Beep! Don’t mention the A-word, Laurie Oakes
Nine beeps the Treasurer’s profound profanity and Liz breaches the picket lines
Laurie Oakes goes his hardest at Scott Morrison while questioning the Treasurer about schools funding during the traditional pre-budget interview. Today, Nine Network, yesterday:
Oakes: Do you expect a row at the party meeting next week over this?
Morrison: Well, the politics is not the issue — what the issue is funding the schools.
Oakes: The politics is the issue in that Tony Abbott is stirring this along.
Morrison: Not for me. That can be the issue for other people, but what we’re (bleep) on is supporting the schooling needs of every child in the country and making it fair.
Laurie Oakes, Twitter, yesterday:
Technical issue caused bleep. Apologies to the (non-swearing) Treasurer.
The Australian’s David Crowe clarifies what was so offensive. Twitter, yesterday:
We all know politicians can feel under pressure in a Laurie Oakes interview but on this occasion the F-word was “focused”.
Striking journos made for light news pages in Fairfax’s Sunday papers yesterday, but not to fear. Chief executive Greg Hywood was able to help out and fill a bit of space with his take on the Turnbull government’s media reform package. Sunday Age, yesterday:
Where media companies without exception grapple with structural changes that threaten their very existence, our policy makers seem to have little sense of the changing world. The Fifield reform package simply acknowledges what everyone in the media has been fighting for years …. Media companies want to produce more content not less, employ more journalists, developers, producers, actors, artists, not fewer.
Good to see he’s earning his keep. Margin Call, The Weekend Australian, Saturday.
After wading through the fog of Hywood’s performance incentives, we can reveal the journalist-slashing Fairfax boss received at least $4.4m in cash in 2016. Before tax, of course.
That’s considerably more than the $2.7m total package that featured in the Financial Review’s salary survey.
So who else is filling the pages? Elizabeth Farrelly ploughs through the picket lines to describe her recent experience of packing up and moving house. Sydney Morning Herald, Saturday.
The image that keeps springing to mind is of a slave sale. You know the scene. The people are lined up, chained and naked, while fat white men with cigars and ugly grins peer indecently at their feet and nails, feel their flesh and pull open their lips for dental inspection.
So it is with your house.
Scab? Moi? Farrelly on Twitter, Saturday.
Oh ye righteous, ye quick to judge. I’ve no ‘job’ to keep. Freelance, I’m sans unionrights, strike protectns, (sic) role, tho’ I grieve for #smh.
Fairfax journo Jenny Noyes responds. Twitter, yesterday.
The other thing about freelancing is you can pitch elsewhere. Most freelancers don’t have a guarantee of a Fairfax column every week. And casual and salaried staff who are striking are also losing a week’s pay + risking large fines.
Former SMH colleague Lisa Pryor hopes to set the record straight, Twitter, Saturday
For the record 1. Freelancers can join union 2. Other freelancers are refusing to file 3. This SMH strike is not protected action for anyone