Election 2013 media panel
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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…
“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…
Almost a fortnight into the federal election campaign some are despairing about the superficiality of the overall debate. One could be forgiven for viewing the media focus as being gaffe-driven and tittle…
Paul Barry this week asked on his Media Watch program: “who could forget the way the Tele kicked off the election campaign?” The Daily Telegraph’s front-page Kick The Mob Out editorial drew positive reader…
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…
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…
An election “is also a contest between media outlets”, my fellow panellist Professor Sinclair Davidson observed in his blog yesterday. Not quite so in Western Australia, where The West Australian remains…