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Multicultural Doublethink
At least two people would have been delighted by the Prime Minister's recent call for a 'comprehensive debate' about immigration. Academics Bill...
Begging bowl no good for the bush
Much of the recent breast beating about the problems of the 'bush' has rather suggested that governments should 'do more' for the bush,...
ABC Alienation
If anyone should be a natural defender of the ABC it is John Howard (and if that makes you laugh, that is revealing in itself). After all, like...
Hard Labor
Letter to the Editor: In his review of David Day's biography of Curtin ('Reluctant Warrior' February), John Edwards claimed that when Curtin died...
Longer Terms Denigrate Voters
Should Queensland join all the other states and allow parliamentarians to serve four year terms before facing re-election, rather than the present...
Licensing Policy Created Cash-for-Comment Climate
Letter to the Editor: C (Media 10/2). Not only did the report display an acute sense of media tactics, particularly those of Alan Jones, and of the...
Here's Humpty, Dressed in Green
'When I use a word', said Humpty Dumpty to Alice, in Lewis Carroll's classic children's story, Through the Looking Glass, 'it means just what I...
Age Care
The recent scandal at the Riverside Nursing Home is everybody's nightmare. Aged and helpless loved-one being first subjected to kero baths and then...
Commonwealth Stranglehold is Off the Air
In any American or European city you can flip through the radio dial accessing dozens of different stations. Why is it that in Australian cities...
Digital TV policy makes Alston friend of the ABC
The debate over Senator Alston's suggestions to the ABC board about benchmarking its services encapsulate all the problems inherent in public...