Archive for: Bob Brown

Courageous journalists being forced to reveal sources

Courageous journalists being forced to reveal sources

Tweet 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...

 

Hoaxer Moylan and joining the dots on global warming

Hoaxer Moylan and joining the dots on global warming

Tweet 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...

 

Richard Flanagan / Tess Lawrence: Gunns and roses and the cargo cult

Richard Flanagan / Tess Lawrence: Gunns and roses and the cargo cult

Tweet 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 by...

 

The Manchurian Tony Abbott

The Manchurian Tony Abbott

Tweet 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,...

 

How the Right wins by cheating

How the Right wins by cheating

Tweet 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...

 

Greens will change without Brown

Greens will change without Brown

Tweet  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...

 

Australian National Endangered Treasures

Australian National Endangered Treasures

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...

 

TOP IA STORIES OF 2011: Diggers versus the Gillard Government

TOP IA STORIES OF 2011: Diggers versus the Gillard Government

Tweet 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...

 

The Australian a fog machine concealing true climate science

The Australian a fog machine concealing true climate science

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...

 

Married to the Murdoch mob: the media inquiry saga

Married to the Murdoch mob: the media inquiry saga

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,...

 
 
 
 

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