GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG – ISSUE NO. 330 26 August 2016 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 [...]
It was an overwhelming leftist baying mob that rocked up at Docklands in Melbourne last Monday as audience members of ABC television’s live Q&Aprogram. Presenter Tony Jones seemed powerless to moderate the public expressions of anger and loud feigned laughter directed at Communications Minister Mitch Fifield and, in particular, Spiked editor Brendan O’Neill. O’Neill grew [...]
Just when it seemed that the major myth concerning Australia’s involvement in the Vietnam war had been demolished, a replacement appears to have emerged. Last Thursday, as part of the ABC’s extensive coverage of the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Long Tan, defence reporter Andrew Greene provided a brief history of Australia’s Vietnam commitment. [...]
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG – ISSUE NO. 329 19 August 2016 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 [...]
It's an irony that much of the alienation evident in the public debate in Australia is funded by taxpayers and finds expression on the public broadcasters ABC and SBS, within universities and on stage and screen. The latest example of this genre is Robert Connolly's film Balibo, with a screenplay by David Williamson and Connolly. [...]
The Liberal Party has replaced an incumbent Labor governm ent on four occasions since its formation in 1944: in 1949, 1975, 1996 and 2013 under the leadership of Robert Menzies, Malcolm Fraser, John Howard and Tony Abbott. When Menzies, Fraser, Howard and Abbott became prime minister they were all regarded, in modern parlance, as political [...]
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG – ISSUE NO. 328 12 August 2016 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. 327 5 August 2016 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 [...]
Ever since the defeat of John Howard’s Coalition government in November 2007, there has been consistent speculation in the media that the Liberal Party may split. This was at its height when Tony Abbott defeated Malcolm Turnbull in a partyroom ballot in December 2009. And it has re-emerged following the Turnbull government’s narrow election victory [...]
Hilaire Belloc’s 1929 book Survivals and New Arrivals begins with the proud assertion: “Europe is the faith and the faith is Europe.” Belloc, who was born in France and became a British subject in 1902, was describing Christianity, in particular his own religion of Catholicism. What Belloc wrote nine decades ago was broadly correct — [...]
