More evidence of the gormlessness of Australia’s media on the Mohammed cartoons is coming to light. This NYT article outlines how the cartoon issue pits Muslim against Muslim. It also indirectly poses a really strong question to Al Jazeera (one of the media organs criticising the cartoons):
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February 22, 2006 | Graham
More complexity on those cartoons – burn Dante’s Inferno
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February 20, 2006 | Graham
Saulwick poll commits classic error
Well, maybe it’s not the Saulwick poll that commits the error, but the SMH analysis of it. A classic error in opinion polling is to ask subjects what they think other people are thinking. This is “classic” because the reason for doing opinion polling is so you don’t have […] Continue Reading…
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February 20, 2006 | Graham
Shorten Figjams Beazley
If Bill Shorten is any sort of political seer, it appears that Kim Beazley will lose the next election, but he has Bill’s support to remain as leader. In the introduction to yesterday’s The National Interest, new presenter Peter Mares referred to the “…deep malaise that keeps the ALP […] Continue Reading…
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February 18, 2006 | Graham
Remedial maths for Danna Vale
Danna Vale thinks Muslims are out-breeding us all (whoever “us” are) and Australia will end up being a Muslim country.
We’ve published Kevin Donnelly a lot. His theme is that the education system has deteriorated over the last 30 or more years. It’s a thesis to which I’m sympathetic, but […] Continue Reading…
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February 18, 2006 | Graham
An act of solidarity with Muslim journalists
I may regret this later, but I’ve decided to reproduce one of the Mohammed cartoons. This is an act of solidarity with a number of journalists in Muslim countries who have been jailed for republishing the cartoons.
According to Reporters sans frontières seven journalists have been thrown into jail in […] Continue Reading…
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February 16, 2006 | Graham
Abu Ghraib and the Mohammed cartoons
Yet more material offensive to Islam has been published – by SBS. In this case the publication is of photos from Abu Ghraib jail and shows Islamic prisoners being physically and sexually abused. You can see the photos by clicking here.
I can’t see how these could be less offensive, […] Continue Reading…
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February 15, 2006 | Graham
Health campaign miscarries for Queensland Libs
The Queensland Liberals have been thinking that Dr Death’s final fatality will be Premier Peter Beattie and that government and dominance over the National Party will just fall into their hands in the next state election. Latest research by the Whatthepeoplewant project suggests they might just be hallucinating. The […] Continue Reading…
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February 13, 2006 | Graham
Happy Australians vote John Howard
According to the first electorate-based national index of well-being, compiled by Deakin University, Wide-Bay, one of the poorest electorates is also the happiest, whilst one of the richest, Sydney, is the unhappiest.
In quotes from the researchers in The Australian’s report it is put down to population density, but has […] Continue Reading…
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February 12, 2006 | Graham
Abbott loses RU486 power because Howard has control of Senate
Here’s a twist in the tail for all those who think John Howard having control of the Senate is a bad thing. According to Keryn Phelps on RN’s Breakfast program on Friday, the power of the Health Minister to veto RU486 was given to him courtesy of a deal […] Continue Reading…
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February 10, 2006 | Graham
Cartoon rage appears to have been concocted
There appears to be forethought in the “spontaneous” eruption of protests against the Mohammed cartoons. This article in the New York Times documents the issue being raised at a December meeting of various middle-eastern leaders. Outrage has been a long-time in the oven.
In fact, even longer than one might […] Continue Reading…
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