Journalists covering the Greek crisis were briefed at IMF seminars to give the bankers’ view in their reports from Athens. Panayiotis Roumeliotis, the former Greek delegate to the IMF, made the accusations in evidence to MPs sparking a media scandal of far-reaching proportions. ESIEA, the Athens journalists’ association, has launched an investigation into the corruption…
Only a few months ago, Fairfax Media newspapers were stridently calling for the removal Prime Minister Tony Abbott. This week they shifted their attack to Opposition Leader Bill Shorten. Thursday’s edition of The Sydney Morning Herald was a collector’s item. The front page blared: “Shorten and the AWU deal”. In addition, it promised a four-part…
Between 1899 and 1902 some 16,000 Australian volunteers travelled to South Africa to take up arms against the Dutch white settlers. Australia’s irregular militiamen, i.e. mercenaries, served under the Union Jack using arms and ammunition supplied by the British army. Some “bushmen” travelled at their own expense but most were paid with private donations from…
I walked through Sydney’s Martin Place on Wednesday, June 3, the day after vandals smashed windows of the Lindt Café, the scene of the fatal siege last December. The footpath was crowded with television cameras, photographers, tourists and rubber-neckers. People were taking “selfies” with the café as a backdrop. In their own way, so was…
