The long running federal police investigation into the affairs of several Liberal MPs isn’t the only incipient disaster for John Howard in Queensland.
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Shizer! Adelaide’s all-powerful Tiser needs some competition
Given South Australia’s Germanic roots, maybe it’s time Adelaide’s all-powerful newspaper became known as “The Shizer”.
Tips and rumours
The industry view on Coles and Wesfarmers is that the takeover will struggle as Bunnings operates with a totally different retail model. They buy on consignment, suppliers carry the stock cost and manage replenishment. Coles brands operate on totally different models, which Bunnings appear not to understand. At Myer, look out for a double digit […]
Galaxy and the “bounce” that never was
Today’s opinion poll is from those wild and crazy folks at Galaxy. Published in the Murdoch tabloids, its results are unremarkable: Labor leads by 55-45 two-party preferred, off a primary vote of 46% to 41%. That’s a swing of just under 8%, slightly less than other polls in the last fortnight.
ABC main electronic news source, newspapers decline
The ABC is the stand-out source for Australian news and current affairs, Roy Morgan research has found.
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Howard’s NT plan … the “left” fail to respond … compulsory medical checks in the NT … lawyer up and sue … Crikey Bias-o-meter … the failed state of East Timor … conferences and tax dodges …
Crikey Bias-o-meter: The newspapers
The market is too small to support newspapers that don’t play to the centre ground, so the Crikey bias-o-meter has had to be finely calibrated. In a marketplace full of bland centrist publications and carefully mixed stables of commentators, small deviations can look extreme.
It’s John Howard v the Liberal Party in Queensland
As this morning’s Australian reports, one of the disputed Liberal preselections in New South Wales is the Senate ticket, in which the Prime Minister, despite himself coming from the right, is trying to keep the left’s incumbent Marise Payne in the number three spot against a right-wing challenge.
Sorting the truth from the poll chatter
Certainly we criticised a Galaxy question recently. This does not mean that all Galaxy questions are suspect. And for an organization to publish a result it is pleased with does not make the result wrong, writes Irving Saulwick and Denis Muller.
