From Baby Bonus to Breathing Tax
It was greeted with shrill indignation by some, skepticism by others, and just plain disbelief…More
Tagged: Media and Culture
No More Special Treatment, Part 2
As suspected, Stan Grant is abandoning SBS’s World News Australia after just one year to…More
Media: Journalism That Bites
At the ABC, evidence of muted reporting and self-censorship emerged quickly as Aunty was harassed…More
When Values Are a Joke
Earlier this year I ran a Federally funded and mandated ‘Values Forum’ in a public…More
The Politics of 'Sorry'
As the dust settles after the Federal election, where will the politics of ‘apology’ be…More
Of Standards Bearers and Jokers
Members of a major political Party busted doling out fake pamphlets; Walkley-award-winning journalists losing it…More
The Fear of Extremist Bogans
There’s a question I dread being asked. It’s enough to get me all confused and…More
Another One Bites the Dust
Promising to bite the hand that fed it may have come back to bite the…More
Miranda Devine and Postmodernism
‘To avoid endless head scratching, it might help to borrow the scrambled brain of a…More
Truly, Madly, Deeply
Piers Akerman Philip Adams recently mused that if Piers Akerman were an aircraft, he would…More