An interesting juxtaposition greeted me when I looked at the Sydney Morning Herald online this morning: On one hand we have the Reserve Bank telling us that: … central to the decision was a concern that no matter how good the domestic economic news, Australians are scarcely noticing in an atmosphere muddied by campaigning against [...]
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Sideshow.
How have our media responded to the passing of the Government’s legislation pricing Carbon emissions? News and the ABC went with the vapid, though predictable. But Fairfax went one better. Judas kiss? Seriously? And yet journalists wonder why many people treat their profession with scorn and ridicule. Where are the photos of Greg Combet kissing [...]
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You’ve got to accentuate the negatives…
The Australian National Audit Office’s report on the government’s Building the Education Revolution was released this morning [PDF here]. Naturally, journos started digging into it to see what the report showed, and news outlets tried to get stories online as quickly as possible. But it’s interesting to see the trends that come through in the [...]
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There’s no need to actually live in the Premier State shambles that is NSW to know that our state government is fairly hopeless, the stench radiates far beyond our borders. NSW Labor has spectacularly failed to deliver the services that residents demand and have been saved only by the NSW Liberal Party’s complete and utter [...]
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