Best Australia or New Zealand Blog

2 Nov 2009

Nominate your choice for the best Australian or New Zealand blog.

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Posted by Kevin Aylward on Monday, November 2, 2009 at 1:51 PM

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Andrew Bolt blog

http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/

The overwhelming popularity of this blog is a testament to the energy Andrew Bolt puts into it, and topicality of the issues addressed, the opportunity for everyone to have their say without censorship, and the evidence based logic, reasoning and humanity behind much of what is written.

Will
Will | November 6, 2009 6:13 PM View Profile | Vote up Score: 42

Oz's best political and current affairs blog, by far!

James Natt
James Natt | November 6, 2009 11:07 PM View Profile | Vote up Score: 7

http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/

I nominate Andrew Bolt - best blog in Australia by a country mile!

nette of Western Queensland
nette of Western Queensland | November 6, 2009 9:31 PM View Profile | Vote up Score: 16

John Birmingham

The author of books including "He Died With a Falafel in His Hand" writes an entertaining blog. He brings his literary skills to a broad range of topics.

He has two blogs:
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/opinion/blog/blunt-instrument
http://blogs.brisbanetimes.com.au/thegeek/

Vote for Birmo otherwise Bolty (and his blog of bile) will win.

Ben Tehan
Ben Tehan | November 6, 2009 9:47 PM View Profile | Vote up Score: 3

Andrew Bolt's blog. Calling spade a spade, doing his research more thoroughly than most journalists, and above all - more common sense than vast majority of them. Thank you, Andrew.

My nomination:

http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/

http://feeds.news.com.au/public/rss/2.0/heraldsun_abolt_223.xml

(I hope I got the second one right).

Thank you,

B.

Bob Ko
Bob Ko | November 6, 2009 10:49 PM View Profile | Vote up Score: 15

Andrew Bolt's blog - far and away the biggest and best in Australia

Case
Case | November 6, 2009 10:54 PM View Profile | Vote up Score: 9

No to Andrew Bolt blog.
As a discussion forum it gives the impression of either being biased or overwhelmed with the work required to promote timely and heated debates.
4 comments the other day unpublished with the discussion page updated with a 2 hour delay. My 4 posts were within this 2 hour window. 5th comment asking why the previous 4 had been ignored, was annoyingly published.
Not a quality blog even if the discussion materials are current and likely to be contentious in nature.

Joe
Joe | November 6, 2009 10:59 PM View Profile | Vote up Score: 7

Andrew Bolt has the best blog by far...

fay of newcastle
fay of newcastle | November 7, 2009 3:03 AM View Profile | Vote up Score: 7

I nominate Tim Blair.

http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/timblair/

Throughout his various iterations Tim maintained his journalistic integrity and a wicked sense of fun. And by journalistic integrity I mean that he has a respect for facts and often makes fun of overblown primadonnas of the news profession who fancy that they are the 'news'.

Crossie
Crossie | November 7, 2009 6:03 AM View Profile | Vote up Score: 10

www.twawki.wordpress.com

on the political climate

twawki
twawki | November 8, 2009 7:49 PM View Profile | Vote up Score: 4

I nominate

gimcrack hospital (pg)

http://nursemyra.wordpress.com

cbullitt
cbullitt | November 9, 2009 10:32 AM View Profile | Vote up Score: 6

Yes. Fat Lot of Good. (http://www.fatlotofgood.org.au/) Much with the intelligent writing.

Meredith
Meredith | November 10, 2009 9:59 PM View Profile | Vote up Score: 7

I nominate this humourous blog

http://harpursbizarre.com/

whooo!

Sarah
Author Profile Page Sarah | November 10, 2009 4:10 PM View Profile | Vote up Score: 1

Gimcrack Hospital (PG)

http://nursemyra.wordpress.com

feed://nursemyra.wordpress.com/feed/

Jake
Author Profile Page Jake | November 13, 2009 3:48 PM View Profile | Vote up Score: 4

Gimcrack Hospital

http://nursemyra.wordpress.com/

feed://nursemyra.wordpress.com/feed/

Dominic
Author Profile Page Dominic | November 13, 2009 4:01 PM View Profile | Vote up Score: 4

Gimcrack Hospital (PG)

http://nursemyra.wordpress.com

feed://nursemyra.wordpress.com/feed/

Shirley
Author Profile Page Shirley | November 13, 2009 11:27 PM View Profile | Vote up Score: 4

Gimcrack Hospital (PG)

http://nursemyra.wordpress.com

feed://nursemyra.wordpress.com/feed/

Shirley
Author Profile Page Shirley | November 13, 2009 11:28 PM View Profile | Vote up Score: 4

I nominate gimcrack hospital for best blog -

http://nursemyra.wordpress.com/

for its sexy wit, humour and amazing art work.

Martin
Author Profile Page Martin | November 15, 2009 5:49 AM View Profile | Vote up Score: 2

I'd like to nominate a uinque, one of a kind, Aussie blog on Real Estate.

Home I Own

web: http://www.homeiown.com/
RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/HomeIOwn

Homeiown explains everything about buying, building, selling or renting a house in Australia.

This blog is a winner of 2009 Chapeau Blog Awards and is in the top 100 Women Bloggers.

Chris Lang
Chris Lang | November 16, 2009 4:13 PM View Profile | Vote up Score: 24

I nominate gimcrack hospital for best blog. It is witty,sylish,funny and full of fascinating tidbits http://nursemyra.wordpress.com/
feed://nursemyra.wordpress.com/feed/

Tracey Keogh
Tracey Keogh | November 16, 2009 9:24 PM View Profile | Vote up Score: 3

The Importance of Ideas by Jason Whittaker:
http://importanceofideas.com/

Peter Black
Author Profile Page Peter Black | November 17, 2009 4:19 AM View Profile | Vote up Score: 0


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