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That’s not what anonymity is for

September 5, 2011 – 7:13 pm

I’m not going to bother commenting on the nauseatingly credulous “reporting” today portraying the Liberals’ promise to vote for their own nasty, expensive, counterproductive offshore processing policy as some kind of generous offer to Labor – apart from at the beginning of this sentence, obviously – but there was something else in some of the [...]

By Jeremy Sear | Also posted in Posted | Comments (23)

The Age scaring the hell out of readers, too

August 4, 2011 – 8:18 am

And The Age goes with the dodgy and misleading headline to scare the hell out of people: Sell the family home: PM’s aged care shake-up THEY’RE COMING FOR YOUR HOME, PENSIONERS!!11!!1!! Really? She said that? She proposed that? Well, no: In her speech today, Ms Gillard does not outline any of the measures expected in [...]

By Jeremy Sear | Also posted in The Age | Comments (8)