Yesterday Labor did marginally better at this salesman’s game as measured by Crikey’s The Daily Verdict., writes Richard Farmer.
Slip ups
The Daily Verdict: Days 12, 13 & 14
The momentum of this election seems to be sliding away from Prime Minister John Howard. Friday and the weekend saw quite ordinary performances from the Coalition and Labor were clear winners on our Daily Verdict calculations.
Errington: Haven’t we heard all this before?
Anyone else getting an eerie feeling that we’ve heard it all before? Someone with a better memory than I pointed out that Labor’s New Leadership slogan was pilfered from the ill-fated Mondale run for the American presidency in 1984, writes Wayne Errington.
Garrett, Johns, smoke and … Turnbull?
Forget about the maryjane and whether or not Peter Garrett, Bono, Daniel Johns and Natalie Imbruglia inhaled or not while listening to the demo tapes of Silverchair’s latest. Where there’s smoke there’s fire, true – but this fire should singe the government.






