State politicians have crashed the Crikey/Media Monitors Tuesday Top 20 for the week of 29 May – 4 June 2007.

The big three – the PM, the Ruddster and Cossie – continue to hog the top three spots, but state pols are the big movers. Morris Iemma’s gone up six spots after the Indonesian diplomatic contretemps in Sydney last week over the Balibo Five.

WA Premier Alan Carpenter jumped 11 places after he decided Kevin Rudd wasn’t out to wreck his state’s economy after all. Peter Beattie is a self-confessed media tart, but he’s been so shameless this week that he’s hit number five on the charts and his deputy, Anna Bligh, has jumped up 26 spots on his coat tails.

The environment continues to be the big issue federally. Malcolm Turnbull rode up two spots on the back of a whale, Peter Garrett jumped five slots, while Labor’s attack on the “climate clever” advertising campaign that may or may not exist, depending on how shifty the PM is at any given time, saw Anthony Albanese climb 11 positions.

 

TW
(Move) 

Politician

Press

Radio

TV

Internet

Grand
Total

1
(0)

John Howard

810

11,098

4,946

6,721

23,575

2
(0)

Kevin Rudd

632

6,637

3,271

4,555

15,095

3
(0)

Peter Costello

160

2,458

541

3,037

6,196

4
(1)

Julia Gillard

149

2,591

1,122

1,377

5,239

5
(3)

Peter Beattie

205

2,266

1,316

1,300

5,087

6
(6)

Morris Iemma

139

2,155

1,307

1,015

4,616

7
(2)

Malcolm Turnbull

97

2,186

675

1,194

4,152

8
(-4)

Joe Hockey

139

1,281

1,250

1,060

3,730

9
(5)

Peter Garrett

75

1,962

846

587

3,470

10
(-4)

Steve Bracks

123

1,737

426

858

3,144

11
(2)

Wayne Swan

57

1,343

857

663

2,920

12
(-1)

Alexander Downer

70

1,004

258

1,434

2,766

13
(-6)

Tony Abbott

55

895

364

646

1,960

14
(26)

Anna Bligh

58

583

168

525

1,334

15
(-5)

Mal Brough

36

545

68

632

1,281

16
(1)

Mark Vaille

25

369

55

545

994

17
(4)

Greg Combet

50

529

56

353

988

18
(11)

Anthony Albanese

32

436

173

270

911

19
(4)

Julie Bishop

59

247

153

379

838

20
(11)

Alan Carpenter

58

283

172

256

769

 

Kevin Rudd remains at the top of the talkback chart, but that isn’t good news. While he’s Number 1, the majority of the mentions were critical.

 

Rank

Politician

Talkback

1

Kevin Rudd

913

2

John Howard

787

3

Peter Costello

303

4

Malcolm Turnbull

129

5

Julia Gillard

94

 

There’s more on the week’s issues at Media Monitors Media Index.

And as our comparison with the rest of the world, we’re using little Lleyton Hewitt. We think he’s apt – a former champ who’s suddenly the subject of speculation over his future.

 

Lleyton Hewitt

169

2,046

1,870

614

4,699