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Preselectors are stupid and backwards.

October 6, 2009 – 10:30 am

While most opinion pieces covering the failure of Peter Dutton to gain preselection for the safe Liberal seat of McPherson lay the blame squarely at his feet for a complete and utter lack of effort to win over the local preselectors, The Australian’s Christian Kerr has a different view
It is actually a test of whether [...]

By Dave Gaukroger | Comments (7)

Breaking story

August 15, 2009 – 9:14 am

This just in: Political commentators at The Australian have discovered that Wilson Tuckey is a political liability.

Journalists vs bloggers, ad nauseum

June 15, 2009 – 2:08 pm

It seems we’re all talking about blogging today – after Jeremy noted that some journalists don’t seem to understand what the word means, I want to talk about Christian Kerr’s latest column.
Kerr seems to be saying that the Australian political blogosphere is no good because our bloggers don’t do what journalists do – break stories. [...]

By Tobias Ziegler | Tagged blogs, Journalism | Comments (20)

Rinse and repeat?

May 28, 2009 – 4:47 pm

There’s an interesting pair of posts at Christian Kerr’s blog, House Rules. The first was posted yesterday afternoon and is titled “Just the man to run the country in tough times”. Here’s how it starts and finishes:
EMBARGOED copies of the BRW Rich List have been drifting around Parliament House all day.
Malcolm Turnbull is back on [...]

By Tobias Ziegler | Tagged Malcolm Turnbull | Comments (25)