Andrew McIntyre writes:
According to Hal Colebatch in the latest Quadrant, Manne writes about the South Vietnamese refugee policy in Australia between 1976 and 1982, making the extraordinary claim that “With the boat arrivals, the Labor Opposition under Whitlam, and then Hayden, resisted the temptation to exploit underlying racist or anti-refugee sentiment for party political gain.”
Last December Tony Abbott told the Australian Financial Review: “There is still this left-of-centre ethos in the ABC and I hope that Mark Scott continues to address it.” Alas, the ABC’s institutional leftism is incurable.
There was a stark contrast in how ABC’s Lateline covered Margaret Thatcher’s death and the way it treated that of a prominent left wing hero, The Spectator Australia said this week.
There are important lessons to learn from the 2003 Iraq war experience, Tom Switzer says. But some Australian conservatives would prefer to ignore them.
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy’s proposals for media regulation are government licensing in all but name, the Institute of Public Affairs says.
“I just wish those letters weren’t so … similar,” Kerryn O’Brien lamented last night after declaring that an ALP candidate was contesting a seat for the ABC.
Labor’s decision to dismantle the Howard Government’s policies has put the country’s security at risk, Opposition Tony Abbott said in a Liberal e-newsletter today.
Giving Canberra more power over local government will weaken Australian democracy, the Institute of Public affairs says in a fact sheet on the Gillard Government’s proposed Local Government Referendum amendment.
Rather than confront the systemic failure that is built into its political DNA, Labor tries to cover it up with spin and the distortion of truth, Cory Bernardi writes.
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