Follow on Twitter
Subscribe by RSS
Tweet Hoddle Street mass murderer Julian Knight wants a PlayStation in his prison cell; Tess Lawrence says it’s just yet another play for media attention around the anniversary of his brutal crimes. by contributing editor-at-large Tess Lawrence JULIAN...
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 Tony Abbott has spent most of this year hiding from scrutiny and waiting for what the media say is a certain election win later this year — but have the wheels started to fall off his campaign in the last few weeks? Matthew N. Donovan...
Tweet Did Julia Gillard really lie during the 2010 election campaign about introducing a carbon tax? Tom Orren says “aye hae ma doots!” BACK IN 1984, I was in a car pool of five. Five is the perfect number for a car pool because...
Tweet Managing editor David Donovan says the NBN will transform Australia, making it more prosperous, innovative, competitive, inclusive and more environmentally friendly. He believes the Liberal Party’s opposition to the policy could...
Tweet Tony Abbott’s greatest successes have been making Prime Minister Julia Gillard seem illegitimate and obscuring her government’s achievements. The media and public have been too hard on her. Clint Howitt explains. LAST MONTH’S...
Tweet In a stark reminder of the forces forcing Abbott onto the Australian people, in a speech this week, Tony Abbott fawns over the reactionary think tank, obsequiously sucks up to mining magnate Gina Rinehart and sings paeans of praise to...
Tweet Fieran Lozean from the IPA says the nation’s outstanding economic success has led Australians to be resolutely upbeat about their quality of life — but he’s working on that! OUTSIDE OF MY JOB as one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse,...
Tweet News Limited is the main perpetrator of media abuses in Australia, writes Alan Austin, and hence the strongest proof the current self-regulation system is useless. Twitter response to Daily Telegraph’s comparison of Communications...
Tweet The Australian political spin machine has gone into overdrive with the announcement of the Federal election a few weeks ago, but what would normally be a battle of policy and party politics has been turned into a mere popularity contest...
