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The day “Bookshelves” Brandis became the Minister for Metadata | gonzomeetsthepress

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A look at life, literature, politics and the media. WordPress.com site. The day “Bookshelves” Brandis became the Minister for Metadata. March 27, 2015. I wouldn’t regard bloggers as journalists … A journalist is for the purpose of this law a person engaged in the profession of journalism.”. Dear Attorney-General George Brandis, I have been a journalist for more than 40 years and I am also a blogger. You hardly ever seem to make any sense, but this time you take the cake in your comments on ABC’s. Today t...

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Hillary’s on the road again; Watch out for the mud | gonzomeetsthepress

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A look at life, literature, politics and the media. WordPress.com site. Hillary’s on the road again; Watch out for the mud. April 15, 2015. April 17, 2015. Get ready for the dirtiest US presidential campaign in history.*. Mrs Clinton chose to launch her campaign on. Using social media to appeal to everyday Americans and sounding like a first-time candidate and not one of the most famous women in the world. http:/ bit.ly/1IEUpXV. She doesn’t appear in the 2-minute video until 1.33, letting those ordin...

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Journalists beware: Rogue cell towers spying on a mobile near you | gonzomeetsthepress

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A look at life, literature, politics and the media. WordPress.com site. Journalists beware: Rogue cell towers spying on a mobile near you. May 4, 2015. Six weeks ago, I posted a piece about the Australian Government’s new law to force telcos to retain data of journalists and everyone else for two years and how dangerous it was for press freedom ( http:/ wp.me/p1Ytmx-kL. Sixteen years ago, I was given an alarming insight into just how often journalists are actually spied on using such powers. It chang...

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A look at life, literature, politics and the media. WordPress.com site. A Banner Day at the SCG: Memories of a Swan Lake. August 9, 2016. August 16, 2016. If you told me 34 years ago that I would be a member of the Guard of Honour of the Sydney Swans footy club at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG), I would have said you’re crazy. And lest I forget, I’d like to thank the membership staff of the Swans — Fern, Kathy, Amy, Melissa, Jamison, Chris, Nic and Anna as always, the friendliest and most helpful ...

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A look at life, literature, politics and the media. WordPress.com site. Malcolm Turnbull: Born to rule; Must keep his cool. January 19, 2016. In the pub near the Northern Sydney suburb of St Ives, where Prime Malcolm attended boarding school, one of the regulars has not joined the I love Malcolm fan club. When asked why, he replies: I didn’t have a view on Malcolm Turnbull, until I met him. It’s not a favourable view, and he says the same could have been said of a former Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd. And a...

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Remembering Soweto 39 years on | gonzomeetsthepress

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A look at life, literature, politics and the media. WordPress.com site. Remembering Soweto 39 years on. June 16, 2015. June 16, 2015. UPDATE: This is a post I wrote a few years ago. I am reposting it, with a few changes, to remember the Soweto Uprising today. This is a day that will never be forgotten in South Africa: the police shooting of student protesters in the black townships 39 years ago that eventually brought down the apartheid government. I still have a mat mold of the front page of. In Johanne...

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A look at life, literature, politics and the media. WordPress.com site. 9 thoughts on “ About. November 10, 2011 at 12:35 am. Found you and Ill never leave you again. July 10, 2012 at 11:09 am. Good to meet you last night. July 10, 2012 at 6:13 pm. Thanks, Bob. Also good to meet you. I sent you an email. Cheers, Tom. August 12, 2012 at 2:21 pm. Love the blog mate. August 12, 2012 at 3:03 pm. It’s nice to get feedback like that! Hope you’re well. July 11, 2014 at 10:06 am. July 12, 2014 at 11:04 am. Brief...

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The Anzacs: We are finally remembering them | gonzomeetsthepress

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A look at life, literature, politics and the media. WordPress.com site. The Anzacs: We are finally remembering them. April 25, 2015. April 26, 2015. Three years ago I attended my first Anzac dawn service, just outside the Roseville Memorial Club in Sydney’s leafy North Shore. The service commemorated the Diggers who were killed in Gallipoli in 1915 a World War I disaster that was called a magnificent defeat because of the bravery displayed by Australian and New Zealand soldiers (the Anzacs). 8220;When I ...

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Remembering Steve McQueen, aka Slam | gonzomeetsthepress

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A look at life, literature, politics and the media. WordPress.com site. Remembering Steve McQueen, aka Slam. May 31, 2015. Film and television editors are a rare breed. I got to know them well when I first went into television as the foreign editor of the Seven Network in Sydney in the early 1980s. I had been a journalist for. Newspaper for nearly ten years, and I didn’t know a grab from an outcue or a live voiceover from a news package. Program, Sky News Australia, Ten’s. Shine Australia, and SBS’s.