Quadrant Online editor Michael Connor writes:
The trial of Andrew Bolt began in Courtroom 1 of Melbourne’s Federal Court on Monday. Bolt is standing trial for supposed offences against Articles 18C and 18D of the Racial Discrimination Act for four articles he published in 2009 concerning a number of prominent and fair skinned Aborigines.
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.
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.
Fears that Victorian councils could be worse off under Constitutional recognition of local government have been confirmed with the Gillard Government releasing the proposed wording, Victorian Minister for Local Government Jeanette Powell says.
The Coalition will abolish the carbon tax, provide immediate electricity and gas price relief, and will keep in place the income tax cuts and fortnightly pension and benefit increases, Tony Abbott said in his Budget reply address.
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