What Tony Abbott will do for you (Part 1): the age pension
I can’t see the mainstream media’s commitment to telling us who to vote for being relaxed until the election is over and they’ve safely delivered […]
Pauline Hanson and friends
I’ve never paid any attention to anything Pauline Hanson says, but I’m starting to pay some attention to what people say about her. It was […]
Julia Gillard has nothing to lose
The Labor party has everything to lose. Come September, not only could they lose the Federal election, but also many of the hard fought progressive […]
Andrew Bolt: more than just the village idiot
I’ve never seen Andrew Bolt as anything but a village idiot. The label, first applied by Mike Carlton a couple of years ago has stuck […]
Mr Abbott’s witch hunt
Tony Abbott has promised to do many things if the LNP win the 2013 election. This promise, now a couple of months old, has been […]
Opinion Poll Opinion
I know the mainstream media is only interested in polls owned by Rupert and any other opinion poll, however obscure, they can dredge up that […]
Self-censorship the best way to go
Yesterday I decided to remove my story Media bias threatens democracy. The reason is quite simple: most of the comments below the story were also […]
What Julia Gillard is up against (continued)
This post is another fabulous guest post by Kay Rollison, my mother. I’m following up on Victoria’s recent post on what Gillard is up against. […]
Media consumers have little to feed on
Anyone who read Tory Shepherd’s article The guts of the matter is that we want policy, not politics on news.com’s The Punch this morning would […]
Margo Kingston: building bridges
There is an old movie line I often recall: A life filled with activity suggests a life filled with purpose. I have no hesitation in […]
Up The Opinion Polls
If we are to take the latest Fairfax Poll at face value and try to analyse the sudden voter turnaround it conjures up a number […]
Making up the news
We all know just how manipulative, dishonest, sensationalist, gutless, unfair and unbalanced the media is in this country. And it seems at time as though […]
What Julia Gillard is up against
If I were the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, I’d get to the point quite often where I would feel the need to vent about the […]
In whose opinion?
An old friend, Nick, recently said that what was once news has now been replaced with a journalist’s view on the world. The journalist’s opinion is […]
An Open Letter to Tony Abbott
Dear Tony Abbott I notice that you’ve been getting a free run in the mainstream media over your whole career and it occurred to me […]