Election 2013 media panel
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Election campaigns can bring on nostalgia in journalism academics and other exiles from the old country; this one more so as made-for-television-and-social-media visits to cheering schools and industrious…
The polls published in this election campaign may well be Kevin Rudd’s best friend. But to explain what looks like an absurd statement requires some background on the politics of polling itself. Any commentary…
The ABC’s economics correspondent Stephen Long has delivered a scathing assessment of the Coalition’s costings statement this morning but just as significantly he also delivered a harsh judgment on his…
Last night on the AFL 360 show Gerard Whateley and Mark Robinson summed up the election: “It’s been a crap election campaign”. I think that’s right - it has been very difficult to maintain interest in…
Coalition leader Tony Abbott, in an eleventh-hour election campaign pitch, pledged to “roll back Labor’s laws that limit free speech” and to require the Australian Human Rights Commission to champion…
We are about to show the children of today and tomorrow and the rest of the world that we don’t really care about them. Australians are about to elect the Coalition into federal government. A Coalition…
The next 24 hours will still bring heavy campaigning, but as election 2013 begins to warp it is time to look over various aspects of the campaign. The Storify below is an overview of some of the ways Twitter…
In between the transmission of Kitchen Cabinet’s special editions featuring the competing party leaders in the 2013 election, it’s an opportune moment to ask: what is it about these human interest-oriented…
An editorial in yesterday’s Australian entitled Independent and Irrelevant was the latest in a trilogy where it has attacked just about every conceivable competitor to News Corp’s operations in Australia…
Media is a tough business. Everyday starts from scratch and, in the broadcast media every second of the day has to be filled with content. Consumers are fickle - if they don’t like what they hear or see…