You might have noticed some talk around the place about a “housing affordability crisis” affecting the country: the fact that house prices in the major cities have rocketed up over the past decade to the point where first home buyers are now pretty much unable to afford a home, and are increasingly stuck renting indefinitely. [...]

When the Herald Sun last Sunday decided to run the now-discredited photographs it claimed were of Pauline Hanson, columnist Robyn Riley wrote a furious pre-emptive defence of her newspaper’s actions. PAULINE Hanson may argue it is an invasion of her privacy for the Sunday Herald Sun to publish explicit photographs taken of her when she [...]

Tim Blair has joined Andrew Bolt in speaking out against News Limited’s publication of teenage Hanson pictures and Robyn Riley’s indefensible defense of the publication. …publication of the pictures – in both the Sunday Herald Sun and the Sunday Telegraph – was wrong to the point of indefensibility.

The Herald Sun‘s Robyn Riley has come out in furious defence of her newspaper’s decision to publish photographs of a teenaged Pauline Hanson posing explicitly. Riley’s weak argument is that the photographs are in the public interest and that public figures are public property — even their actions as teenagers over thirty years ago. Public [...]