Don’t take Tasmania’s Greens for granted, why Rann can thank the pollsters for his victory, expect an increasingly thorough analysis from the Coalition of Hawker Britton’s client list, and more thoughts from Richard Farmer.
Hawker Britton
Tips and rumours: Iguanagate goes on tour?
A fresh tip about Belinda Neal and John Della Bosca’s latest endeavours. Plus a look at the DMO’s inner workings and questions raised over News Limited’s circulation figures.
Tips and rumours
Last night I was a guest on a corporate table at Gerard Henderson’s Sydney Institute Lecture by Kevin Rudd, with Sydney’s social A-List present. Given all the negative commentary about the quality of the PM’s speeches, I was eager to see how he performed in person. As for delivery, he was flat and wooden, apart […]
Bye bye Crosby/Textor, hello Hawker/Arbib
Regime change in Canberra has seen the sidelining of political consultancy Crosby/Textor and the rise of pro-Labor firm Hawker Britton, writes Alex Mitchell.
That lobbyists’ register would help, Mr Rudd
The optics of the link between Rudd chief of staff David Epstein and his lobbyist wife Sandra Eccles are not good, writes Bernard Keane.
Perception problems can be deadly for a new government
Past – and current – links of parliamentarians and senior staff seem set to bedevil the Rudd government. Labor’s state success compounds the problem, writes Christian Kerr.
Rudd’s chief spinmeister pays the price for campaign blunders
Kevin Rudd’s former director of communications, Walt Secord, has undergone a spectacular fall from grace. From those lofty heights he has landed a post-election appointment as chief of staff to the Minister for Ageing Justine Elliott, writes Alex Mitchell.
Kevin and China Inc – Problem 08
One of the big political challenges for the PM in 2008 will be a business challenge, which is deciding how much of the natural resource base of Australia he is prepared to hand over to another country, writes Matt Marks.
To the victors, the spoils
With a new Labor government, the boys are back in town. Hawker Britton have just open a new office in Canberra and here is the email for the troops…
Who do you trust? Central bankers
The Prime Minister has made a major statement on economic management this morning in an effort to restate the Coalition’s credentials in the wake of yesterday’s interest rate rise, writes Christian Kerr.
