Tag Archives: Politics
Abbott & Gillard

Category Killing Politicians

          I recently heard a national press club address on the ABC, in which one of the subjects addressed was the image of politicians and politics in Australia and more broadly, around the world. The speaker highlighted a conversation that he’d had some months previously with the marketing manager of Burger [...]

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Joe Hockey 2

And the Academy Award Goes to…

I don’t normally discuss politics on this blog, and I am not sure that I am going to this time.  I am however going to comment on impact that politicians have on their own brand and their own image as a result of the bizarre performances that they deliver in the House and indeed in [...]

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Federal Election YouTube Comparison

Now We Know Why Tony Abbott Doesn’t Want The National Broadband Network

OBSERVATION: Tony Abbott’s $6 billion broadband solution, delivering an average of 12 bits per second, compared to the Government’s $46 billion strategy delivering a minimum of 100 hundred bits per second, is for me, difficult to understand. Why would we want to settle for lesser technology given the impact of that technology on productivity and [...]

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