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Election 2013: A tale told by an idiot
It’s time. Time for the media to bring out tired old speculation about the Labor leadership; time for obsessive focus on a single, arguably self-interested poll that indicates an ever-greater victory...
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Why the Menu Matters
By now, pretty much everyone’s seen, or at least heard about, that menu, produced for a fundraising dinner held for Liberal National Party member Mal Brough. The guest of honour was Shadow Treasurer...
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Dear media, write about something else
In case you hadn’t noticed, there’s an election coming. It’s about this time we should be seeing politicians nailed to the wall about their record, and their policies. So what do we get from our media?...
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For the sake of the nation, the media should do its job
If you’re a reader of Fairfax newspapers, this is what you woke up to today: ‘It is time for Julia Gillard to stand aside as leader of the federal parliamentary Labor Party, as Prime Minister of...
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We can start the policy debate
In my last post, I took aim at The Age’s contention that it was ‘impossible’ to have a policy debate as long as Julia Gillard remained our Prime Minister. I stand by what I wrote then: as long as the...
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Campaign 2013: Not an auspicious start
2013 Campaign, Day 1. Well, I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’m rather over it already. In the last 24 hours, these are just a few examples of how things are shaping up. On the politician...
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Leaders’ Debate 11/8/13 – style, not substance?
Last night’s Leaders’ Debate should have been an opportunity to hear the candidates being closely questioned. It should have been a chance to have policies put up directly against each other. It should...
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Election Eve Round-up
With under 24 hours to go, pretty much all that can be said about this election has been said. The media know this; they’ve run out of new questions. They’re reduced to repeatedly asking Prime Minister...
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Who needs science when you’ve got Wiki?
There are days when you read the political news and know that you’ll walk away angry. There are days when you despair. There are even days – rare, but they do happen – when a tiny, tiny shred of hope...
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Freedom of speech for some
First they came for the Racial Discrimination Act. Wrapping himself in the banner of ‘free speech’, our Attorney-General, George Brandis, proclaimed the equivalent of ‘let bigots be bigots’. Our Human...
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