The Media Monitors’ Top 20

Plenty of movement this week, with Julia Gillard back to number two as the focus moved quickly to education after Kevin Rudd effectively shut down any comment from the Opposition on climate change by going as low on reductions as anyone in the media predicted, to some consternation from the national daily, forced to give the odd backhanded compliment.

As a result it was left to the Greens and considerable sections of the media to be appalled by the targets and the ETS itself, with Christine Milne making her first appearance in the Top 20, getting more coverage than Bob Brown, particularly in broadcast media.

Other big movers were Stephen Conroy after he didn’t blink on the broadband network; Barry O’Farrell on the back of the NSW Government’s somewhat subprime polling numbers this week and Peter Costello thanks to his long term booster and close friend Tony Abbott.

TW	Move	Position	Politician Thanks for signing up We look forward to seeing you bright and early with your need-to-know talking points and tidbits for the day ahead. Get Crikey FREE to your inbox every weekday morning with the Crikey Worm. Email Please enter your email address Sign up	Press Index	Radio Index	TV Index	Internet Index	Raw total	INDEX
1	0	PM	Kevin Rudd	1,000	1,000	1,000	1,000	24,182	1,000
2	2	Cabinet	Julia Gillard	223	305	335	320	7,577	296
3	-1	Opp Leader	Malcolm Turnbull	198	292	155	405	7,640	263
4	1	Premier	Nathan Rees	155	247	90	271	5,450	190
5	-2	Cabinet	Wayne Swan	121	120	137	308	5,083	171
6	6	Cabinet	Penny Wong	104	285	75	169	4,474	158
7	2	Premier	Anna Bligh	224	113	150	132	3,235	155
8	33	Spokes	Christine Milne	25	121	172	103	2,832	105
9	5	Backbench	Barnaby Joyce	61	153	40	103	2,545	89
10	21	Cabinet	Stephen Conroy	85	53	59	141	2,332	85
11	10	Cabinet	Stephen Smith	34	60	73	141	2,388	77
12	9	Cabinet	Peter Garrett	68	28	53	118	1,841	67
13	-6	Premier	John Brumby	108	73	29	57	1,428	66
14	3	Party leader	Bob Brown	55	85	67	37	1,408	61
15	9	Shadow	Tony Abbott	53	93	51	42	1,448	60
16	18	NSW Opp Ld	Barry O’Farrell	40	54	31	102	1,723	57
17	16	Backbench	Peter Costello	74	43	32	70	1,326	55
18	-7	Cabinet	Anthony Albanese	46	31	23	97	1,467	49
19	4	Shadow	Andrew Robb	51	78	6	47	1,196	45
20	7	Premier	Colin Barnett	21	49	45	49	1,135	41

Malcolm will be delighted that Tony knocked him down to sixth on talkback this week, while the rest of the list was as you would expect, with some talk of an early election in Queensland.

Exactly half the PM’s coverage up to COB Tuesday for the brand new Tiger, which, as has been noted, was a pretty amazing effort given the bulk of the coverage was in only two states.

There’s more on the Media Monitors website.

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