Tim Palmer, the outgoing executive producer of Media Watch, fully expects the press to jump to conclusions about his move to become executive producer of the current affairs program Lateline. Andrew Dodd invesitgates.
Same thing happened
The indigenous land grab will mean more suffering, not less
I am a senior traditional owner of the Yirrkala community land, which the Federal Government is trying to take from my family, without even having the guts or the courtesy to speak to us, writes Banduk Marika, community leader and artist in Yirrkala, Arnhem Land.
Voters and baseball bats – in Queensland and elsewhere
Will the Queensland local council kafuffle cost Kevin Rudd seats in Queensland? Maybe. But it might cost John Howard seats elsewhere, writes Peter Brent.
Secrecy and the Haneef case
Dr Haneef got back to India solely because his defence team refused to meekly drink their allocated dose of shut-the-f*ck-up. Traditionally in terrorism cases, the authorities feed sensational tit-bits to the media while the accused sucks it all up in silence.
