Consider this – a mild-mannered Australian newspaper editor with a slight US accent says that Palestinians are “vicious thugs” and “cannot be trusted”, and his employer, the Fairfax Group, is found guilty of inciting racial hatred and fined. Two nights ago ABC Four Corners showed a programme […] Continue Reading…
July 20, 2004 | Graham
Another poll, another beat-up.
I woke this morning to the ABC Radio telling me that “Labor has hung-on to a slim election winning lead, but voter satisfaction with leader Mark Latham’s performance has slipped.” This was a pretty trashy take, even on the basis of the figures that the ABC quoted.
There are […] Continue Reading…
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July 20, 2004 | Jeff Wall
John Laws takes on the big end of town – a spectacle not to be missed.
IN recent days John Laws has demonstrated two things. Firstly, he has not entirely lost his enthusiasm for radio after 51 years, and, secondly, talkback radio remains a powerful political medium.
It’s been compelling listening as John Laws has taken on the NSW Labor Government, and the far too influential […] Continue Reading…
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July 18, 2004 | Unknown
Don’t Take Your Love to Stepford
As Ambit Gambit’s self-appointed commentator on some things gender, I thought spending an hour and a half in a suburban multiplex watching the new version of The Stepford Wives would supply the sort of ideas you’d enjoy to read my analysis of.
Unfortunately, my desire to entertain was rewarded with […] Continue Reading…
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July 15, 2004 | Graham
Negative gearing is not the problem
In today’s AFR John Quiggin argues that one source of savings from which Mark Latham could pay for policy initiatives would be the abolition of negative gearing. In passing John also blames negative gearing in part for the housing boom. contrasting it with the US where property losses […] Continue Reading…
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July 14, 2004 | Jeff Wall
Private lives – public interest. Where does the boundary lie?
THE recent media feasting over details of Mark Latham’s personal and political lives has probably not harmed his chances of being Australia’s next Prime Minister, but is the cause of getting the best candidates to seek public office the real loser?
I fear it is. And that does not augur […] Continue Reading…
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July 14, 2004 | Graham
The Beazley appointment – Latham cuts and runs.
The appointment of Kim Beazley as ALP Defence spokesman shows that Labor’s election strategy is in disarray. It is the worst foreign affairs mistake that Latham has made since holding a press conference in front of the US flag.
Here’s why.
Beazley lost the last election because he couldn’t fix […] Continue Reading…
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July 13, 2004 | Graham
The Bulletin has enough readers in Queensland…apparently.
If a chip on the shoulder is mandatory couture for Australians, a bit like epaulettes are for soldiers, then Queenslanders are the power dressers of the Australian inferiority complex.
And maybe we have cause. This morning when I logged on to my Messenger service the unavoidable pop-up came […] Continue Reading…
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July 10, 2004 | Graham
Another shocking foreign incursion into domestic politics.
If I hadn’t been so busy sleeping and had instead read the Fin Review rather than relying on the ABC on my clock radio, I would have had an alternate source of irritation this morning to Richard Armitage.
Can I say how sick and disappointed I am that Paul Keating […] Continue Reading…
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July 09, 2004 | Graham
Armitage’s comments were “dumb” – but it’s his right to be dumb.
The reaction to Richard Armitage’s comment that the Australian Labor Party is split on its policy of withdrawing troops from Iraq by Christmas seems a bit hysterical. If anything, his comments will probably help the ALP vote.
I cannot see any rational objection to anyone anywhere commenting on […] Continue Reading…
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