Category: Australia
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Murdoch’s jobs bloodbath
Stay indoors, practise social-isolation and wear a mask when you go outside. This Notebook edition falls on the 21st anniversary of Tiananmen Square on June 4. Let’s hope Chinese mainlanders with a TV set watch the unfolding events in Minneapolis, Washington DC, New York, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Philadelphia and elsewhere. Read independent (non-Murdoch) current affairs…
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Scott Morrison’s about-turn
Stay indoors but stay informed. Check out this FREE current affairs menu: Politicians keep telling us lies; Euthanasia spooks our legislators; Books to the rescue; Music keeps us young; The Beatles revisited; Right-wingers never liked The Beatles; New research puts Yoga on the mat; More famous sayings flood in; The world is changing – so…
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Remembering friends who lunched
Tributes to some of my dearest friends who I won’t being seeing ever again. But this is not a tear-grabbing set of obituaries, rather a celebration of memorable lunches with journalist Frank Crook, actor Arthur Dignam, trade union leader Jack Mundey and judge David Levine. And it ends with a piece on rock’n’roll legend Little…
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Malcolm Turnbull’s fictional memoir
Keep up social-isolation but stay abreast of current affairs: the Notebook is FREE and full of independent information. Nick Whitlam reviews Malcolm Turnbull; Why politicians should write more memoirs; Publishers are making big bucks from big names; Helen Keller, blind and deaf, praised books; Headlines the media would rather forget; Trump tells whopping lies; Bernie…
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How airlines woo politicians
Stay informed while staying indoors; alternative current affairs which is FREE of charge: How airlines seduce politicians; Big payola from Virgin Australia and Qantas; Billionaire Richard Branson, taxation and Panama; Crazy world of corporate lingo; AN Wilson unloads on Fleet Street; London Guardian unhinged; Noam Chomsky scores again; Are we “all in this together?” No, we aren’t…
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Meet the real Lyle Shelton
Exclusive menu of independent reporting: Who is Lyle Shelton? US multi-millionaires get cash from Washington stimulus package; Deep South pastor asks for stimulus cheques; Henry Kissinger’s plan to “save” capitalism; The day Laurie Brereton shocked the ACTU Congress; Travel PR puffs aren’t journalism; PLUS Quote of the Week and Pseuds of the Week Meet the…
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Corporate meltdown over Ruby Princess
A menu of current affairs and commentary: What happened to film lighting? Ruby Princess scandal revisited; Quality bookshops losing out; Julian Assange’s big surprise; Time to replace dying capitalism?; Edward Snowden emerges from isolation; Maurie O’Sullivan said it first; The Australian’s headline blunders; Uncensored views of young Donald. Movies in the dark One bonus arising from…
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The banks, the big corporations and the coronavirus
This week: the banks, the big corporations and the coronavirus All in this together? Bankers, CEOs and company directors emerged from the 2008 Global Financial Crisis (GFC) better off than before it. This was true in the US, the UK and Australia. They walked away unscathed from the financial catastrophe which they had created but…
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Joe Biden’s backers
Another menu of independent current affairs: US Democrats face choice between VP Joe Biden (right) and Senator Bernie Sanders (left); Why Donald Trump is a moving target; The “scramble for Africa” was repeated around the world; Brixton leader “Red” Ted Knight dies in London, aged 86; plus Quote of the Week and Mark Latham’s love-in…
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‘Murder in Melbourne’ a case of stolen identity
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…