Edited by Lee Duffield
Freedom and Truth
Monday, July 27, 2020, 11:53 pm
The start of August means three months to the American election on Tuesday 3 November, a contest watched more closely than ever before following Donald Trump’s recent reversal of fortunes.
Saturday, July 25, 2020, 3:28 pm
Last month’s announcement of 250 more job cuts, out of 4650 staff at the ABC, highlighted the organisation’s problems keeping up standards demanded by its charter. Is the professional broadcaster in danger of getting turned into a bull-ring of amateurs and squabbling ideologues?
Monday, June 22, 2020, 12:49 pm
A consortium from the university humanities sector has issued a public letter correcting the federal government on the assumptions behind its radical fees proposal announced last Friday.
Saturday, June 20, 2020, 11:53 pm
Large-scale changes for Australian universities, under thin cover as an emergency move for COVID-19, look like politics and marketing – not so much a thought-out plan for Australia’s future.
Wednesday, June 3, 2020, 11:28 pm
The image of President Donald Trump brandishing a Bible amid the American rioting raises questions about what he might find inside that book, to comfort himself, or make him afraid.
Friday, May 29, 2020, 12:54 pm
Much hangs on the opening of correspondence between Buckingham Palace and Governor General Kerr in 1975 – even whether Australians will get their own republic.
Friday, May 29, 2020, 1:11 am
Newscorp’s closing down of its community and regional papers, with small numbers left standing and others staying as online only, cancels centuries of belief about media in the community – but that was close to killed off already.
Thursday, May 21, 2020, 8:51 pm
With the coronavirus tragedy in America and re-election time for Donald Trump, the political warfare is heating up, and gloves are coming off in the media battles.
Tuesday, May 19, 2020, 9:38 pm
The European Union’s move to get CORVID-19 investigated through the World Health Organisation (WHO) has been made difficult by Chinese-American squabbling –and Australia trying to get into the fight.
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The war on the ABC and its options for survival
Wednesday, July 29, 2020, 4:37 pm
Reported by Lee Duffield
Official Australian state policy on its public broadcaster, ABC, since 2014, has been to throttle it through withdrawing its budget by stages, while abusing it through Liberal-linkaged commercial media – Newscorp newspapers, 2GB radio network and Sky News pay television. There is also a sub-plot that involves, while the ABC survives, pressing it to deliver positive messaging for the government of the day.