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Argument for argument’s sake

November 23, 2009 – 10:36 am

There is something disconcerting about a political party that can’t describe what it stands for. More worrying is a party that vacillates in its response to important issues. Most worrying of all though is a party that changes its mind over what it stands for for no reason other than to have something to argue [...]

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Here we go again.

November 20, 2009 – 1:36 pm

It was a beat up when Piers Akerman wrote about it. It was a beat up when Bronwyn Bishop, Liberal Senator Chris Back and then freshman Jamie Brigs all repeated it in The Punch. It’s still a beat up now that another low profile Liberal Senator is trotting it out in The Punch again.
Yes, it’s [...]

Posted in The Punch | Comments (16)

Private Schools are unfair and greedy.

November 18, 2009 – 2:05 pm

I’m afraid that society has once again completely failed The Age’s Catherine Deveny. Rather than more lashings of pity for the poor bogans who are completely lacking in self awareness, Deveny instead treats us to an exposé of the horrors of private school values.
The first egregious value that Deveny highlights is the way that people [...]

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News is not niche

November 17, 2009 – 11:00 am

Over the last week or so the Australian media and marketing blog Mumbrella has spent some time discussing Rupert Murdoch’s plans for online content, charging customers and how to deal with Google. This culminated in Mumbrella founder Tim Burrowes changing his thinking somewhat, declaring that Murdoch may be right and writing a piece for The [...]

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What’s all that about?

November 17, 2009 – 8:30 am

I have a big favour to ask of you all. Most days of the week Toby, Jeremy and I try to highlight the half-baked arguments, flimsy reasoning and dodgy data that sometimes end up being relied upon by the commentariat, but today I need a bit of assistance. Can any of you please tell me [...]

Posted in Tim Blair | Comments (29)

Weekend talk thread November 13-15

November 13, 2009 – 3:21 pm

Let’s kick the weekend off with a fresh open thread to discuss the weekend’s news and activities. Remember that the links to the current open threads are always available in the sidebar to the right of the page.
We’ll update with details about TV programming for political tragics as they come to hand.

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Miranda’s Time Machine.

November 12, 2009 – 7:48 am

Miranda Devine is unusually subtle in her latest column, in fact if you’re not reading between the lines you might miss a piece of information that should have physicists all over the world excited. On first read the column appears to be a fairly pedestrian piece of climate change denial, quoting a physicist about climate [...]

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The company that you keep

November 9, 2009 – 11:20 am

Imagine that you’re a prominent media personality who writes a very successful weblog for a major media organisation. Now, imagine that you find a story by another Australian blogger that reinforces a point that you had previously made to your readers. You’d be glad to have found it and would bring it to your readers’ [...]

Posted in Andrew Bolt | Comments (25)

Piers says it, the Liberals repeat it.

November 4, 2009 – 1:45 pm

Last week we took a look at how Piers Akerman had twisted changes in MPs printing allowances into a claim of Orwellian censorship. It seems that a section of the Liberal Party have outsourced their thinking to Piers, and used The Punch as a venue to continue their campaign of confusion.

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Hot weather proves nothing – place your bets.

November 3, 2009 – 11:00 am

In the spirit of the Spring racing carnival, the team at Pure Poison would like to offer our readers the opportunity to show off their skills as punters. We’re not interested in your opinion on a bunch of gee gees piloted around an oval in front of drunken Melburnians, we’d like you to show us [...]

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