The Federal Parliament has yet to pass a law ensuring five-year funding for the ABC. If it doesn’t get passed, it leaves the national broadcaster open to cuts and threats should the government change. Would a Coalition Government return to crippling ABC budgets? Most likely if it follows past practices – and the Trump manual. Continue reading »
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China today is not the China of the pre-COVID age, but many commentators think it is still an economy based on cheap manufacturing. Several weeks ago, Thomas Friedman, diplomatic editor of The New York Times, travelled to China and published his impressions in a syndicated article on the country’s “staggering manufacturing muscle”. He concluded that Continue reading »
The late journalist Alexander Cockburn had a good line on the legacy media. Referring to the little ‘Correction’ boxes that would appear most mornings in The New York Times, he suggested that the principal reason the paper made such a show of its fallibility was to bolster its reputation for veracity. In owning to these […]
Part Four of a five-part special investigation by Dan Evans and Tom Latchem into a missing person’s case with dark criminal undertones
There was a flurry of Ofcom complaints after a series of offensive remarks by presenters on the right-wing channel
This week’s big China threat story is DeepSeek, an Open-Source AI (artificial intelligence) platform that the alarmists are signalling is further proof China is stealing our personal data. Those shouting loudest are the right-wing free marketeers but what are we to make of Wall Street greeting the rise of DeepSeek by wiping $1 trillion off Continue reading »
There is a deliberate attempt to mislead the public, in order to push for Trump-style mass deportations, argues Zoe Gardner
Keir Starmer has sought a closer relationship with the Murdoch-owned newspaper, under his leadership
Part Three of a five-part special investigation by Dan Evans and Tom Latchem into a missing person’s case with dark criminal undertones
The new year in Australian politics, an all-important election year, began on a high with a host of initiatives taking effect from January 1, 2025. Among these, and there are many, are pay rises of up to 13 per cent for aged care workers, an increase in the Medicare safety net threshold, multinational corporation anti-tax Continue reading »