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Liberal.org.au publishes calls to violence

August 1, 2011 – 9:30 am

UPDATE BELOW: The Liberals attempt to silently edit out the evidence; unfortunately for them, we’ve got other screenshots. And here we see the dangers of a political party publishing comments as if it were a media organisation. From the Liberal Party’s liberal.org.au website, on a post about the Greens: That’s actually on there twice, and [...]

By Jeremy Sear | Comments (60)

Trollday: welfare bashing

April 14, 2011 – 8:51 am

So, the Prime Minister and Opposition leader are in a welfare-off, happily playing all the tabloid media’s greatest “dole bludger” hits, including: “there are people who can work who do not” (quoting Curtin) “Men are fighting for Australia today. Those who are not fighting have no excuse for not working.” “everyone who can work should [...]

By Jeremy Sear | Comments (59)

A call to sort through the contradictions

July 20, 2010 – 3:32 pm

I’m not going to get into a big debate about the incredibly hypocritical hysteria over the ALP/Green preference deal (save to point out that it’s going to be highly amusing throwing Abbott’s lines back in his face in a few weeks when the Libs and every other party announce their preference deals) – but I [...]

By Jeremy Sear | Also posted in Peter van Onselen | Comments (43)

Copenhagen prep time

December 2, 2009 – 3:37 pm

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 [...]

By Tobias Ziegler | Also posted in General media, Pure Science | Tagged , , | Comments (46)

Spill Day

December 1, 2009 – 7:48 am

There’s no lack of coverage on the spill, with almost all of the pundits predicting that Joe Hockey will be opposition leader by the end of today. Use this thread as a place to point out your favourite articles and discuss the implications for the Liberal party. To kick it off, have a read of [...]

By Dave Gaukroger | Comments (240)

Gold star, Malcolm Farr

October 21, 2009 – 2:53 pm

Someone writing for a major newspaper gets it: At the moment we are heading for a peak, just as we were around 2001 when the previous government mounted the Pacific Solution as a bulwark against undocumented boat arrivals. The number of those arrivals immediately fell after the introduction of the measures. But the numbers also [...]

By Tobias Ziegler | Also posted in Malcolm Farr | Tagged | Comments (8)

Op-ed wars

July 24, 2009 – 10:20 am

Politicians have always published op-eds as a way of engaging with the public and generating media commentary, but could the latest flurry of opinion pieces signal a change in how political communication takes place? It started with Wilson Tuckey’s critique of Malcolm Turnbull’s statements on emissions trading, which followed on from the email he circulated [...]

By Tobias Ziegler | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (4)