Since I was asked, where are the good Australian political blogs?
During Australia’s federal election in 2007, for me Possum’s Pollytics was invaluable for its analysis of opinion polls, as was Peter Brent’s Mumble. Larvatus Prodeo provided interesting commentary from a centre-left perspective. I didn’t get into any of the right-wing commentators, because once Howard’s End became inevitable they became more shrill, even less rational.
However the election overloaded me. I prefer to read essays and analysis with a longer timeframe, not the daily news focus on political mud-throwing.
What, for you, are the best Australian political blogs, and why?
[Update 10 January 2012: Minor edit to remove the identity of who asked the question.]
Not in order of preference, but here’s the list of Australian political blogs I read:
ABC: Election07
Adam Bandt
Ambit Gambit
An Onymous Lefty
Andrew Leigh
Antony Green’s Election Blog
Australia Watch
Australian Indigenous HealthBulletin
Australian Politics 2.0
Barista
Bartlett’s Blog
Binnsy’s Hovel
The Blair/Bolt Watch Project
Blogocracy
Burning Words
Centre for Policy Development
Christian Kerr
Connect Through Values
CoreEcon
Counteract Now
crazybrave
CROSS-WIRE
The Dead Roo
Election ’07 Norg
Fair News Australia
Five Public Opinions
Gallery Hacks
gatewatching
GetUp!
GreensBlog
GrodsCorp
Growlings
Guy Beres
HarrangueMan
Harry Clarke
Henry Thornton Blogs
Hoyden About Town
Jennifer Marohasy
John Quiggin
Kevin Rudd Watch
Kooyong
Larvatus Prodeo
Larvatus Prodeo in exile
Laurel Papworth
Leftwrites
Listen To Your Elders
Long Road
Machine Gun Keyboard
Miss Politics
The Monthly Free Articles
My Big World Of Crap
Not a Hedgehog
On Line Opinion
Open Forum blogs
OpenAustralia News
The Orstrahyun
Oz Conservative
Oz Politics
Parl Lib Publications
The Partisan
Pavlov’s Cat
Peter Black’s Freedom to Differ
Peter Martin
Phillip Adams
The Piping Shrike
Politics General News of World
The Poll Vault
Polliegraph
The Possum Box
Possums Pollytics
Power of Information Task Force
Public Opinion
Public Polity
QueerPenguin
Random Brainwave
Red Rag
The Road to Surfdom
Samuel’s Blog
Solidariti
Stilgherrian
Suki Has An Opinion
This Devil’s Workday
Tree of Knowledge
Undead Files
Unleashed
The Wright Stuff
Perhaps you might like to take a look at http://www.observationpoint.com.au
It’ offers short, insghtful and humorous commentary on – mainly Australian – life and the body politic.
No mine is better and bigger as it is a anti-blog-system and not an Australian Fascistic Democratic Monarchy blog.
Some may seem this as a shameless act of self promotion. I do. But if you’re in search of a left leaning blog, that’s political, whimsical, inane and rambling, give this a go. Also, the above comment makes little sense.