The trouble with your Canberra-esque reporting style is that it is so limited by your mere mirroring of one side of a simplistic two party debate and world view. You write about Gillard and Labor with all the objectivity of a one-eyed sports fanatic. Your writing often reveals a very limited mental model that assumes that anybody who is critical of Gillard and Labor must, by definition, be pro-LNP.

In terms of your view of the real Australia you seem to think that people who are in the business of producing tradeable goods and services that we can sold in international markets are just some biased marginal minority group. In your view, Labor seems to have done no wrong….and any stories of Labor wrong doing are just fabricated spin from a biased and hostile mainstream media who refuse to see St Julia as Australia’s answer to Joan of Arc.

I have a suggestion for your professional development Bernard. There is no doubt that you can write well. I think that your problem may be a lack of contact with people who live in another real world than the one you must live in. Why don’t you spend some time in a community where most of the people you talk to are not members of a political party or journalists or economists or employees of government or non-government organisations. In fact cut all those people out of your life for a full month. Try to talk to some farmers and small business owners and tourism operators and education service exporters and tradespeople….preferably who don’t live in a capital city. Perhaps your view of the real world might become open to a separate reality….without the help of Carlos Castaneda.

P.S. What could possibly possess you to suggest that this Labor government has installed “big improvements” to our superannuation? Paul Keating certainly doesn’t think so. And who says that having a currency valued by currency traders is any way beneficial in your “real world”?

As for Gillard opposing gay marriage, she actively opposed it. Even Keane wrote on it here at http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/12/01/gay-marriage-gillard-deploys-her-troops-for-the-wrong-battle/

As I mentioned, and as Bramston mentions in his article, there are more failures than gay marriage for Labor under Gillard.

And why make excuses and start blaming Abbott? To give him credit, even though he wouldn’t allow a conscience vote on gay marriage, he did campaign for his sister in the recent local government elections, so he’s probably less homophobic than Gillard.

Here’s one for First Dog on the Moon.

As for single parents, why cut their benefits in the first place? They are one of the groups in society struggling the most.

Gillard and her cronies, especially the NSW right, represent all that is disgraceful about modern Labor. Get rid of them. I’ve gone beyond caring about who replaces them. I just want them gone.

You can’t seriously deny there is a property bubble in Australia and keep your credibility mate!!! Take a squizz at our property market right now. We have a totally artificial property market value which will naturally adjust eventually, once those propping it up run out of money and bullshit. That is when the bubble will burst.
I will give your little online paper a chance to prove you are really not agenda driven but based on reality and the truth as this working Australian is sick of being fed bullshit and kept in the dark

as consumer sentiment somewhat got some relief during the last couple of months i think there is a quite good probability of getting better than expected numbers for the new home sales numbers link here which could have quite some positiv impact on the stock market in general…

so going long mid of next week might be a good idea in my opinion…

On the national debt, why do people worry? It’s a capitalist world, for better or worse, and if the national debt was a big issue those who deal in currency would be selling the Australian dollar. Instead they seem not to get enough of it, much to the detriment of exporters and tourists coming here.

By building a story on recall the press should be careful on recall or as in the UK they may land up in the same position as the BBC and ITV both of which published a lie by someone who had faulty recall. Blewett by his own admission is troubled by what was done in 1995.

He may well suffer selective perception in support of his redemption with ” it wasn’t me it was her/him” or I was ” overseas at the time” the plea from another emminent person currently.

The voters and consumers of Australia are not stupid they do read widely over the internet and the news summaries help to identify key issues.

The internet will render journalism obselete - it is already impotent and is increasingly frustrated by its impotence as the Gillard Government is able to Kick Goals irrespective of the distractions.

Regretably the ABC is reduced to the mire of the cesspit and as a taxpayer I am indignnant of the fact that they are not serving the people who pay them and as a National Broadcaster they need to have greater due dilligence than they currently adopting.

To be goaded into the AWU affair by the Australian shows the weak editorial resolve of the ABC and where there is resolve as shown by 744ABC for example the Australian lampoons them.

The Australian public is heartily sick of this media circus. Whereas once you bought a newspaper for the news and you discarded ( responsibly ) the suppliments ( form guide, Real Estate, etc).

These days it is the suppliments that are retained and it is the newspaper is destined for the recycle bin.

With growing redundancies and falling graduate job opportunities,journalism is guaranteeing its own demise and in some cases the sooner the better as the so called newspapers and TV news analysis programs are advertorials from the “spin doctoring” PR industry.