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News

Aug 23

RAW: How The Shoppies Run This State (With Our Money)

The Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees’ Association (SDA) is South Australia’s biggest trade union, claiming a membership of 23,000 – a number inflated by including the Northern Territory – drawn from the retail, fast food and warehouse industries. This tiny minority effectively rules SA and dictates every move of the Labor Government. How? Money.

Aug 19

RAW: What is the current state of the journalism industry?

Recent years have seen the toppling of several of the world’s largest and most venerable newspapers, radio stations and other media outlets and the monopolisation of the few remaining.

Aug 17

RAW: Oh, So This Is What SACA Members Voted For

Ah, the new world of AFL at Adelaide Oval has arrived and as suspected by the whinging naysayers it is not looking anything like it was talked up that it was going to be.

Jul 31

RAW: How Saving Arkaroola Ended Mike Rann

Whether they wished or intended the announcement to go public as quickly as it did is unclear but clearly many in the party were more than happy to start their own dance on Rann’s political grave.

Jul 27

RAW: Maybe Someone Should Tell The Crows’ Board It’s Time To Leave As Well

So, the Crows board kept on with a coach who had many obvious deficiencies in times when revenue and attendances were already falling, the brand was burning and player costs were only going up and now they have debts with terms they may not be able to meet.

Jul 21

RAW: The Other Iran – By Rupert Hogan Turner

Before I left, in my mind I had a list of things that I wanted to do while I was gone. The list included things like “Get a tan” and “eat some nice food”. The list did not include “swim in an Iranian pool exclusively made for bank executives.” Nor did it include “Break between 8 and 30 laws” these and many more were on the list of things I actually did.

Jul 21

RAW: News of the World Scandal in Oz – Part 1

Now with reports of possible phone hacking incidents of 9/11 victims in the US, and with such a strong Murdoch presence in Australia, is it time that we take a look at our own media and make sure that it is completely and utterly, ethically sound?

Jul 20

RAW: In Conversation With – The Significance of Indigenous Art In Contemporary Society – 1K

After fulsomely praising the merits of the second in this year’s series of In Conservation With, hosted by the ABC’s Fenella Kernebone, my expectations of enthralling debate about the role of indigenous art were high. Sadly, it all got off to a very bad start.

Jul 20

RAW: Bye Bye Borders Books

The imminent collapse of Borders Books in the US, following its local demise of a few months back, brings back memories of when Borders was the biggest thing in all of literature and how really nothing ever changes.

Jul 18

RAW: Are House Prices About To Collapse?

For the commentariat – political, media and economic – the force of the mining boom has blocked out hearing those damn tolling bells of struggle everywhere else. Still, it would not be the first time that ‘the experts’ ignored the warning signs in pursuit of the peddling a glowing good news story that keeps them relevant.