The Media Monitors' Top 20

The Media Monitors’ Top 20

Being the Minister for Everything is finally starting to see consistent media coverage returns for Julia Gillard, writes Patrick Baume.

Being the Minister for Everything is finally starting to see consistent media coverage returns for Julia Gillard, while being Acting PM probably isn’t hurting on the volume of mentions front either, as well as finally signing off on the end of WorkChoices.

Anna Bligh up to second because of the recent deluge across large parts of Queensland, while Malcolm Turnbull may have gone up a spot or two, but something tells us he will remain unchuffed to be getting less than a quarter of Kevin’s coverage, while Nathan Rees may be feeling far more sanguine about his gentle slide down the list.

Nicola Roxon is easily the biggest mover of the week, up into the top ten, defending the appointment of the Man from Movember, as well as a few just slightly more serious issues like prostate cancer, maternity leave and binge drinking.

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	*23,578*	1,000
2	2	Premier	Anna Bligh	265	430	425	118	*6,198*	310
3	0	Cabinet	Julia Gillard	248	393	222	260	*6,780*	281
4	2	Opp Leader	Malcolm Turnbull	154	268	249	292	*6,364*	241
5	-3	Premier	Nathan Rees	119	294	56	419	*7,175*	222
6	-1	Cabinet	Wayne Swan	134	203	170	287	*5,552*	199
7	1	Cabinet	Peter Garrett	114	133	60	113	*2,568*	105
8	21	Cabinet	Nicola Roxon	71	137	83	65	*2,071*	89
9	2	Premier	John Brumby	81	116	98	57	*1,914*	88
10	-1	Cabinet	Anthony Albanese	73	78	10	49	*1,201*	52
11	-1	NSW Opp Ld	Barry O’Farrell	7	79	10	112	*1,873*	52
12	0	Shadow	Joe Hockey	19	49	42	97	*1,653*	52
13	1	Cabinet	Penny Wong	70	46	17	67	*1,238*	50
14	-1	Shadow	Julie Bishop	25	65	47	56	*1,303*	49
15	0	Cabinet	Kim Carr	44	43	59	44	*1,095*	48
16	6	Shadow	Tony Abbott	10	92	33	13	*873*	37
17	2	Cabinet	Joel Fitzgibbon	24	65	3	25	*750*	30
18	-2	Independent	Nick Xenophon	13	48	10	44	*878*	29
19	9	Outer Min	Tanya Plibersek	21	70	4	11	*605*	26
20	0	Party leader	Bob Brown	22	27	14	23	*530*	22

The only thing worse than being talked about … can be seen at number five.

Rank	Politician	Talkback
1	Kevin Rudd	704
2	Nathan Rees	310
3	Julia Gillard	154
4	Anna Bligh	111
5	Malcolm Turnbull	56

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