ICAC, TRANSPARENCY & THE ESSENCE OF DEMOCRACY Stone the crows! We ought to export ICAC. Not as in ship the agency offshore, there would be rioting in the streets if that happened. ICAC only costs $25m a year, which makes its hearings Sydney’s best value entertainment now Rake is off air.[i] No. ICAC’s achievements should [...]
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG – ISSUE NO. 221 11 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 [...]
A HORROR BUDGET – FOR A FEW STONE the crows! We are being sold tough times. Opinion leaders are wallowing in warnings the budget deficit is a disaster: “There is no doubt that Treasurer Joe Hockey has inherited a budgetary mess of epic proportions, in terms of debt and unfunded spending commitments. Sorting it out [...]
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG – ISSUE NO. 220 4 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 [...]
GREAT TEACHERS KNOW HOW TO INSPIRE STUDENTS Stone the crows! What do we do to help the quarter of all kids who are settling on the scrap heap? Incoming Business Council of Australia chair, Catherine Livingstone, asked an important question on Friday, what are we to do with the 25 per cent of Australians aged [...]
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG – ISSUE NO. 219 28 March 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 [...]
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG – ISSUE NO. 218 21 March 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 suburbs – where cars, not phones, are essential Stone the crows! People who sneer at those with cars would be honking their horns in delight, if they had them, at the news that Americans are eschewing automobiles. According to the New York Times, public transport use is at a 50 year high. At 10.65bn [...]
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG – ISSUE NO. 217 14 March 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 [...]
All of a sudden it’s the eighteenth century again Stone the crows! History has well and truly re-started with a second crisis in the Crimea over similar issues as the first. In 1852, Moscow attacked the Ottoman Empire in Moldavia ostensibly to assist oppressed Russian speakers. This annoyed the British and the French who invaded [...]
