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Rudd v Abbott - first impressions

If TV debates were won on the delivery of detail about policy, Kevin Rudd would have won this debate hands down. It poured out of him in long, wordy paragraphs, too fast to really take in. But if presentation…
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Who generates election memes?

Tonight’s debate will be watched hawkishly by a range of ‘interested parties’ for material to generate image macro memes about the Prime Ministerial candidates. Debates as sources for meme generation Mitt…

Dialing M is madness

Most Labor MPs remember vividly the impact of Kevin Rudd’s leadership shortcomings in 2009-2010. He is in charge again now only because he strapped on a suicide vest: you install me to my rightful place…

They can run, but today’s pollies can’t hide

I wake to the promise of blue skies and 26 degrees in Brisbane this late winter Saturday, and a welcome day of R&R. No rest for our election candidates, however, as they go into the first full weekend…
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Resisting the evil empire

Given it has been discussed so much, I am a little loath to add further to talk about The Daily Telegraph’s “Kick this mob out” cover. But it is such an instructive example. As some of my colleagues have…

Protest, newspapers and the internet

Protest is largely symbolic; an act of disagreement and dissent, but one to which the attention of others must explicitly be drawn if it is to have any impact. So when an image of a hand-written sign outside…
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Throwing Anna Bligh to the wolves

I have written elsewhere that the way that Kevin Rudd can win the election - and I think he’s in it to win, not that he will win mind you - is by generating political turbulence. Preferably by creating…
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Thanks for your support: Tony Abbott on Facebook

Scrolling through the Opposition Leader’s Facebook page in the last few days, I was struck by two images in particular. The first thanks Australians for “giving us over 60,000 likes” (updated from an earlier…
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Do election promises matter?

Following stinging criticism for breaking key promises made in the Western Australia March state election, premier Colin Barnett recently remarked on Perth’s Radio 6PR: “I don’t think people study the…