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Rudd and Abbott were never good enough to become Prime Minister. Australians are badly informed by broadcast media. This blog searches for ways to get information on how we are governed, and how we might be governed.

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13 March 2011

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How not to cover politics First, there was this superb dissection of how The New York Times published only the story its journalist was abl...

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09 March 2011

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Into the void Lenore Taylor thinks, and wants you to think, that you can fill a void with more void . The problem is [Labor] does not yet kn...

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Niki Savva: Gillard's success is assured If I was a proper journalist, the above would be an appropriate headline that would be rigorous...

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08 March 2011

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At last At last, there is some action on climate change that imposes a financial penalty on polluters while at the same time forcing us to m...

07 March 2011

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The five hundredth post All writers are vain, selfish, and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives there lies a mystery. Writing a boo...

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06 March 2011

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They would say that, wouldn't they The voice of the media isn't the voice of the people. First, Ben Packham gets sucked in : The nat...

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25 February 2011

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Kia kaha Kia kaha , Christchurch! People proud of their dullness, hardiness and sense Of place find it hard to be told that You can't go...

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Andrew Elder: Andrew Elder was a member of the Liberal Party of Australia, starting off as a libertarian-punk, then as a moderate seeking to preserve rights and freedoms in a changing world; now he scorns the know-nothing Liberals, doesn't trust the left and disdains the other interest groups that flit around Australian politics, and does so publicly yet obscurely.

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