politicalowl

 Tasmanian independent Jackie Lamby might be right. Perhaps the Peter Dutton led Liberals can't win coz they've gone nasty. Nasty they certainly were this afternoon as Michael Sukkar, newly elevated to the post of manager of opposition business, tried to show what a tough guy he could be. Sukkar chose to try and stop Attorney General Mark Dreyfus part way through explaining his personal family links to the Holocaust. Attempts to smear Prime Minister Anthony Albanese for being soft on anti semites is one thing. Trying to paint the Jewish Dreyfus of trying to politicise debate on the subject is another.

The Sydney based duo of Murdoch dailies are having a great time highlighting reports of readers cancelling subscriptions to  The Sydney Morning Herald.  Believe this morning’s editorial and you might think that old granny has hardly a reader left. Now I am very much in the camp of those who found the Glen le Lievre cartoon offensive and  made that clear  soon after it was published. And I was surprised that my old colleague Mike Carlton (he once was a star on a Mike Willesee current affairs program where I was an abject failure) did not add a note to his last column expressing his regret at the illustration accompanying his words the previous week rather than leaving it to the  Herald’  editor to do it yesterday. But be that as it may, I have no doubt that if people buy newspapers on the basis of the views they contain that the Herald  will be winning the circulation battle over the  Tele.  Public opinion, as I see and hear it in, ...