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Rob Oakeshott speaks to IA
Tweet Managing editor David Donovan interviews Independent MP Rob Oakeshott about party politics, democracy, media reform, re-election, the Government and Tony Abbott. Rob Oakeshott: man of the people. (All images courtesy roboakeshott.com) INDEPENDENT...
Updating the Ashbygate Trust
Tweet In an astonishing show of support, IA’s Ashbygate Trust initiative is over ¼ of the way towards its goal already. Idea originator Geezlouise comments. IN AN ASTONISHING show of support for free press and democracy, IA’s campaign...
Our barbaric judicial and political system
Tweet Is our adversarial justice and political system unfair, undemocratic and barbaric? Managing editor David Donovan says: “most definitely”. MY FATHER, who was a true visionary, said something to me when I was still quite young...
Spinning Hugo Chavez
Tweet The popular media portrayal of recently deceased Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez as a dangerous dictator defies the reality of his rule, writes Iurgi Urrutia. Hugo Chavez died on 5 March 2013. (Image courtesy Wikipedia.) THE UNITED STATES...
Old Bob’s election year blog
Tweet None of the present participants meet the criteria for a real democracy, says Old Bob, in the first of his election year blogs. YES, THIS IS THE YEAR we voters use our democratic power to put in place a Government for the next three years....
The day The Australian’s reporters stopped writing lies
Tweet Rupert Murdoch’s brazen intervention in the 1975 Federal election campaign led to reporters at The Australian going on strike. Don’t hold your breath for that to happen this year, says Joan Evatt. “With great power comes great...
Hysterical attacks on weak media reforms tell real story
Tweet The ongoing criticism in the major news media of Communication Minister Stephen Conroy’s very soft and watery proposed media reforms is predictable but still breathtaking, writes Associate Susan Forde. The hysterical front page of today’s...
Voltaire and the Murray-Darlin Basin Plan
Tweet What can an eighteenth-century French writer and philosopher tell us about water management in Australia today? Emma Carmody says, if it’s Voltaire, quite a lot. WHAT CAN an 18th century poet, novelist, playwright and philosopher...
Sub-tropical Fascism (Part 6): Stealing elections
Tweet In this final part of his six part series on Australian fascism, Dr George Venturini looks at Australia’s undemocratic electoral system and wraps up the series. [Read Part One] ｜ [Read Part Two] ｜ [Read Part Three] ｜ [Read...
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