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Tweet Joe Hockey’s press club address yesterday included at least 20 fudges and furphies — all of them, again, ignored by Australia’s press pack. Alan Austin covers 15 of his most egregious errors. (Image courtesy @georgebludger.) STRAIGHT...
Tweet Fairfax’s sacking of brave whistleblower, financial reporter Paddy Manning, marks a sad turning point in the history of Australian journalism, writes Associate Professor Evan Jones. Sacked Fairfax financial journalist and whistleblower,...
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 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...
Tweet Mass media induced group-think seems to suggest the Government is diabolical and Julia Gillard a witch — but that doesn’t mean it’s true, writes Letitia McQuade. Why we love to hate Julia Gillard We human beings are curious lot....
Tweet Senior correspondent Barry Everingham reviews two of Australia’s biggest bigots — gay-fearing “Christian” Fred Nile and mighty white Islamophobe Andrew Bolt. FRED NILE ATTACKS HOMOSEXUALS … AGAIN THE Christian right has called...
Tweet Australia is not an economic basket case and the deficit to be announced in the upcoming budget is not the end of the world. Matthew N. Donovan reports. Relax, Australia is doing fine. MANY OF THE regulars on Independent Australia, you...
Tweet With the images on ABC Four Corners of asylum seekers detained on Nauru and Manus Island fresh in our minds, Dr George Venturini starts a new series on the history and reasons for Australia’s current unfair and illegal refugee policy. (Click...
Tweet If Gonski and the NDIS were proposed by the Coalition then they would come under far greater scrutiny from progressives than they so far have been, says Simon Copland. AS WE HEAD to the election in September, the ALP and their supporters...
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...
