Really? Who?
In fact, in a full week of solid reporting on Davos amounting to several thousand words, Shanahan appears to have found only one person prepared to put his name to any favourable comment about “the Australian agenda”: Abbott’s trade minister Andrew Robb.
To be fair, The Australian did run one story which revealed that Labor described the Davos speech as embarrassing. But it seems Murdoch’s minions are hoping that just one accurate story will be lost in the fog of falsification.
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With prime ministerial difficulties continuing and opinion polls plummeting, but 31 months until the next election, can Australians expect more of this?
Fortunately, the reach and influence of the alternative media, including On Line Opinion, is increasing gradually.
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Alan Austin is an Australian freelance journalist currently based in Nîmes in the South of France. His special interests are overseas development, Indigenous affairs and the interface between the religious communities and secular government. As a freelance writer, Alan has worked for many media outlets over the years and been published in most Australian newspapers. He worked for eight years with ABC Radio and Television’s religious broadcasts unit and seven years with World Vision. His most recent part-time appointment was with the Uniting Church magazine Crosslight.
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