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1.0KAbbott, Credlin, Murdoch …
His knighting of the Duke in the Australia Day honours list provided final proof to an astonished world that Australia’s beleaguered Prime...
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The fall and fall of The Mercury
The Mercury – Tasmania’s largest circulation newspaper – is in deep, deep trouble. A leaked News Corporation Australia’s financial report from July...
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Fact-Checking Julia Jabour and Indi Hodgson-Johnston
*Pic: The Bob Barker pursues the illegally-fishing Thunder through a gale … The Sam Simon has collected more than 60km of net...
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Dickens on our corrupt legal system
For those interested in the law, Sunday night is Bleak House. We fill a beaker of Armagnac, set fire to a long...
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Maxine’s story from the Trenches v Julia’s story from the Benches
Maxine McKew enters Parliament After years as a highly respected political reporter, Maxine McKew, in Tales from the Political Trenches, describes how...
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Rupert’s at it again …
JK Rowling condemns Murdoch’s tweet following Charlie Hebdo killings JK Rowling, author of the Harry Potter books, has condemned and mocked the...
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NATION: Satirists’ rallying cry is being made by Tony Abbott, a caricaturist’s dream
Australia’s army of parodists, satirists and professional piss-takers, the nation’s cartoonists, have been told to carry on. Terrified and shocked by events...
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How to be an ace reporter
*Pic: of the venerable Evan … Never write down to your readers; anyone stupider than you can’t read. – American editor to...
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Stand up … before our capacity to do so is stolen from us …
*Satire: Graphic designer Lucille Clerc via Banksy on #CharlieHebdo … on Instagram here Fast as a rat up a drainpipe, Australian Prime...
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After the Charlie Hebdo attack, we must resist the clash-of-civilisations narrative
Terrorism feeds on society’s fears – and the relentless questioning of Muslims’ loyalty plays into its hands It’s hard to admit to...
