GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG ISSUE – NO. 493 24 April 2020 * * * * 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. Between November 1997 and October 2015 “Gerard Henderson’s [...]
The awareness gap between some Australians and others in the current economic and social crisis was never more evident than on ABC television’s The Drum, presented by Ellen Fanning, on Wednesday. Early in the program, discussion turned on whether, at a time of pandemic, Australian parliaments should be sitting. Panellist Elaine Pearson was of the [...]
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG ISSUE – NO. 492 17 April 2020 * * * * 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. Between November 1997 and October 2015 “Gerard Henderson’s [...]
Robert Tickner speaks to The Sydney Institute about his book Ten Doors Down - the story of an extraordinary adoption reunion.
The unanimous decision of the High Court of Australia in Pell v The Queen raises an important question. Can a high-profile defendant receive a fair trial in the age of rampant social media? Cardinal George Pell was found guilty of historical child sexual abuse offences in a second trial following a hung jury at the [...]
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG ISSUE – NO. 491 3 April 2020 * * * * 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. Between November 1997 and October 2015 “Gerard Henderson’s [...]
This week Deputy Chief Medical Officer Nicholas Coatsworth said that on a per capita basis Australia had one of the lowest COVID-19 rates in the world — along with one of the lowest mortality rates. In recent times Coatsworth has contradicted some of the alarmist predictions of ABC health reporter Norman Swan, who featured on [...]
In my working life I will have lived through four recessions: the mid-1970s, early 80s, early 90s and the likely forthcoming recession. I barely noticed the severe economic downturn on the first two occasions. Between 1973 and 1975 I was a contracted academic at a university. In the early 80s I was a permanent employee [...]
