Hot from the success of ruining the live cattle export business in North Australia, 4Corners is continuing to govern the country by targeting Coal Seam Gas. With only six months left for their shrill bleatings to have any chance of success while there is a dysfunctional government in power, the pressure is on. Billions to
Sailors to be compensated
Remember the Sailors aboard HMAS Success who where relieved of duty and flown home from Singapore for alleged sexual misconduct? If not, read this before you go on. More over the fold
Channel 7′s Riley insensitive
Tony Abbott has a private conversation with senior Army Officers in Afghanistan and a low life reporter from Ch 7 trolls through tapes of the conversation hoping to find something to make Abbott look bad. Aha! See here…he says “..shit happens” during a conversation about casualties. Maybe if we edit the tape so the public
Drawing a very long bow
As a side issue of the incarceration of Australia Stern Hu by the Chinese government I’ve come across commentators who are somewhat confused. This from Leigh Sales on Lateline LEIGH SALES: Well Dr Southcott, isn’t it a bit rich for the Coalition to be so exercised about this matter when the Coalition left David Hicks
Journalist looks stupid
A JOURNALIST fanatical, biased scribbler hurled two shoes at US President George W. Bush on his farewell visit to Iraq yesterday. Clown! Like David Letterman who seemingly has dozens of clerks searching film archives for Bush’s most inarticulate moments, the journalist misses one of hs trades rules – criticize but don’t ridicule the man –
Fairfax in trouble
It must be all giggles in The Australian headquarters as Fairfax journalists and staff eat their own entrails. Mike Carlton has just been sacked for not filing his column during a strike by the journalists and other media staff in Sydney and Melbourne. While Fairfax plummets further into obscurity The Australian will surely pick up
ABC on strike
Even Kerry O’Brien and Tony Jones have joined ABC staff on strike for more pay. Management’s offer in July was for a 3.5 per cent annual wage increase, which unions have said does not keep up with inflation running at 4 per cent. So the collective has demanded 16 % now plus two additional rises
From the left corner only
Tram Town always make an interesting read so last week when he linked to an article by Jennifer Marohasy and her post titled Déjà Vu on the ABC: Roger Underwood I duly went off and read it…most illuminating. Just over a month ago, a Four Corners program on forestry in Tasmania was found by the
The magic missile II
The status of the missile is now clearly defined as having the software and mechanics to deploy a cross-tip screwdriver mid-flight to remove the top central air vent before entering the vehicle for final demolition.Some punters writing to the Australian editor clearly have not grasped where the media world is heading with one Luddite questioning Downer believing
The magic missile
Not surprisingly the left have attacked an article that raise questions about the ambulance supposedly hit by an Israeli missile during the most recent Middle East war. When Downer quoted the article on Zombie it was just too much for them. “What concerns me greatly is the evidence of dishonesty in the reporting out of Lebanon,”





