Election 2013 media panel
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Maybe the leaders’ debate wasn’t so boring after all. It’s Tuesday and ‘Notegate’ is still raging. Troy Bramston has an op-ed in The Australian arguing that Kevin Rudd didn’t cheat. It’s hard to get too…
It’s the end of day eight and Kevin Rudd’s surprise debate announcement on same-sex marriage is still making news - maybe he is the suppository of all wisdom. SBS Evening News led with an exclusive from…
Whatever its political importance, the first leaders’ debate was fairly bleak television. The set was basic and the National Press Club audience may as well not have been there, as far as the viewing audience…
Brian McNair & Stephen Harrington Audiences like spontaneity and accessibility in their politicians. They tell us this in the research we political communication scholars do, and one doesn’t need a…
At a time when conservative international organisations including the World Bank and the International Energy Agency are warning that we are heading for 4 degrees or more of warming and that this will…
Does the horrendous fate of bankrupt Detroit give us a glimpse of Adelaide’s future? The Sunday Mail brought week one of the election campaign to a doom-laden end in South Australia with this ominous question…
In my August 8 article I asked: “Do election promises matter?” It was prompted by Western Australian premier Colin Barnett saying he did not think “people study the promises” – in response to stinging…
Kevin Rudd’s use of notes in last night’s debate was extraordinary and will probably be the most commented upon aspect of the debate. It demonstrated either nerves or a lack of understanding of the rules…
The optics are important. Nobody really believes that the leaders’ debates are decisive in changing votes, but they do provide important visual cues to the eventual outcome. As I’ve written before, prime…
Kevin Rudd’s promise to introduce legislation for “marriage equality” within the first 100 days of his government, if elected, was one of the few concrete new promises to emerge in the election debate…