Don’t do as I do! Do as I say!
Last time I looked The Australian was not publicly funded. A subtle but significant difference.
Lattouf posted on her private Instagram. How is the ABC involved?
Or are you suggesting that ABC employees don’t have free speech?
The right think free speech is only for the conservatives, everyone else has to do what they say.
5 Likes
Yep, but here is their principles, I think they are not living up to them.
About The Australian
The Australian was first published on July 15, 1964 and is Australia’s largest nationally-distributed circulation newspaper.
It is published every weekday with The Weekend Australian publishing on Saturdays.
The Australian informs and leads public opinion on issues that affect the entire nation. We invest in quality journalism and employ the best journalists and commentators in the country.
Since 1964, The Australian has covered the news and events that have shaped our nation, and advocated for the contest of ideas.
Our journalists are headquartered in our Sydney newsroom, with bureaus in Melbourne, Canberra, Brisbane, Adelaide, Darwin, Perth and Hobart. Our foreign correspondents cover North America, Europe, China and South East Asia and are based in Washington DC, Jakarta, Beijing and London.
Editorial independence and coverage
We cover a wide range of topics including politics, business, sport, world affairs, the arts, higher education, technology, the media, food and wine and more,
The Australian’s news operations are independent of political or commercial interests.
Our journalists are not permitted to request, or accept any money, travel, goods, discounts, entertainment or inducements of any kind outside of the normal scope of business activity.
If a journalist receives free or discounted travel (for example from a technology company to a product launch or a travel company to a destination), this arrangement is disclosed in the relevant content.
Our journalists must not report about shares, securities or companies in which they, their family or close friends have a financial interest without disclosing before publication that interest to the Managing Editor or Editor (or their authorised nominee). This interest must be disclosed in the relevant content.
Ethics policy
The Australian is committed to accurate, fair and fearless publication of news and commentary.
Our editorial code of conduct outlines the standards our journalists must adhere to.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/editorial-code-of-conduct
Verification and fact-checking
The Australian is committed to publishing accurate information in all of our journalism. To uphold that commitment our journalists:
- Must not knowingly publish innaccurate or misleading information
- Must try to always tell all sides of the story when reporting on disputes and take reasonable steps to contact all parties named
- Must not alter direct quotations except to delete offensive language
- Must verify material obtained from social media for accuracy.
2 Likes
Why isn’t that in the Humour thread, since we don’t have a Toilet Paper thread.
1 Like
Idiot journo talking up the Bezos wedding thinks she will look smart to Hun readers if she uses bigger words so wrote about their “sanctimonious matrimony”.
(I used Occam’s Razor torule out she knew what she was writing and deliberately criticised Bezos).
3 Likes
Anyone who talks up the Bezos wedding certainly falls into the Eat the Rich group.
They should be forced to pay another $116m fine.
This certainly a case when an assassin with an automatic should be given a pat on the shoulder, and a “do your best, son”
1 Like
A condition of that grotesque event should’ve been Bezos purchasing at least 50% of residences currently being farmed by Air BnB and rented back to families who’ve lived in that magical place for generations.
Lucky we had all those many years of LNP lifting us up in those very areas. Nice to have a bit of a buffer. The Australian really is just a few fat old little boys sitting in a gentlemens club, scared that Uncy Murdoch’s going to pull the tab at any point.
2 Likes
If only they knew enough about the news that most of the decline we have experienced is directly attributable to the Tory governments … especially those run by Howard and his acolytes.
4 Likes
I read this morning that 10,000 Academic jobs have been stripped from Universities over the past 5 years. Sounds like a lot, is it true?
I know the pressures that you Academic types are under through my Sister-In-Law who is a Prof at UniNSW, and that it was mostly in Arts faculty’s, but 10,000 positions would make it more widespread than that.
Noted also that my old Mate Minister Clare has not honoured his promise to cut the fees that ScoMos mob jacked up. Always been in my experience that all Federal Governments treat Universities like crap and want control. Does it feel like you work at a Corporation these days Comrade !
The last two elections would seem to tell you that people don’t pay attention to the Murdoch press.
1 Like
Not as much no. What a shame they had so many years to rot the lines and undermine the place just in time for multi-tiered global catastrophe.
Under Morrison, funding was directed to the more vocational schools, with the Arts suffering.
Follow Ben Eltham on Blue Sky for the state of play. He has a particular gripe about Vice Chancellor salaries. It’s come to a head at the ANU ( with some concern at the expenditures of the Chancellor Julie Bishop). There’s also been some questions about Shorten’s salary at Canberra University.
I don’t actually have any issues with VC salary, as Universities are huge undertakings and the person in charge and responsible should get lots of money. I do have an issue with how they raise money and where they spend it, and how every 5 years or so they recreate the wheel with lots of changes and restructuring. If we go all the way back to Gough and free University, it did not come without Federal Government wanting more controls and then Fraser wanted more controls and now we have where in order to survive Universities have to continue growth and corporatising everything.
When it comes to Academic salary, I favour massive increases for Professors, as then @Albert_Thurgood can afford to buy lunch.
Just joking Prof 
1 Like
Menzies set up the ANU as a research school. He wanted a first class Research facility for the National Capital, that it wouldn’t be limited to a public service town. It’s been a great resource of expertise for the public service.
The research schools at the ANU have benefitted from a lot of Federal funding over the years, more recently the medical school. The teaching side of the ANU has been the poor relation and has to compete with the Canberra and Australian Catholic Universities to attract students.
I reckon we have far too many tertiary institutions in the first place.
1 Like
I must admit my first reaction to “10,000 jobs” was “that’s about 1000 per decent uni”.