The Media Monitors' Top 20

The Media Monitors’ Top 20

Like dutiful ducklings Belinda Neal and John Della Bosca are following their respective leaders closely in the media stakes, writes Patrick Baume.

Like dutiful ducklings, Belinda Neal and John Della Bosca are following their respective leaders closely in the media stakes, Ms Neal quacking up a truly remarkable 49% of the PM’s coverage over the last seven days, 80% of his television coverage. Kevin must be desperately longing for her to turn into Wayne Swan (sorry).

Penny Wong bolted into the Top Ten as emissions trading and the Murray Darling became the dominant issues they should have been for the last five years, Mike Rann coming along for the ride, while Tony Burke celebrated the end of equine influenza and Joel Fitzgibbon pleaded for State Governments to be put out of their misery.

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	*36,248*	1,000
2	2	Backbench	Belinda Neal	192	598	801	372	*15,721*	491
3	0	Premier	Morris Iemma	345	568	446	583	*17,632*	485
4	3	State Minister	John Della Bosca	164	412	402	365	*12,006*	336
5	-3	Opp Leader	Brendan Nelson	213	327	311	320	*10,183*	293
6	0	Premier	Anna Bligh	163	168	187	290	*7,602*	202
7	1	Backbench	Alexander Downer	208	276	75	91	*4,726*	163
8	15	Cabinet	Penny Wong	179	163	200	66	*3,881*	152
9	2	Premier	John Brumby	136	151	175	98	*4,103*	140
10	-5	Cabinet	Wayne Swan	151	35	78	168	*3,861*	108
11	14	Cabinet	Tony Burke	80	137	94	74	*3,055*	96
12	-3	NSW Opp Ld	Barry O’Farrell	48	108	39	167	*4,035*	91
13	23	Premier	Mike Rann	106	102	111	31	*2,168*	87
14	2	Party leader	Bob Brown	38	93	50	53	*2,027*	59
15	7	Cabinet	Julia Gillard	60	13	35	120	*2,448*	57
16	-3	Cabinet	Nicola Roxon	75	39	21	81	*1,977*	54
17	-5	Cabinet	Peter Garrett	48	18	37	86	*1,887*	47
18	6	Premier	Alan Carpenter	90	20	3	66	*1,506*	45
19	22	Cabinet	Joel Fitzgibbon	65	62	1	36	*1,282*	41
20	7	Shadow	Julie Bishop	35	32	54	42	*1,325*	41

Remember how I said last week that talkback callers were bored with Iguanagate and we’d heard the last from Alexander Downer as a politician… should go buy that lottery ticket.