Some good news for Queensland, with sugar sweetening the Queensland economy’s woes. Plus, a sub-editor with a sense of humour about election speculation and campaigning.
Election campaign
Political snippets: Goods news for QLD economy
Kev’s troubled typing: highlights from the PM’s Live Chat
Our new-media loving Prime Minister Kevin Rudd showed himself to be more typing twit than technical top dog in a patchy attempt at a live web chat about climate change today.
Political snippets: Rudd already campaigning for election?
It’s the same the whole world over, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Also, the media is already showing that Kevin Rudd is off and election campaigning.
The Rudd Government silent on reforming cross media rules
After missing almost the entire election campaign because I was overseas I logged onto the ALP’s website today to check out the ALP’s new communications policy. To my horror I discovered it doesn’t have one. Somehow it managed to skate through an entire election campaign without announcing one.
Does Garrett have competition for the Arts job?
An ALP insider has told Crikey that Bob McMullan is likely to be the new Arts Minister under a Rudd Labor Government. What would he be like? wonders Nicholas Pickard.
Reality check: A little bit of rorting
It’s not the stories about Liberals being caught rorting the system that have kept John Howard’s election campaign off the rails this week. The damage was done by preventing the story that Mr Howard wanted aired getting the run it otherwise would have.
Election coverage: can’t we do better than this?
So we near the end of the election campaign, and amidst all the other reflections, it is appropriate to reflect on how well the media has done its job and how it might be done better, writes Margaret Simons.
What do you mean you couldn’t read our broadband promise?
Website design and evaluation firm Hiser have bought into the election campaign with an unintentionally hilarious media release – or one they are playing it straight with, anyway, writes Christian Kerr.
Where’s the war in this election campaign?
Despite this election’s outward appearance, Australia is a nation at war. Surely that demands serious answers and merits significant navel-gazing from both the electorate and the electoral aspirants, writes GetUp’s Ed Coper.
Richard Farmer: Rudd turns the tables on election spending
The prospect of a Government promising to outspend an Opposition makes this election campaign rare indeed, writes Richard Farmer.
The polls so far: charting the great divide
Mumble Elections’ Peter Brent provides you with the ultimate poll of polls, tracking all the polling since 14 October.
Crikey Cabbie Panel: Which party benefits from the rate rise?
Raising rates during an election campaign is a first for the Reserve Bank and further breaks promises from the Coalition that they will keep interest rates low. But with inflation rising and continued uncertainty in the US subprime market, will voters take a risk on the relative inexperience of the ALP?
The Daily Verdict: Day 17 and Labor should buy Tony Abbott a drink
Tony Abbott made the big contribution to the election campaign yesterday but before getting too carried away the significance of it all it pays to remember that what most people see, hear and read during an election campaign is what they want to see, hear and read, writes Richard Farmer.
Reality check: Broccoli with your politics
I hope John Howard is eating his broccoli. All those morning walks without wearing a hat. Maybe readers of The Age will forward him the article from today’s top five on the paper’s website that suggests broccoli can prevent the damage from the ultraviolet light that often leads to skin cancer, writes Richard Farmer.
PM a slow learner but a good one
John Howard, with all those years of political experience behind him, now concentrates on the unbreakable promise – the bold assertion that is by definition impossible to disprove or, for that matter, prove, writes Richard Farmer.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Crikey Says – 25 July, 2007
The 2007 federal election is looming – but how will you vote if you don’t understand the game? Crikey has the answer.
