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I get by with a little help from my friends
Nick Cater: intemperate attacks on the usual targets.
Photo: Dean Lewins/ AAP Image
Photo: Dean Lewins/ AAP Image
The Lucky Culture
By Nick Cater
HarperCollins | $29.99
The Other Side
By now you have probably heard that Craig Thomson was in court in Melbourne yesterday.
You have probably read how there were 19 new charges laid against him, and that this time his wife Zoe was not there to support him. All of these things are true, but there is more that you probably haven’t read in the main stream media.
The vision thing
Europe, Australia and the slow death of carbon trading
Too little, too late? Green members of the European Parliament joined NGOs outside the chamber in Strasbourg on 16 April to support rescue measures for the failing EU emissions trading scheme.
Photo: greensefa/ Flickr
Photo: greensefa/ Flickr
Oops I Did It Again
A few weeks back I wrote a piece about Fairfax Senior Journalist Kate McClymont’s apparent obsession with Craig Thomson.
FURORE: Academic study says Aussie journos are a bunch of lefties, especially at the ABC
A university study on the political inclinations of Australian journos has caused quite a stir, especially its findings on the ABC's editorial staff.
Concerns That “Obama Is Only Human” Claims May Actually Be Correct
The man who in 2009 won a Nobel Peace Prize using just an inspirational turn of phrase and apparently once fed an entire African nation with little more than a … Continue reading →
Baby Can I Hold You
At the end of last week we captured a glimpse of just how much the Liberal really care for family values, and a fine show of how they will treat women of Sydney’s West.
Michelle Rowland is the Federal Member for Greenway, the country’s most marginal electorate and situated in the much talked about Western suburbs of Sydney.
Raising the GST
In a sane world, Labor would also be contemplating the possibility of raising the GST.