Political spill: TV coverage
Julia GIllard emerges unopposed from Caucus. Here are the latest details of schedules.
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Here are the latest details of political coverage after Julia Gillard wins the support of her party, unopposed.
Most networks have rolling coverage. Schedules for tonight are as follows. Please check local EPGs.
ABC NEWS:
ABC NEWS 24 is rolling live news from now until 7.00pm AEDT, fronted by Scott Bevan in Sydney and Lyndal Curtis in Canberra with unrivalled analysis from Chris Uhlmann, Mark Simkin, Barrie Cassidy, Antony Green and political guests from all sides.
It will be simulcast on ABC1 in all time zones and streamed online with geoblocking removed for international audiences.
7.00pm AEDT National: Leigh Sales will present a national one-hour ABC News Special from Canberra with political editor Chris Uhlmann and Mark Simkin on ABC1 and ABC News 24 with analysis of today’s dramatic events in Canberra determining the fate of the government and the office of Prime Minister.
7.00pm Queensland and NT Only: A special half-hour 7pm bulletin and a special edition of 7.30 presented by Leigh Sales.
8.00pm AEDT National: ABC1 resumes normal schedule.
9.00pm National: ABC News 24 picks up rolling coverage with a special one-hour edition of The Drum, hosted by Steve Cannane. Panellists include: Annabel Crabb, Rhys Muldoon, Michael Gleeson, and former Abbott advisor Julian Leeser.
7.00pm WA Only: A special half-hour bulletin presented in Perth and a live simulcast of Lateline at 7.30pm WST.
11pm AEDT National: ABC News 24 picks up live coverage through until 2am.
TEN NEWS:
TEN will present LIVE news coverage this afternoon to air a special bulletin from 4.30pm, covering the Labor leadership spill, hosted by Matt Doran.
From 5.30pm to 6.30pm Sandra Sully will bring you Sydney’s local bulletin, with regular updates from Canberra if the ballot is continuing.
Hamish Macdonald will be live from Canberra tonight on TEN Late News at 10.30pm with the all the news and analysis from this dramatic day in politics
SEVEN NEWS:
Seven News will tonight present a special one hour bulletin at 6pm, as Peter Mitchell is joined by Chief Political Reporter Mark Riley following the Labor leadership vote this afternoon. Join Seven News for the latest coverage, developments and analysis.
NINE NEWS:
Channel Nine will broadcast a special bulletin exploring the fallout from the Labor leadership crisis tonight at 7.00pm.
The Nine News special will be hosted by Peter Overton, live from Canberra.
Joining Peter in Canberra will be Nine Network Political Editor, Laurie Oakes, who will provide expert analysis of the day’s proceedings.
The bulletin will feature reporting from Brett McLeod who will bring viewers the latest developments from Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s electorate of Lalor in Melbourne’s western suburbs.
Matthew Dunstan will provide updates from Kevin Rudd’s electorate of Griffith in Brisbane’s eastern suburbs.
Kevin Wilde will gauge the mood of the nation with live reporting from Rooty Hill where the Prime Minister recently spent a week campaigning in Sydney’s western heartland
SKY NEWS:
With the leadership of the Labor party again in crisis, SKY NEWS is the place to be for unrivalled and non-stop LIVE coverage and analysis from Australia’s leading commentators.
Every moment is being coverage by the award winning SKY NEWS team in Canberra led by Political Editor David Speers, joined by Graham Richardson, Peter Van Onselen and Chris Kenny.
David Speers will also present a special edition of The Nation LIVE from Canberra tonight at 8pm (AEDT) examining the future of the Labor party, the role Kevin Rudd is playing and Senior Cabinet Minister Simon Crean’s decision to call for a spill of all party leadership positions.
With an election fast approaching, there has never been a more crucial time to tune in.
The Nation: exclusive to SKY NEWS National (channel 601) at 8pm this evening, only on Foxtel.
SKY NEWS reaffirms its commitment to bringing viewers the unrivalled coverage of Australian politics with a special two hour edition of Paul Murray Live.
Paul and his panel will look at every moment of today’s political upheaval within the Labor party.
With confirmation that Julia Gillard will continue to lead the Labor party, the PML team will take an honest and alternative look at how today’s political events unfolded.
Paul will be joined on the panel this evening by;
Chris Kenny Anchor of Viewpoint on SKY NEWS and Columnist, The Australian
Janine Perrett Anchor of The Perrett Report on SKY NEWS BUSINESS
Troy Bramston Columnist, The Australian
Tory Maguire The Punch
Phillip Coorey Chief Political Correspondent, Australian Financial Review
Dee Madigan Political/social commentator and regular PM LIVE panellist
Gary Hardgrave Host of Drive, Radio 4BC
Paul Murray LIVE two hour edition will air from 9pm (AEDT) on
SKY NEWS National, channel 601 only on Foxtel.
16 Responses
@David Knox
Hi David, you may recall you thought my comment about Karl (sydney guys) having trouble finding the nine studio’s, and you thinking that was unfair and I accepted your moderation of my comment in a graceful manner, as I hope you accept this in the same vein please, when I ask which would you class the worst out of “unfair” or “disrespectful”
As I think that the “max 21march 2013 at 11-10 pm” comment is disrespectful towards our PM Ms Julia Gillard.
I do understand how you feel about having to adjudicate on such things, and thank you if you understand my reason for raising this with you.
I agree with you and have unapproved the comment. As you can see comment moderation is not a perfect art.
I enjoyed yesterday’s entertainment from our elected government.
Well, they were nearly elected, it just took a few so-called “independent” loonies (un)representing National seats to make a Labor government.
Now the pollies are off on more holidays (7 weeks) so I suppose that’s that.
More entertaining reality television than the usual cooking, dancing, singing….
@max – “They” seemed to be one person.
@Pertinax – Totally agree. Talk about overkill. They are not “news” papers as they used to be. They are merely opinion-papers spruiking the owners’ politics. Meanwhile, 4 people killed in a helicopter crash near Sydney gets ????. In some bulletins not even a mention.
Some of the TV “reporting” was hilarious. “Live” from outside Julia Gillard’s electoral office (empty, nothing happening), “live” from Kevin Rudd’s electoral office (empty, nothing happening). What a waste of resources and airtime.
And it is still going on.
So as not to miss out the SMH has devoted its first 10 pages to op-eds, from every journalist they have left, speculating on what effect it will have on the SMH poll next month!
Plus a bonus Heckler column, an editorial and two articles in Business that reference the ALP leadship so they could put that in the headline.
There are only two sentences of actual news in all this coverage. Talk about overkill.
C’mon people please don’t begrudge all the networks their day in the sun, as they try to drag as much B/S out of their fizzer of a day, after all they have invested much time,money,innuendo and outright Sh_t Stirring, trying to engineer a Rudd challenge.
Its just a pity that Rudd rained(or is that didn’t reign) on their “Parody”.
Mr Crean and Mr Rudd were not the only ones to end their day with egg all over faces, try to ‘beat up’ an anti climax of non eventful hours committed to by most networks,that reminded me of paintings of the blood thirsty spectators sitting around the guillotines during the inquisition waiting for heads to roll.
But some networks do deserve much praise for their efforts, in televising the all the hype of some kangaroo courts, setting up the stage and trying out many executioners, organizing and whipping the spectators into a frenzy, its just a shame that some one used a magicians blade in the guillotine.
And no Bold and the Beautiful today…shocking lol
TEN says today’s ep will screen tomorrow. No morning repeat.
I didn’t even realize this was happening until it was over and didn’t watch most of it. Call me in 6 months when we get a chance to vote!
FYI – just checked the Foxtel EPG and nothing had changed for all the FTA channels taking the ‘rolling’ coverage.
Missed it all…how sad…(not)…if Simon Creen had gone…that is fine…just my opinion….dont make a huge thread out of it on DK’s blog….
All 3 main parties annoy me and most independants…we ordinary folk get screwed over and they retire on huge pensions plus bonuses….
Just a grumpy, cynical old woman having a bad day!
Thanks for the extensive info DK!
All I can say is thank God Survivor is on GO, or it would have been dumped for all this bullshit. Talk about an anit-climax. I was watching ch 9 pretty much all afternoon from when Crean first spoke They pretty much covered everything, don’t know why we need more. Nothing happened.
Just wondering with the 7 coverage, how does that affect the triple Home & Away tonight? Is the hour coverage instead of Today Tonight or is that on after the hour?
I love it; the media talking to themselves. It was all over at five o’clock, why then do we need a half hour special news bulletin; especially when many of us are so sick of this infighting going on between the Pollies. Can they just get on with running the country already?
Did some FTA channel surfing today. News24, ABC1 & Nine were on to this well before 1:20pm AEDT when Simon Crean called a press stop. Seven didn’t pick up until Parliament Question Time at 2pm. Ignored by TEN until 4:30pm & it looks like SBS One won’t have anything until 6:30pm.
What time does the coverage on Channel Nine finish?
um Crean called a for a spill to install Rudd, got fired and ended up with egg on his face.
The rest of it will just be hours of the media talking to themselves.
Seven have been showing live aedt in their logo, despite it went live in Brisbane.