Archive for: Sandi Keane

How the Canberra Press Gallery shut out IA

How the Canberra Press Gallery shut out IA

Tweet The Canberra Press Gallery Committee has knocked back Independent Australia and its nominee from gaining representation. Callum Davidson explains what happened. by Callum Davidson A few months back, myself and David Donovan, managing editor...

 

John Howard — Lazarus lying

John Howard — Lazarus lying

Tweet John Howard’s latest lies about the Iraq War remind us of his deep dishonesty and give the Government a new avenue to attack the Opposition, writes deputy editor Sandi Keane. (Cartoon republished with the kind permission of Rocco...

 

Let ‘er rip Ted Baillieu could spell R.I.P.

Let ‘er rip Ted Baillieu could spell R.I.P.

Tweet Baillieu’s ‘let er rip’ approach to the environment could spell R.I.P. for his beleaguered Government, writes environment editor Sandi Keane. ON FRIDAY, Victoria’s Baillieu Government lost its appeal in the Federal Court to overturn...

 

How the MSM flog stories from blogs

How the MSM flog stories from blogs

Tweet Bloggers stealing their stories from the mainstream media? If Sandi Keane‘s experiences are any guide, the opposite is more likely to be true. MAINSTREAM MEDIA constantly spin the line that online journalists are plagiarists, who...

 

Waubra fights back against phony Foundation

Waubra fights back against phony Foundation

Tweet The Victorian town of Waubra is trying to reclaim its name from a phony front for powerful vested interests ― the Waubra Foundation. Environment editor Sandi Keane sheds light on this astroturf organisation’s links, as well as...

 

The Australian’s BER campaign: Building an Election Result

The Australian’s BER campaign: Building an Election Result

Tweet Sandi Keane forensically dissects The Australian newspaper’s calculating, concerted and misleading campaign against the Federal Government’s extremely successful ‘Building the Education Revolution’ programme. IN 2010, Anthony Klan...

 

Simmonds Lumber goes “CSI” to combat illegal logging

Simmonds Lumber goes “CSI” to combat illegal logging

Tweet Ethical Australian timber company Simmonds Lumber is using scientific innovation to helping stamp out illegal logging. Environment editor Sandi Keane reports. Australian timber company, Simmonds Lumber Group, has taken the lead in helping...

 

Lies, damned lies and Olympic Dam sized lies

Lies, damned lies and Olympic Dam sized lies

Tweet Managing editor David Donovan reports on Tony Abbott’s “dishonest, self-interested fear campaign” about BHP’s decision to defer the Olympic Dam expansion; before environment editor Sandi Keane provides some disturbing background...

 

Australia approaches the Abbott abyss

Australia approaches the Abbott abyss

Tweet Doug Evans maps the overall Australian political scene — and makes some stark predictions about Australia’s future under an extreme rightwing Tony Abbott government. IN political fortune telling self-delusion is not helpful — the...

 

EPA Clean Air to end coal in the US

EPA Clean Air to end coal in the US

Tweet Last week, in a milestone announcement that  went largely unreported in Australia, the US Court of Appeals upheld the EPA’s right to regulate greenhouse emissions under the Clean Air Act. Today is the 4th July and Independent Australia...

 
 
 
 

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