RN Breakfast 6 March 2026 Melissa Clarke: The new Israeli ambassador to Australia. Hillel Newman joins me in our Parliament House studios. Ambassador. Welcome to Radio National Breakfast. Hillel Newman: Thank you. It's my pleasure to be here, and I wish good morning to Australia. Melissa Clarke: Thank you very much. Now, can you tell [...]
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG ISSUE – NO. 753 7 November * * * * · The Latest – Ten’s Ashleigh Raper throws the switch to sexism and ignorance; Julian Leeser v David Marr on The Dismissal · Can You Bear It? – CBD finds “news” in a Paul Keating claim about what he would have done in 1975; [...]
The most memorable line in the 1880 comic opera The Pirates of Penzance's Policeman's Song is "A policeman's lot is not a happy one". The same is true of the leader of the Liberal Party in the modern era – currently Sussan Ley. Only four Liberal leaders have become prime minister after defeating the Labor [...]
COMMENT BY GERARD HENDERSON FOR THE WEEKEND AUSTRALIAN – SATURDAY 16 AUGUST 2025 Interviewed on ABC Radio Darwin on July 31, the recently appointed ABC managing director and editor-in-chief Hugh Marks received what sounded like a Dorothy Dixer style soft question. Jess Ong put it to her employer: “There is the idea, this commentary, that [...]
The results of the May 2025 federal election have opened up serious challenges for the Liberal Party opposition - not least of all the end of the coalition arrangements with the National Party. The full impact of what has happened has not yet been fully realised and the way ahead will be full of rebuilding [...]
On 30 April 1975, the democratic government of South Vietnam collapsed as the North Vietnamese army captured Saigon. Under North Vietnamese control, thousands of South Vietnamese citizens were arrested and put in re-education camps leading to a mass exodus of refugees. With the election of the Liberal/National government of Malcolm Fraser in December 1975, Australia agreed [...]
The Hon Tim Wilson is the former Member for Goldstein who was swept out of office with a swathe of Liberal MPs at the 2022 election by the Teal tide. At the 2025 election, he was the only former Liberal MP to recontest a Teal-held seat. Wilson feared he might be the only candidate to [...]
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG – ISSUE NO. 38 4 DECEMBER 2009 Media Watch Dog, in accordance with contemporary Australian media best practice, will go into the kennels over the forthcoming Festive Season. It is anticipated that MWD will be de-kenneled around Australia Day 2010. The final issue of MWD in 2009 was intended to [...]
In 1966, with the words “Bombard the Headquarters!” Mao Zedong unleashed the full, violent force of a movement that he called the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. By the time he died ten years later, millions had perished, China's cultural heritage was in ruins, its economic state was perilous, its institutions of government were damaged and [...]
