THE Australian electorate has a well deserved, and practised, reputation for dealing swiftly with governments, politicians and political parties who treat it with arrogance and contempt.
Judging by the comments over the weekend from Senators Brandis and Mason, among others, there remain some politicians who have yet to get the […] Continue Reading…

Sunday’s recent reports into age-related infertility have got me convinced my thirty-something-year-old eggs aren’t fit to make a rubbery omelette, let alone a little me.
While I could admit some guilt for allowing myself to rundown rather than reproduce, I prefer, like the ABC’s Virginia Haussegger, to blame mums, the […] Continue Reading…

Graham you argue cleverly but I wonder if not overly so.
There is a forest out there in the world of Sydney broadcasting but you seem determined to see only individual trees and even worse, parts of trees. What the Jones, Laws & Howard affair all points to is […] Continue Reading…

Maybe I am reading this incorrectly, but I sensed relief in the media when it was determined that the bombs that exploded in Athens were from locals, not Al Qaeda, as though this should somehow matter.
The other night Phillip Adams had three experts on Late Night Live who argued […] Continue Reading…

My fellow blogger Graham Young totally misses the point in his “defence” of the Australian Broadcasting Authority (ABA) Chairman, Professor David Flint.
To illustrate what the real issue is in this matter, I need to go back to an experience in my career as a Ministerial Advisor – 30 years […] Continue Reading…

My fellow blogger Jeff Wall has now posted twice calling on Professor David Flint to step down. While I think that David has made some mistakes, I am not sure that any of them are punishable by public humiliation and then execution.
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THE fact that Professor David Flint has an elevated view of his own importance, and integrity, has no doubt contributed to his determination to hang on to his position as Chairman of the Australian Broadcasting Authority.
The Professor may not know this, but the longer he hangs on in the […] Continue Reading…

The latest series of Big Brother premiered last night and I couldn’t resist putting those two words – “big” and “brother” – in this first paragraph because it will generate a lot of google searches; and because shared housing is one model that demonstrates the problems with the latest […] Continue Reading…

Figuring Amanda, or Mandy as I will soon be told not to call her, is used to fine parliament house style dining I choose Cuisiny A La Classy, that well-known haunt for C list celebrities, for our meeting. I arrive early and thus ensure we get a table […] Continue Reading…

Apparently, meeting a potential partner in between Wham and Duran Duran’s latest hits is becoming a thing of the past since singles started trading their dancing shoes for a computer, modem, internet connection with a reasonable download limit and unlikely nicknames such as “shyandretiringozgal” and “Aussiestud”.
Miranda Devine in The […] Continue Reading…