Rudd stoops as low as greenie policies
IT HAD to be seen to be believed but there was the Prime Minister of Australia, Kevin Rudd, playing politics with bushfire relief money.
Piers Akerman
ACTU should embrace union inquiry, not shun it
THE squeaky wheels of the trundling tumbrils are getting closer for Labor and the trade union movement.
ABC doesn’t believe in Right to free speech
THE left, be they from the ALP or the ABC, oppose free speech when it is their ideology which is under scrutiny.
ALP must apologise for union war crimes
AS a backdrop to today’s Australia Day celebrations, the Labor/Green Left is working itself into a lather over plans to review the flawed national education curriculum.
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Obsessed media gets it wrong
THIS blog was incorrectly published under another journalist’s name due to a production error. It was not written by Stephen Corby, as was earlier claimed. Following is a republished version of the same blog. The Sunday Telegraph apologises for the error.WHEN the ABC favourably quotes conservative columnists, alarm bells should begin to ring. But the flagship evening radio current affairs program PM began its end-of-the-week wrap-up on Friday by noting that The Australian’s Janet Albrechtsen and The Herald Sun’s Andrew Bolt had questioned whether Prime Minister John Howard should abdicate.
Yo, Bush! My open letter to the President
YO, Bush! Welcome to Sydney.Forgive the informality, but you’re a Texan and Australia is a pretty laid back as you’d know from the Aussies you’ve met over the years and though you’re only visiting briefly, a lot of us hope you get to experience something of the flavour of the country we love while you’re here.You’ve had an opportunity to see something of the Harbour, the Bridge and the Opera House and perhaps you’ll get a chance to see Bondi and some other famous beaches before you leave. I certainly hope so. As you know from your escapades with your old mate John Newcombe, we’re a pretty upfront, straight-forward bunch and we respect those who stand up for what they believe in and take their lumps when they have to.
It’s not the Stasi comrade, it’s APEC
THE first item on The Sydney Morning Herald’s website yesterday morning truly deserved greater prominence.“The APEC security fence that stretches through Sydney’s CBD is a ‘wall of shame’ and undemocratic, the Communist Party of Australia says,” it read.Well, Holy Caxton! Stop the presses! Where has the SMH’s news sense gone?Surely the real news lay in the fact that The Sydney Moaning Herald had found an actual living member of the Communist Party of Australia in 2007, a feat akin to finding a yeti in the chilly fasts of the Himalayas, or catching a yowie taking to the waves at Bondi.Furthermore, the SMH’s genuine home-grown Communists found there was something undemocratic in a barrier offering law-abiding Australians, and foreign visitors, a modicum of protection from the threats of violent protest offered by the motley crew of disreputable thugs currently assembling in Sydney and hoping to impress the media with attacks on those sworn to preserve public order.Hey, wake up, CPA. This isn’t a “wall of shame”. The genuine “wall of shame” split Berlin for 28 years from 1961 to 1989.
Drivel really is in the detail
PROVING that wealth, celebrity and an Eastern Suburbs address are no guarantee against stupidity, a number of publicity-friendly voters in Malcolm Turnbull’s Wentworth electorate have joined multi-millionaire businessman Geoffrey Cousins to oppose the building of a Tasmanian pulp mill.
Is it true or did I read it on Wikifable?
THE Sydney Morning Herald gave front-page space Friday to breathlessly report staff in the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet had been caught editing online fantasy project Wikipedia, to remove unflattering details that might damage the Government.
Hiding in the shadows
IN THE space of a week, Federal Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd and Queensland Premier Peter Beattie have snubbed calls for an inquiry into the rape and abuse of children in the care of the Queensland Government, claiming previous investigations established there was nothing more to be investigated.
Labor’s lust for power revealed
PUT down your binoculars, political pundits! It’s already the view of many Federal Opposition members that Glorious Leader Kevin Rudd has won the yet-to-be-declared election.
Is Kevin’s direction right for workers?
AS Federal Opposition leader Kevin Rudd yesterday told a Canberra press conference that he did not want to be prime minister of a country that no longer made things, his website operator was anxiously hosing down speculation the $7 Kevin 07 T-shirts being sold to supporters were made overseas.
ALP all talk on press freedom
NOVICE Victorian Premier John Brumby knows a sure way to win the support of the media is to plug for greater transparency and pander to the Right To Know movement, supported by leading executives from News Limited, Fairfax, the ABC, Free TV Australia, SBS, Commercial Radio Australia, AAP and Sky News.
Relish the pain game? Vote for Rudd
BY NOW most mortgage holders will have worked out how much more they’ll be paying because of the decision to increase the cash rate to 6.5 per cent.
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