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Tony Abbott’s budget reply featured at least 20 lies — all of them overlooked by Australia’s corporate media. Alan Austin covers a dozen of Thursday’s most glaring falsehoods.
Australia’s corporate media: wilfully...
19 May, 2013 8:39 am / 31 comments
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Ross Jones presents Independent Australia’s highly affordable response to Opposition Leader Tony Abbott’s budget reply.
(From left) Julie Bishop, pamphlet, Tony Abbott.
I JUST listened to Tones’ budget reply.
The first thing...
17 May, 2013 12:09 am / 58 comments
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Budget night is the night political journalists pretend to understand economics — like Leigh Sales did when interviewing Wayne Swan on ABC 7.30 last night. Managing editor David Donovan reports.
Australian Treasurer Wayne Swan and ABC...
15 May, 2013 12:29 am / 126 comments
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The intriguing aspect to the Ettridge versus Abbott case heard in the Brisbane Supreme Court yesterday, says Alan Austin, is that Ettridge has a case but the media aren’t interested.
David Ettridge and Tony Abbott.
THERE ARE two...
10 May, 2013 10:14 am / 70 comments
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The FREE Party offers an ethical, fact and reason based alternative to Australia’s party political duopoly, says Roger Brisbane.
by Roger Brisbane
WITH A Federal election looming, is democracy is alive and well, or has it been subverted...
9 May, 2013 7:59 am / 44 comments
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If you renounce your faith in Morocco, watch out! John Turnbull tells the story of Imad Iddine Habib and his fight against the combination of church and state.
Imad Iddine Habib (image courtesy Butterflies and wheels).
IMAD IDDINE HABIB...
8 May, 2013 1:12 pm / 29 comments
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The Queensland Government is trying to kill off Labour Day by moving the public holiday from its traditional May date to October, however it will be business as usual for the Queensland union movement today – Sunday, 5 May – writes...
5 May, 2013 1:30 pm / 16 comments
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Two academics made a simple mistake in a study supporting austerity, but the worse error was the EU’s in backing this diabolical solution for Europe’s woes. Fabrizio Carmignani reports.
(Image courtesy Think Progress.)
The...
5 May, 2013 1:19 am / 10 comments
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Never before have we had a press so controlled, says Bob Ellis, with all the anti-Abbott or anti-Coalition news being deliberately minimised.
(Image courtesy Tony Yegles / Australians for Honest Politics.)
CLIVE PALMER started a new party...
4 May, 2013 1:29 pm / 67 comments
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Today was day two of the latest James Ashby legal jamboree in the Federal Court in Sydney. As ever, Ross Jones was IA’s eyes in the gallery.
[Read Ross Jones' report from Day 1.]
The haunted faces of Mr and Mrs Slipper.
EVERYONE...
3 May, 2013 10:12 pm / 24 comments