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This is shaping up as one of the most newsworthy years in recent decades. What with the attempted assassination of Donald J. Trump leading up to the US presidential election in November, the general election in Britain, the elections in India and France, the forthcoming Australian election and more besides. Including the Ukraine-Russia war and [...]
To understand the present it helps to have sound knowledge of the past. The suggestion that an entity termed The Muslim Vote will run candidates against the Labor Party in some seats it holds in western Sydney and northwest Melbourne has raised the issue of religious or sectarian parties in Australia. This has led to [...]
There has been so much media discussion of late about such entities in Australia as “the Muslim community” and “the Muslim vote”. Which raises the question: Do such entities exist? For starters, there are so many varieties of Muslim believers – primarily focused on the majority Sunnis and the minority Shiites. And then there are Muslim [...]
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG ISSUE – NO. 685 14 June 2024 * * * * Stop Press – Paul Barry to leave Media Watch, again; Bridget Brennan excited to interview American psychic John Edward on News Breakfast; Nine’s David Crowe returns to the prediction business Can You Bear It? – Turnbull rocks up for yet another Trump-bashing [...]
It is a little-known fact that Anzac Day has a special meaning for the Australian Army. On this day it commemorates – along with others – the landing of the First Australian Imperial Force in Gallipoli on April 25, 1915. And also the final day of the Battle of Kapyong in the Korean War – April 25, [...]
What’s frequently missing from the Australian political debate is a sense of historical perspective. Look at it this way. No federal government in Australia has been defeated after serving only one term in office in nearly a century. And that was at a most unusual time. In December 1928, James Scullin led the Australian Labor [...]
