BROADCASTERS or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street, the battlers, by dumbing things down into one-line soundbites are not respecting them, they are treating them with contempt. It's our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them.
Soundbite success. Sid Maher, The Australian, December 17:
THE carbon tax is becoming increasingly unpopular with voters and the number of people who strongly disapprove of the policy continues to rise, leaked polling shows . . . The number of people who disapprove of the carbon tax rose to 58 per cent in mid-November compared with . . . 43 per cent in September 2010 . . .
How's Malcolm doing on NBN sans soundbites? Delimiter, October 2:
JUST over two thirds of Australians now think the development of Labor's National Broadband Network is a good idea . . .
Dennis Shanahan and Sid Maher, The Australian, February 18:
KEVIN Rudd marches towards Labor leadership challenge.
Peter Hartcher, Sydney Morning Herald, February 18, predicts:
KEVIN Rudd is not campaigning for the leadership.
News.com.au, February 24:
RUDD confirms leadership challenge.
Peter Hartcher, Sydney Morning Herald, February 18, predicts:
KEVIN Rudd will become the (Labor) leader . . .
Ben Packham and James Massola, The Australian, February 27:
Julia Gillard defeats Kevin Rudd 71 votes to 31 in Labor caucus vote.
Bob Ellis on his blog, February 18:
A NARROW LNP victory, I predict, by two or four seats, Campbell Newman not gaining his.
Linda Simalis, The Sunday Telegraph, March 25:
LABOR has been decimated in Queensland, with Anna Bligh yesterday leading the party to the most devastating of state election defeats.
Michelle Grattan on Radio National, July 30, predicts:
I THINK, overall, the poll is better for Labor because they are more or less going in the right direction. . . . Across the board, it is a reasonable set of figures for the government.
Peter van Onselen in The Australian, December 15:
THE promises of a poll-driven recovery following the February leadership showdown, or after the introduction of the carbon tax, or following the announcements of various reforms to disability services and education were summarily snuffed out by Newspoll this week . . . But to end the year where it started is a serious psychological blow for the PM, even if the poll is rogue, and a sign that she may be about to enjoy -- or is that endure? -- her last summer in the top job.
Margaret Simons on Crikey, January 24, predicts:
THE editor of The Daily Telegraph, the controversial Paul Whittaker, is in the firing line at News Limited as new CEO Kim Williams introduces a top-to-toe renovation . . . Whittaker's tenuous position is the talk of the newsroom. We put in calls to him this morning but didn't hear back.
Simons, January 25:
NEWS Limited is awash with rumours at the moment . . . This one (about Paul Whittaker's "tenuous position") I judged to be sufficiently confirmed to warrant inclusion in my story. It seems I was wrong in that judgment.
Wayne Swan on February 7:
WE'VE got our colours nailed to the mast. That's what we're doing. We're producing a surplus in 2012-13. We're determined to do that and that's what we're going to do.
Swan, December 20:
IT'S unlikely that there will be a surplus in 2012-13.
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