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James Murdoch confirmed as BSkyB chairman | Reuters

david — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 01:09:32 +0000

Despite the fact that

Murdoch’s testimony given in parliament last week has already been called into question by two ex-News of the World executives, who say he was aware of evidence that showed the hacking was not limited to a couple of "rogue" individuals.

James Murdoch is unanimously re-confirmed as chairman of BSkyB. Maybe the possible [...]

Bolt calls it “the gloating sound” from the left polemicists

david — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 02:07:12 +0000

Andrew Bolt, outspoken shock jock for the Murdoch press in Oz is keen to defend Christianity against the charge that Breivik’s religious and political beliefs somehow contributed to his decision to commit mass-murder in Norway. However in true Bolta style his article is long on opinion while short on facts, he seems far more concerned [...]

Conroy checks the Sky move

david — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 00:05:04 +0000

In a fascinating quote Daniel Flitton claims

An independent panel of public servants set up to evaluate the competing tenders saw Sky’s as the better bid, only for the government to baulk at the prospect of stripping the contract from the publicly funded ABC to hand it to a company part-owned by Mr Murdoch’s News [...]

Gillard a year on

david — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 12:06:38 +0000

I’ve been watching a re-run of the Dismissal lately and listening to people talk about the Aboriginal tent embassy which has served to remind me how far removed the current Labor government is from the ideals of that time and strangely how similar their incapacity to deal with the challenges confronting a left of centre [...]

The anti-intellectual brigade

david — Tue, 31 May 2011 10:01:09 +0000

This could be a post directed at the global warming denialist, you know the how it goes…carbon dioxide is just a gas, the science is questionable, humans have nothing to do with it and besides the planet isn’t warming anyway, yada yada.

Not that there’s anything wrong healthy skepticism as such, it encourages good solid [...]

What does Abbott stand for?

david — Sat, 28 May 2011 16:55:00 +0000

One of the rather annoying things about the mainstream media narrative for domestic Australian politics right now is that Labor doesn’t stand for anything other than retaining government. It’s a meme that grew out of NSW Labor’s 16 years in power which declined into cronyism and self obsession but recently the NSW “disease” has apparently [...]

Taxpayers help Holden motor on

david — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 23:33:52 +0000

”There isn’t a car industry anywhere in the world that doesn’t rely on some degree of private-public partnership,” according to Holden’s PR spinner, Ms Perry.

A private/public partnership eh? When Kev007 was the boss he committed the taxpayer to a $6.2 billion partnership. I remarked at the time that money could go a long way to [...]

The Australia Network

david — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 01:02:47 +0000

Hmm…”How about a $223 million contract to broadcast Australia Network, the government’s overseas television station that reaches more than 34 million households in 44 countries throughout Asia, the Pacific and the Indian subcontinent?”

If that’s a five year contract, it aint a lot of money for TV service unless you get all of your content for [...]

#NotIntendedToBeAFactualStatement

david — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 02:38:59 +0000

Must have been cut from the same cloth as the Mad Monk

Government plays the two card trick

david — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 00:14:26 +0000

Today’s story by Michelle Grattan shows us another aspect of “new” Labor, getting everybody back to work particularly those bludgers on disability welfare. It is all the more disturbing that this message was delivered in person by Ms Gillard to the esteemed audience of the Sydney Institute. There are clearly two messages, one to be [...]