The Tuesday Top 20

A bloke called Wayne is Number One in this week’s Crikey/Media Monitors Tuesday Top 20. Wayne. How things change. The former prime minister never let his treasurer push him from the top spot, writes Christian Kerr.

A bloke called Wayne is Number One in this week’s Crikey/Media Monitors Tuesday Top 20. Wayne. How things change. The former prime minister never let his treasurer push him from the top spot.

Peter Garrett has been delivered the Number Three slot, nicely wrapped in a plastic bag, and rumours about the future of opposition backbencher Peter Costello means a minor figure appears in this week’s Top 20.

TW	Move	Type	Politician	Press	Radio	TV	Internet	Total
1	4	Cabinet	Wayne Swan	460	3,880	1,489	490	6,319
2	-1	PM	Kevin Rudd	631	1,577	467	1,815	4,489
3	13	Cabinet	Peter Garrett	222	1,882	1,315	320	3,739
4	0	Cabinet	Julia Gillard	245	1,651	685	440	3,021
5	-3	Premier	Morris Iemma	135	744	642	514	2,034
6	0	Opp Leader	Brendan Nelson	137	722	296	531	1,685
7	-4	ex PM	John Howard	420	274	95	590	1,378
8	-1	Cabinet	Stephen Smith	108	584	141	396	1,229
9	5	Cabinet	Nicola Roxon	154	504	69	178	905
10	12	Backbench	Peter Costello	141	506	44	154	845
11	-1	Cabinet	Chris Evans	182	256	0	350	788
12	-3	Cabinet	Jenny Macklin	137	293	0	185	615
13	4	Premier	Mike Rann	127	351	61	63	602
14	-2	Premier	Anna Bligh	103	134	0	363	600
15	-2	Shadow	Malcolm Turnbull	203	217	67	89	576
16	13	Shadow	Greg Hunt	50	327	0	194	571
17	4	Cabinet	Stephen Conroy	154	218	11	86	469
18	-7	Cabinet	Tony Burke	51	236	4	97	388
19	-1	Premier	John Brumby	112	74	1	196	383
20	0	Premier	Alan Carpenter	95	21	0	175	291