There’s been a lot of talk about why Peter Dutton is struggling in the polls in the Press Gallery over the past week.
Many feel it’s because, until now, he’s only taken easy questions from mates, usually with very few voters few watching or listening.
When he says something silly, he just disappears for a few days and, by the time he sticks his head up again, the political debate has moved on.
Amy wrote a fantastic column about this in The New Daily:
Without naming the Sky after darkers, who have almost non-existent audiences, the PM contrasts his record with Mr Dutton’s comparative inaccessibility to political journalists.
To be fair, I can say from experience, the PM goes on Sky News and takes hard questions from real journalists like Andrew Clennell, Kieran Gilbert and Peter Stefanovic.
Anthony Albanese:
I am always up for sit downs of course, and I think if you compare my availability to the media with the other side, I think they had two press conferences in Canberra before the national press gallery. In the same time I had 36. 36. So I’m available. I don’t just talk to one radio station and one late night TV channel, and I will leave it to you to work out what one that is. But I talk to everyone. That is the way that I engage. Look, you go through changes in society, we live in a much more fragmented society than we used to. And it is to be the case that people watched the ABC, or Channel 7, or Channel Nine, or Channel Ten news, and in more recent times, SBS as well, so there was a common set of facts, and they picked up the paper in the morning, a common paper, there was some commonality there, and that was how they got their information. So, therefore, there was less diversity and less noise, and genuine information.
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