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Albrechtsen leaves her mark

Oh what a feeling! Planet Janet has announced her departure from the board of the ABC and I would personally like congratulate her on her worthy contributions and selfless devotion to the difficult task of ridding the ABC of

the progressive predilection for emotion over reason and stealth over honesty.

Sure it was difficult for the [...]

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Between a rock and a hard place

Why do the champions of the so-called free enterprise system consistently clamour for fair and open markets yet consistently ignore evidence of market failure? The Institute of Public Affairs is well funded right wing think tank that specialises in spewing out free market libertarian thought bubbles that frequently find their way into the mainstream media. [...]

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Gerard Henderson on John Pilger

Must have really got up the old fart, there’s Pilger basking in the glory at the Sydney Opera House while receiving his Sydney Peace Prize (now’s there’s an idea, just as well they asked a few aborigines along to make it look good) and poor old Gerard fuming quietly on the dunny at home. Even [...]

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Rupert Speaks...slowly

David Speers (Sky News, one third owned by News.corp) interviews Rupert(100% owned by news.corp) on the past, the present and the future of newspapers (which will be even cheaper when you get them electronically). For good measure Rupes gives us some insight into the US political scene as well as some ideas about the GFC [...]

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Martin Ferguson's inquiry

So 10 weeks later the operators of the Montara oil rig off the coast of north west WA finally managed to plug the leak but not before it managed to leak 28,000 barrels of oil into the surrounding seas. But never fear because the minister for digging up shit is on the case and he [...]

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A digital future for Community TV

Stephen Conroy today announced spectrum planning and limited funding for Australia’s Community TV sector whose long term survival was threatened by the enforced move to digital.

That community TV has managed to survive in 2009 is quite remarkable given the obstacles they have been forced to deal with over the years. TV broadcasting is not [...]

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So what can we do?

The options don’t look that promising do they. Carbon emissions and notional budgets mean diddly squat when it comes to the really serious business of making money despite the fact that the planet clearly headed for disaster. The first order of business (sorry bad pun) is what replaces the 40 or so GW’s of coal [...]

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