The tax summit helped push Wayne Swan up to second, swapping places with the happy little vegemite down at the Foreign Office.
Columns / The Media Monitors’ Top 20
Crikey and Media Monitors chart which politicians are receiving the most media oxygen each week.
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.
Greens hubris a tour de force
It was all about Green hubris and another pre-announcement of an announcement amongst commentators this week.
Anniversary coverage the Tomic for Gillard
Julia Gillard gets an anniversary-load of coverage this week.
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.
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
Carbon tax, refugees and war get Gillard coverage. Shock.
Julia Gillard’s carbon tax and asylum seeker policy continued to get attention.
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 Oprah Winfrey … er … Bob Katter show draws the crowds
Do we need more Bob Katters? Probably not?
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 […]
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.
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.
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.
Combet runs a Mokbel as Rudd’s media coverage sleeps with fishes
Greg Combet making his first ever top three appearance.
