Tag: Kevin Rudd
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Of Vices and Newspaper Men
Thomas Mitchell [twitname]Thom_Mitchell[/twitname] It’s easy to satirise The Daily Telegraph. The News Corp paper has ceased any pretence of fairness or balance. Screaming headlines during the 2013 election – like the notorious “Kick this mob out”, “Does this guy ever shut up”, and the priceless, and pretty weird, “Hair brained; A fly takes a liking […]
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Politics, Ice-Cream, Gossip Girl: End of the Silly Season
Over summer the Canberra press gallery collectively filed 724 articles speculating about the future leadership of the Australian Labor Party. That statistic is probably wrong, but if political journalists are allowed to make things up, why can’t I? The entire notion of “the silly season” is probably the most self-indulgent wank that the politico-journalist sphere […]