Following a fortnight of uncertainty after the 2010 Tasmanian election, the Greens Party led by former advertising guru Nick McKim, have flexed their muscles to effectively appoint the ALP as minority governing party. This act by the Greens Party came after both major parties refused to negotiate with the Greens, and made this a part [...]
UK Labour media master Alastair Campbell has an excellent post on his blog today about how the Tories consistently fail on strategy, even if they excel on tactics. He basically makes the point that even though the media is on their side, and they are able to get their line in the paper each day, [...]
April Fools Day 2010 brought us one of the best fake political campaigns of the decade, with the “Vote Labour. Or Else.” slogan. Now, with the British election starting today (with the poll on May 6), let’s look at the British Labour Party’s actual campaign. British Labour is doing a lot of good things with [...]
With the Tea Party movement starting to exercise its political muscle within the Republican Party (it’s primary season in the USA), it’s timely to look at some of the ideas driving the teabaggers. Luckily for us in Australia, there’s a great Flickr photo set showcasing some of the more creative protest signs from various rallies [...]
Karl Rove was responsible for George Bush’s election win over Al Gore in 2000, and denies being involved in the Swift Boating of John Kerry in 2004. His reputation as a political strategist without equal is deserved, as he invented the micro-targeting and individualisation of campaign communications with direct mail. With the Tea Party movement [...]
Tony Blair has a new election website for the British general election this year. In a 10 minute video, he exposes the vacuous nature of the UK Tories campaign, and how, although they are advocating “change”, they haven’t spelled out what change actually means: What happens after a long period of one party in Government, [...]
Most political candidates are on Twitter and Facebook – using these social media tools to reach out to younger voters, and instantly communicate with supporters, the public and the media. I’ve written previously about how political candidates can use social networking tools like Twitter and Facebook, Google Apps and how campaigns have made use of [...]
The #NoCleanFeed movement is not an organised campaign, but rather a loose connection of disparate groups including ISPs and civil liberties organisations. For a while, I’ve been arguing that the #NoCleanFeed campaign should drop the focus on censorship: I suggest avoiding commenting on the refused classification – most Australians aren’t going to be sympathetic to [...]
Kim Crow from Back Page Lead opines in Crikey: What Abbott achieved on Sunday by finishing that ironman is phenomenal. He swam 3.8km, biked 180km and ran 42.2km. For me, that demonstrates incredible guts, courage, determination, persistence, resilience, strength of character, strength of mind and … fitness! These qualities are exactly the qualities you look [...]
The Guardian has a very serious looking, credible sounding article about British Labor’s election strategy. It reads so seriously in fact that it’s not until the fourth paragraph that it becomes clear that it is a fantastic April Fools gag. Following months of allegations about Brown’s explosive outbursts and bullying, Downing Street will seize the [...]
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