Enticing menu of current affairs, independent and FREE of charge: MPs in Sydney and Canberra shut up shop; Getting to know Stig Abell; Hachette job on Woody Allen; Inside Pentecostalism; When the Pope met Boris Johnson; Don Watson’s Quote of the Week. MPs close parliament and take six-month holidays Federal MPs unanimously voted this week…
BOOK REVIEW Hasbara and identity theft: a Melbourne case study By DR DAVID FABER The dark arts of economy with the truth have long been part of political manipulation. Why take the risk of lying outright and being caught out when fudging the truth will do and be more effective? As such they have been…
Another exclusive feast of current affairs items: Scott Morrison’s “sports rorts” overshadowed by Nigel Scullion’s misuse of funds for Aborigines; New Yorkers squeezing last drop of profit from share market; bringing back some Aussie words; how America’s Pilgrims survived and prospered; Pentecostal pastor sums up coronavirus; Plug of the Week from Rowan Cahill. How the…
BOOK REVIEW Murder in Melbourne: The untold story of Aiia Maasarwe by Alex Mitchell, 2020 Bishop George Browning writes: The plight of Palestinians in their homeland was tragically on display in the aftermath of the brutal Melbourne rape and murder of Aiia Maasarwe. Her killer, Codey Herrmann, a 20-year-old Aborigine with no prior history of crime or…
An exclusive feast of current affairs items: Global rallies for release of Julian Assange; Rupert Murdoch empire grows like virus; Murdoch goes after ABC Classic Radio; “Fatty O’Barrell” fits India perfectly; House of Lords savages rebirth of apartheid; The New Yorker morphs into Clinton-Obama-Biden tool; Rush Limbaugh unlocked Julian Assange wins global support On 24…
Senior Palestine ex-diplomat condemns Trump “peace deal” Ali Kazak, a former Palestinian ambassador and ex-head of Palestine’s delegation to Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific, has rejected the so-called “deal of the century” cooked up by US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. For the record, the deal’s advocates are both…
Struggles for Personal and National Identity BOOK REVIEW – Murder in Melbourne: The untold story of Aiia Maasarwe by Alex Mitchell (2020) STUART REES WRITES: In courts of law, defendants appear before a judge, police and lawyers, each party pondering an individual’s identity. One question affects deliberations. Is this person worthy or unworthy? In university…
In this issue: 1) The Murdoch media’s PR makeover; 2) Bad language in Uganda; 3) ABC Classic under threat; 4) Nye Bevan on Parliament; 5) Quote of the Week Rupert Murdoch’s media empire is undergoing a public relations makeover. His son James has collected world headlines for condemning News Corp’s climate denial during Australia’s bushfire…
This week: 1) Tribute to a revolutionary filmmaker; 2) A triumph over the British Stalinists; 3) Sir Keir Starmer’s political history; 4) The bad sex fiction awards Tony Garnett, British producer of such memorable films as Cathy Come Home, Up The Junction, Kes, episodes of Z Cars, Days of Hope, the four-part mini-series about the…
In this issue: 1) The ABC and SBS as public assets; 2) Bushfires expose Murdoch’s climate change denialism; 3) Resistance at News Corp; 4) Aborigines in the culture wars; 5) Boris Johnson’s lemmings land; 6) the post-Brexit nightmare; 6) Boris’s favourite newspaper; 7) The Tories’ bloated election campaign; 8) The Windsors’ family fortune; 9) Cricket…
