Cotton Ward

you couldn’t make it up.

He should be moved to another portfolio, pronto.

David Marr writes re: the book publishing industry stoush: “One side issue to emerge: the strange lack of confidence in both scrutiny and competition shown by the Productivity Commission’s decision to sit tight on its 240-page report all day yesterday until 3 o’clock. This, a spokesman told the Herald, was to achieve market neutrality between TV, radio and newspapers. He wasn’t joking.”

Earns the TULIP of the Week Award.

"If you threw rocks at Paul Keating, the only thing that got hurt were the rocks."

Brilliant article by Ross Gittins about how democracies can work best. Which is why newspapers are best because they give space for analysis. Radio lifts the newspapers’ hard work and discuss it. Free. At least it’s being discussed further.
Then commercial news bulletins often get off-track with spin.