In today’s Media Briefs: If I had a shekel for every time I’d heard … Front page of the Day … NotW editor to blame for using Mosley story, reporter tells Leveson inquiry and more …
Institute of Public Affairs
The web of vested interests behind the anti-wind farm lobby
A network analysis of links between the principal voices involved in demonising wind farms in Australia has been circulating in recent weeks and reveals connections between some of the principal wind farm opponents.
Guy Rundle: Hey IPA, asking you to out your donor list isn’t censorship
When called to justify their complex relation to donors, the IPA’s foot soldiers start mewling about being “silenced” or “censored”.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Foreign ownership of Australian land is not new
Crikey readers have their say.
Academic blood sport at Melbourne University
If tobacco companies are indeed funding the “neither confirm nor deny” IPA, they might reflect on the value of their investment.
IPA’s Wilson brands Media Watch a “disgrace”
In a scathing message, IPA wunderkind Tim Wilson has lashed out at ABCTV’s Media Watch for allegedly distorting his views on the tobacco industry, calling the show “deceptive”.
Scare tactics again the order of the day
Tony Abbott has already given a hint of how his Liberal leadership will play out. The conservatives of old have reverted to type; scare tactics will again be the order of the day, writes Norman Abjorensen.
IPA: What’s wrong with a few Golden Arches in schools?
Australians should welcome the sponsorship of companies like McDonald’s for education programs in our cash-starved schools, says the Institute of Public Affairs’ Carolyn Popp. No-one’s forcing Big Macs down kids’ throats.
The rise in independent contracting is a myth
It’s time to declare an end to the alleged rise in “independent contracting” that has purportedly dominated Australian workplaces over the last decade.
Tips and rumours: Fun and Games in Fort Fumble
Chaos at the Defence Department … 360% price increase at Visy … recession hits Logies?
Flint: Republic a barnacle on the bottom of victory
Republicans know a second referendum is doomed. That’s why they want to drag the Labor Party into the mire of an electorally dangerous distraction involving the two cascading federal plebiscites before another referendum.
