The bizarre fixation on the tax hike for ready-to-drink alcholic mixed drinks shows that they haven’t really got a lot to effectively gripe about with the first Rudd Budget, have they? How many of the small number of politics wonks who normally watch the Opposition Leader’s Budget reply speech will even bother tuning in to Brendan Nelson’s (aka 9 of 100) effort tonight? 1 Read more »
Back on April 3 I made an official complaint to the ABC about a story it had run alleging that Kevin Rudd had offered to help Hillary Clinton with her campaign. Other reports and subsequent events suggest the story was a complete fabrication, the result of editorial incompetence or worse.
The response was as follows: Read more »
LP has often been critical of the standard of mainstream political commentary in Australia, arguing that it concentrates too much on day by day horse race piffle framed by a narrow range of possible narrative scripts. Read more »
Terms like “securitisation”, “derivatives”, “longitudinal diversification” and “dynamic hedging” would make most of our eyes glaze over, I suspect. Yet all this arcana is now having an impact on us - vie the subprime mortgage crisis and the shock waves it’s set off in the world economy. Read more »
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This report provides a historical overview of the academic literature surrounding media literacy in both traditional broadcast and digital media environments, and identifies educational and other organisations involved in promoting media literacy in Australia and overseas.
The ABC's science presenter may be a 'living national treasure' but his behaviour can be pure junk.
It was interesting to read the acres of newsprint devoted to Budget specials today for two reasons - one to note that so much of the “interest group” reaction is typical - one headline - “teachers say more is needed for schools” - probably writes itself, and could be run nearly every year. Read more »
The Australian media largely ignored a major conference looking at its own future, writes MARGARET SIMONS
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