A NEW DOUBLE STANDARD – FOETAL ALCOHOL BABIES & OBESE CHILDREN Stone the crows! Booze upsets society more than bulk. In the north of England a young woman who, despite advice, drank heavily while pregnant and gave birth to a disabled child is waiting on a court’s judgement on a charge of attempted manslaughter.[i] The [...]
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG – ISSUE NO. 251 14 NOVEMBER 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 [...]
WHITLAMISM IS BACK. WITH KATE & KEN & SHIRLEY Stone the crows! The case for economic reform isn’t universally endorsed anymore. A few weeks ago former treasury secretary Ken Henry made a speech arguing that advocates of reform have sold us a pup, of the lower case kind. As he put it: The narrative goes [...]
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG – ISSUE NO. 250 7 NOVEMBER 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 [...]
Funding puts the vice in vice-chancellor Stone the crows! We now value education but mistrust university leaders. Christopher Pyne will be hoping this week is better than last - because that one was a shocker. On Tuesday, Clive Palmer knocked back the education minister’s university reform package, specifically the plan to deregulate undergraduate fees. Free [...]
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG – ISSUE NO. 249 31 OCTOBER 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 [...]
World War I – The Battle Of The Historians Stone the Crows! Don’t mention the war The Australian Historical Association has decided to ignore the rest of us and have its own World War I centenary. While most interested Australians are reading about the awful experiences of the diggers in the Gallipoli trenches, academics will [...]
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG ISSUE NO. 248 24 OCTOBER 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 of [...]
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG – SPECIAL ISSUE NO. 6 22 OCTOBER 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 [...]
MANDATORY DETENTION FOR CATS – WHAT NEXT? Stone the crows! They will need the ammunition to use on the cats. There was a fuss last week about feral cats killing 75 million native animals a day.[i] The figure was not sourced and it seems no one knows how many cats are out there.[ii] Which inevitably [...]
