Obama’s stealth moves towards tighter gun lawsHarsher punishments for “straw buying” gun trading is the first in a raft of reported changes to US gun laws designed to tighten regulation. Obama’s low-key approached hasn’t escaped the attention of the NRA, writes Daniel Stone and John Solomon.
Focus groups
Faulkner’s pessimism is justified
John Faulkner’s criticism of Labor is a plea from a party elder pessimistic about the chances of his party reforming itself.
Behind the one sided mirror of focus groups
As a long term practitioner and teacher of research methods, Eva Cox wants to set the record straight by pointing out the apparent gross misuse of a very useful tool — focus groups.
Voting on The Age’s new business-sport-tabloid hybrid
Malcolm Farnsworth looks at the shrinking importance of the business section in The Age and perhaps a hidden agenda for the sports section.
Studying the PM through the Crosby/Textor prism
Piers Akerman seems to suggest in his column today that perhaps John Howard should consider sacking his pollsters Crosby/Textor. He tries to refute what he claims are the five major points of the pollsters’ advice, writes Irfan Yusef.
