GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG – ISSUE NO. 294 6 NOVEMBER 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 [...]
Anniversaries are invariably accompanied by a degree of overstatement, sometimes hyperbole. As so it has come to pass in the lead-up to the 40th anniversary next Wednesday of the dismissal of the Labor government by governor-general John Kerr. On November 11, 1975, Kerr sacked Gough Whitlam as prime minister and appointed opposition leader Malcolm Fraser [...]
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG – ISSUE NO. 293 30 OCTOBER 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 [...]
Coal is certainly firing up the political debate in Australia. Take the normally mild-mannered Bernie Fraser, for example. Interviewed by Naomi Woodley on the ABC’s AM last Tuesday, the former Reserve Bank governor and one-time head of the Climate Change Authority used the words “nonsense” and “obscene” with reference to Turnbull government minister Josh Frydenberg. [...]
In reviewing John Howard’s The Menzies Era in The Times Literary Supplementlast May, Clive James made a tough-minded assessment about refugees, immigration and all that. James wrote: “Until recently, in Australia, every ethnic group that came in was assimilated if it wanted to: the Muslim extremists are the first consignment of immigrants to hate Western [...]
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG – ISSUE NO. 291 16 OCTOBER 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 [...]
Last Sunday’s Herald Sun published one of the most memorable photos of the week. A couple of hundred staff at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne posed for the camera, fists clenched. There were doctors, nurses, technical staff and more besides standing behind a placard that read: “Detention harms children”. There is no doubt that [...]
If 60 is the new 50, then 15 should be regarded as the new 20. Many Australians were shocked that 15-year-old Farhad Jabar murdered NSW Police accountant Curtis Cheng outside police headquarters in Parramatta. Yet acts of homicide, including terrorist killings, are not uncommon with respect to young men. On ABC television’s Insiders lastSunday, [...]
Some Australians have scant respect for their elected leaders, present or past. In this regard, Tony Abbott has been the recipient of more than usual disrespect on account of the fact his policies on national security and border protection — along with his social conservatism — are anathema to the world view of the fashionable [...]
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG – ISSUE NO. 289 02 October 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 [...]
