The Media Monitors' Top 20

The Media Monitors’ Top 20

While the Prime Minister saved the world from nuclear attack the Australian media seemed to be at least as interested in more earthy local matters, writes Patrick Baume.

While the Prime Minister saved the world from nuclear attack, climate change and a future without an Australian automotive industry all in one week (how the rest of the world must wish they were Australian, so they could vote for him too) — the Australian media seemed to be at least as interested in more earthy local matters, such as allegations of State and Federal representatives doing long hours checking local standards of RSA (once again no doubt leading the world to wish they too could vote for such hard-working folk).

World Environment Day and only one-week late comment on the Henson issue saw the Minister for Placky Bags leap up the list as did the Minister for The Important Environmental Stuff That Can’t Be Left To The Rock Star (try getting that on a business card), who softly got tough on carbon trading and defended the water buyback scheme.

TW	Move	Position	Politician	Press	Radio	TV	Internet	Total
1	0	PM	Kevin Rudd	1,602	9,524	7,044	10,436	28,606
2	3	Premier	Morris Iemma	403	2,555	798	5,294	9,050
3	-1	Opp Leader	Brendan Nelson	321	1,021	694	4,594	6,630
4	*	State Minister	John Della Bosca	169	2,740	1,391	1,218	5,518
5	-2	Cabinet	Wayne Swan	213	452	232	4,483	5,380
6	0	Premier	Anna Bligh	302	914	467	3,557	5,240
7	12	Cabinet	Peter Garrett	182	972	474	1,554	3,182
8	-4	Shadow	Malcolm Turnbull	86	239	85	2,141	2,551
9	*	Backbench	Belinda Neal	116	890	674	654	2,334
10	-3	Premier	John Brumby	163	811	151	892	2,017
11	4	Cabinet	Lindsay Tanner	82	495	420	743	1,740
12	2	Cabinet	Julia Gillard	230	277	192	1,021	1,720
13	-4	Outer	Chris Bowen	67	713	195	715	1,690
14	3	Cabinet	Stephen Smith	84	495	147	753	1,479
15	14	Cabinet	Penny Wong	65	701	106	541	1,413
16	-3	Cabinet	Martin Ferguson	49	425	19	900	1,393
17	-5	Cabinet	Nicola Roxon	101	306	59	913	1,379
18	5	Opp Leader	Lawrence Springborg	55	348	161	761	1,325
19	5	Premier	Alan Carpenter	154	502	37	622	1,315
20	-2	Cabinet	Anthony Albanese	48	322	340	587	1,297

Della joins the big two this week, as talkback callers seem to show more interest in local argy bargy than global peace and carbon-free Camrys, while name calling between farmers and the Victorian Premier continues.