The letter that Murdoch rejects
I sent this to The Australian on Tuesday, after they published Nick Cater’s article ‘Abbott haters put rage before reason’. In that article Cater painted me as the sensible socialist and Socialist...
View ArticleAustralia’s media – more sit-com than satire
I wonder if The Australian will publish this letter I sent to them? Thank heaven for The Australian. Without it I wouldn’t have known about Tony Abbott’s triumphs at the G20 and how Obama’s bizarre...
View ArticleThe Australian and the contest of ideas
I read Rupert Murdoch’s The Australian every day. I want to know what the fruitcake faction of capital is up to. That includes not just Murdoch’s journalists and his major ‘serious’ newspaper outlet...
View ArticleThe National ‘Reform’ Summit is about screwing workers
The Fairfax bosses’ paper the Australian Financial Review and the Murdoch flagship of reaction The Australian are combining to hold a National Reform Summit in Sydney on 26 August. According to the...
View ArticleGreg Sheridan, The Australian and the rise of Jeremy Corbyn
This is a letter I sent to Murdoch’s The Australian earlier on Sunday. It has no chance of being published. The photo is by Lee Thomas in the Independent on Sunday. John Reading Greg Sheridan’s...
View ArticleThe Canberra Times or The Australian?
I am one of those older gentlemen who has read newspapers every day of my adolescent and adult life. For many years now it has been part of my morning routine to read the Canberra Times, the...
View ArticleGerard Henderson – the gift that keeps on giving
You have to love Gerard Henderson. In Saturday’s Australian he was doing the dirt on how the left got it wrong this year. He mentioned Corey Oakley writing in Socialist ALLIANCE’s (!!!) Red Flag....
View ArticleBill Leak, The Australian and racism
Bill Leak’s cartoon of 4 August in The Australian My latest article in Independent Australia has just been published. Bill Leak’s latest cartoon depicting stereotyped Aboriginal people has sparked...
View ArticleRight wing nut jobs, Bill Shorten is no Jeremy Corbyn
Rightwingers think painting Bill Shorten as a radical will scare voters away from Labor. They’re wrong on all counts, I write in Independent Australia.
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