June, 2009

Andrew Bolt, long a critic of Kevin Rudd “luring” asylum seekers to their deaths and costing us money, takes up the theme upon his return to Australia: Some may die and all will cost We may soon be back to where we were before John Howard got tough: INDONESIAN authorities are bracing for a huge [...]

As noted by fractious in last Friday’s open thread, the Australian Press Council has dismissed a complaint about Miranda Devine’s “Green ideas must take blame for deaths” column that the SMH published back in February. The APC adjudication is available online; the SMH has published an edited version of it. The column was covered by [...]

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A disturbing piece of sensationalist fluff was published on Five Star’s News Ltd blog on Friday. Responding to a fairly straightforward application of negligence law in Thomas v Shaw [2009] NSWSC 510, Tory Maguire predicted THE END OF CHILDHOOD AS WE KNOW IT: No more sleepovers, birthday parties, or babysitting… Some of the most vivid [...]

Congratulations, Sally Morell, you’ve written a column that is 100% Twitterable — a fantastic achievement for somebody who hates Twitter! Every single paragraph in your piece is 140 characters or less.* And congratulations also, Sally, for turning your Herald Sun column into an Agony Aunt podium from which to tell other people how to live [...]

Piers Akerman: Those who claim utegate or mategate has cut off Opposition leader Malcolm Turnbull at the knees are indulging their fantasies. The electorate: The Coalition and Malcolm Turnbull have received a devastating blow from the OzCar affair, with 53 per cent of voters saying they have a less favourable impression of the Opposition Leader [...]

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Piers Akerman tells it how it is: Those who claim utegate or mategate has cut off Opposition leader Malcolm Turnbull at the knees are indulging their fantasies. And then in the very next sentence claims this: The last weeks of the winter session have been more damaging to the Rudd Labor Government than the Coalition, [...]

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