Conventional wisdom has it that with the economy so healthy, the government should be polling brilliantly. So we got Media Monitors to do a little compare and contrast of media mentions, writes Christian Kerr.
Conventional wisdom
That’s the thing PM: nobody likes you. Never did
About this time of year, back in 1992, one of the big guns of the Gallery made a remarkable discovery. They realised Paul Keating and the then GG, Bill Hayden, would be crossing paths on some bush airstrip on a Sunday afternoon. For a few days it became conventional wisdom that an election would be called then.
