funding a year ago. And a quote I threw at Premier Campbell Newman’s feet, on ABC Radio, after he decided ... of the National Gallery in a cave, rather than sending them to Canada. The sudden squall of progressive ... the election campaign, with one radio advert in particular skating the very edge of defamation by alleging his ...

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Point or the lawn outside. Talking on Radio National, architect Sam Marshall spoke of dialogue – ... Radio National) ...

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his speech to the UN Security Council. He was briskly interrogated about his United Nations trip ... by radio. Tony was the man – it all came flooding back – who was stopped on a road outside Darwin ... to make radio contact with Fretilin in the hope of getting the UN special representative into Timor, ...

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to the future of the nation – the rise of China, the global politics of climate change, the need in Australia ... are the servants of the people?” He also quotes from Menzies’ famous 1942 “forgotten people” radio broadcast. “Are ... that multiculturalism threatened to turn Australia into a nation of tribes. His deputy, Peter Costello, thought ...

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on America’s National Public Radio about a stray orange cat that wandered into a Michigan prison where many ... parliament, the first national legislature to do so. “This is either a ridiculous society or a dislocated ...

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his own big business [Illyria] in Australia, he’s got his TV, Channel Ten, he’s got radio and he’s ... of the most influential media men in the country. He presently holds 9% of Channel Ten, 50% of DMG Radio Australia, which owns the Nova and 5AA radio stations, and nearly 9% of Paul Ramsay’s Prime Media Group. ...

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on television and radio, columns in newspapers – all modelled in the rough style of Fox News. Monckton also ... had Rupert Murdoch in mind. Murdoch presently owns newspapers that account for 70% of national ... to throw her weight around. Her friend, John Singleton, who is responsible for 2UE, the radio station ...

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as the other minor parties who rose and fell before them: the Democratic Labor Party, One Nation ... politics. In sheer percentage terms they have eclipsed the National Party, whom they now out-poll by three ... in particular, there was strong resistance to establishing a national party, for fear of undercutting local ...

The Monthly - Sally Neighbour - 2012-03-01 10:55 - 7 comments - 0 attachments

the Gweagal people of the Dharawal nation, the traditional owners of the land now occupied by his ... to Kevin Rudd’s national apology to Indigenous Australians that had brought the chamber to its feet ... and proclaimed himself “proud” of the national apology. Much of the speech could easily have been penned ...

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listening to radio, watching current affairs television and following the newspapers. As it happens, opinion ... and ideological enemies in these final months  – like the National Broadband Network or the education buildings ... in addition, partly through a lack of information, the nation’s journalists have failed to provide an even ...

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business opportunities etc. Peter Mares (ABC Radio National) introduces speakers Nicholas Gruen, ...

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of linking the riots to any underlying racism in middle Australia, much less upbraiding his radio announcer ... Alan Jones on radio 2GB and the Daily Telegraph , reported angrily on the assaults; Jones connected ... This (comment, comment) (December 2010 - January 2011, The Nation Reviewed, POLITICS, SOCIETY, Australian ...

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or radios, so they could go undetected by the enemy,” Jewell wrote in her recently published book Caught ... incidents involving seriously injured or dying personnel, including Australians, Afghan National Army and local nat­ionals”. Yet the public remains largely ignorant of the fact that women are already engaged ...

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of reckoning arrives when radio no longer automatically playlists you and you find yourself, perhaps ... themselves playing to university students seated on refectory floors around the nation. And from these albums ... albums, a few each in the gold rush of concerts, radio play and media acclaim. And where ...

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Calwell and used his new national broadsheet, the Australian , to demand ‘Black Jack’ McEwan succeed ... confessed: “Most Murdoch editors wake up in the morning, switch on the radio, hear that something has ...

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212, and radio stations another 294, for a national total of 555 reports. What does this tell us about ... reports while a party that is a coalition partner in the national government win zero coverage ... And in both countries, Australia and the US, national legislatures are impervious to the idea of increasing ...

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for something.”  Bernardi shrugs off the criticism. Beneath his Ken-doll good looks, smooth manner and radio ... credo is “pro-life, pro-gun, pro-God” and he was once voted ‘Chauvinist of the Year’ by the National ...

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of the state-wide and national newspaper market by a single corporation, News Limited, posed a threat to the health ... by the traditional mainstream media – newspapers, radio and television. Of these three sources for the formation ... source for reporting and interpreting both domestic and international politics. On a daily basis radio ...

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Show are anything to go by. The Book Show has been running on Radio National every weekday at 10 ... books. Given this, and that there is no other book show on national radio, and that for all ... and publishing news”. The manager of Radio National says, “we do want to refocus the program on to fiction … ...

The Monthly - Don Watson - 2011-11-03 06:34 - 9 comments - 0 attachments

Centrebet has released markets on the national unemployment rate, the colour of Queen Elizabeth’s hat at her ... in the Economist indicated that, on average, every adult Australian loses just under $1300 per year. As a nation ... during television and radio broadcasts, subject to the approval of the sport’s governing body. ...

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and the allure of taking up where her last novel left off with Ramona Koval of The Book Show (ABC Radio National).   Presented by the Melbourne Writers Festival, August 2011 ...

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that he has expanded his reach – and his influence – to the huge national audience he has today. He is now ... seems to understand the greater influence that comes from radio and television and, at the same time ... and commentator, who until 2009 also had a high-rating syndicated radio program. O’Reilly was hired by Roger Ailes ...

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in his tractor cab: Radio National from daybreak to sunset. For his part, Merrylees is an accomplished ... the nation to look in their direction. You know much of this, yet it bears repeating because another plan ... and want to outsource everything you regard as vaguely polluting, turning us into a NIMBY nation. Hitching ...

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the paraphernalia that distinguishes this school from others: two-way radios, locked doors, distress monitors. ... is a paediatrician who resigned in 2007 as chairman of the Draft National ADHD Guidelines Committee after his ties ...

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