How fair is a tax enforcement system that enables a high-profile Liberal donor to settle his $75 million tax avoidance problem out of court, yet sends a first time offender to jail for three years for a tax fraud of $85,000? How does a case of the magnitude of Robert Gerard’s slip through the net […]
Journalism 101 with Naomi Robson (who has told the Herald Sun that she briefly dated “the supergrass” whom she believed was a successful company executive, but who turned out to be a convicted fraudster, drug trafficker and key informant in the Mokbel case): Lesson 1. Know when to admit you’ve made a mistake. “I was […]
Twelve of the Sierra Leone athletes who fled the games village have now been located, but another two team-mates are still on the run. That’s on top of the more than 20 athletes who went missing from the Manchester Commonwealth Games in 2002, all of whom are still missing. So what makes these people so […]
The calm eye of rampaging cyclone Larry has passed over Innisfail, just south of Cairns, and the winds there are picking up again as the cyclone moves west inland. The ABC’s latest report says that there’s widespread damage across far north Queensland, many homes in Kurramine Beach, south-east of Innisfail, have been severely damaged and […]
Immigration Minister Amanda Vanstone recently issued a press release on the changes DIMA was implementing post-Palmer Report to, as Amanda put it, “make my department more open and accountable, ensuring fair and reasonable dealings with clients and providing the organisation with well-trained and supported staff.” But those words may be ringing a little hollow to […]
Immigration Minister Amanda Vanstone recently issued a press release on the changes DIMA were implementing post Palmer Report to, as Amanda put it, “make my department more open and accountable, ensuring fair and reasonable dealings with clients and providing the organisation with well-trained and supported staff.” Tell that to Robert Jovicic. Since returning from Serbia […]
Is the metrosexual dead and buried? If Emap’s new Zoo magazine is any reflection of the bloke to snag ratio, then yes. And Famous magazine, launched today by Pacific Magazines, is betting that there’s no limit to a girl’s fascination with celebrities, since they form the entire basis of the magazine. These two latest additions […]
Dateline‘s Abu Ghraib story is the biggest international scoop by an Australian media organisation for a long time. The story has spread like wildfire around the world, with the footage and photos running across Middle Eastern and Western TV stations and front pages worldwide. And the current affairs program has come under direct fire from […]
While Kiwi papers The Dominion Post and The Press continue to mop up the mess after publishing the Muhammad cartoons, their Fairfax stablemates The Age and The SMH have made it clear they won’t be touching the caricatures with a ten foot pole. Both papers have devoted today’s editorials to explaining why they won’t be […]
While Australian industry, environmentalists and politicians sit around arguing the pros and cons of the Kyoto agreement, renowned UK scientist James Lovelock is way ahead of them – he’s arguing that the world has “already passed the point of no return for climate change.” In his “profoundly pessimistic new assessment” published in The Independent (UK) […]
