CRYSTAL-ROSE JONES & DANIEL Y TENG – MEDIA outlets should be held responsible for sparking a two-year Moira Deeming drama that resulted in a major defamation case against Victoria’s former Liberal leader John Pesutto. Tony Nikolic, a defamation and criminal lawyer at…
by PAUL COLLITS – MAINSTREAM media in Australia has become too controlling and needs to be broken up, according to Federal Senator Gerard Rennick. He said politicians and the media were working “hand in hand” to push lies and suppress alternate points…
by FRED PAWLE – THE Australian mainstream media marked the death of the government’s Censorship Bill today by censoring debate about it. As hundreds of thousands of ordinary citizens celebrated the announcement on Friday evening that the government’s Bill will fail to…
by FRED PAWLE – LOVE isn’t Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s strong point. We know this because he weirdly keeps banging on about it like a blue-haired feminist who won’t stop talking about her abortions. News Corp tabloids published an “intimate” interview with…
by PAUL COLLITS – AUSTRALIAN bishops are currently in the news. In the case of Western Sydney this week, for the wrong reasons. Very nearly tragic news, for Assyrian Orthodox Christian Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel. The good Bishop, whose words have been…
by DAVID FLINT – SENATOR Jacinta Price astounded the nation during the recent referendum campaign when, courageously, she dared tell a journalist there were no ongoing negative impacts of colonisation. The only continuing impacts, she said, were positive. A small but determined…
by BETTINA ARNDT – REMEMBER how the Brittany Higgins case blew up when a juror brought into the jury room an academic paper discussing the frequency of false allegations of sexual assault? That broke the rules prohibiting jury members from accessing outside…
by BETTINA ARNDT – IT IS hardly surprising Federal Transport Minister Catherine King is trying to avoid scrutiny over her decision to reject more flights for Qatar Airlines due to her concern about the Doha strip search. Here was ideology trumping proper…
by PAUL COLLITS – THE work of third-wave feminists – the #MeToo Barbie generation – is never done. It came to my attention recently that a gutter-presser and latter-day (very) minor podcaster from Adelaide – Yass with gays – thinks that I…
by DAVID FLINT – IS THE Albanese Government’s over-extended media honeymoon finally drawing to a close? Even the ABC was not able to avoid mentioning the Brittany Higgins scandal of which the government’s Senator Gallagher is only the tip. Why did Albanese’s…
