Comments on: Richard Farmer’s political bite-sized meaty chunks

By: Valerie Pitty

Valerie Pitty — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

I noticed too that Piers Akerman, on ” The Insiders” yesterday tried to connect poor David Hicks to the Mumbai attacks, by saying that they were perpetrated by “Al Quaeda - the same organisation for which David Hicks was training”. Hicks’s many years in Guantanamo Bay not withstanding, he is somehow responsible for the latest outrage.

By: Zane

Zane — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

It is not just the Heiner nonsense I refer to and as you are obviously a follower of Akermans column, mmmm you know damn well I am not just referring to that particular episode. Regretfully you are another it appears who takes his word as gospel and are a member of his flock. Remember Judas?

By: Tom McLoughlin

Tom McLoughlin — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Regarding Pasadena Now, I often wonder about why I still live in smoggy inner Sydney. It’s because you can get to various events and see people and stuff that is unscripted and unauthorised by actually going into the field. I ALWAYS see stuff I don’t expect. The computer and the eyeballs of someone else just won’t do for these prize little snippets.

Like Agri Minister Tony Bourke trawling the crowd at Keating! musical like a white pointer. Spooky. The senior legal officer for Northern Land Council (Levy?) chatting on the phone in Enmore Park a long way from home. Like activists for the Wilderness Society putting up street posters outside Deputy Premier’s office in Illawarra Rd. Like the big solar conference in Sydney getting a line on the Minister’s omissions by chatting to annoyed experts and sectoral spruikers. You can’t do that in India, or even Blacktown.

By: Mmm

Mmm — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Zane, you’re referring to the Heiner scandal where a young woman was pack r*ped and then the crime covered up somehow, with allegations of ALP failure to action or investgate or worse cover up. The trouble with saying Akerman is a liar is that even the boy who cried wolf got it right eventually, like a broken watch twice a day.

By: Zane

Zane — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

What is particularly disturbing is the Press Council of Australia is prepared to ignore the attacks by Akerman on the Prime Minister of this country, the Australian Gov General, State Governments ( Labor), individual politicians (Labor) and anyone who does not follow the Akerman creed of all things liberal are good and wholesome, all things left wing, Labor and Union are crooked, bent, dishonest and intent on destroying Australia’s way of life. The press council on its site indicates ” It was established in 1976 with two main aims: to help preserve the traditional freedom of the press within Australia and ensure that the free press acts responsibly and ethically.
So how then does the council find Akerman acts responsibly and ethically. Obviously they do not monitor the said Akermans blog, there are hundreds of examples of his lack of ethics over the past 12 months. If freedom of the press includes scathing irresponsible unfounded abuse and ridicule of the holders of the two senior positions in the land then the press council do not understand their own ethics. Complaints to the said esteem body representing more honest journalists have not had the courtesy to even respond to complaints about Akerman. One wonders, as in J EDGAR HOOVER, and the Kennedys, just what Akerman has on who? No other journalist in this country is allowed to abuse, insult, decry, attack, lie about, bring the office of PM and GG into disrepute as this excuse for a journalist. How his peers tolerate their reputations being associated with him is unbelievable. Its time the Press Council performed as they are supposed to and censor the clown and his editor. The pair bring no credit to the esteemed calling of journalism. I am one and I am disgusted with his circus like performance.

By: Angela May

Angela May — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Piers Akerman is deranged. On yesterday’s Insiders, he somehow managed to link the terrorists in Mumbai to David Hicks. Why this man is allowed to publish his insane mutterings is beyond me.

By: Kerry

Kerry — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Well surprise surprise, Akerman spreading porkies again, not a column of his goes by without a sensational claim of some sort meant to stir up those halfwits who hang on his every word. I continue to be amazed that the editor of that once proud newspaper The Daily Telegraph, still employs a has been like Akerman, whose blog is a diatribe of rumour, innuendo, handouts from the Liberal Party, and a figment of his not very bright imagination. I guess the editor doesn’t bother reading the garbage Akerman dishes out or he agrees with it. Either way it does nothing for the papers reputation.