GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG ISSUE – NO. 796 16 October 2026 The Latest - Nobel Peace Prize recipient gets soft interview on RN Breakfast; The ABC happy to hear from a Catholic who agrees with them Can You Bear It? Media Watch goes in for correcting trivia; SMH letters page runs abuse of Angus [...]
LEADING AT THE TOP AUTHENTIC LEADERSHIP: THE RELENTLESS PURSUIT OF BETTER by Sassoon Grigorian ISBN: 9781764755306 RRP: $52.75 (PB) Reviewed by Vik Kortiang Authentic Leadership by Sassoon Grigorian stands out as a refreshingly grounded exploration of leadership, built entirely on his personal experience rather than abstract frameworks. Instead of presenting models or academic theories, Sassoon draws [...]
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE MENZIES ERA IN AUSTRALIAN POLITICS THE MENZIES LEGACY. IDEALS, CHANGE, PROCESSION, 1960S AND BEYOND - editor Zachary Gorman Melbourne University Press 2026 ISBN-13 9780522881905 RRP: $50 (HB) Reviewed by William Coleman This most recent volume of Menzies studies by the Robert Menzies Institute provides an opportunity to revisit the commonplace punch and [...]
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 [...]
