by DAVID HARDAKER | Jul 29, 2025 | Media, Opinion
Hallelujah! A lightbulb moment. Today The Politics will not be negative or carping or sarcastic. No backhanded snide comments in a pathetic attempt at “humour”. We will instead be constructive and engage in solutions-based journalism which presents a more positive...
by DAVID HARDAKER | Jun 20, 2025 | Media, Opinion
In another week of global horror and mayhem, something relatively small has stuck with me: the apparent fall from grace of one of the ABC’s best reporters, defence correspondent Andrew Greene. Greene has always looked to be rock solid, reliable, honest — all those...
by DAVID HARDAKER | Nov 27, 2024 | Media, Opinion
At what point do we say the ABC has imploded? To me it feels right about now. It’s not that ABC HQ would suddenly collapse in on itself à la the World Trade Center. The evidence would be a drop in quality to the point that one day a loyal ABC consumer would give up...
by PETER GRESTE | Nov 22, 2024 | Media, Opinion, The Scrum
In June 2019 the Australian Federal Police raided the home of News Corp journalist Annika Smethurst and searched it. The next day it went into the ABC’s Sydney headquarters in Ultimo searching for evidence of sources to stories that relied on leaked classified...
by PETER GRESTE | Jul 4, 2024 | Media
For years, Australia’s politicians bickered about Julian Assange, but in the months before he came home, they reached a remarkable consensus. “This case has dragged on far too long,” Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told parliament. “There is nothing to be gained by...
