Category: Media
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Alex Mitchell’s Weekly Notebook – Tony Abbott is channelling the Joh for Canberra fiasco
Slipping into Federal Election year, the Liberal Party of Australia is split between two hostile forces. Supporters of Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull are on one side and disciples of sacked prime minister Tony Abbott are on the other. In Liberal Party terms the split is a “left” (Turnbull) versus “right” (Abbott] affair. The intensity of…
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Alex Mitchell’s Weekly Notebook – Tony Abbott on a mission to wreck Liberals – who’s complaining?
In his farewell speech on 15 September 2015 after Liberal MPs dumped him as prime minister, Tony Abbott said: “My pledge today is to make this change as easy as I can. There will be no wrecking, no undermining and no sniping. “I’ve never leaked or backgrounded against anyone and I certainly won’t start now.…
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Alex Mitchell’s Weekly Notebook – David Bowie’s brush with fascism and the occult
For the record, here are some of the views of the late David Bowie. • “Britain is ready for a fascist leader. I think Britain would benefit from a fascist leader. After all, fascism is really nationalism.” • “There is no politician like me. As I see it, I am the only alternative for premier…
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Alex Mitchell’s Weekly Notebook – Richo threatens to spill the beans on Hawke and Abeles
Graham Richardson, aka “Richo” or “Robespierre”, is in a race against a deadly cancer to complete a second volume of autobiography. The former NSW ALP general secretary, senator and Cabinet minister in the Hawke and Keating Governments plans to reveal information about the financial relationship between Hawke and his patron, TNT boss Sir Peter Abeles,…
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Alex Mitchell’s Weekly Notebook – PM Turnbull’s main danger is not Bill Shorten, it’s Abbott
Remember the grim days when Tony Abbott was Prime Minister? His opponent, Labor Leader Bill Shorten, was miles ahead in the polls as preferred PM. Now that Abbott has been ousted by his own party and Malcolm Turnbull installed as Australia’s 29th PM, the polls have gone into reverse. In this month’s Newspoll, Shorten’s rating…
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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 – 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…
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Alex Mitchell’s Weekly Notebook – 40th anniversary of Whitlam’s dismissal: more questions
In the thick of Australia’s greatest era of social and cultural reform, a vice-regal coup succeeded in overthrowing the elected government of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam. It was November 1975 and the capitals of the Western world were swirling with hyper-inflation, OPEC’s “oil shock”, massive government debt and rising unemployment. A year earlier President Richard…
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Alex Mitchell’s Weekly Notebook – Turnbull captures the middle ground
Watching Malcolm Turnbull edge the Liberal Party from the frontiers of right-wing madness to the middle ground of middle Australia has become an absorbing pastime. Every week of his short time in the prime ministership, Turnbull has signalled a significant shift in policy to the centre ground. This week he declared that knights and dames…