There is a rule that journalists can’t reveal their sources, but there is no rule that says that journalists making enquiries can’t be named and shamed. So when Jennifer Marohasy asked my advice as to what she should do when she appeared to be targeted by the ABC’s Media Watch I suggested she put her […]

I have trouble believing that if an ad like this had been run by the Liberal Party about a male ALP figure, say Kevin Rudd, that the gender police wouldn’t have been out in force. So where are they now? It targets Campbell Newman through his wife and suggests she’s incapable of doing anything for […]

Another day, another incompetency…must be Australia post 2007. Ray Finkelstein is apparently a fine commercial lawyer, at least according to Wikipedia. That is the best that can be said about his chairmanship of the Independent Media Inquiry and its report. Its report is absolute drivel, and one has to question the competency of his assistant […]

This has got to be the best comment on the leadership contest. Although if he goes one more time it might be more like Nightmare on Elm Street. Amanda Bishop gives Julia some top notes while Phillip Scott plays up a storm for Kevin.

The only reason that Julia Gillard could be calling a leadership ballot is because her challenger could force one. Which means that Kevin Rudd must have more than a third of the votes because that is what you need to force a spill. That’s more votes than the Gillard people have been telling us he […]

The government has just released the Gonski review of education and while I have yet to read it and so am relying on news reports it appears to have made a number of obvious errors. First is that contra the assertions made by the inquiry, there is little relationship between expenditure on education and outcomes. […]

Could Rudd’s office be the source of the “Happy Vegemite Video”, but in a bid to damage Rudd? I know, in the Byzantine world of Labor politics convoluted revenge is a common currency, but how could that possibly work? Well watch the video again while you think about it and I’ll put a theory in […]

For some time now I’ve wondered how Anna Bligh has turned-up to work every day and looked so calm, cool and collected, like everyone’s favourite mum, for the media. She knows, as the rest of the state knows, that on March 25, 2012, it will all be over. Running a campaign knowing that you have […]

On most counts, since Queensland’s faux election campaign began Campbell Newman has yet to win a day, but yesterday was different courtesy of an own goal from the Queensland Premier when she claimed that he would be going to jail. The reason Newman has yet to win a day is partly due to the fact […]