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Tweet Alan Austin lifts the lid on 15 Australian success stories Australia’s Soviet-style media will never allow to be told — and the three they will. AUSTRALIA IS NOT just a success story — it is an anthology of success stories....
Tweet The farewell of Ford from Australian production is not only understandable, but a welcome wake-up call, says Letitia McQuade. (Image courtesy Cagle.com.) IF ANYTHING is demonstrably clear in this golden age of globalisation, it is that...
Tweet Joe Hockey’s press club address yesterday included at least 20 fudges and furphies — all of them, again, ignored by Australia’s press pack. Alan Austin covers 15 of his most egregious errors. (Image courtesy @georgebludger.) STRAIGHT...
Tweet There is a contradiction at the heart of conservatism, says Grant Wyeth, and it’s that capitalism in modern times is, by its very nature, rapidly changing and evolving. ON FRIDAY LAST WEEK in The Age, Waleed Aly wrote a thoughtful...
Tweet 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...
Tweet 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...
Tweet 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...
Tweet 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...
Tweet Australia is not an economic basket case and the deficit to be announced in the upcoming budget is not the end of the world. Matthew N. Donovan reports. Relax, Australia is doing fine. MANY OF THE regulars on Independent Australia, you...
Tweet Rosie Williams wants access to all the budget data on budget night in a useable format for her BudgetAus database, but the Government won’t allow it. Why not? The Canberra budget lockdown: that day of the year when the Canberra Press...
