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 / 60 comments
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 a hairdressing...
18 May, 2013 5:01 pm / 39 comments
Sky News Contrarian host Peter Van Onselen says Michelle Rowland – the MP initially denied a pair to look after her sick child – is a bad parent. Gee comments.
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18 May, 2013 11:48 am / 7 comments
There’s been a lot happening this week, much of it probably not covered by IA. In response to a request by Orangefox, here is an open thread for open discussion of anything our world famous IA commentators desire.
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17 May, 2013 8:01 pm / 104 comments
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 in a...
17 May, 2013 4:34 pm / 12 comments
Gee reports on Gina Rinehart’s message to Australians that they must stop taking multi-billionaire ditch diggers for granted.
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17 May, 2013 2:52 pm / 42 comments
Activist comedian, Rod Quantock, promises you’ll be “apoplectic with fear” (or just plain “scared shitless”) as he takes you with him through the gates of hell into the catastrophic world of runaway global warming.
ALBERT...
17 May, 2013 1:36 pm / 35 comments
Gee summarises Tony Abbott’s budget reply for the great many people who cannot abide listening to Tony Abbott speak.
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17 May, 2013 11:49 am / 19 comments
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 that...
17 May, 2013 12:09 am / 58 comments
Graham Jackson reviews the first novel by Macushla O’Loan — a Gothic Greek tragedy turned thriller, set in suburban Melbourne.
‘Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad’ is generally attributed to Euripides, one of the three...
16 May, 2013 8:07 pm / 8 comments