The real loser in this telecast was the ABC. The telecast was appalling. Cameras virtually never cut away to people that Gillard was referring to in the audience, and the ABC kept showing graphics which made it seem they were promoting and electioneering for the ALP.
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Fine readings of fine poems in Quadrant Online's Favourite Poems series of recordings.
Listen to Shelley Gare in conversation with Quadrant editor Keith Windschuttle.
The gladiatorial contest that is the battle between the two leaders of the major parties, is a Roman circus, staged, managed and exploited by the media. It is their show — they are the promoters. They own the Coliseum.
On Counterpoint Michael Thompson explains how the Labor party turned against their own base.
The ALP has now been forced into a novel division of labour. While a “liberated” Gillard preaches to the converted journalists, special interests and safe Labor voters, Rudd gets down and dirty in the marginals.
Why it should be thought that a group of university academics, who have signed an open letter supporting the ALP, have any idea whether the Australian economy really was heading into deep recession and high unemployment is hard to work out.
Team Labor then followed up the knifing of the PM by revealing Rudd’s rudeness, incompetence and total lack of prime-ministerial ability. Then bingo. Out comes the hypocrisy-wand. All is forgiven. “Kevin…mate… we need your help. Like now…out of bed, mate!
Peter Coleman's latest collection of essays, The Last Intellectuals, contains a sharp, funny and sometimes stern series of meditations on a career spent in the domestic and international culture wars.
Philippa Martyr has discovered an Australian film worth watching.
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