Political Musings

I hate TV ads.
I have trouble at the best of times shifting my attention from one thing to the next. Just ask by dear wife how difficult it is for her when she comes into my office while I’m halfway through thinking somthing through.
When I’m relaxing in my favourite chair in the lounge room wathcing

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Kevin Rudd and Channel Seven’s “Sunrise” have been caught red handed telling porkie pies about their plans to stage a fake “dawn service” at Long Tan in Vietnam on Anzac Day to fit in with prime time TV slots in Australia.

While Kevvie and Kochie might be permitted a bit of mutual ego stroking on prime-time,

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Full marks to Bill Leak for his witty cartoon about Indonesia and West Papua.

A similar cartoon in an Indonesian newspaper portrayed John Howard and Alexander Downer as amorous dingoes. Most people either smirked about it or wrote it off as a pretty lame joke.

But Bill’s cartoon has got a lot of people running

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The Andrew Ollie 2005 Media Lecture was presented by John Doyle.

For those of you who haven’t seen him, Doyle is “Roy Slaven” – part of the comical duo, Roy and HG.

Although John Doyle’s lecture was very funny in parts, he delivered an incisive appraisal of the state of our world, with some intelligent suggestions on

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“Dreamtime” by Phillip Adams in the Weekend Australian is a classic.

I don’t agree with Adams on some issues. I agree with him on much more, even though I come from a much more conservative viewpoint than he does.

More than most journalists in Australia today, I think he has earned the right to be heard and

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