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...
ANOTHER ABC FIB ABOUT KIRRALIE SMITH!
We’ve said it before, Aunty, and now we’ve got it say it again: Just because Kirralie Smith is a right-winger it doesn’t mean you can tell lies about her. The...
ABC SCHTUM ON STRUM
Back in 2022, when Paul Barry had a go at his fellow-journos at the ABC for not reporting on the closure of the UK’s Tavistock youth gender clinic, one Julia...
ABC EnCompassed
It could well be argued that the ABC’s hosting of Vote Compass represents a significant mission stray for an organisation that is, after all, just a broadcaster, and a taxpayer-funded...
KID-TRANSING REVIEWS: Who Pats Didn’t Talk to, and What She Didn’t Tell Us
The last week of January saw big action in Australian kid-transing. On Tuesday 28th, the Queensland government announced it was going to conduct an independent review into puberty blockers, and...
Somebody – apart from us – has finally said it
(Not in words though …) Over the last couple of weeks there’s been a new rush of experts telling the ABC what it ought to do to get its audience...
They’re a downer
‘They’ as a singular pronoun for an identified person? Aunty, it’s not going to happen; and trying to make it happen just makes your journos look incompetent – and exasperates...
The Vocabulary of Misogyny
The NSW Parliament crumbled to the trans lobby on 17 October and passed Alex Greenwich’s ghastly ‘Equality’ bill. Jeremy Fernandez, trans-lobby moonlighter, heralded the imminence of this triumph for misogyny...