As the Bradfield preselection hots up, prize candidate Tom Switzer must be getting a little nervous about one thing: will anyone ask him about the war?
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Guy Rundle: Don’t mention the war around Switzer
Tips and rumours: Netbank fail
Which celeb is next to go? A big fail from the Commonwelath’s Netbank, and more hot tips from Crikey readers.
When will Tom Switzer condemn the war on terror?
Can the man who brought Janet Albrechtsen to the national stage now honestly claim he was never a neo-Con after all? Asks Irfan Yusuf.
And the Wankley Award goes to … The Oz Spectator
A somewhat snooty UK mag launching downunder has to be make sure it feels at home, that it’s part of the culture and the conversation. Witness the first editorial…
Tips and rumours
In The Australian’s Strewth column today (page 10), it is revealed that the The Oz’s opinion editor Tom Switzer is set to become Opposition leader Brendan Nelson’s foreign policy adviser. It’s an interesting choice given that Switzer, despite his otherwise very right-wing views, opposed the Howard-Bush invasion of Iraq right from the start. See here, […]
Time for Switzer and Mitchell to clean house
The old radical American IWW group used to tell their organisers that, if they were about to be shot, they should make sure that people who see it knew you were unarmed at the time, and hence victims of the bosses’ terror. That seems to be the mood over at The Oz, where op-ed editor Tom Switzer has taken the extraordinary step of using the page to apply for his own job.
Albrechtsen should look for bias a little closer to home
Janet Albrechtsen claims that IR expert John Buchanan is anything but neutral on politics, but he’s not the only one. What about Oz opinion editor Tom Switzer’s strong affiliation with the right? asks Jeff Sparrow.
