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Category Archives: Sydney Morning Herald

Sideshow.

October 12, 2011 – 1:10 pm

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 [...]

By Dave Gaukroger | Also posted in ABC, News Ltd., Posted | Comments (30)

You’ve got to accentuate the negatives…

May 5, 2010 – 2:32 pm

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 [...]

By Tobias Ziegler | Also posted in ABC, The Australian | Comments (20)

Dumb and Dumber

December 11, 2009 – 9:37 am

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 [...]

By Dave Gaukroger | Also posted in Daily Telegraph | Comments (29)