GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG – ISSUE NO. 226 23 May 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 [...]
Stone the crows! We are all (sort-of) federalists now. Just about everybody except The Australian and Financial Review are upset by the budget.[i] Particularly premiers outraged with the way the Abbott Government announced it would cut $80bn in federal funding, leaving them to fund health and education increases from their own resources.[ii] However, the Crows [...]
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG – ISSUE NO. 225 16 May 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 [...]
LOSERS AND WINNERS IN AN AGING AUSTRALIA Stone the crows! We are going to penalise people who work the hardest. While the budget case for delaying access to the age pension is obvious, critics claim this is unfair to people who cannot go the distance, largely due to the wear and tear of manual labour.[i] [...]
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG – ISSUE NO. 224 9 May 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 [...]
THE COMMISSION OF AUDIT’S PUBLIC SERVICE SAVINGS Stone the crows! Have fat cats no friends? The Illawarra Mercury summed up much of the coverage of the Commission of Audit in an editorial, which did not let reason get in the way of a rant. “(The) report is the work of fat cats in lofty places [...]
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG – ISSUE NO. 223 2 May 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 [...]
DESPITE NEW PLANES AND SUBS – OZ STILL NEEDS US Stone the crows! If the new fighter is so flash why is the government cutting its order? The government’s decision to buy 58 F-35 fighter planes, on top of the first 14, generated three predictable responses.[i] The Opposition endorsed it - hardly surprising given Labor [...]
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG – ISSUE NO. 222 24 April 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 [...]
SAVING MONEY ON AGE SPENDING – ESSENTIAL BUT DIFFICULT Who is going to need us, who is going to feed us, when we’re 74? Stone the crows! The Treasurer is softening us up for a higher age threshold for the pension. Labor has already increased it to 67 in 2023 and Mr Hockey says a [...]
