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The Poll Bludger

Reuters Poll Trend: 55.8-44.2

The latest Reuters Poll Trend weighted average of Newspoll, Morgan and ACNielsen results has federal Labor with a two-party lead of 55.8-44.2, presumably being weighed down a little by recent results from before the weekend. Comments (253)

Cinetology

Big box office for Wake in Fright

The newly restored and digitally remastered version of Ted Kotcheff’s 1971 outback Australian classic Wake in Fright finished its first week in cinemas yesterday, collecting some very impressive box office receipts. The film’s first week total came to $62,393, which might seem paltry compared with, say, the $13+ million Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen gobbled [...] Comments (0)

Pollytics

Why has The Oz become Fox News with words?

Reading the latest piece from Michael Stutchbury got me thinking, is the reason why The Australian has turned into Fox News with words because of a relatively recent demographic shift in their audience? Comments (8)

Pure Poison

Open thread 4-5 July ‘09

We love having you comment here at Pure Poison but it’s a little bit difficult for discussion to continue uninterrupted on specific posts when off-topic comments land in the middle of them. So each day we’ll launch an open thread where you can leave comments that don’t quite fit on one of the other posts. [...] Comments (0)

Rocky & Gawenda

Family symphonies

Rocky has taken to barking whenever I raise my voice. Not just barking. He gallops towards me and as he does so, the bark is  really a growl and bark combination, almost musical in its effect, which to me, sounds like a plea– if not an order– for me to calm down. If by the time [...] Comments (1)

LiteraryMinded

Escaping

… for five days. A short break. May or may not blog, so here are some links to keep you busy. If you miss me too much, follow my adventures on Twitter, I’ll try and tweet a little something each day. (I’ll miss you bigger!) Comments (2)

Andrew Bartlett

Indian Court finds law against same-sex sex breaches Constitution

As President Obama works slowly on reforms such removing the counter-productive and discriminatory ban on openly gay and lesbian people in the US military, some positive news has come from India, where a Court has ruled that a law criminalising consensual sex between two people of the same gender breaches India’s Constitution. Comments (0)

The Content Makers

Public Interest Journalism - New Models

Those of you who are still checking this blog - I am still alive, and will re-emerge in August. In the meantime, things are happening. Some of you will know that I am involved with Swinburne University in a couple of experimental projects seeking new ways forward for journalism. A media release about one of [...] Comments (0)

Johnny’s in the Basement

Bandcamp

A couple of days back, I put up a post on an alternative site to MySpace, a new web interface that musicians might like to use.  From what I could tell, Bandcamp looked like a much more attractive way for musicians to promote their songs than that offered by MySpace. Comments (2)

Culture Mulcher

What he said

Michael Blim on Obama and the 40th anniversary of Stonewall But scratch any American, and scratch me for that matter, and beneath whatever we profess, you’ll find a raging libertarian. Comments (0)