THE CASE FOR A FEDERAL ANTI-CORRUPTION COMMISSION Stone the crows! A FAC (Fraud and Anti-Corruption) doth not an ICAC make. The feds announced a fraud and anti-corruption centre the other day – run by the Australian Federal Police and including people from DFAT, the ATO and sundry other agencies.[i] The timing was predictable [...]
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG – ISSUE NO. 236 1 August 2014 The inaugural issue of “Gerard Henderson’s Media Watch” was published in April 1988 – over a year before the first edition of the ABC TV Media Watch program went to air. Since November 1997 “Gerard Henderson’s Media Watch” has been published as part [...]
Productivity Commission Report More Important than Joe Hockey Biography Stone the crows, could somebody explain the difference between politics and policy to Anthony Albanese. Labor frontbencher Anthony Albanese had a piece in The Australian on Saturday bemoaning the decline of political coverage in the papers. “In my 18 years in parliament I have never see [...]
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG ISSUE – NO. 235 25 JULY 2014 The inaugural issue of “Gerard Henderson’s Media Watch” was published in April 1988 – over a year before the first edition of the ABC TV Media Watch program went to air. Since November 1997 “Gerard Henderson’s Media Watch” has been published as part [...]
Complementary Medicine; Much Loved But Not What The Doctor Ordered Stone the crows! Keep taking the tablets. There are few compliments for complementary medicine - except from the millions who use them, and the people who sell them. In Saturday’s The Australian the excellent Cassandra Wilkinson scoffed at complementary medicine in pharmacies.[i] But she [...]
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG – ISSUE NO. 234 18 July 2014 The inaugural issue of “Gerard Henderson’s Media Watch” was published in April 1988 – over a year before the first edition of the ABC TV Media Watch program went to air. Since November 1997 “Gerard Henderson’s Media Watch” has been published as part [...]
Christopher Pyne's Universities Plan: The Challenge Crows July 14 Number 213 STONE the crows there’s a debt and deficit disaster. But it isn’t in education, at least not yet. While it is not much noticed outside education, the big budget proposal is to hike the cost of university. Education Minister Christopher Pyne proposes [...]
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG – ISSUE NO. 233 11 JULY 2014 The inaugural issue of “Gerard Henderson’s Media Watch” was published in April 1988 – over a year before the first edition of the ABC TV Media Watch program went to air. Since November 1997 “Gerard Henderson’s Media Watch” has been published as part [...]
LAB COATS IN THE STREETS: THE NEVER ENDING DEMAND FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH FUNDING Stone the crows! Medical research can be a pain in the public purse. Well before the last election, Tony Abbott promised to leave universities alone (at best) but explicitly committed to no medical research cuts.[i] The politics made sense – rumours of [...]
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG – ISSUE NO. 232 4 JULY 2014 The inaugural issue of “Gerard Henderson’s Media Watch” was published in April 1988 – over a year before the first edition of the ABC TV Media Watch program went to air. Since November 1997 “Gerard Henderson’s Media Watch” has been published as part [...]
