gatewatching

John Birmingham isn’t the first, and won’t be the last blogger to try to take the heat out of the discussions that take place on his threads. I do like the way he does it, though, today on his Brisbane Times blog. He says that contempt is…
…poison in any kind of relationship, and in the [...]

Anybody who’s in Brisbane, and particularly anyone who’s eligible to vote in the Central ward, should get down to the Powerhouse next Tuesday the 11th for Politics in the Pub. It kicks off at 7PM and goes through until 9, and this time it’s bringing together the people who are asking to represent the local [...]

Among the consequences of the emergence of the opinion-led blogosphere are, on the one hand, news organisations bringing prominent bloggers “inside the tent”, and on the other, presenting their op-ed writers work in a “blog-like” format. Whether you think that’s just due recognition of the affordances of blogging and the ’sphere’s emerging talent, or [...]

Well, maybe not ever ever, but as a Queenslander it’s hard not to think that tonight’s edition was important for revisiting a turning-point in our State’s history. Four premiers were interviewed, and there was some overdue credit for unlikely heroes like Mike Ahern, who realised the State needed to change, and made it happen at [...]

Our latest piece is up at the ABC here Feel free to comment there or here.

Club Bloggery: Once were barons
By Axel Bruns, Jason Wilson, and Barry Saunders
The Bulletin magazine, published by ACP, has closed down after almost 130 years of publishing.
Though we often give the print media a hard time here at Club Bloggery, [...]

In the Outsiders post earlier today, I mentioned that Possum said he was bringing his regular service back online after a short break in the real world. He has delivered immediately with a reply to The Australian’s Dennis Shanahan’s criticism of the psephosphere last week.
Read Shanahan’s column first, then proceed directly to Possum’s post.
We’ve written [...]

This is the first go at a regular feature I’ll try on the blog where, every Sunday, we’ll bypass the gallery ‘insiders’ and set out the political blogosphere’s prospective agenda for the week with some selected links.

Council elections: The rest of the country might be having a little break from elections for a while, but [...]

A few bloggy responses to the first 100 days of the new government. (If there are some we’ve missed, let us know)
Guy Beres offers a summary of the MSM reaction.
Tim Dunlop reckons that the printed report is a bit rich after the pasting Labor have been giving the outgoing government over political advertising.
And Uncle Piers, [...]