A guest post from Tammi Jonas takes a look at the performance of the media in the wake of the Christchurch earthquake: Coverage of the devastating earthquake in New Zealand this week compelled ABC The Drum’s Jonathan Green to write a post titled “The media is not there to help. It does not feel your [...]

With the vote-counting continuing and the critiques — of the independents, the delays in results and the impasse in establishing a new government — from some parts of the media becoming increasingly shrill, I thought it might be a good idea to pull apart some of the issues that are coming up in opinion articles [...]

I could have dropped this in the weekend thread but it deserves more publicity than that. Read this post from Grog. It’s excellent, in the sense that it’s a cogent indictment of the poor media coverage that’s contributing to the overall medicority of this election campaign.

As the debate over the Federal Government’s proposed Resource Super Profits Tax continues, a common theme seems to be emerging from those opposed to the tax: Andrew Forrest has accused those campaigning for the resources super profit tax of “class warfare.” – Herald Sun The image of the fat cat miner might be one that [...]

Bernard Keane made a reasonable suggestion on Twitter this morning: Take note of all the commentators who are declaring today that the Libs have got it right on Abbott, and compare in six months. So let’s compile what Daring Fireball likes to call “Claim Chowder”. Use this thread to post links and quotations of commentary [...]

With the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme defeated in the Senate and emissions trading legislation off the domestic agenda until early February, we can expect attention to be focused on next week’s international climate discussions in Copenhagen. There are some good resources around to start figuring out what we can expect from the conference. If you’re [...]

This morning’s news coverage was fairly predictable, but let’s review where things stand and open a thread for discussion about the ETS situation. Malcolm Turnbull won (I hesitate to say ‘earned’) a reprieve yesterday – hardly surprising, since it’s best to have a (viable) new leader in mind before you chop off the old one’s [...]

It’s fair to say that Andrew Bolt and the folks from Crikey haven’t always seen eye to eye, in fact at times there have been harsh words and hurt feelings on both sides. Yesterday however, they have both been able to let bygones be bygones and come together to echo at least part of one [...]