The Media Monitors' Top 20

The Media Monitors’ Top 20

Kevin Rudd knew where to be to get the most coverage this week, as Australia’s focus remained firmly on the watercube, writes Patrick Baume.

Kevin Rudd knew where to be to get the most coverage this week, as Australia’s focus remained firmly on the watercube, despite the world starting to unravel in the Caucasus, while state and territory pollies dominated whatever political news there was back home, with Paul Henderson almost turfed and Colin Barnett dreaming of canals once more.

Acting PM Julia Gillard was out and about a bit more this week, getting all report cardy on those teacher unions and fending off reports of 100,000 jobs to go, while Chris Bowen had the tough selling job of trying to convince anyone that the grocery watch website is worth a squirt, and Acting Opposition Leader Julie Bishop made the most out of the Territory result.

TW	Move	Position	Politician	Press Index	Radio Index	TV Index	Internet Index	Raw total	INDEX
1	0	PM	Kevin Rudd	1,000	1,000	1,000	1,000	*24,563*	1,000
2	4	Cabinet	Wayne Swan	212	281	183	288	*6,385*	241
3	-1	Opp Leader	Brendan Nelson	139	128	189	458	*7,067*	228
4	0	Premier	Morris Iemma	135	263	68	429	*7,083*	224
5	-2	Backbench	Peter Costello	194	108	148	215	*4,125*	166
6	9	Premier	Alan Carpenter	247	211	59	146	*3,688*	166
7	4	Cabinet	Penny Wong	132	144	31	233	*3,881*	135
8	-1	Premier	Anna Bligh	215	74	59	194	*3,177*	135
9	13	Cabinet	Julia Gillard	223	108	20	108	*2,292*	115
10	-5	Shadow	Malcolm Turnbull	92	79	65	190	*3,088*	107
11	2	Cabinet	Stephen Smith	85	88	71	178	*3,046*	106
12	*	NT Chief Min	Paul Henderson	171	128	48	75	*2,178*	105
13	*	WA Opp Ld	Colin Barnett	28	194	63	111	*2,991*	99
14	28	Outer	Chris Bowen	88	101	119	80	*2,334*	97
15	22	Shadow	Julie Bishop	101	62	40	84	*1,685*	72
16	-8	State Min	Paula Wriedt	74	48	106	46	*1,495*	68
17	-5	Premier	John Brumby	105	53	27	75	*1,452*	65
18	-8	WA Opp	Troy Buswell	101	49	17	76	*1,379*	61
19	-5	Cabinet	Peter Garrett	93	44	13	72	*1,260*	55
20	10	Cabinet	Joel Fitzgibbon	58	54	9	96	*1,541*	54

Not a great deal of interest outside WA in our elected representatives this week, who could know why?

Rank	Politician	Talkback
1	Kevin Rudd	201
2	Alan Carpenter	161
3	Colin Barnett	118
4	Brendan Nelson	68
5	Morris Iemma	45

The gold will indeed be flowing for the cereal marketer’s dream after she managed to put all that heartbreak behind her and thumped the opposition to kick off the gold trickle.