So farewell to Barry O’Farrell, and hello to a new premier for NSW sometime later today (probably).
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parties and factions
The most intense hatreds are not between political parties but within them – Phillip Adams, journalist
Media Circus: Don’t Look At The Policies Behind The Knighthoods edition
So our drearly beloathed Prime Minister wants to get a gong when he retires from politics.
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Media Circus: March in March edition
Thousands of people around Australia marched this past weekend to express their dissatisfaction and disgust with the Abbott government.
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Media Circus: sabre-rattling sparks Cold War nostalgia edition
Conflict in the Crimea, Arizona legislation, biblical amusement parks, celebrities “giving up” and our embarassment of an Immigration Minister.
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Media Circus: Liars and TPP and Conflicts Of Interest, Oh My
At this rate every single Abbott government minister is going to get a lump of coal in their Santa stocking.
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Media Circus: shonks and salesmen masquerading as advisers edition
This is about putting the interests of the thousands of Australians, many elderly and of limited means, second to the banks and retail funds.
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Media Circus: NSW govt goes into one punch crackdown edition
Is any single one of Barry O’Farrell’s proposed new laws that are meant to curb alcohol-fueled violence evidence-based? Or is it all based on good old “common sense” knee-jerking?
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Media Circus: man who shouldn’t be in govt gets way too much attention edition
And the Abbott government is loving that everybody’s looking at Bernardi instead of keeping an eye on them. C’mon, we’re smarter than this, right?
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Time to End the Valorisation of Ignorance
The federal government is quite open about its plans to interfere with the independence of academic research, and to shut down according to its whim any research they fancy that falls outside a narrow selection of medicine and technology projects. I hope the only reason that this hasn’t been howled down instantly is that we haven’t yet processed what this really means.
Media Circus: Abbott’s Xmas gifts to the nation edition
If it looks like us pesky citizens might demand a say in what will happen to our country, the Abbott Government’s response is to simply stop the flow of information.
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Hoyden About Town 