I wrote in The Psychopath Epidemic that you can tell a lot about the culture of an organisation by the way they treat whistleblowers. Would a healthy culture…
Following on from my recent post about needing to control the media in order to have influence over the electoral process: According to Denis Muller, Senior Research Fellow…
I’ve been saying it for 20 years. If you want political influence in a democracy, you need to control the media. That’s why I started TPN. That’s why…
News Corp began its corporate life in 1922 as News Limited. It was a company that was secretly established by a mining company owned by the most powerful…
According to The Age, the Defence Minister says Afghanistan will “never again” be a safe haven for terrorists. And on the very same day, The Independent says they already have a…
I’ve seen a number of posts on Facebook today where people say things like “I don’t care, I’ve got nothing to hide”. I used to think like that…
According to the SMH, the Abbott Federal Government’s position on sending asylum seekers back to Sri Lanka is against the law. Australian international law experts have uniformly condemned…
I had the opportunity this morning (5:30am my time!) to participate in a live discussion on Al Jazeera with John Pilger, the famous Australian investigative journalist, supporter of…
Grant Vandersee (@gvandersee) tweeted today about a series of fake Twitter accounts that appear to be sending the same pro-ALP message. So there are fake accounts tweeting pro-#ALP…
Stories that have grabbed my attention over the last day or so. Curing Religious Feelings It’s all about the brain. One day we should be able to use…