As I’ve already written, I’ll leave it to the Labor MPs to choose their next Leader. However, I couldn’t resist commenting on this ABC story. It shows just how automatic it is for any difference of opinion to be labelled as a “split” by the media. There are about 87 ALP members of the Federal…
Continue reading →It’s been an interesting couple of days since I announced I would fast in support of the asylum seekers in Baxter. I’ve had a lot of feedback – some negative, the majority positive. I might gather together a sample of some of the emails (without identifiers) so people can see what sorts of things others…
Continue reading →On the Monday, most of the media coverage was on Labor’s internal brawls and tension between Senator Stephen Conroy and Mark Latham. All the TV news coverage of ‘today in Parliament’ that I saw featured a fairly witty and funny comment by Peter Costello in House of Reps Question Time about a rooster (Conroy) waging…
Continue reading →One of the best things about having a break after the election has been getting away from all that pseudo-substance and inane babble that sometimes passes for political debate, to a place where people just care about issues. It is a nice chance to inhabit the real world. But all good things must come to…
Continue reading →I read a newspaper column a week or so ago that outlined a few reasons why the Democrats had done badly. The reasons given were pretty facile in my view, but I won’t address them at the moment. The column also said that we’d probably just blame the media and also said that this is…
Continue reading →The front page of the weekend’s Sunday Telegraph had a photograph of NSW Judge Jeff Shaw outside his home and was headlined “Judge Shaw on $1200 a day sick leave” The story opened with the following few sentences: “NSW Supreme Court judge Jeff Shaw earns $1200 a day while he seeks treatment for a drinking…
Continue reading →Yesterday I was part of a panel at a journalism conference in Melbourne. The topic was ‘Public Figures and Private Lives’. The conference was organised by the Melbourne Press Club. It appeared to be attended mainly by journalists and students of journalism and media. The four other people on the panel were journalists, as was…
Continue reading →A happy birthday to Nick Cave (for the 22nd), which provides yet another excuse to plug his new album – do yourself a favour and grab a copy. Really enjoyed doing the interview on 4ZZZ. Radio is so the best medium. I think if more politicians and the like did more interviews on community radio,…
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