It’s a funny thing, how the most confident expectations are sometimes put pay by the unexpected twist. Take Fairfax Media, for example, which has been quietly informing contributor columnists that their insights are no longer required. A matter of money, you see, and a manifestation of the board’s policy of cutting overhead costs at a […]

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I wrote about the contract for the Australia Network in Quadrant in March, 2013, noting that the Commonwealth auditor-general and even the ABC Lateline program found the deal “shonky”. I would say in addition: The ABC’s $233 million contract from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade to make overseas broadcasts through the Australia Network […]

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The national broadcaster’s Editor In Chief Mark Scott sits atop an ever-expanding, $1 billion-plus behemoth whose excesses, bias and gold-plated indolence he seems incapable of restraining. Not even when a conservative is depicted having sex with a dog does he demonstrate the authority — or is it the gumption? — to make purported underlings heed […]

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