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Today, two journalists who exposed Reserve Bank corruption will be forced into court to try to make them reveal their sources. Tess Lawrence comments.
I AM RICHARD BAKER AND NICK MCKENZIE
by contributing editor-at-large Tess Lawrence
TODAY...
4 February, 2013 12:01 am / 45 comments
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It is coal miners not hoaxers like Jonathan Moylan who are costing us the Earth, says Doug Evans. He says it’s time for us to connect the dots between climate change and extreme weather events.
WITH CLIMATE CHANGE blogging, sometimes...
15 January, 2013 10:41 am / 15 comments
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Contributing editor-at-large Tess Lawrence introduces an essay by prominent Tasmanian author Richard Flanagan on the decline of the once mighty Gunns timber company — a tale he describes a parable of corporate hubris.
GUNNS AND ROSES
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27 September, 2012 6:03 am / 26 comments
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Tony Abbott’s behaviour is getting ever more erratic, says senior correspondent Barry Everingham, who wonders who is pulling his strings.
WAY BACK in the 1960’s, the top selling American author Richard Condon wrote a blockbuster,...
11 August, 2012 12:01 am / 36 comments
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In the first of his exclusive weekly columns for Independent Australia, the great Bob Ellis explains why conservatives adore the politics of smear.
By Bob Ellis
Because Labor has good policies and the Right cannot attack them on their...
26 May, 2012 12:02 pm / 3 comments
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Dr Bob Brown shocked Australia by resigning as leader of the Australian Greens today without warning. Benjamin Thomas Jones says the change in leadership could either make or break Australia’s third party.
It is not often in Australian...
13 April, 2012 5:32 pm / 1 comment
TweetFollowing Clive Palmer’s Australian National Living Treasure Award on March 4, by March 8 we were witnessing four of our living treasures in conflict. Ruth Forsythe reflects on what the concept of a National Living Treasure really means...
14 March, 2012 8:08 pm / 1 comment
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TOP 10 IA STORIES OF 2011
Independent Australia was, with this June story, the first media organisation to pick up on the disgraceful story of the Federal Government’s betrayal of veterans by not fairly indexing their pensions, though...
30 December, 2011 11:06 am / 1 comment
Tweet“On climate change, The Australian is…the media equivalent of a fog machine. Its unreliable reporting should be avoided by those with an interest in factual scientific information,” says Professorial Research Fellow Roger...
25 November, 2011 1:39 pm / no comments
TweetThe Government’s announcement on the media inquiry is another victory for the Corporate News thugs who run the country these days, says JD Lang, who dramatically recreates the last few months of threats and wrangling.
Yesterday,...
15 September, 2011 12:00 am / no comments