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NSW Labor are a tired, old, on-the-nose government who have received uniformally terrible polls for nearly 2 years now. It’s not like The Australian has seized on one poor poll to predict doom-and-gloom. People have been trying to look for a “turnaround” for 18 months and it hasn’t happened, in fact it’s arguably got worse. Changing leaders, backflips, dumping ministers..they’ve tried everything and nothing has happened for them. I’d say “dead in the water” is an accurate description.

This looks like a classic case of Shooting the Messenger, as do many of the comments above. Charles must be living in a sensory deprivation chamber by now, for pretty much every news outlet from ABC’s Antony Green to the SMH regard the government as dead men walking.

Essential information such as Voting Centre decoration returns and copies off electronic preference data files have not readily available and subject to proper scrutiny and independent review. Th electoral Commission embarking on a cover up of the mistakes made in the past. Copies of data files have been deleted and data backups not available.

The Commission in what is seen as an admission of fault in the design and implementation of its electronic counting of the vote has abandoned the random data quality check and is now recommending a double data entry process. This is a welcomed step but does not go anywhere near enough to ensure that electronic voting in Factoria is open and transparent.

Votes can go missing without a trace. Without publication of the voting centre statistics prior to the commencement of counting the vote there is not means of ensuring that all votes are accounted for.

Likewise without access to copies of the electronic data files there is not means of ensuring that the data file and information recorded is an accurate record. In 2006 the Commission failed top provided copies of voting centre returns and copies of the preference data files were only made available 2-3 months after the election. Copies of the primary data-entry count were deleted overwritten without any backup copies being made.

The Victorian Parliamentary committee is meeting in secret behind cosed door. Submission exposing the roots and error in the counting system and complaints against the Commission are being suppressed removed from public debate

http://sites.google.com/site/melbcity/submissions

At least Mr Burns was funny and didn’t actually hurt people.

if it was more balanced I’d buy it regularly but I am not going to buy something so tendentious and often simply silly

The same argument applies to Murdoch’s Fox pay TV network. Myself and hundreds of thousands of other Australians who could easily afford to subscribe, don’t – and never will while the ‘news’ content is the way it is.

In the case of Fox, when are Telstra going to kick up a stink that what Murdoch is doing with the content is costing them millions in potential sales?

I actually changed from Channel 7′s Sunrise when Kochi told voters in 2007 that financially it was best if they voted for John Howard. I also think that Kochi’s jokes are as funny as an episode of Hey Hey its Saturday and would rather sit naked in the snow than watch either.

I now watch ABC2 in the mornings – at least then I get some idea of what’s going on in the news – and not just a sneak peak on Justin Beber’s new film clip or the new Twightlight movie.

It is no secret that there is little difference between the view of the murdoch media and the local conservative party (and they could be completely different in different countries.) This is old hat now. I doubt that he could walk down the street in any country without a body guard.

I haven’t bought or read a murdoch paper for a long time, nor do I bother with the ABC on-line or news or current affairs as they are basically a reflection of the murdoch media.

And of course the channel 9 morning show is Liberal party promotion spot, so my family and friends have dispensed with channel 9 as well. It gets pretty boring listening to political bias in the media, no matter what flavour.

Can anyone tell me what’s happened to the blog feeds? The comment feeds appear to be correct, but the feeds for the posts are failing.

Fran Kelly has a slightly anti-government tilt to her, granted, but it was there during the Howard era as well (i.e. she seems to criticise those in power regardless of which party it is). However, that is easy to handle & understand.

The worst problem with Aunty at the moment is the current & ex Liberal staffers writing piece after piece devoid of ANY objectivity. This followed by their week of fact-less ‘climate scepticism‘ because Clive Hamilton got “equal time”.

Based on current practices, any piece talking about the equality of race would need an opposing piece by the Klu Klux Klan. Only that would be stupid… right?

News Ltd had me bark out laughing today because of Shanahan’s “spin video” trying desperately to remind everyone that there were problems with the school stimulus in wake of the Auditor’s report that stated it was a success. Objectivity in journalism has long left the Murdoch empire – it now simply shovels the opinions it can sell & manipulate easily.

I think her comment below is a lucid assessment of where we are right now.

An ungrateful bunch, the electorate has moved on from the GFC and Labor’s obvious capable handling of that looming crisis. They’ve hung onto their jobs (most of them) and pocketed the stimulus payments and now they’re looking up and wanting more. What’s he done for me lately?