So many of us have tried to warn you of the impending apocalyptic hellscape that following the recommendations of the Finkelstein media inquiry will inevitably create in Australia: “This all comes from Finkelstein,” said one former press gallery member, now working incognito in a Hume Highway fast-food franchise and smuggling out precious analysis of internal [...]
READ MOREGerard accuses the entitled of being un-Australian
You might recall a terribly sad story we ran a few weeks back about the Suffering Of The Samuelsons, a privileged Sydney couple asking Daily Telegraph readers for sympathy for losing 0.46% of their income each year on a worst-case interpretation of the impact of the carbon price if they made no change whatsoever to [...]
READ MOREGerard sticks to the script
In the midst of an otherwise unremarkable commentary on the Qantas controversy, Gerard Henderson falls back on a couple of well worn favourites. The fact is that, in an increasingly globalised world, it is impossible for a private company, such as Qantas, to guarantee job security. Only the public sector – where employment is funded [...]
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At Home With Gerard
Who would’ve thought a prominent Sydney broadsheet, on reading an earnest email exchange between the ABC and a cranky old cold warrior complaining that its latest comedy show doesn’t tickle his funny bone, would actually commission him to write it as an opinion article in the actual newspaper? And yet that appears to be how [...]
READ MOREActually, I thought it was News Ltd that was claiming the Greens are running the country
Look, even I am getting sick of responding to the garbage written about the Greens, but there’s a new line that’s been getting a run from big party supporters that is thoroughly intellectually dishonest and needs a quick rebuff. That line, put by Gerard Henderson in Fairfax on Monday, is to bash the Greens for [...]
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Gerard takes on the Sideshow
Gerard Henderson makes some odd observations of the former Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner, his new book Sideshow, and its conclusions. Lindsay Tanner is not the first to have gone from privately educated schoolboy to university student socialist . . . and on to a career in the trade union movement and Labor politics before settling [...]
READ MOREGerard on Nazi comparisons
Whilst I applaud Gerard Henderson’s dislike of Nazi comparisons, he has a fairly one-sided way of criticising them. Here are some recent examples he lists in his Fairfax article yesterday: Take the past couple of days. On Insiders on Sunday the Herald Sun columnist Andrew Bolt said democracies sometimes make errors and this was the [...]
READ MOREThe best defence is a good offence
Can you tell the difference between political groups indulging in the aggressive rhetoric of violence, linking guns, gun ownership, gun rights, gun use with outrage towards specific opposing politicians – and calling someone a “fatty” or a “lunatic”? Gerard Henderson apparently can’t: In September the ABC did remove from The Drum Unleashed website an article [...]
READ MOREGerard, Andrew and Jeremy join together to call for more Media Watch and other ABC programmes
I agree with Andrew Bolt and Gerard Henderson. November to February is too long to be without Media Watch, and [the twitter conversation that goes on during] Q&A, and a host of other ABC programmes. I call for an increase in ABC funding so the broadcaster can afford to run them for longer. I presume [...]
READ MORELooking for significant and lasting change
Gerard Henderson yesterday mused about Rudd’s first-term agenda, and about polls. I found it ironic that in a column that targeted Rudd’s lack of “significant and lasting change”, Henderson didn’t apply the same criterion to his polling analysis.
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