Mike Steketee in The Australian sets the debate over “boat people” — but strangely not his own paper’s rather alarmist “Rising tide” coverage — in an informed context:
The latest report from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees says asylum applications in Australia increased by 19 per cent last year, from 3980 to 4750. How many [...]
Tag Archives: federal-politics
Crikey editorial: the boat people myth
April 16, 2009 – 1:34 pm
Steve Fielding and the illusion of democracy
September 25, 2008 – 8:43 am
Just run this past me again …. what exactly was Steve Fielding’s primary vote? Who precisely does he represent when he walks into the Senate to do the bidding of the private health insurers? Apart from God of course. That’s it, just under 2% of Victorians. Well done Stephen Conroy, one of the best deals [...]
Just another day in the politics of politics
September 17, 2008 – 1:55 pm
Good lord what can they mean? It’s been one of those weeks in which the politics of politics resolutely becomes the story. But here, with this little effort, The Australian has gone to the head of the class. What they mean, of course, is that Malcolm Turnbull has reclaimed the natural ascendency that conservatives have when it [...]
Nelson’s departure: teargate
September 16, 2008 – 9:38 pm
It’s close enough to an axiom of journalism: read or watch reports on something with which you are vaguely familiar and you’ll realise what error-laden, generalised, distorted, liberally twisted rubbish is peddled in the name of news. Well, most times. I watched the Nelson presser this afternoon, go to woe, and yes there was one [...]
… and then there’s the book launch thingy
September 16, 2008 – 11:34 am
Peter Costello, the man that events forgot, will be talking to who exactly at the National Press Club today? He looks, rather more than usually, yesterday’s man in the light of today’s decisive Liberal events. Expect a lunch audience of three cadets and someone diligent from AAP. Yet again, he didn’t have the stones.
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