GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG – ISSUE NO. 326 29 July 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 [...]
Donald Trump is not my kind of conservative. Yet it would be foolish to ignore his appeal to many Americans. As Republican presidential candidate, Trump has a chance of defeating his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in November. If Trump prevails over Clinton, the US will have a president who wants to halt Muslim immigration to [...]
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG – ISSUE NO. 325 22 July 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 [...]
Now, here’s a confession. Two decades ago I invented the term “Lunar Right”. I primarily had in mind extreme right-wing groups that were heavily into conspiracy theories but eschewed violence. Such as the Australian League of Rights and the Citizens Electoral Council. I also used the term with reference to two organisations that were associated [...]
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG – ISSUE NO. 324 15 July 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. 323 8 July 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 [...]
One of Malcolm Turnbull’s early interviews as Prime Minister was with Fairfax Media’s Peter Hartcher. On October 24 last year, he told Hartcher he was a reformer who wanted to change the culture of government, politics and business along with the way Australia presents itself to the world. Such an approach was always likely to [...]
The popularity of Kevin Rudd and the Labor Government appears to be boundless. According to the most recent survey the Morgan Poll published online last Friday Rudd has an approval rating of 63 per cent and is regarded as the preferred prime minister by 70 per cent of voters. How telling, then, that this was [...]
On June 22, Fran Kelly interviewed Scott Morrison on the ABC’s RN Breakfast on several issues, including same-sex marriage. That was Kelly in her role as presenter on the taxpayer-funded public broadcaster. Last Sunday, Kelly was one of the panellists on ABC television’s Insiders program. She joined the Guardian Australia political editor Lenore Taylor in [...]
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG – ISSUE NO. 322 01 JULY 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 [...]
