IT IS hard to work out which cliché best suits the position of News Ltd, and indeed many newspaper companies. Is it between a rock and a hard place or is in on the horns of a dilemma? Continue reading “Murdoch gives ‘para-site’ a new meaning”
Month: November 2009
Too much riding on the polls
NEWS Ltd did not look down and shuffle its feet a bit. There was no sense of embarrassment or even bemusement.
This fortnight’s regular Newspoll published on Tuesday revealed an astonishing increase in Labor’s vote and a dramatic decline in the Coalition’s. The two-party preferred vote swung four per cent to Labor from 52-48 to 56-44 from the Newspoll a fortnight before. Continue reading “Too much riding on the polls”
Judges can be trusted with rights charter
FORMER NSW Premier Bob Carr and the cohort of conservative commentators who are wary of judges usurping elected representatives if we have a charter of rights should read a judgment brought down by the High Court this week. Continue reading “Judges can be trusted with rights charter”
Objections to monarchy still powerful 10 years on
YESTERDAY was the 10th anniversary of the defeat of the referendum on the republic. If successful, the referendum would have ended the last vestige of legal discrimination against Catholics and women in the Australian political system. Continue reading “Objections to monarchy still powerful 10 years on”