The Tuesday Top 20 returns

It’s back – the Crikey/Media Monitors Tuesday Top 20, covering the period from 27 November to 3 December. The Age of Change. Just look down the list. It’s all a little confused. Who’s the government? Who isn’t? Coalition pollies outnumber those from the ALP in the Top 20.

Normal service will be resumed as soon as possible, but there’s one lesson out of all of this. If you want to raise your profile, run for deputy leader of your party, even if you don’t have the numbers. It moved Chris Pyne up 28 – count ‘em – places last week.

TW	Move	Type	Politician	Press	Radio	TV	Internet	Total
1	1	PM	Kevin Rudd	3,061	17,265	9,344	9,237	38,907
2	-1	ex PM	John Howard	2,143	5,640	2,872	9,635	20,291
3	13	Opposition Leader	Brendan Nelson	882	9,199	3,979	1,822	15,881
4	1	Shadow	Malcolm Turnbull	762	6,952	2,579	2,028	12,321
5	-2	Backbench	Peter Costello	853	2,553	1,273	3,202	7,881
6	-2	Shadow	Tony Abbott	502	4,142	1,864	1,226	7,734
7	0	Deputy PM	Julia Gillard	667	3,300	1,638	1,584	7,189
8	16	Deputy Leader	Julie Bishop	471	3,719	1,522	628	6,341
9	8	Premier	Morris Iemma	245	3,209	791	944	5,189
10	-1	Backbench	Alexander Downer	287	1,546	1,136	1,337	4,306
11	9	Parl Sec	Maxine McKew	367	1,945	742	1,234	4,288
12	-4	Cabinet	Peter Garrett	293	1,816	422	1,063	3,594
13	15	Shadow	Penny Wong	298	2,118	706	271	3,394
14	28	Shadow	Christopher Pyne	226	1,954	773	310	3,263
15	-5	Backbench	Mark Vaile	238	1,359	220	1,432	3,249
16	16	Parl Sec	Greg Combet	251	1,801	562	475	3,089
17	27	Party leader	Warren Truss	129	2,143	401	297	2,970
18	-12	Cabinet	Wayne Swan	424	842	369	1,259	2,893
19	4	Shadow	Andrew Robb	160	1,295	302	644	2,401
20	-9	Shadow	Joe Hockey	219	749	245	932	2,144

There aren’t many surprises here in the talkback charts. As Media Monitors reports, Morris Iemma was straight back in the poo as soon as the campaign was over.