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Best Practices for Online Political Advertising
2008-04-04 01:35:00 A study of paid political online advertising, from search engine marketing to display advertising, designed to help political organizations understand online advertising and better leverage their resources to reach voters online.
By: Asiaing.com
Political Advertising, a brief regulatory history
2008-03-06 02:52:00 Brings up some cool points worth discussing.1 Vote(s)
By: JeQQ it
So who is engaging in thuggery?
2007-09-23 23:34:00 Remember those ridiculous big business-sponsored ads showing three thugs (supposed to represent union members) switching the lights off at a dress-maker store? Needless to say that militant unions and textile industry (especially small tailor shops) are not a realistic combination. In fact, somewhat ludicrously, one of the purported "union thugs" is wearing a CFMEU symbol ...
By: Talk It Out
Workchoices counter-advertising
2007-09-18 13:09:00 Watching TV is becoming increasingly more unpleasant - those incessant WorkChoices ads are very annoying. The nonsense about employees having “even more protection” from an ambiguous and unenforceable, backpacker administered fairness test, the smug looking actors trying to convince us that employers would never sack anyone unfairly, the self-serving big business ads… So I decided that ...
By: Talk It Out
Government self-promotion costs now $2 billion
2007-09-03 15:50:00 I have previously written about the Howard government's extraordinary waste of taxpayer money on advertising itself. The most recent Sunday Age investigation reveals that Howard government has spent $2 billion of taxpayers money on political advertising. Two hundred million will be spent this year alone, before Howard calls an election. Since the previous election, Howard ...
By: Talk It Out
Trust us - its not like we are after higher profits
2007-08-12 08:45:00 It's not like we have enough misleading Howard government advertisements clogging up our TV screens, a coalition of business groups have now released their own "independent" advertisement in support of Howard government WorkChoices laws (designed by Liberal party pollsters, no doubt for maximum independence from the government!). If anyone was in any doubt about whom ...
By: Talk It Out
Cause of Howard government war on States revealed!
2007-08-06 14:54:00 The Howard government knows its in trouble. The polls aren't looking good. Despite the millions of taxpayer dollars the government is spending advertising its unfair WorkChoices laws, the electorate isn't convinced. The interest rates have risen 4 times since the last election in 2004, when the government ran a scare campaign against Labor and promised ...
By: Talk It Out
Idiotic government advertising
2007-08-02 13:57:00 If the Howard government wasn't spending insane amounts of taxpayer money on advertising itself, some of its ads could be considered funny. Not because they are by their nature humorous, but because they are utterly idiotic. Consider this ad: That telephone pole got in the way when I was taking the photo, but the left part of ...
By: Talk It Out
More misuse of public resources by the Howard government
2007-07-15 10:32:00 No, I'm not referring to the expensive refit of Howard's plane or the posh cabinet chairs - travelling in luxury is not the most objectionable example of Howard government's misuse of public funds. Misusing taxpayer money to keep himself in power is much worse - especially when the money is directed to misinformation of the ...
By: Talk It Out
How did we let democracy become a ?conspiracy??
2007-06-13 16:04:00 A healthy democratic society thrives on debate and discussion of the merits of different view points. In a healthy democracy a multitude of voices can clamour for attention, each as entitled to be heard as the next, each equally entitled to persuade and lobby. There are several ways to undermine a healthy democracy. One is by ...
By: Talk It Out
If I can?t have your money, no one can!
2007-06-01 15:03:00 The notion of a fair political battle does not seem to appeal to the Liberal party. If their conduct over the past years has not furnished adequate proof of that, the proposal ban unions from making political donations unless authorised by vote of a majority of their members, comes close. The Liberal party does not like ...
By: Talk It Out
What a way to spend 2 billion dollars!
2007-05-28 14:33:00 New figures provided to the Senate estimates committee suggest that Howard government spending on political advertising over its decade in power is reaching $2 billion dollars. It looks like I was too generous in my previous post, which refers to political advertising spending of "only" $1.7 billion. Of this amount, over $550 million has been spent ...
By: Talk It Out
$4.1 million per week so no one will know where they stand
2007-05-26 12:07:00 Whatever I do these days I can't avoid the "Know where you stand" ads - they are on TV, they are in newspapers, they are everywhere. For a change there are no happy smiling faces (maybe they couldn't find anyone who was good enough an actor to pretend to be happy with the workplace relations ...
By: Talk It Out
$4.1 million per week so no one will know where they stand
2007-05-26 12:07:00 Whatever I do these days I can't avoid the "Know where you stand" ads - they are on TV, they are in newspapers, they are everywhere. For a change there are no happy smiling faces (maybe they couldn't find anyone who was good enough an actor to pretend to be happy with the workplace relations ...
By: Talk It Out
Who do we blame for politicians abusing their power?
2007-05-24 15:09:00 There is an interesting article by Kenneth Davidson in today's Age. Its titled Blame the High Court, not the pollies, for partisan ads. Davidson argues that through two decisions, one in 1992 (the famous ACTV implied rights case) and one in 2005 (the WorkChoices advertising case), the High Court opened the floodgates to the abuse ...
By: Talk It Out
Who do we blame for politicians abusing their power?
2007-05-24 15:09:00 There is an interesting article by Kenneth Davidson in today's Age. Its titled Blame the High Court, not the pollies, for partisan ads. Davidson argues that through two decisions, one in 1992 (the famous ACTV implied rights case) and one in 2005 (the WorkChoices advertising case), the High Court opened the floodgates to the abuse ...
By: Talk It Out
Political advertising - your tax dollars at work in the government propagan
2007-05-20 12:37:00 "This soiled Government is to spend a massive $14 million of taxpayers’ money over the next two months as part of its pre-election panic. Judging by information coming from within the public service, if the full communication barrage runs its course it could reach $50 million. This Government has effectively allowed the Labor Party to ...
By: Talk It Out
Political advertising - your tax dollars at work in the government propagan
2007-05-20 12:37:00 "This soiled Government is to spend a massive $14 million of taxpayers’ money over the next two months as part of its pre-election panic. Judging by information coming from within the public service, if the full communication barrage runs its course it could reach $50 million. This Government has effectively allowed the Labor Party to ...
By: Talk It Out
A war of words - use and misuse of language in battle for voter?s minds
2007-05-19 09:51:00 We seldom pause to think how powerful language is. Words are not only part of our communications, they are a part of our thoughts and perceptions. Something that has no word for it, no name, essentially does not exist. Similarly, giving something a name that is not truly reflective of its nature, will nonetheless influence ...
By: Talk It Out
A war of words - use and misuse of language in battle for voter?s minds
2007-05-19 09:51:00 We seldom pause to think how powerful language is. Words are not only part of our communications, they are a part of our thoughts and perceptions. Something that has no word for it, no name, essentially does not exist. Similarly, giving something a name that is not truly reflective of its nature, will nonetheless influence ...
By: Talk It Out
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