It may be losing the ratings war, but BB can always rely on the media for a dose of free publicity. Meanwhile, papers fill their pages, talkback calls flood in, blogs light up, academics get a byline, ACA n TT have an episode sewn up and the PM gets a sound bite, writes Sophie Black.
Malcolm Turnbull's pragmatic comments about nuclear power yesterday suggest that the PM's nuclear solution might be a brilliant political wedge, but it's not really a serious proposition.
The online presence of Australian politics in the lead-up to the election is a wasteland. Discounting the boring official websites, a few fake MySpace pages, Andrew Bartlett's blog, the odd video diary, and a couple of YouTube clips from the Victorian DLP -- what's left? White noise.
A little email hit all Fairfax employees' in-boxes at 10am this morning and it contains some pretty big revelations from CEO David Kirk, not least just how big a role online media is set to play in the future of Fairfax.
In the first part of a two part Australian Story special on Alexander Downer, the Foreign Minister spoke candidly about being relentlessly teased throughout his career.
In his Australia Rising speech yesterday, an outline of the government's vision for the future, Prime Minister John Howard warned of the dangers of damaging our economy by plucking emissions targets out of "thin air," writes Sophie Black.
The Howard Government have announced they've signed on to a "refugee exchange" program with the US in which asylum-seekers detained on Nauru could be resettled in the US and Cuban refugees held at Guantanamo Bay could be brought to Australia.
Crikey has pulled together a set of the Governator’s tips for our own political penguin, a man who, when it comes to global warming, is all tip and no iceberg.
Fresh from his Sunrise false dawn scandal, Kevin Rudd is set to appear on Mornings with Kerri-Anne tomorrow, where he is slated to cook a chocolate cake.
It was a beautiful political friendship. Since 2001, Joe Hockey and Kevin Rudd shared a regular segment on Sunrise and over time their relationship blossomed. They sang karaoke together, they baked together and they shampooed together. But then politics stepped in.
