After a whirlwind tour of Arnhem Land and the Tiwi’s Tash Robinson has returned to her old stomping ground.

Local scribes expected to be flocking to her one women show at the Darwin Festival titled “Reporting from a prone position, my life as a reporter in the Top End.”

The perfomance has been described as an ecletic mix between the Vagina Monologues, Sex and the City and Boogey Nights.

Guest apperances by well known aboriginal rights lawyers, human rights activists and senior traditional owners are expected.

They’ve sicked the terror of the broadsheets “Jack the Insider” on to the story.

Jack, more commonly known in his home town Brisbane as “Herpes, cause ya can’t get rid of the bastard” has another attempt at fobbing the grwoing issue of the Murdoch Media’s conflict of interest.

This little exchange in the comments thread says it all about the Oz’s attitude to jornalistic standards …

victoria
Mon 10 Aug 09 (06:44pm) Is it true that Alison Anderson is married to a reporter from this newspaper?

Jack the Insider
Mon 10 Aug 09 (07:09pm) I have absolutely no idea and I don’t care to find out, Victoria. It’s not relevant as far as I’m concerned.

Too true

Time to turn the spotlight on the journo’s.

Lets see how they like it

Angry Anderson sidekick, ex Labor MP Kerri Sackalotto has been outed as the current rumpy pumpy partner of Darwin CH9 news identity Justin “Action Man” Obrien.

Sources close to the couple’s luv nest at Throb Nightclub suggest Justin and Kerri have been on again, off again, on again off again partners for a while now.

Sadly the quality of Tash’s reporting seems to be deteriorating, must be due to the distance that exists between Darwin and Sydney.

Tash was a much better reporter when she was in Darwin. She was always able then to be on top, or below or kneeling in front of her various sources.

Yes.

And for that we are forever in his debt.

Lets not forget Nicholas’s pedigree when it comes to bringing down Labor governments.

Who can forget his infamous father, Bruce Rothwell of the Australian and his role in bringing down the Whitlam Government when he was editor.

Bruce was faous for setting an editorial tone that allowed no pro Whitlam news to sully the pages of the Australian during those tumultuoes times in November 1975.

Who can forget his rather inglorious role in the Ross Lightfoot Gun running story.

From Media Watch:-

But News Ltd backed it up with evidence from The Australian’s middle east correspondent Nicolas Rothwell:

SENATOR Ross Lightfoot confided during a trip to Iraq in January that he helped deliver $US20,000 ($25,200) in cash to Kurdish officials on behalf of oil giant Woodside as a donation to a local hospital …

The admission, in an off-the-record briefing to The Australian’s Middle East correspondent Nicolas Rothwell, contradicts Senator Lightfoot’s statement to parliament yesterday.

— The Australian, 18 March 2005

Rothwell’s account helped bolster The Tele’s scoop, but was it ethical for The Australian to use an off the record conversation?

Rothwell said that this exchange followed the senator’s boy’s own tale:

“Of course”, said Lightfoot rather edgily, in the style of a man conducting a street drug purchase, “I’m telling you all of this off the record”

“Absolutely” I replied …”Don’t worry about that”

— The Australian, 18 March 2005, pg 4

Why Rothwell would agree to take the Senator’s startling claims off the record after they were made is remarkable enough.

But once he’d agreed, what makes it okay for Rothwell and his paper to report these confidences?

The AJA code of ethics is straightforward:

Where confidences are accepted, respect them in all circumstances.

— AJA Code of Ethics, from http://www.alliance.org.au/hot/ethicscode.htm

We don’t think it’s that simple. Journalists must balance competing claims, especially when a politician seems to be giving conflicting versions.

It appears she was too busy building up. close and personal relationships with prominent aboriginal rights lawyers, human rights activists and senior traditioanl owners.

Nicholas has never tired of telling anyone who will listen that Rupert Murdoch is his godfather.

Must be irritating for him that no one really gives a toss about his godfather, they just want to get away from his presence as quickly as possible.

Locals regularly amazed out how after five minutes in the seat they seem to morph into opinonated wankers!

The only recent exception to the rule has been Paul Toohey’s stint as the Oz’s Darwin journo. Of course Toohey’s time was cut short when he crossed horns with Alison Anderson and her partner Nicholass Rothwell, leading to his transfer to the Indonesian desk.

Those in the NT ought to remember the LORD is watching their sinful ways and is ready to pass judgment on their day of reckoning.

Such sinful and unholy sexual promiscuity will result in their souls being damned to hell for ever and ever.