Edited by Lee Duffield
Freedom and Truth
Wednesday, December 8, 2021, 9:21 pm
The third independence referendum set for New Caledonia on 12 December was set to be like the last two referendums in some of its main features — but this time had worrying differences.
Tuesday, December 7, 2021, 1:57 pm
The Australian Defence Minister, Melissa Price, on 9 November told the Submarine Association conference in Adelaide that the country’s nuclear-powered submarines would be built in South Australia.
It was one more ingredient thrown into a brewing of questions and contention since the sudden announcement of the nuclear plan, and immediate cancellation of the French contract for conventional submarines on 16 September.
Thursday, January 7, 2021, 8:44 am
Lee Duffield closely watching the elections in the United States, had no illusions about how Donald Trump would react to getting beaten. But watching rioters break into the Capitol Building in Washington, not too surprised, he decided to place some blame and penned this message to the man behind it all.
Wednesday, July 29, 2020, 4:37 pm
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.
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.
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, 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.
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Monday, May 9, 2022, 11:32 am
Reported by Lee Duffield
With the country talking about the shambles of a so-called ‘Great Debate’ on Nine, on Sunday night, Lee Duffield raises the case for getting a serious debate on the ABC.