Paying piper for slander begs answers
“OUR” ABC and the late US senator Joseph McCarthy have a lot in common.
Piers Akerman
Exploring nuts and bolts of discrimination
IF you wish to be politically correct you might remove coconuts from your shopping list and start to roll your lamingtons in some alternative form of confectionary coating.
9/11: Do mention the war
Speaking in shades of geldof nonsense
SOMETIME Irish rocker and global media tart Sir Bob Geldof has again shown his inner-seagull during a quick trip to Australia. Fly-in, squawk, defecate, fly-out, squawk.
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Empty words can’t fill black hole
BEFORE the casual reader even opens Commissioner Ted Mullighan’s report into the abuse of children in the Anangu, Pitjantjatjara, Yankunytjatjara (APY) lands in the central desert in South Australia’s northwest, there is a confronting caution.
Injured reporter doing well
Reporter Paul Raffaele, who was injured in Afghanistan a fortnight ago, has returned to Australia and is recuperating from shrapnel wounds to his head and arm.
ALP’s rotten moral core
THE ALP’s moral core has been placed under scrutiny with the pre-sentencing hearings of former NSW minister Milton Orkopoulos, allegations of harassment involving the Western Australian Premier Alan Carpenter and senior MPs and charges of rank hypocrisy laid against the federal ALP by the ACT Chief Minister, Jon Stanhope.
Bread and butter politics
LAST July, then Opposition leader Kevin Rudd made what is now known as the “Cost of Living Speech” at Melbourne’s Cranbourne Secondary College.
Summit of the smug self righteous
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd opened yesterday summit of his government’s anointed self-righteous with a call to let “fresh air†into Australian thinking but the quotes from New Age poet Kahlil Gibran and the soundtrack from Over The Rainbow gave his retro game away.
Green aim hits red tape
WHEN Australian families start asking what killed full employment, two answers can be guaranteed: trade union wage claims and the cost to industry of compliance with the Rudd government’s panicked response to the climate-change bogey.
Rudd the snake oil salesman
AFTER five months in office, the Rudd Government’s modus operandi has become clear – another day, another stunt – in this case another political exercise to get petrol prices off the front page.
Mugabe’s last stand
When former Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser said “life wasn’t meant to be easy”, he might well have been predicting the lot of the Zimbabwean people under dictator Robert Mugabe.
Blood on Fraser’s hands
IT is usually impossible to avoid hearing the former Liberal prime minister Malcolm Fraser apportioning blame for the world’s problems on his most recent Liberal successor or the Great Satan – the United States – but in recent days he has held his counsel.
No bridges from fear and hate
THE weasel-like Indonesian Islamic cleric Abu Bakar Bashir and his Australian doppelganger Sheik Taj el-Dene Elhilaly returned to form over Easter, reminding realists of the underlying hatred these so-called fundamentalist leaders hold for Western civilisation.
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