Archive for: The Australian

Big business besieged Fairfax is un-Manning the barricades

Big business besieged Fairfax is un-Manning the barricades

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,...

 

The opinion makers

The opinion makers

Tweet Peter Wicks discusses the importance of the mainstream media, its ethics, bias and its exclusion of Independent Australia from the Canberra Press Gallery. I DON’T THINK that the importance of being a member of the mainstream media...

 

Rupert Murdoch: paragon or pariah?

Rupert Murdoch: paragon or pariah?

Tweet A recent SBS documentary on Rupert Murdoch has again raised serious concerns about him and his businesses’ morals, ethics and integrity. Paul Begley comments. Rupert Murdoch (image courtesy Rex Interstock) WHEN THE British actor Paul...

 

Mungo MacCallum: IA’s case for Press Gallery inclusion “superior”

Mungo MacCallum: IA’s case for Press Gallery inclusion “superior”

Tweet Mungo MacCallum is one of Australia’s most distinguished and respected political journalists. Mungo MacCallum According to Wikipedia, he ‘…covered Australian federal politics from the Canberra Press Gallery for The Australian,...

 

Our samizdat years

Our samizdat years

Tweet Never before have we had a press so controlled, says Bob Ellis, with all the anti-Abbott or anti-Coalition news being deliberately minimised. (Image courtesy Tony Yegles / Australians for Honest Politics.) CLIVE PALMER started a new party...

 

Gaily Bolting into the White Nile

Gaily Bolting into the White Nile

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...

 

The Dead Cat Revival

The Dead Cat Revival

Tweet The Murdoch media have launched a vicious vendetta against the Gillard Government since Kevin Rudd was toppled. Managing editor David Donovan pieces together Australia’s hidden political picture. WHEN THE Gillard Government announced...

 

How Howard politicised the AFP and protected Downer and Bolt

How Howard politicised the AFP and protected Downer and Bolt

Tweet Why are the AFP so eager to get Peter Slipper — but not Mal Brough? Ross Jones lifts the lid on Australia’s police / media / conservative political party cartel. WHAT DO Andrew Bolt and the AFP (Australian Federal Police) have...

 

Murdoch in Darwin and his plans for Australia

Murdoch in Darwin and his plans for Australia

Tweet Rodney E. Lever considers Rupert Murdoch’s visit to Darwin, as well as the suspicious timing of his disgraced apparatchik Rebekah Brooks’ visit to Australia. EVIDENCE IS steadily mounting, day by day, about Rupert Murdoch’s future...

 

Islamophobia overshadows bipartisan multiculturalism inquiry

Islamophobia overshadows bipartisan multiculturalism inquiry

Tweet A small but vocal group of bigots can congratulate themselves for successfully hijacking a much-needed national discussion on multicultural service provision, writes Dr Chloe Patton. By Dr Chloe Patton THE Joint Standing Committee on Migration’s...

 
 
 
 

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