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.

Rank

Politician

Talkback

1

Kevin Rudd

1,031

2

John Howard

579

3

Brendan Nelson

340

4

Morris Iemma

207

5

Malcolm Turnbull

165

And what are the charts without a celebrity control? David Beckham has a voice for football.

David Beckham

796

3,219

6,151

1,238

11,404