This is a quick, very simple follow-up to my presentation at the Media140 conference, where I was on a panel on political journalism with Annabel Crabb, Chris Uhlmann, Caroline Overington and John Kerrison.
Another great term coined at #Media140 by Crikey’s Bernard Keane: “Communities of interest, or ghettos of agreement?” tweeted @matthewsinclair yesterday. My immediate reaction [...]
Good God, when you’re Miranda Devine you don’t want to begin an op-ed piece with an image of a plane on autopilot. But that’s what she did, to talk about bureaucracy. Bureaucratisation is just like a hi-tech pilot’s cabin, she twittered.
It obviously bloody isn’t, it’s the opposite.
Oh dear. The World Cup is nine months away, but we may not see a greater own goal than Greg Craven’s attack on the neo-atheists in today’s Age (sorry, National Times, the brave new collection of all the stuff that was available on Fairfax anyway) .
The neo-atheists – Dawkins, Hitchens and others – [...]
It’s bound to be one of the most controversial of the season’s cinematic offerings: Michael Moore’s Capitalism. Muddied low-brow critique or seminal turning point in the popular appreciation of a system past decay? You be the judge!
To help flesh out the argument, Crikey sent two of its most bristlingly politicised regulars to take in the [...]
There has been a lot of speculation about the causes of the big drop in the government’s popularity in the latest Newspoll. As someone with a strong interest in this type of research, I was curious to explain why it should be such a major drop. After all, the net result of Kevin’s Asylum seeker [...]
Each side of politics takes it as a given that governments should treat citizens at least a little paternalistically – laws which protect people against their own desires are too numerous to list.
But it’s one thing to mandate seatbelts. It’s quite another to completely treat us like children.
In that spirit, the ACCC has introduced Unit [...]
It’s the Piazzetta della Fontana, in the old city in Ventimiglia, where it looks as if nothing much has changed in centuries.
Certainly no money seems to have been spent on things. The sort of medieval-looking streetscapes that in France would have been tarted up – or at least kept clean – for the tourists, have [...]
Speculation continues surrounding more than 20 people missing after the boat they were travelling on capsized during a rescue operation off the Cocos Islands late last night.
So far at least 17 people have been rescued.
And as sketchy news continues to trickle through, Daily Telegraph readers weigh in. There are nineteen comments so far, here are [...]
Glenn Milne is perhaps best known for two things: doggedly advocating the cause of Peter Costello for most of the life of the Howard Government, and being chucked out of the 2006 Walkleys (enjoy the footage here) after assaulting Stephen Mayne.
Milne later graciously apologised to Mayne – via voicemail.
The reason Milne went for Mayne – [...]
They managed just over a week, give or take. Ignoring Wilson Tuckey’s little outburst about Tamil suicide boats wreaking havoc on the North-West Shelf, the Federal Opposition managed to nearly get through an entire sitting week last week without making themselves the issue. Add on the previous weekend and a few days prior to that [...]
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