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When locking up a child is suddenly a problem: when Indonesia does it

October 10, 2011 – 2:36 pm

The news that an AUSTRALIAN boy, a 14 year old, is being held in Bali for marijuana possession, has the national media – and the politicians they dominate – demanding action. The weird thing about this is that, for once, the politicians and media are opposed to locking up children who haven’t committed a serious [...]

By Jeremy Sear | Also posted in Andrew Bolt, Posted | Comments (89)

What happens when you tell people they’re about to be oppressed

July 13, 2011 – 5:12 pm

This is totally not the fault of the hysterical polemicists who’ve spent the last six months screaming that Julia Gillard is a LIAR who is going to DESTROY THE COUNTRY and must be RUN OUT OF OFFICE, but here are two revealing exhibits from the respective big party leaders’ speaking engagements today. First, the Prime [...]

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The Carbon Price announcement, or: How much of Tony Abbott’s scaremongering was even vaguely accurate?

July 10, 2011 – 12:00 pm

A thread to discuss the Prime Minister’s announcement tonight of the details of the agreed carbon price scheme. I’m not going to say anything else in advance. My speculation’s no more illuminating than Tony Abbott’s has been over the past six months. Let’s hear what the Labor Party, the Greens and the Independents are actually [...]

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Here’s hoping journos won’t fall for the “let’s not go too hard on the ALP”, pro-segregation “Marriage Alliance”

July 7, 2011 – 1:14 pm

This is a post about something which I suspect the media are about to do, rather than something they already have. Credulously believing, and then repeating, cynical astroturfing efforts to help the ALP diffuse pressure on it to finally remove discrimination against gay Australians in the Marriage Act, as supported by a clear majority of [...]

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April Fools’ Day pranks

April 1, 2011 – 9:02 am

Do our national media still have a sense of whimsy? Are they still publishing in the newspapers and putting up on their websites silly stories on April Fools’ Day for our amusement? Please share the funnier ones you’ve seen in comments.

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