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party time!Topic: election Oz 2007
Author’s general introductory note (skip this if you know this regular weekly column): 
This is not a well packaged story. It’s a contemporaneous traverse of the Sunday television free to air political talkies indicating the agenda of Establishment interests: Better to know ones rivals and allies in Big Politics and Big Media.
Indeed it’s the tv version monitoring task similar to what Nelson Mandela refers to here in his book Long Walk to Freedom (1994, Abacus) written in Robben Island prison (where he was meant to die like other African resister chiefs of history in the 19C), at page 208
“..newspapers are only a shadow of reality; their information is important to a freedom fighter not because it reveals the truth, but because it discloses the biases and perceptions of both those who produce the paper and those who read it.”
Just substitute ‘Sunday tv political talkie shows’ for "newspapers" in the quote above.
For actual transcripts go to web sites quoted below except with Riley Diary on 7. And note transcripts don’t really give you the image content value.
Media backgrounder
- Sydney SunHerald blowtorch of 'youth' 20-29 yearolds against Howard
- Australian goes to town slam dunking the Heiner scandal as relevant to Rudd suitability for high office - surprising for internecine News Ltd journo cred power struggle. Oz sources teen rape victim now in her thirties, also the absence of documentation about that in the Heiner shredding affair, and manager of John Oxley Centre 10 year silence. No doubt the polarity will march within the News Ltd camp and probably follow the event ie election, possibly seeing jaded Akerman retire?
- Danielle 'Swiss can't pronounce' Ecuyer "glamourous" pic in the Oz via feminista Overington, echoing sympathetic junior feminista Saffron Howden in the Daily Telegraph earlier. Looking to be a strong surivivor of ALP sleaze policy and break up with big George Newhouse in Wentworth electorate. Yacht club dinner end of October under banner of peak green group ACF and her own Women's Alliance For Change will be a great gig probably at $60 a throw. But has she really broken up, praising George's better nature away from ALP head kickers? Methinks my disabled secular Jewish buddy Carol and I should attend that luncheon. Ex banker DE looking at being a candidate too, split progressive vote thus damage ALP, and help Greens who are quoted in the story. Also notice Bob Brown gazumps locals preference to ALP encouraging people to direct as they please (ah those eastern suburbs memories). Ouchy alp.
- Everyone sure election will be called today. 5 or 6 weeks. No flying back to Canberra for local MPs
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Meet the Press
Joel Fitzgibbon, Opposition Defence spokes, looking fresh, alert, nuggety, articulate, element of steel in the guy's delivery, will fit in with army types well, likely more than silvertail Nelson?
JF agrees Iraq an unholy mess, with 25 year old looking woman via facebook echoing front pager above case in point.
Death penalty, all happy families in the ALP. Against death penalty but defacto not for both parties "inconsistent" says Paul Bongiorno.
Panel -
Stunt of the week - 'stunt block', Xenephon in SA 'sticking his neck out' at the giraffe enclosure
first adbreak -IR grandson less rights than in my time, pro union anti work choices.Old rockers advert, bit of a worry re demographic target (mid life crisis etc).
Alsion Carabine 2UE (the John Laws station, JL retiring next month), Ian Mcphedran News Ltd
Discussion - Iraq, Afghanistan - "wants to make a difference". New White Paper. Have consulted with the 'CDF'.
Very very good pulp mill animation by Peter Nicholson re The Chainsaws rock band Mal with $ guitar, Howard and Garrett sing same song and Bob Brown is the hostile 'groupie'. Choice, and accurate.
2nd guest, Steve Fielding Assembly of God ultra right candidate in 'Family First'.
2nd adbreak Get Up climate change spoof.
Steve Fielding - Greens are extreme, just another word for pioneering in fact. Projecting his own extremism eg homophobic policy, pro forest destruction, anti climate change. Never forget the AoG church in the heart of Orbost, the woodchip capital of East Gippsland.
Petrol taxes answer to climate change complete non sequitor, and denial of the issue. "horrified" to think the Greens would hold the balance of power.
Transcript in due course www.ten.com.au/meetthepress
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7 Weekend Sunrise, 8.35-40 am Riley Diary -
Circus theme of fast and loose money. Taxpayers dosh.
Rudd gravitas tone getting a road test [my observation]. Quite an amazing collation of money references.
Death penalty - Howard for the death penalty defacto. For it, against it. Rudd, Downer, Howard, all craven.
Q & A outside govt house in Canberra for election instructions. [My tooth is hurting already.]
http://www.seven.com.au/sunrise/weekend
Insiders 2
All in the shadow of the election announcement. Paul Kelly says it will be very hard for Howard to get back. Flick from 2 to 9 and back constantly.
Young everypersons on death penalty quandary in hard cases of Bali bombers.
Lots of relieved laughter that finally its on and Rudd is just like Howard.
Get well Matt Price.
Home page is http://www.abc.net.au/insiders/
Sunday 9
All in the shadow of the election announcement. "Impressive" Mal Brough feature, Laurie Oakes with Alexander Downer looking punchy and ill at ease.
LO agrees Downer and govt ill at ease. They need 'big mistakes of the ALP in the campaign but Rudd is very disciplined'.
Bill Shorten unionist now candidate feature, the "practical person" as in very flexible practical sleazy politician? Certainly very articulate. Quite a bubble head. Exclusive Xavier college. Law degree and MBA at Melb Uni. Running for the seat of Maribyrnonrg in Melbourne. Slated for ministerial future, even PM in a generation.
http://sunday.ninemsn.com.au/sunday/default.asp
