The Press Gallery were awfully excited to start the Parliamentary year.
Columns / The Media Monitors’ Top 20
Crikey and Media Monitors chart which politicians are receiving the most media oxygen each week.
So what do Kevin Rudd and Novak Djokovic have in common?
They’re not team players. Luckily for Novak he plays an individual sport.
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.
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.
All attention turned to GIllard and the ALP conference
It’s been the coldest start to summer in 50 years and Julia Gillard got a cold response from some Labor party members, writes Silvana Cricri.
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 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.
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.
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 .
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 press go into Craig Thomson overdrive
The Craig Thomson issue continued to take up much of the political oxygen.
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
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.
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.
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.
The carbon tax hype is starting to fade
Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott were still on the campaign trail debating the carbon tax, but the media is finally starting to move on…
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.
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.
