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“Riot”? “Peril”? Are the rational journalists away for the long weekend?

January 27, 2012 – 10:56 pm

Apparently most of the journalists with some grounding in reality took the long weekend Friday off, because it’s been a hideous day of bullshit about the incident in Canberra yesterday, now apparently being called a “riot” (although oddly none of the footage they’ve been repeating actually shows one). Naturally the Opposition and its cheerleaders at [...]

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Really, we should thank them

July 21, 2009 – 2:15 pm

Punch deputy editor Tory Maguire – who we saw recently pushing the insurance company line on personal injury – now comes charging in to defend Telstra from criticism for imposing an “administration fee” on people who pay its bills with ordinary currency via a non-preferred method: If it encourages them to sign up for electronic [...]

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The end of childhood as we know it

June 29, 2009 – 10:01 am

A disturbing piece of sensationalist fluff was published on Five Star’s News Ltd blog on Friday. Responding to a fairly straightforward application of negligence law in Thomas v Shaw [2009] NSWSC 510, Tory Maguire predicted THE END OF CHILDHOOD AS WE KNOW IT: No more sleepovers, birthday parties, or babysitting… Some of the most vivid [...]

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It did?

June 1, 2009 – 7:53 am

Tory Maguire reveals something very surprising: It’s a pretty incredible feat of backspin when a Government would rather say it cocked something up than admit its PR was poorly managed. That WOULD be extraordinary. A government saying that it had cocked something up? Do tell, Tory: Spun out? You’re not the only one. In his [...]

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