GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG – ISSUE NO. 266 24 APRIL 2015 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 [...]
Stone the crows! Pharmacists have a prescription to cure competition. While the Competition Policy Review acknowledged the sales of prescription drugs must be regulated, it rejected the existing restrictions on who can own pharmacies and competition between them. Current regulations preventing pharmacists from choosing freely where to locate their pharmacies, and limiting ownership to pharmacists [...]
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG – ISSUE NO. 265 17 APRIL 2015 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 [...]
We need a Navy able to fight when it does not choose the terms Stone the crows, not only is the Navy spending a bomb on building submarines it is also investing in ways to sink them! While everyone is arguing about the replacement of the Collins class submarines another huge capital programme is setting [...]
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG – ISSUE NO. 264 10 APRIL 2015 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 [...]
SANCTIONS: SMARTER THAN SHOOTING STONE the crows! Could sanctions be superior to sabre rattling? Sanctions got a bad name in the 1990s when Saddam Hussein managed to convince public opinion in the West that the US was to blame for the damage they did to Iraq. But it seems they have, finally, worked on Iran, [...]
VAPING THE GREEN POLICE Stone the crows! Turn that cigarette off! Smokers of all sorts are finding new ways to defy the people who know what’s good for us by taking up e-cigarettes. The Australian Association of Smoking Cessation Professionals defines these faux fags as “battery operated devices that create a mist for inhalation which [...]
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG – ISSUE NO. 263 27 MARCH 2015 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 [...]
TRANS PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT – NO THREATS TO THE PHARMACEUTICAL BENEFITS SCHEME Stone the crows! Free trade treaties are always bitter pills for critics of capitalism. Maybe they hate the idea of business not needing state sanction to trade across borders but enemies of enterprise always warn of dire fates from free trade. In 2004, [...]
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG – ISSUE NO. 262 20 MARCH 2015 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 [...]
