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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 / 54 comments
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Tony Abbott says WorkChoices is “dead, buried and cremated”, but his new IR policy leaves the door open for radical workplace relations changes, writes Luke Williams.
JUST BEFORE the 2007 Federal election, I was sitting in...
18 May, 2013 5:01 pm / 35 comments
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Peter Wicks issues a wedding related correction and reports on the latest news about Craig Thomson and Kathy Jackson.
Peter Wicks speaks to Kathy Jackson last year.
IT SEEMS I need to put out a correction to something I have mentioned...
17 May, 2013 4:34 pm / 12 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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Geezlouise has just sent an update to contributors to the Ashbygate Trust, including details of its new website and recent investigation activity.
Click on the image to catch up on IA’s full Ashbygate investigation.
Dear Ashbygate...
16 May, 2013 1:44 pm / 21 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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Tony Abbott was criticised by what he said in his speech on forced adoptions, but it was what he didn’t say that most revealed his character, says Gordon Aplin.
On 21 March 2013, Prime Minister Julia Gillard delivered an eloquent...
14 May, 2013 8:00 am / 74 comments
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Australia’s bikie gangs should start a political party, says Tess Lawrence, since they are everywhere and already run the country.
by wannabe bikie moll and contributing-editor-at-large Tess Lawrence
IF HELLS ANGELS Australia Inc...
13 May, 2013 8:14 pm / 155 comments
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Mass media induced group-think seems to suggest the Government is diabolical and Julia Gillard a witch — but that doesn’t mean it’s true, writes Letitia McQuade.
Why we love to hate Julia Gillard
We human beings are curious lot....
13 May, 2013 9:30 am / 47 comments
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In the last day or so, Clive Palmer’s party signed up Peter Slipper, kicked him out and changed its name to PUP. WTF is going on? Ross Jones tells the tale.
WHAT A FARCE. The whole Clive show looks for all the world like a naked grab...
13 May, 2013 1:35 am / 22 comments