Archive for 'The Australian'
Right wing nut jobs, Bill Shorten is no Jeremy Corbyn
Posted by John, February 5th, 2018 - under Bill Shorten, Jeremy Corbyn, Right wing nut job, The Australian.
Comments: 2
Rightwingers think painting Bill Shorten as a radical will scare voters away from Labor. They’re wrong on all counts, I write in Independent Australia.
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The Costa A cartoon the ‘free speech’ Australian would never publish
Posted by John, August 6th, 2016 - under Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders, Bill Leak, Racism, The Australian.
Comments: 1
Costa A nails it.
Bill Leak, The Australian and racism
Posted by John, August 5th, 2016 - under Bill Leak, Racism, The Australian.
Comments: none
My latest article in Independent Australia has just been published. To read the whole article click here to go through my blog site to the IA site. The Oz cartoonist Bill Leak sparks social media outrage for racist cartoon
Gerard Henderson – the gift that keeps on giving
Posted by John, December 27th, 2015 - under Gerard Henderson, The Australian.
Comments: none
What do facts matter, Gerard, when dissing the left?
The Canberra Times or The Australian?
Posted by John, October 11th, 2015 - under Maurice Newman, Media, Rupert Murdoch, Solidarity magazine, The Australian, The Canberra Times.
Comments: none
As the Canberra Times continues its conversion to conservatism and its cost driven agenda of regurgitation, the time approaches when, if my current mood survives, I will bid it farewell and return to The Australian and the battle against that newspaper’s various opinions and ideas. It at least is a more worthy opponent. And for revolutionary socialist analysis there is always Solidarity.
Greg Sheridan, The Australian and the rise of Jeremy Corbyn
Posted by John, August 16th, 2015 - under Greg Sheridan, Jeremy Corbyn, The Australian.
Comments: none
I guess when your targeted audience is the Cory Bernardi faction of the Liberal Party rather than a wider, thinking audience, then ignorant tirades against a left wing opponent inspiring millions is about all we can expect in Rupert Murdoch’s The Australian. Laugh all you like Greg Sheridan. Current indications are that Corbyn will win the Labour leadership and the next British election.
The National ‘Reform’ Summit is about screwing workers
Posted by John, July 15th, 2015 - under Australian Financial Review, Reform, The Australian, The National Reform Summit.
Comments: 1
The reform impasse arises because the essential social democratic desires of the working class, born of the necessity to sell our labour power to survive, conflicts with the needs of capital to extract even more surplus value from us in the form of profits and the like, a profit which we create but which the bosses purloin as our unpaid labour.
The Australian and the contest of ideas
Posted by John, January 5th, 2015 - under Fairfax, Free speech, Media, Media diversity, Murdoch, News Corp, News Ltd, The Australian.
Comments: 6
A variety of opinions? A contest of ideas? Only those writers imbued with the capitalist ethos are published in the mainstream media.
Australia’s media – more sit-com than satire
Posted by John, November 22nd, 2014 - under Abbott, Climate change, G20, Obama, The Australian.
Comments: 2
Thank heaven for The Australian.
The letter that Murdoch rejects
Posted by John, June 7th, 2014 - under Socialist Alternative, The Australian.
Comments: 20
Perhaps my problem of non-publication in The Australian is that I articulate my case too well. One solution might be to have a real socialist like me write a weekly column for the Australian. I offer Cater’s endorsement in support of my application. I know The Australian, like me, is committed to diversity of opinion. I look forward to your offer of substantial remuneration for a regular column.