Colleen Boyd

“The car bumper sticker for the discerning Sydney motorist, ‘Is it true, or did Alan Jones tell you?’, should be letter-boxed around the country.”
― Kerry-Anne Walsh, Stalking of Julia Gillard: How the media and Team Rudd contrived to bring down the Prime Minister

“constant marking down of her performance is wildly at odds with the reality of the minority government. Despite the government’s wafer-thin margin, the parliament is remarkably stable; but it’s depicted as though we are living through the last days of Rome. Gillard is implementing reforms and the parliament has passed a record amount of legislation—around 180 bills to date—but the press talks endlessly of a government close to collapse. Australia is economically robust compared to faltering international economies, but you’d be forgiven for thinking the Australian economy is on the point of disintegration. The media’s primary focus is on personalities and politics, not policies or the running of the country.”
― Kerry-Anne Walsh, Stalking of Julia Gillard: How the media and Team Rudd contrived to bring down the Prime Minister