Refugees and the media

I was horrified to see on Media Watch on Monday the way the commercial media is demonizing asylum seekers and using dodgy figures to incite public outrage. The public doesn’t argue with statistics provided to them by those ‘reliable’ newsreaders (who are deliberately chosen to be ‘trustworthy’ looking). There is no better way to send [...]

Deep green snobbery?

A letter I wrote to The Australian today.
Dear editor,
Your editorial ‘Deep-Green Snobbery’ (13/12) dismisses any challenge to outer-suburban, McMansion living as ‘class-hatred’. But the green movement is diverse: people from all walks of life are realising that something is wrong. Certainly people with tertiary education are over-represented, but that might be because critical thinking [...]