It’s been revealed that the doctor Indigenous Affairs Minister Mal Brough quoted in Parliament on Monday to back up public servant Gregory Andrews prescribed Viagra to the alleged paedophile at the centre of the Lateline Mutitjulu broadcast. Brough referred to Lateline in Question Time and congratulated senior public servant Gregory Andrews, who appeared anonymously on […]
Tourism Australia is planning to spend $15 million on so-called “branded content” by replacing its paid advertising in Australian newspapers and magazines with paid-for editorial content. But while the tourism body pays for acres of editorial talking up the delights of holidaying in Australia, what about the readers who don’t realise that they’re actually reading […]
Liberal MPs Petro Georgiou and Russell Broadbent have crossed the floor to sit with Labor in opposition to the government’s controversial migration legislation. Judi Moylan, despite intense speculation over her preselection battle for her West Australian seat of Pearce, also crossed the floor. Bruce Baird abstained. The new migration bill, which will ensure that future […]
Earlier this morning – just as the president of the Doctors Reform Society Dr Tim Woodruff was reading new study results revealing that some doctors regularly ask drug companies for free travel and gifts worth thousands of dollars – a big chocolate cake arrived on his desk. On the top of the cake, written in […]
There are around 57,000 foreign citizens waiting to leave Beirut as the fighting shows no signs of easing, but the mass evacuation plans have only started to kick in over the last day or so. And with Lebanon’s airport out of action, just about every nation trying to get its citizens out of the war-torn […]
Alternet is calling it “undoubtedly the most embarrassing official trip abroad for any American president” and The Huffington Post is calling Bush “Groper in Chief.” Days after letting the s word slip while talking through a mouth full of bread roll to his mate Tony Blair while his microphone was on, George Bush has created […]
Amanda from Adelaide, a disgruntled customer of ABC Learning, was the first to write to Crikey a month ago about her first-hand experiences with the child-care provider. She wrote, “in the year after ABC Learning Centres took over operating my children’s childcare centre in Wayville South Australia: real grass was removed and replaced with plastic […]
Universities are set to come under the magnifying glass in the war on terror. Last week, the government sent a brochure to universities informing them that academics would be asked to report any attempts to obtain items or services that could be used for weapons of mass destruction and to report “suspicious advances” by students, […]
Last Thursday the Audit Bureau of Circulations released its latest round of circulation figures – figures which showed that nearly all of the publications in the Fairfax stable have gone up, while nearly all the News Ltd papers’ circulation have slipped. Saturday’s Age dubbed itself “Australia’s fastest growing newspaper”, The Sunday Age circulation boasted it […]
The federal government’s changes to the asylum-seeker processing system, to be announced today, are an “alarming overreaction” according to Head of the Refugee and Immigration Legal Centre, David Manne, who says the tough new rules will usher in a new era of “extremity and cruelty in our treatment of refugees.” The changes “represent a clear […]
