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If this were Watergate, News Ltd would be attacking the journalists for daring to expose Nixon

December 15, 2011 – 3:49 pm

The ALP, continuing to be embarrassed by the Age’s devastating expose on the personal details on voters it holds (with very little security), has – as we’ve previously discussed – attempted to deflect attention by claiming to the police that the real story is how the journalists had been able to expose the ALP by [...]

By Jeremy Sear | Also posted in News Ltd., Posted, The Age | Comments (14)

The Hun’s war on reading

November 7, 2011 – 10:04 am

The Herald Sun’s Padraic Murphy deserves a special mention for this ridiculous anti-Greens beat-up. Taxpayers foot Greens Senator Scott Ludlam’s book bill What’s this? Has Senator Ludlam been using parliamentary allowances inappropriately to support a book he’s writing or selling, as another parliamentarian was once accused of? No, it’s actually worse than that: Senator Scott [...]

By Dave Gaukroger | Also posted in Posted | Comments (40)