Election 2013 media panel
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There has been a change in the front pages of the east coast News Corp tabloids in the last few days. The campaign for the Coalition has become much more homogenous: for the first time, the same images…
We’ve all seen it: A mum preparing lunch stares down the camera and asks, “What are you hiding Mr Abbott?”. It is an election advert - we see them every election. It turns out that the mum in the advert…
Recent polling shows that the majority of younger voters intend to vote for the parties on the “left” (ALP and Greens) whereas the majority of older voters intend to vote for the parties on the “right…
“Lord, Lord. How this world is given to lying!” cries Falstaff in King Henry IV. Quoting these words in a 1991 Harvard University public lecture, the then-executive editor of the Washington Post, Benjamin…
The prime minister did better in Wednesday’s people’s forum than in the first debate, but failed to deliver the game changing performance he needed. On the contrary, negative media coverage of his alleged…
Having walked straight into a News Corp net on Wednesday, the assault on Kevin Rudd continues in the tabloids. First, the Courier Mail applauds Tony Abbott’s question of the night, and today, an “exclusive…
Who doesn’t remember, with some fondness, Joe Dolce’s song Shaddap You Face? We might cringe now, but that song went to number 1 on the charts all around the world. Last night Tony Abbott told the PM to…
In the talk show it is called “the money shot”. That unscripted moment in the show when something genuinely unexpected happens, breaking out from banality, and into genuine confrontation. It is this moment…
Like Dorothy landing in Oz, every three years I awake to discover I’m not living in Campbelltown, South Australia, any more. Now I’ve been transported to the land of Sturt, where things appear to be very…
There’s nothing like a vigorous national election campaign to bring out the best in Australia’s mainstream newspapers. Some would say it also brings out the worst, but these remain subjective judgements…