Twitter is becoming the channel of choice for political news, comment, opinion, not least because Facebook is vacating the field.
You know that old philosophical conundrum about trees and forests? Now it’s "if a scandal breaks on social media, but mainstream media don’t repeat it, did it actually happen?"
Most of the various allegations about Barnaby Joyce were on Twitter way back in October courtesy of @truecrimeweekly (with a bit of help from @tonyhwindsor), to say nothing of being all over analogue social media -- pub gossip, as we used to call it -- in both Canberra and Armidale.
We hear Yongah Hill is slated for closure, the battle for New England, and somebody needs to explain irony to Tony Abbott.
Is Australia’s parliament really ‘united against racism’?
Wait, Australian politicians don't like racism? When did that happen?
Anguished social media warriors have it wrong on Husar
Many progressives on social media are guilty of exactly the kind of filtering and denialism they deride Trump supporters and climate denialists for.
Australian literary festivals and the optics of outrage
A writers or "ideas" festival isn't complete without at least one incongruous and controversial addition. But who benefits from this, and is this cycle of outrage sustainable?
Testing times for Shorten as Turnbull enjoys life free of Joyce and Abbott
With Barnaby Joyce gone and Tony Abbott alienating his own colleagues, two of the key causes of Malcolm Turnbull's woes have been curbed — opening the way to shift the spotlight to Bill Shorten.
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