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Labor MP Brendan O’Connor has a vivid imagination thinking that there is a conspiracy between the Coalition Government and News Corporation to ‘destroy’ the ABC.

When I read this I wept with joy. But then I realised it couldn’t be true. Unfortunately.

There’s a lot to like about an ABC corpse. It would fertilise new business opportunities in media. Taxpayers would save billions of dollars. ABC journos would have to earn a living. The world would be a better place.

What a pity O’Connor is wrong.

Had there been drones in 1979 one would have taken out Madiba on Kissinger’s orders because he was a ‘terrorist’. Other leaders are being killed in this way now, on Obama’s orders. This is how wicked this policy was, and is, and will be for a while yet.

It occurred to me this morning that the worst thing done to Madiba was to keep him away from his wife and so prevent them from having more children after his son died.

The National Security Agency, still under the microscope because of leaks from former employee Edward Snowden, has been straddling the line between terrifying digital panoptican and almost comically inept government institution. Now, in the latter category: a report that the NSA infiltrated the dark world of online gaming. 

DigitalGlobe is an imaging company that uses a constellation of five satellites to beam down incredible pictures of Earth.

Dear Mike Devereux,

I can write no more
Tonight
The rage is gone
A light, is dying gentle

A Short Anecdote!

In my younger days, I was slightly shallow. 

And there was a young woman. We got on quite well and she laughed at my jokes. I thought that we might end up in a relationship. But then – when I moved closer to her – I noticed a faint moustache. 

It concerned me. Although it was only faint, it may grow darker. I didn’t want to marry anyone with a moustache. So, I decided not to pursue the relationship any further. 

Then, some time later, I was in a relationship with a wonderful woman. I was happy. I never gave the woman with the moustache another thought. 

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This morning I had the pleasure of debating the Liberal’s Andrew Laming in my regular slot on Breaking Politics with host Tim Lester. One of the topics was whether the government should intervene to save Australia’s car industry.

E&OE TRANSCRIPT

ONLINE INTERVIEW

BREAKING POLITICS – FAIRFAX VIDEO

MONDAY, 9 DECEMBER 2013

SUBJECT/S: Car manufacturing, QANTAS, carbon policy, debt limit

It is still not clear why Tony Abbott seems determined to trash Australia’s hard-won reputation as a good citizen of the world, but there can be no doubt that he no longer cares what our erstwhile friends and neighbours think of us – provided that he can achieve his short term domestic objectives.