Wednesday, December 14, 2005
NEWS BRIEFLETS
* ABC staff went on strike earlier this week. Now Sydney Morning Herald staff have also walked out.
* Tireless Tex draws blood in his battle with former Greens candidate Thom Lyons (who refers to himself in one of his emails as a “duel citizen”; not against Tex, he isn’t).
* “Here’s a thought,” writes Mark Steyn. “We should be able to discuss homosexuality, Islam and pretty much everything else in the same carefree way Guardian columnists damn Bush’s America as ‘neo-fascist’”.
* Robert Nicholas, education officer for the Queensland branch of the National Student Union, says vandalism of Senator Steve Fielding’s office is legitimate: “He has made himself a political target by voting for the legislation so he’ll have to live with the consequences.”
* Margo Kingston’s most successful day as an independent blogger was the day she quit.
* Warwick Hughes runs an excellent enviro-skeptic site. (Via reader John E.)