At least one woman is prepared to back Clementine Ford
Julia Baird goes to bat for professional internet feminist Clementine Ford, Fairfax Media, yesterday:
In recent years the abuse and verbal violence women have experienced in the real world has shifted to the virtual world, and is getting worse.
So we’ve heard. Ford tweets about Iranian-born Herald Sun columnist Rita Panahi, August 18 last year:
No matter how hard she tries, she’ll never be a white man.
Sharri Markson in The Australian, August 21 last year:
Fairfax Media columnist Clementine Ford has sold “F..k Tony Abbott” T-shirts, abused an Iranian-born rival for not being a white male and tweeted profanities with vicious abandon. Yet just days after celebrating Mark Latham’s departure as a Fairfax columnist over abuse and sexism, Ford has justified her behaviour by saying she is less offensive than other columnists.
More from Baird yesterday:
What Ford does best is make us think.
Greens MP Adam Bandt condemns the Prime Minister for his stance on the South Australian blackout:
For Malcolm Turnbull to use this as an opportunity to urge governments around the country to slow down the uptake of renewable energy is reprehensible and craven and he should be condemned for it.
Tackling global warming is the way to stop storms, Bandt adds:
The best way to prevent these kinds of storms and this kind of damage from occurring is to move more quickly to renewable energy and to take further action to tackle global warming.
Tim Blair demurs in The Daily Telegraph,yesterday:
Worked a treat in South Australia, where the state’s last coal-fired power plant was demolished … this year.
ABC political editor Chris Uhlmann indulges in a spot of editorialising:
Renewables are the future but today they present serious engineering problems. To deny that is to deny the science. Those problems can be sorted in time, but rushing to a target to parade green credentials exposes the electricity network to a serious security risk and, in the long run, risks permanent reputational damage to the renewable energy cause.
Contrasting words from tired rugby league grand finalists — Melbourne Storm captain Cameron Smith on the Nine Network on Sunday night:
On behalf of the entire Melbourne Storm footy club, I’d just like to congratulate the Cronulla Sharks, their club and all the fans. You guys have been waiting a very long time for this moment and it’s taken a lifetime … I hope you enjoy it thoroughly. Well done.
Cronulla’s supporters showed their appreciation with a large cheer while Smith’s graciousness also saw the Storm skipper praised by commentator Peter Sterling:
I think the speech … by Cameron Smith was graciousness personified.
Cronulla Sharks captain Paul Gallen, gasping for air, was interviewed by Andrew Johns:
I can’t tell you how proud I am of these blokes. (Against Canberra) … I was so proud of them. I was so proud of them, what they did tonight, they are so good, they are so good, oh my God … I’m so proud of them.
Cronulla’s Luke Lewis won the Clive Churchill Medal and announced:
I love youse all.
Boxer Jeff Fenech in 1991:
I love youse all.