Prime Minister Tony Abbott has lamented the trivialising influence of the 24 hour news cycle on contemporary politics.
"There's no doubt that good government today is harder than ever before," he said at the launch of journalist Paul Kelly's new book on the Rudd and Gillard governments, Triumph and Demise.
Mr Abbott said politicians must inevitably feed the 24/7 media cycle.
"It's difficult to avoid trivialising what shouldn't be trivialised when it has to be spoken about and spoken about differently one hour from the next," he told the audience in Canberra.
"It's easy to lose sight of the fundamentals that shape our nation when we are this immersed in commentary on what's happened on any particular day."
The coalition wanted to avoid the media obsession of its Labor predecessors to demonstrate the dysfunction of 2007 to 2013 was "not the new norm".
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