60 minutes of shlock
...as Turnbull fans the flames of outrage
RAP artists of the ABC
Our household switches on ABC TV at 6pm and checks how long it takes to sight an Aboriginal-identifying Australian. Typically,…
Electric cars crash
As a senior investigative reporter, I can handle a notebook, a pen and my spaniel Natasha’s leash in each hand.…
Yes, we have a truth emergency
Last Monday the Australian described ABC journos organising a ‘solutions journalism’ approach to what they call the ‘climate crisis’. This…
Lefties’ shaggy dog story
At this distance, it’s hard to credit the derangement of the US leftist media over Donald Trump. The president had…
Slaving away for human rights
Mauritania in north-west Africa isn’t really a beacon of human rights. Of the 4.5m population, 500,000 are slaves. Regardless, the…
ABC of Pauline’s revenge
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has two Bills at hand to clobber the anti-conservative ABC. The first would force it to…
Blainey’s blarney
Geoffrey Blainey, Australia’s beloved history elder, has written 40 books and his terms like ‘tyranny of distance’ have pervaded our…
Media onslaught against Trump backfires
What? ABCTV, without sneering, covered Trump at the Osaka G20 last week and with Kim Jong-un the other day. So…
Climate Council crestfallen
Australia’s media will shortly run the following ‘climate crisis’ stories: London’s black cabs are going electric; UK offshore turbines are…
Fact-checker? What about a bias-checker?
ABC chair Ita Buttrose has got interested in the bias issue. Melbourne ABC 774 Drive host Rafael Epstein fished last…
Financial eunuch
Teenagers are normally embarrassed by their mothers. Germaine Greer was particularly so. Elizabeth Kleinhenz in her new biography writes: ‘Germaine…
Useful idiots at the ABC
ABC’s Four Corners remains proud of Sarah Ferguson’s three-part nothingburger last June about President Trump’s Russia collusion – its ‘story…
The propaganda is settled
Aussie school children are getting another barrage of third-party climate catastrophism, only a fortnight since the kids’ climate strike. March…
Gen Activist
A network of Green groups are mobilising our children for the climate wars
Leftist wonderland
Kerry O’Brien in his mammoth memoir argues that his decades of ABC TV presenting were not Left-biased. It’s an easy…
But does it pass the breath, er, pub test?
Anne Summers in 2011 was named by Vogue magazine as ‘one of the world’s wisest women’. After reading her memoir…
Change everything? You bet
Naomi Klein from Canada oversees courses for tens of thousands of Australian high school students. She’s an anarcho-environmentalist mobilising grass-roots…
Fear and loathing in Ultimo
Apropos Michelle Guthrie’s sacking, and the bitchy tweet ‘Excellent decision’ by Four Corner’s Sally Neighbour, the ABC has always been…
Suffer your children
Of all the green/Left groups badgering schoolkids about human-caused global warming, the most determined is the Australian Academy of Science.…
Green Climate Farce
Can you feel sorry for a climate bureaucrat? Well I do. Look at my fellow Aussie Howard Bamsey. He’s been…
Global brand Julia
‘Trailing clouds of glory’ is so apt for Julia Gillard AC’s post-prime ministerial career. This month the apolitical.co blog for…
Heart of darkness
Sometimes African rulers get so corrupt that Western aid donors go on strike. Take what Trump would call the shit-hole…
