Keywords: Parochial Media
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AUSTRALIA
- Moira Rayner
- 18 January 2011
22 Comments
I am bloody tired of journalists comparing one woman against another, as if there were a competition to find the 'real' woman leader, a winner and losers. That isn't how women tend to use power: it can be shared, and used for the common good. We saw Bligh and Gillard doing it, and didn't get it.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Malcolm King
- 29 September 2010
16 Comments
For those born in Adelaide, there is something endearing about the place. It's like living in a country town where Big Ears, Ratty or Mole could be spotted. But the penchant for nostalgia and for by-gone days is exactly the wrong impulse now for the City of Churches.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Visontay
- 11 June 2010
3 Comments
In the Olympics, the countries with the biggest
populations win the most medals. Not in the World Cup. The United States' underdog status is one of the unifying pleasures of football
fans around the world.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 05 October 2009
3 Comments
The parochial Australian press reaction to last week's Samoan
tsunami shows how editors play on people's sense of
pride to sell newspapers. But the misuse and manipulation of information can
have adverse consequences for third parties.
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AUSTRALIA
- John Warhurst
- 14 April 2009
3 Comments
The undeclared acceptance by Defence Minister Joel Fitzgibbon, while he was in Opposition, of two free trips to China, has raised eyebrows. In politics, such 'free lunches' bring dangers of bias and corruption, but also legitimate benefits.
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AUSTRALIA
- David Corlett
- 16 April 2007
3 Comments
Rather than the fate of the millions of Iraqis now living in desperate insecurity, and the destablising repercussions for the whole Middle East, the debate in Australia continues to revolve around when Australian troops should return.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Stephen Holt reviews Michael Gilchrist’s Wit and Wisdom: Daniel Mannix
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RELIGION
Bruce Duncan looks at the role of the church following the war in Iraq
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