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Milne’s exclusive: Inside the paranoid hive-mind of the Liberal Party

October 13, 2009 – 11:38 am

Yesterday’s news, but still worth noting – this is what passes for a Glenn Milne ’scoop’ these days:
At the most senior levels of the opposition there is now a belief that Henry, the head of the federal Treasury, has crossed the Rubicon; that he has become a partisan political player, instead of remaining an impartial [...]

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Glenn Jong-Meme

September 21, 2009 – 8:50 am

Glenn Milne seems a little obsessed. Here he is a few weeks ago.
In political terms Gillard went too far on Friday. Her sin was to try to pass off a $1.5 billion blowout in her Pyongyang-inspired Building the Education Revolution program as “a bump in the road” … Gillard had quietly altered the regulations covering [...]

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Theme detected (maybe)

August 31, 2009 – 7:46 am

I’m struggling to work out if there’s a theme to The Australian’s commentary on the government’s Building the Education Revolution program. Here’s Glenn Milne in today’s edition:
In political terms Gillard went too far on Friday. Her sin was to try to pass off a $1.5 billion blowout in her Pyongyang-inspired Building the Education Revolution program [...]

By Scott Bridges | Also posted in David Burchell, The Australian | Comments (20)

Hearing problems

July 7, 2009 – 9:59 am

Glenn Milne accuses voters of having hearing difficulties.
Remember the 2004 election and John Howard’s now-infamous promise that interest rates would not rise under a Coalition government?
The then-PM paid a pitiless price for that pledge in 2007 after a raft of such rises.
Except, of course, Howard never said that. What he did promise was that rates [...]

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Is honest scrutiny disrespectful?

May 26, 2009 – 3:35 pm

Andrew Bolt is often in agreement with Gerard Henderson’s columns. Most recently, he only added “I’m with Gerard Henderson” before quoting Henderson’s argument that conservatives are helping Greens get elected.
But it seems we’ve found an issue that separates these two linchpins of the conservative media. Bolt regards the Governor-General as fair game for criticism, while [...]

By Tobias Ziegler | Also posted in Andrew Bolt, Gerard Henderson | Tagged , , , , | Comments (15)

Glenn Milne blends TV with reality

May 25, 2009 – 10:59 am

Glenn Milne tells us that the Rudd Government is on the nose. His evidence?
Exhibit A – yesterday’s Insiders:
Sunday it was compulsory viewing for one reason; almost the entire program was devoted to ridiculing the Rudd Government.
This is exceptional, because normally Insiders is broadly a serious and balanced program. Not yesterday. And the fact it wasn’t [...]

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Some of my best relatives are foreign

April 5, 2009 – 8:57 am

Glenn Milne says that Joe Hockey can’t possibly be anti-Chinese.
…[Hockey's] father was born in Palestine.
Milne also suggests that Labor is to blame for Asia seeing Australia as racist during the peak of Pauline Hanson-ism, not John Howard for failing to publicly condemn her views.
What we don’t want is a repeat of the Hanson days where [...]

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