Political campaigning


Mike Rann: tweet or die

I started using Twitter earlier this year, writes SA Premier Mike Rann. Why? Essentially, because I rarely saw young people at my street corner and town hall meetings.

Liberals should enjoy it while they can

Day two – a day to really lift the Liberal Party spirits. There is nothing like a fist full of dollars to attract attention and the Howard-Costello duumvirate got attention aplenty, writes Richard Farmer.

The PM has 16,050 MySpace friends, actually, make that 9

There’s a striking example of the finely honed research skills of journos in The Australian’s media section this week, ironically about the use of online media for political campaigning.