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Crikey’s witch burning of ABC Learning … the dermatologist and the invisible institutes … scandal in Wollongong … the PM’s moral panics …

Profile of the playwright as vapid hack

In filling a profile of leading playwright Joanna Murray Smith with all manner of poison,critic Alison Croggon crossed an unfortunate line, writes Peter Craven.

The Bulletin unleashes on Kerry Stokes

PBL chief executive John Alexander notoriously failed to force Channel Nine’s former news and current affairs boss, Mark Llewellyn, to assign attack-dog John Lyons to launch a major attack on Seven chairman Kerry Stokes. The new private equity owners seem to have no such restraint, writes Stephen Mayne.

Rudd biography: portrait of a control freak

Nicholas Stuart’s Kevin Rudd: An Unauthorised Political Biography, published today, certainly contains no smoking guns and there’ll be no particular gain in Peter Costello drilling into it, yellow marker in hand.