Election 2013 media panel
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Now that all Senate seats are looking settled, we are left to ponder what the addition of the five new “accidental” senators means for our parliamentary system. We now have senators representing an odd…
Most of the mainstream media reported the election as if the contest between Labor and the Coalition actually represented different sides on the important issues of the day. However, most of the issues…
The new Coalition administration hasn’t even been sworn in yet and South Australians will no doubt be happy that local media are already turning their attention to the next state election. SA goes to the…
How would you characterise the mainstream media’s performance during the election campaign? At a time when our leading scientists are continually spelling out the massive and urgent threats that climate…
Internet memes (Twitter hashtags, image macros, viral videos, joke websites) appear to have failed to significantly influence the 2013 Election because they did not target a policy issue for a marginal…
People have been shocked to read that a brawl broke out after the football on the weekend. Yet after 33 days of snarling at each other Australians lined up and cast their votes on Saturday with no reports…
As the nation woke up to a new Coalition government on Sunday morning, it has also gradually dawned on many of us the uncertain nature of the final vote in the Senate. Of greater concern from a media coverage…
Well, the polls were always going to be right, but they were also completely wrong. The Coalition have seen in a comfortable victory, but with a seat swing not as great as had been predicted, for which…
The nights on which federal elections are decided are some of the rare occasions on which all of Australia’s main free-to-air networks suspend their normal programming and engage in a common endeavour…
It was a night that confirmed Australia’s political expectations, by and large, and the two leading protagonists certainly performed their parts. Tony Abbott gave the speech that this campaign has taught…