Knights Lawler and the HSU grail

Remember when VEXNEWS revealed dodgy HSU boss Kathy Jackson’s latest lover Michael Lawler was in Opus Dei prior to his mid-life crisis?.

Turns out his old man Sir Peter Lawler was a very well-regarded fellow from that world, with …

GOOD FOR THE GOOSE: Labor admits Abbott’s carbon scare campaign just like their GST scare campaign

Climate Change minister Greg Combet has equated the Coalition’s scare campaign with Labor’s own anti-GST frenzy ahead of the 1998 poll that very nearly toppled John Howard at his first re-election attempt..

He told climate doom-boosters at Fairfax:

“Labor …

Prominent atheist blogger bisexual finds faith in Catholic Church

A big-time atheist US blogger has found faith and intends to become a Catholic..

She thinks gender is as significant a factor as hair colour in picking dates, but has decided to give up the ladies, in keeping with …

Kathy Jackson paid her latest lover’s children more per hour than HSU members get

HSU boss Kathy Jackson employed the 15-year-old and 17-year-old sons of her latest lover Michael Lawler (a Fair Work Australia Vice-President) for much more per hour than many Victorian HSU members receive, Peter Wicks explores the obscenity. It’s a must-read.…

THEY CAN’T BE SERIOUS: The Age’s “editorial independence” means it’s OK to slag Abbott as a proud, arrogant opportunist on the front-page

The imminent closure of The Age’s print edition will cost a lot of people their jobs and no-one can take pleasure in that but when you see the muck they produce, their proudest boast, of editorial independence, is clearly just a big lie. Without the enthusiasm we once had for celebrating their misery, we consider the viciousness of their partisan attack on Abbott and why it partly explains why few will miss it.

We’re #1 insists new Sydney Morning Herald boss

Sydney Morning Herald’s new boss Sean Aylmer won’t let a bit of bad news 1900 layoffs interfere with the celebration of his appointment. He told staff “the media giant needed to change, but that it had the number one website, …

87.5% of top stories on The Age’s website are written by AAP wire service #ausmedia

Former Age editor Andrew Jaspan’s The Conversation twists the knife on ailing Fairfax, revealing an academic study of 29,000 online articles that shows 87.5% of top stories on The Age’s website (79% with smh.com.au) are written by AAP while News …

LEAKER SPRAYED: Stephen Mayne expects puff piece, only to have it blow up in his face

Leaked council emails and his Tweets suggest Stephen Mayne was left somewhat upset about a piece in the Sunday Age he had hoped would sing his praises.

Giving away content killed the daily newspaper journalism star

A US journalist forcefully argues that bloggers cannot replace daily newspaper journalists and laments those responsible for undermining her industry: “The state of daily newspaper journalism only proves English majors should not be allowed to make business decisions. Only English …

BUCKS: The fizz about Kohler gets up our nose…

Hysterical Age headline: ABC’s Kohler embroiled in conflict of interest claims.

When the ABC was giving a platform for someone in the Crikey stable, no-one batted an eyelid. But now that Alan Kohler and Crikey’s Eric Beecher have sold …