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Environmentalists may only have themselves to blame for the surprising success of climate sceptics, writes The Australia Institute’s Richard Denniss.

The Australian newspaper has come under sustained attack this morning from several angles as its simmering spat with the nation’s academic community threatens to turn nuclear.

The Australian’s editor-in-chief Chris Mitchell has threatened to take legal action against the ABC to kill a column penned by Robert Manne and republished on commentary site The Drum.

The anti-mandatory detention campaign, which came from the Left, has a simple demand — that the country live up to its freely taken-on treaty obligations. Why have commentators like Robert Manne lost sight of that?

Australia has a greater need for a robust and effective system of media self-regulation, writes Michael Smith, former Fairfax editor and former member of the Australian Press Council.

The public hearings of the federal government’s media inquiry got under way this morning with a distinctly anti-statutory regulation tinge.

This Wednesday The Australian’s Paul Kelly and academic Robert Manne were due to debate at Melbourne’s Wheeler Centre. But now one side of the battle is not going to show.

The Australian is launching a major response to Robert Manne’s Quarterly Essay, and the blurbs tell us that there will be more to come on Saturday, with the usual suspects lining up to respond.

Robert Manne’s account of the influence of The Australian and the tactics it uses to promote its conservative views and discredit its enemies has so far been met with silence from Holt Street.

Political commentators like Robert Manne, Malcolm Mackerras and Judith Brett all predicted doom and gloom for the Libs in the weekend’s by-elections, gloats Gerard Henderson. Boy are their faces red now.

Former Daily Tele editor David Penberthy offers some words of wisdom to the newly-appointed editor of The Monthly, 23-year-old Ben Naparstek.

Manne may thrive on public controversies, but I don’t relish them and Sally has hated every second of this one, writes Gideon Haigh.

“I thought, as I read Robert’s account of how he had been Sally’s mentor and how she had repaid him for this — how few are the mentors who understand that the role is not about gathering disciples.” The Monthly bust-up according to Rocky and Gawenda.

The now ex-writer for The Monthly steps in to defend sacked editor (and former partner) Sally Warhaft — and explain his perspective of the publishing feud.

Mark Aarons and Alex Miller weigh in on the recent developments at The Monthly.

The Monthly is, and has always been, a fundamentally disappointing venture, writes Greg Barns.