Cancer NSW recently complained that there was too much advertising for unhealthy food on Australian TV, as I discussed in my previous post. The balance is about to be redressed, at least partially. A new company called SumoSalad is to mount an advertising blitz against fast food (but not […] Continue Reading…
July 27, 2006 | Graham
Children not the target of junk food ads
The lates push to ban junk food advertising appears to be at least partly based on an unsustainable interpretation of fairly mundane research by the Cancer Council NSW.
I can’t be quite sure of this, because incredibly in this day and age the research doesn’t appear to be up on […] Continue Reading…
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July 27, 2006 | Graham
Hillary Clinton raiding Latham larder?
Mark Latham adopted a strategy borrowed from US political guru Dick Morris, called “triangulation”. The basis of the strategy is to distance yourself from both the left and the right. Latham’s version of this strategy saw him reading to kids. It also saw him proposing an investment bond for […] Continue Reading…
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July 27, 2006 | Graham
Classic Beattie gambit
Peter Beattie’s “threat” to hold an election on recycling sewage for drinking water is a classic Beattie gambit. Take a problem for which you are responsible, or at least share the guilt, pick an aspect of the issue that your opponents can’t or won’t deal with, announce yourself as […] Continue Reading…
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July 25, 2006 | Graham
Beazley bombs on uranium
Just when Labor appeared to be getting its act together Beazley decides to run off on an extraneous excursion on uranium mining. John Howard must be happy.
Howard has elevated the debate on nuclear power for a number of reasons, one of which is undoubtedly that it raises strong passions […] Continue Reading…
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July 20, 2006 | Jeff Wall
The last successful prime ministerial transition
Observing the shambolic, some would say comical, efforts by the parliamentary, and media, supporters of Peter Costello to extricate John Howard from the Prime Ministership took my mind back to the last genuinely successful transition of Prime Ministers during the term of a Government in Australia.
Exactly forty years and […] Continue Reading…
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July 19, 2006 | Graham
“Bomber” gives Beattie an each-way bet
“Bomber” could present a problem for the Queensland Coalition. Not “Bomber” Beazley, but affable Queensland TV sports commentator Chris Bombolas. He has nominated for, and will receive, ALP preselection for the marginal Liberal seat of Chatsworth, slimly held by Liberal leadership aspirant, Michael Caltabiano.
Chatsworth was won by the Liberals […] Continue Reading…
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July 19, 2006 | Tom
History will be unkind to those who do not write it
Winston Churchill is supposed to have said: “History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”. But when and where did he say it? Without knowing that, do we really know he said it? This is a lesson Australian historians may not have learnt.
The Australian Historical […] Continue Reading…
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July 18, 2006 | Graham
Is leadership speculation helping Howard?
“Disunity is death” – like all cliches it’s just as likely to be wrong if applied in the wrong context. Today’s Newspoll provides arguable proof that the Liberal Party leadership tussle might actually be helping the government.
There are a number of possible explanations for the poll result. One is […] Continue Reading…
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July 17, 2006 | Graham
Trust trumps truth again
According to the AC Nielsen survey in today’s Sydney Morning Herald, 46% of Australians believe Peter Costello’s story on the leadership deal compared to 35%who believe Howard, yet 63% prefer Howard as prime minister compared to only 25% for Costello.
It’s the relationship between these two figures that explains why […] Continue Reading…
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