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 [...]
It’s just a week since the video of three women yelling and fighting over toilet rolls in a supermarket in the Sydney suburb of Chullora went viral. Last Sunday evening, the day after the Chullora incident, about 87,000 people attended the Melbourne Cricket Ground to watch the final of the women’s T20 cricket World Cup [...]
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG ISSUE – NO. 487 6 March 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 [...]
A STATEMENT BY GERARD HENDERSON CONCERNING THE BOLT REPORT 21 February 2020, 8.42 am I refer to the statement of Paris Street dated 20 February 2020. Initially I should state that I had no intention of upsetting a victim of child sexual assault – of whom I know several. I am very sorry for upsetting [...]
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SPEAKER: CHRISTINE FORSTER (Councillor, Sydney Council) DATE: Wednesday 6 November 2019 *Book from 19 October 2019** TIME: 5.30 for 6pm LIGHT REFRESHMENTS ***MEMBERS & ONE GUEST ONLY*** TOPIC: Sydney – What is to be Done? VENUE: tba
It’s difficult to understand the reverence sections of the Australian media give to visiting, or fly-in-fly-out, commentators and intellectuals. Take Alastair Campbell, for example, who was introduced by ABC TV Q&A presenter Tony Jones last Monday as “Tony Blair’s legendary spin doctor”. Well, so he was. It’s just that Blair ceased being prime minister of [...]
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG ISSUE – NO. 456 21 June 2019 * * * * 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 [...]
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG ISSUE – NO. 455 14 June 2019 * * * * 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 [...]
Australia is a significant nation in world affairs and has been at least since the start of World War I in 1914. But it is fair to say that Australia is not well known, even in western Europe and North America. This places a special responsibility on Australia’s politicians and commentators to speak with consideration and without [...]
