tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post4818113500588123159..comments2024-03-29T10:53:28.617+11:00Comments on loon pond: In which the pond celebrates "je ne suis pas un reptile" ...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-75380833688593359642016-10-21T12:08:49.149+11:002016-10-21T12:08:49.149+11:00https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_Our_Ken#Chara...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_Our_Ken#Characters<br />"Well, I think the answer lies in the soil!" <br /><br />Thanks Dot, you're a marvel. Now I know where it comes from. In 1967 my unforgettable first form high school English teacher often used this phrase when parodying something/someone. I thought it might have had something to do with his time posted in Bundanyabba/Broken Hill and missing front teeth...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-27895163915347537312016-10-21T11:54:18.370+11:002016-10-21T11:54:18.370+11:00Dorothy, not surprising at all to also see the Lim...Dorothy, not surprising at all to also see the LimitedNews manufactured "majority" on song squarking 'Je suis Bill Leak' as they took flight from their auntie's perches and swirled in unison proclaiming the martyrdom of Leak with the rest of the reptiles. <br /><br />http://www.abc.net.au/tv/programs/drum/#/episode/NU1605H199S00<br />The Drum<br />Series 2016 | Episode 199<br />Julia Baird is joined by ... editor-in-chief of Stellar Magazine Sarrah Le Marquand<br /><br />https://mumbrella.com.au/news-corp-launches-new-sunday-magazine-stellar-377364<br />News Corp columnist and editor of opinion site RendezView Sarrah Le Marquand has been appointed to the role of editor-in-chief.<br /><br />http://www.newscorpaustralia.com/brand/stellar<br />Launched in August 2016, stellar is Sunday's new superpower, delivered on Australia's favourite day, it's the largest reaching glossy across the entire eastern seaboard.<br /><br />http://www.stellamag.com/about<br />Stella is a global indigenous movement... (!)<br /><br /><br />http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2016/s4560511.htm<br />Interview: Bill Leak, Cartoonist for The Australian newspaper<br />Australian Broadcasting Corporation<br />Broadcast: 20/10/2016<br />Reporter: Emma Alberici<br /><br />Bill Leak's cartoon about an aboriginal father neglecting his son drew condemnation on social media but the cartoonist says he doesn't understand why anyone would think it was racist.<br /><br />EMMA ALBERICI:<br />Where do you draw the line when you're depicting something on paper? Do you self-censor yourself, especially given what we have seen with the attacks in Paris with Charlie Hebdo? <br />Are you concerned now about the types of images you draw? <br /><br />BILL LEAK:<br />Oh you always have to be. What we saw with the Charlie Hebdo attacks sort of, it just racheted it up to a new level all-together, didn't it? <br />My response to that was to draw a cartoon that did feature an image of the Prophet Muhammad. <br />I thought this would be a kind of natural response from just about every cartoonist in the Western world. <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-66632533363168812162016-10-20T20:34:17.748+11:002016-10-20T20:34:17.748+11:00Yes Quadrant has definitely become the home of unh...Yes Quadrant has definitely become the home of unhinged right-wing ranters.<br />It is interesting to read the Monthly Magazine essay titled The Usual Suspects Quadrant at 50 by Martin Krygier who is the son of Quadrant's founder Richard Krygier. Since he wrote that essay the situation has of course become far worse. <br />Previous to writing the essay Martin was a member of the Quadrant management group but he resigned out of moral sympathy for his good friend Robert Manne who had just been sacked by the right-wing troglodytes who considered Robert to be too left-liberal.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-68017214021148541072016-10-20T19:20:41.987+11:002016-10-20T19:20:41.987+11:00They don't have a readership base. They are sh...They don't have a readership base. They are shouting into a near empty theatre where only a few remain in the front row- glued to the action on stage, but unaware that everyone else has long ago left. That's why they write the same fucking drivel over and over and over again. If it was a normal business they would be toast. Once Rupe toddles off, they will be.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-59802884004818974072016-10-20T14:11:59.628+11:002016-10-20T14:11:59.628+11:00I can't decide if it is good for News Corp'...I can't decide if it is good for News Corp's brand, or bad if they had 2 notable employees found to have breached the race discrimination law?<br /><br />They're campaigning against the law suggests they think it would be a bad thing. But surely it would add to their cred with their readership base?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com