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Dodging journalists' questions is an art practised by most politicians, as they climb the slippery ladder to leadership.
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On Monday July 19, the first Newspoll of the election campaign proper was published. It gave Labor a 10-point lead over the Coalition, and Julia Gillard a 19-point lead as preferred prime minister over Tony Abbott - a dramatic improvement from the Newspoll four weeks earlier, immediately before Rudd was ousted.
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The damaging Cabinet leak against Julia Gillard brought this lifeless, insipid, cautious evasive election campaign to life.
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Could BP's clean-up effort in the Gulf of Mexico be doing more damage to the environment than the oil itself?
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A new study suggests cancer patients are not being treated in line with guidelines which could save their lives.
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"You know that there are other ways that I could have handled today," said Julia Gillard this morning, to the journalists who gathered for her front-foot performance.
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Rarely before in the heat of an election campaign has a leader had to fight off such an invisible yet politically poisonous enemy from within.
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North of the DMZ, Kim Jong-il may be a little concerned that his global business ventures could be in Washington's sights again.
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The latest internationally in the extraordinary Wikileaks Warlogs story.
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Instead of moving the leader's debate, imagine how much better it would have been if it had been incorporated into MasterChef.
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The verdict is in: women in this campaign are officially not being fair.
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There probably hasn't been anything like it since the New York Times published the Pentagon Papers in 1971.
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Without any major response from the government, Victorians have to make their own sense of the report into Black Saturday.
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I forget the exact moment I lost my passion for Australian politics.
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So as with that other powerful brand, MasterChef, and all of its happy passenger brands, TV is the winner in 2010.
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The Prime Minister and the Opposition Leader spoke, politely and cogently, for an hour about the areas on which they disagreed, punctuated by sensible questions from the fourth estate.
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The frequent treatment of government as a game is amply illustrated by the already largely forgotten Henry tax review.
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Spare me the eulogies for free speech in football and the victimisation of a creative mind.
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Get rid of the things that people might not like, as a campaign strategy, makes perfect sense but there's not much left to discuss.
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Some have suggested, within the Liberals, that it wasn't one of the wisest decisions for Tony Abbott to appear on Hey Hey it's Saturday this week.
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Sometimes, saying nothing can be the most potent message of all.
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At the heart of Canberra is one world-within-a-world: New Parliament House, encircled by its own little Beltway, State Circle.
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Tony Abbott is still struggling with the images, the look, the feel, the body language and also with the substance.
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Labor's internet filtering policy isn't being discussed in the run-up to the election but its impact on Australia is significant.
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No-one is questioning the need for a strong and effective counter-terrorism apparatus, but is it as good as it should be?
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