JASMINE’S PLIGHT – THE UNITED STATES AS A SCARED COUNTRY Cate Blanchett and the American Nightmare Stone the Crows! Cate Blanchett now explains the State of the Union. At least the bits about inequality, where President Barack Obama seemed inspired by Ms Blanchett’s portrayal of a psycho-socialite gone broke in Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine . [...]
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG – ISSUE NO. 211 31 January 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 [...]
KEVIN ANDREWS’ FREE MARRIAGE ADVICE – MORE THAN PEOPLE PAY FOR IT Stone the Crows! The Minister for Social Services has decided to review the “unsustainable” growth in the welfare system.[i] This amounts to him pinning a sign reading “kick me” to his political bottom, which is what Labor duly did, with Jenny Macklin saying [...]
FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS – SOME GOOD NEWS Stone the crows! There we were thinking free trade had gone the way of zombies, with ministers at meetings just walking into walls and eating officials’ brains. But it seems the trade triplets bilateral, plurilateral and multilateral agreements are not not-dead, in fact they are looking surprisingly sprightly. [...]
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG SPECIAL – No 5 (AFTER LUNCH, OF COURSE) 13 DECEMBER 2013 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 [...]
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ECONOMIC GROWTH – WHY IT’S ESSENTIAL Stone the crows! Suddenly it’s the 1970s with talk of the limits to growth. Readers who experienced that unhappy decade (hair and flairs, disco and doomsday – shudder) will remember the Club of Rome’s warning it was all over for capitalism because we would run out of food and [...]
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG SPECIAL – No 4 (AFTER LUNCH, OF COURSE) 6 DECEMBER 2013 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 [...]
JOE HOCKEY'S CHOICE: HIGHER ENTITLEMENTS OR LOWER TAXES? Stone the crows! We have no idea how to pay for what we want but can’t afford. While he may not appreciate the compliment from the likes of the Crows, John Quiggin is a serious academic economist who also applies scholarship to social commentary, as in last [...]
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG – ISSUE NO. 210 29 November 2013 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 [...]
