NAVEL-GAZING: Labor to get hot and sweaty in Sydney

Labor’s national conference – for all its faults – is at least held in full public view, with media present. Their willingness to be open and let the light shine in is at the heart of why they can and will vanquish their Greens foe at the ballot box. The relatively obscure issues about same-sex marriage, selling uranium to our democratic friend and ally India and ALP internal processes will get their delegates hot and sweaty on Sydney’s Darling Harbour.

SAME COIN: Should reporting “in the public interest” be a defence to illegal hacking?

Ex News of the World journalist says he illegally hacked subjects of stories because it was “in the public interest.”

Soon-to-be ex-Editor-in-chief of The Age editor says they illegally hacked subjects of stories because it was “in there public interest.”…