The final Tuesday Top 20 for 2007 is in – and does it feature the final chart appearance by John Howard? We’ll know next year – or when his cabinet diaries appear.

State premiers are notable by their prominence in the chats this week, no doubt keen to get in before the official end of the blame game at the COAG meeting.

And in a week that saw our first female acting prime minister, gender equity has arrived in the charts. Five of our Top 10 are women.

TW

Move

Type

Politician

Press

Radio

Television

Internet

Grand Total

1

0

PM

Kevin Rudd

1,617

12,103

7,346

4,189

25,255

2

1

ex PM

John Howard

832

1,800

641

2,427

5,700

3

4

Cabinet

Julia Gillard

287

1,760

2,237

888

5,172

4

9

Premier

Anna Bligh

399

2,571

1,387

410

4,767

5

0

Premier

Morris Iemma

308

2,353

243

537

3,441

6

4

Cabinet

Penny Wong

251

1,637

560

484

2,931

7

-5

Oppn Leader

Brendan Nelson

276

1,025

169

1,102

2,571

8

22

Cabinet

Jenny Macklin

118

2,107

111

199

2,535

9

24

Parl Sec

Maxine McKew

114

794

450

546

1,904

10

-1

Cabinet

Peter Garrett

190

779

368

426

1,763

11

1

Cabinet

Nicola Roxon

101

1,169

252

219

1,741

12

-4

Backbench

Peter Costello

169

379

88

930

1,566

13

-9

Cabinet

Wayne Swan

186

513

283

583

1,565

14

3

Shadow

Andrew Robb

32

632

89

341

1,094

15

16

Backbench

Alexander Downer

106

313

71

518

1,008

16

-1

Premier

John Brumby

196

512

32

238

977

17

-3

Shadow

Tony Abbott

101

229

65

578

973

18

19

Shadow

Greg Hunt

108

535

165

97

905

19

-8

Shadow

Julie Bishop

87

130

53

467

738

20

12

Premier

Alan Carpenter

74

479

29

131

713

The talkback charts suggest that the Liberals are yet to get to grips with this opposition caper.

Rank

Politician

Talkback

1

Kevin Rudd

761

2

Morris Iemma

382

3

Anna Bligh

298

4

John Howard

150

5

Jenny Macklin

134

And it’s official. Penny Wong is more popular than Our Nic, this week’s celebrity control.

Nicole Kidman

87

276

1,333

642

2,338