Archive for August 25th, 2008
LASHING: John Pilger pays out on Rudd, Gawenda, Manne, America
Famous expatriate journalist and war on terror critic John Pilger was in fighting form at the Melbourne Writers Festival over the weekend when he launched a scathing attack on the Prime Minister and an assault on the credibility of The …
GONER: Councillor forced to leave bank job after email race jibes exposed
Whitehorse councillor Peter Allan has learned the hard way that racially vilifying “Yanks” and Chinese from your National Australia Bank work email can lead to a serious case of separation anxiety.
SOUTHERN: Liberal State Council delivers conservatives control
The South Australian Liberal Party conservative faction has enjoyed a big win.
BACKLASH: Sunday Age whipped over Hutchinson bias
The Sunday Age published a range of letters in response to the ousting of draft dodging foreign agent Garrie Hutchinson from his bizarre appointment as a Victorian Government veterans’ heritage officer.…
IRONWORKERS: One hundred years on, freedom recalls its sweetest victories
Australia’s national security was once jeopardised by communist operatives within strategically important trade unions. Laurie Short turned the tide and helped win the Cold War for freedom.
NERVOUS LARVATUS: Never a borrower or lender be
An amusing exchange about former Crikey correspondent Christian Kerr’s habit of – shall we say – embracing stories he finds on the blogosphere – usually from Andrew Landeryou’s blog – and incorporating them into his own work without attribution.…
LAZY: ABC’s sleepy Sunday
ABC’s Four Corners have a hatchet job coming tonight on Malcolm Turnbull and sent out a tantalising email yesterday to newsrooms and selected journalists promoting it. Trouble was the person listed to take calls on the subject wasn’t, with a …
INFLATED: The Age’s long circulation con continues
Left-wing newspaper The Age is in deep crisis, continuing to mask its collapse in real circulation with an extensive array of tricks calculated to deceive advertisers.
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