A TALE OF TWO UPROARS
Research assisted by Lois Lane There are (at least) two furores about gender identitarianism in women’s sport erupting at the moment, but the ABC’s only reporting on one. And it’s...
What 7.30 didn’t tell us about puberty blockers
Australia’s National Health and Medical Research Council is due to present an interim report shortly as it works its way – at a glacial pace – towards the creation of...
Did Sall Grover ever come close to getting a guernsey on the ABC?
The ABC’s Religion and Ethics Division first came to our attention when it published a kidtransing propaganda piece the day after the story broke about the judgment in Re Devin,...
Yankee Doodle
The ABC’s Clare Armstrong rejoices in the title of ‘chief digital political correspondent’. Which means she lurks around the corridors of Parliament House in Canberra and then gets to write...
Motherless Behaviour
Two blokes having a chat about the commodification of women’s bodies: what could possibly go wrong? Well, a fair bit went wrong on 13 May for James O’Loghlin, host of...
The Noises of North Tassie
The magnificent women of Women Speak Tasmania are angry, and rightly so. First, they’re angry that the brand-new Recreation Hub at Mowbray, Launceston, has no single-sex toilets or changerooms. And...
SPOILSPORT!
With women all over the world rejoicing at the International Olympic Committee’s new women’s policy, the ABC goes glum or schtum. Women’s Cooee commentators Vera Figner and Emma Peel observe...
Fed up with writing to the ABC Ombo?
If you’d like to try something a little different, you can do like Phil Dye and start a petition to Parliament. Phil’s done one about getting the ABC out of...
The Good Fight
Scrolling through the ABC Ombudsman’s Report for the 2024-2025 financial year, as one does, I saw on Page 6 that they’ve noted a surprise ‘new entrant’ in the top 10...
Shout-Out to Linton Besser
We were wondering how Linton Besser would go when he took over from Paul Barry as the host of Media Watch at the beginning of last year. Paul Barry had...