Though I don't much care about the whole controversy over the whole "Mohammad Cartoons" thing (although I do find the protests, the reactions to them and the fallout from both of these to be part of a worrying trend), The Daily Kos has an interesting examination of the issue that goes beyond just the traditional free-speech versus respect-for-other ( Read more... )

I got another LTTE published in Crikey today -
I have seen the accusation of left-wing bias levelled against the ABC more and more often over the last couple of years, but I don't see it. The ABC is still providing balanced and neutral coverage of events just as it has always done. It just looks left-wing now because most of the rest of the media ( Read more... )

A new letter I'm thinking of submitting:

Why are people baulking at using the "R-word" to describe the troubles in The Shire? There are problems with gangs of Lebanese and Middle Eastern youths. They are racists who target white Australians for their violent attacks. Then there are the thugs of the Shire. They are racists who have been trying to ( Read more... )

And I got into the SMH too - towards the bottom under the heading "Our melting pot need not go into meltdown".

*dances around the place*

My letter to the editor got published in Crikey. Top billing too, no less :)

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I just sent this to the letters section of SMH & Crikey:

People are saying that the riots at Cronulla demonstrate "the failure of multiculturalism". If they had occured in somewhere like, say, Auburn or Parramatta, areas with ethnically diverse populations, then these people might have a point. But they didn't. They occurred in The Shire, one of ( Read more... )