Sentia Media Index: Colin Barnett ramps up WA campaign
Western Australian pollies are on the move, with Premier Colin Barnett back in the Top 20 and challenger Mark McGowan hanging on in the last spot.
View ArticleSentia Media Index: everyone’s talking immigration
Politicians of all parties were talking immigrants this week, but whereas the opposition was raising the spectre of dangerous asylum seekers, the Prime Minister wants 457 visa holders at the back of...
View ArticleSentia Media Index: Napthine shoots (past) Baillieu
Even Denis Napthine could not take political oxygen away from the PM, whose widely derided Rooty Hill visit seems to have paid off.
View ArticleSentia Media index: do or die on leadership spill
The media love to talk about themselves and were breathless on Labor's proposed media reforms. But audiences gave a big shrug, more interested in a new Pope.
View ArticleiSentia Index: last hurrah for MPs as Labor self-destructs
Senior Labor MPs went down in a blaze of media coverage after they fell on their swords following the spill that wasn't.
View ArticleiSentia Index: super struggle for Labor
Labor MPs are sniping over superannuation changes, and the PM is heading to China, no doubt hoping to poll better while she's gone.
View ArticleiSentia Index: Libs talk broadband as Gillard gets a China boost
Julia Gillard's visit to China is likely to result in a jump in the polls. Plus everyone is talking about the Coalition's broadband plan and its midwife, Malcolm Turnbull.
View ArticleiSentia Index: schools, trains dominate as Rudd fades
The Greens are the model supporters of the government's education and high-speed rail plans, but Liberal state premiers are having none of it. And what's happened to Kevin Rudd?
View ArticleiSentia index: O’Farrell edges out Swan, Diggers march up the ranks
Tony Abbott got more print mentions than the Prime Minister this week, and that may continue as more and more Australians see him as the likely next PM.
View ArticleiSentia index: pollies filling the $12 billion black hole with spin
Suddenly, it seems, both sides of politics have accepted that the point of fiscal policy is to use it to help the country adapt to changing circumstance.
View ArticleiSentia index: de facto PM Abbott rides high
Tony Abbott is getting almost equal media time to the PM -- as if he were now de facto prime minister.
View ArticleiSentia index: Swan flies into first as PM loses media ground
No surprises to see Wayne Swan win the most media mentions in budget week. But Tony Abbott shaded the Prime Minister in the fight for attention.
View ArticleiSentia index: Australia’s next PM hogs the limelight
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott bested the Prime Minister for media coverage this week by a wide margin. Australia has more or less made up its mind that he will be in power come September.
View ArticleiSentia index: PM had the running over Ford, ASIO
With all the bad news around this week, Opposition Leader Tony Abbott did what he was supposed to and kept his mouth shut.
View ArticleiSentia index: good news is shared, but bad news is Gillard’s alone
Voters punish Julia Gillard for bad news, but Tony Abbott seems to share in the spoils of good policy announcements.
View ArticleiSentia index: Rudd’s back as Gillard sticks to her guns
Whispers of a Labor leadership spill are filling the corridors of power -- is there anything to it? Will this be the real return of K-Rudd?
View ArticleiSentia index: will K-Rudd get to the top spot?
Everyone's talking about Kevin Rudd, no one is talking about policy, as the Labor Party keeps sinking.
View ArticleiSentia index: Abbott gleeful witness to Labor’s pistols at dawn
It's all about the machinations at the top of the Labor Party this week, but voters are jack of all the leadership speculation.
View ArticleiSentia index: it’s all about Labor
Tony Abbott is the only Coalition politician in the top 20 this week as K-Rudd's ascendancy and cabinet reshuffle take centre stage.
View ArticleiSentia index: Julia who? Rudd’s comeback complete
Kevin Rudd is top of the pops as he tries to end a Labor arrangement that allowed him to knife Julia Gillard and become Prime Minister.
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