Month: December 2015
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Alex Mitchell’s Weekly Notebook – Murdoch’s legal fixer claims ABC’s top job
When are Australians going to get over the foolishness of giving uncritical support to women who become the “first female” to hold this or that top job? It is not gender which determines whether someone will be good at a job or not. It is the quality of their values. The great Martin Luther King…
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Alex Mitchell’s Weekly Notebook – China’s slowdown starts to hit home
Surely, it’s time that the saying, “When Wall Street sneezes, the rest of the world catches pneumonia”, was updated. It retains some veracity because the New York Stock Exchange is the biggest in the world, US banks are the largest and the US economy is the global heavyweight. But what about China? What if Beijing…
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Alex Mitchell’s Weekly Notebook – Jihadist Abbott on mission to poison political debate in Oz
Tony Abbott, aka The Mad Monk, has positioned himself as PM-in-exile and adopted a sick-minded agenda to poison political debate and destabilise his successor, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. He launched the campaign this week with two “exclusives”: in Rupert Murdoch’s Sydney Daily Telegraph and on his Sky News, a demented Oz version of the media…
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Alex Mitchell’s Weekly Notebook – It’s bombs away in Syria as invaders grab spheres of influence
Warplanes from the United States, Russia, Britain, France, Australia, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Jordan and Bahrain are now taking part in a war against Syria. All members of the war party have different agendas. Some are fighting ISIS while others are fighting the Damascus regime of President Bashar al-Assad. Others are supporting the…