Category: World
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Murder of a Palestinian in Melbourne
This week’s menu of exclusive reading: 1) Palestinian murdered in Melbourne; 2) Scott Morrison and Michael McCormack: two clowns in Circus Oz; 3) Why the British General Election matters; 4) The sad decline of books; 5) Julian Assange campaign explained; 6) Quotes of the Week Murder of Palestinian student in Melbourne In January 2019, Melbourne…
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Albo the featherweight
This week’s specials: 1) “Albo” isn’t hacking it; 2) Eddie Jones super rat; 3) NSW Art Gallery shamed by cat scandal; 4) Ali Kazak compares media coverage of Hong Kong and Gaza; 5) New Pommie slogan: Ban the All Blacks haka; 6) Ash Barty, Aboriginal sports heroine; 7) L J Hooker’s shameful window sign Anthony…
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Spotlight on racehorse cruelty
This week’s special reports: 1) ABC spotlight on racehorse cruelty; 2) Behind Hong Kong’s protest movement; 3) Boaty McBoatface shakes The Establishment; 4) Vatican engulfed in scandal – again!; 5) George Pell remains a player; 6) John le Carré monsters Boris Johnson; 7) Tosser of the Year award; 8) Lowy Institute’s prize of shame. …
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Albanese’s future
This week’s “exclusives”: 1) Albanese chooses his successor; 2) Boris Johnson plots a coup d’etat; 3) Tommy Lascelles, Palace courtier; 4) US “diplomat” is a spy; 5) Health tip: Don’t eat red meat or eggs. Future of Anthony Albanese Labor Party leader Anthony Albanese has chosen Leichhardt Mayor Darcy Byrne to be his successor in the…
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The hypocrisy of Penny Wong
This week: The hypocrisy of Penny Wong … Time running out for Donald Trump For the record, I regard Senator Penny Wong as the smartest and most courageous woman in Federal Parliament. She has been a huge asset to the Labor Party in countless recent elections as its combative spokesperson against the lies and deceit of…
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The question of Albo
The Question of Albo A small but loud-voiced number of subscribers wrote to me after I assessed Anthony Albanese – that’s him, the new ALP leader – a dunce as a politician, Cabinet Minister, Shadow Minister, Deputy Leader and now Top Dog. I checked with very well-informed contacts in Canberra, Sydney and Brisbane to discover…
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The Weekly Notebook returns
Scomo takes Australia to war Pastor Scott Morrison has committed Australia to war in the Middle East. He has sent Australian warships, aircraft and special forces half way round the world to the Straits of Hormuz to “protect international trade” and the “freedom of shipping”. Morrison has joined the US war party against Iran. Ignoring…
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Untold story of Canberra’s first coup: the political assassination of Prime Minister John Gorton – Part 15
Political dirty tricks at Melbourne Olympics in 1956 and Sydney 2000 SYDNEY Sun-Herald, 1986-2007 Searching through personal papers I came across volumes of material I had collected over the years on the Olympic Games and the Swiss-based International Olympic Committee (IOC), the disgraced agency that runs the worldwide sports extravaganza every four years. Buried in the…
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The Weekly Notebook
Whistleblowers jailed as US and UK attack press freedom Julian Assange is in jail in London and Ms Chelsea Manning, formerly Bradley Manning, is in jail in Alexandria, Virginia. Assange is an Australian-born journalist and founder of Wikileaks while Private first class Manning is a transgender American soldier, turned whistleblower. Together they blew the lid…
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Untold story of Canberra’s first coup: The political assassination of Prime Minister John Gorton – Part 12
John Gorton goes to Oxford OXFORD, England, February 1932 Brasenose College at Oxford University is famous for educating an elite to be the future prime ministers, judges, governors and Whitehall mandarins of Great Britain. For 500 years, the sons of the aristocracy (women were admitted for the first time only in 1974) were sent to…