Top 20: Ever hear anyone talking about the Gillard-Swan Government?
Historically governments have usually had a very high profile second in command/Treasurer — this one undoubtedly doesn’t
The Media Monitors' Top 20: Japan? Ask Kevin Rudd…
With news dominated by the devastation in Japan, the Australian media again somehow managed to briefly turn it into another Kevin Rudd issue.
The Media Monitors' Top 20: Headlines follow Gillard’s US roadtrip
The trip to the US and meeting with Barack Obama saw a big increase in television coverage for Julia Gillard.
The Media Monitors' Top 20: Carbon price does a Charlie Sheen
In hindsight, I think Julia Gillard and Greg Combet will be seen to have managed to make the best out of what was always going to be a “courageous” but unavoidable decision on a carbon price.
The Media Monitors' Top 20: It’s the Scott Morrison show
Scott Morrison shoots all the way up to third — shoot as in foot.
The Media Monitors' Top 20: Distasters keep Gillard and Bligh on top
No movement at the top as Julia Gillard maintains a lead over the natural disaster plagued Premier of Queensland.
The Media Monitors' Top 20: Anna Bligh continues to draw headlines
Julia Gillard reclaims her mantle atop the table which, in a sign of the times, is led by women, writes Media Monitors’ John Chalmers.
2010: Gillard, Abbott and Rudd steal the oxygen
Quite possibly who didn’t make the list is more interesting than who did.
