January 2, 2009 – 2:55 pm
A new year is usually a time when people make some changes, but I am disappointed to see that one of these changes is the decision of Jeremy Gans to bring a halt to his Charterblog, which forensically followed the progress of Victoria’s Charter of Human Rights, and the impact (or in most cases lack of [...]
October 28, 2008 – 7:29 pm
I’ve tried not to get caught up in taking shots at the way The Australian newspaper interprets Newspoll findings. There are enough other people willing to make comment any time they believe there are flaws or distortions, and there are plenty of other issues for me to focus on.
But today’s effort was just too awful [...]
October 11, 2008 – 12:20 am
A couple of weeks ago I mentioned Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner was “in the early stages of organising a trial government blog. The purpose of the experiment will be to explore the possibilities for government participation in blogging.”
To his credit, Mr Tanner is following through with the same notion of using online forums to encourage participation [...]
September 23, 2008 – 10:10 pm
The main reason I was interested in blogging when I was a politician was to provide another way for people to access information about aspects of the political process, and to see if I could get useful feedback from people about some of my ideas and activities. To me, the comments are the most interesting [...]
September 22, 2008 – 10:31 am
Having spent Sunday morning grumbling to myself about newspapers putting irrelevant personal gossip about a government MP’s marriage breakdown on their front pages, I unexpectedly found myself asked to appear on Sunrise this morning to talk about the topic.
There isn’t always an easy dividing line on this principle, as there a range of different and [...]
