In January this year, 128 year old newsmagazine, The Bulletin was shut down by its publisher. Although there had been attempts to keep the mag relevent, including a move to online, it wasn’t successful enough to justify the cost of publishing. There are a lot of news magazines / papers who must be looking at [...]

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I was on the Opinion page of the Sydney Morning Herald this morning when I saw a banner advertisement for a “free” real estate service. A few clicks in, it was revealed that there were indeed charges incurred for using this “free” service. So what happens when a consumer compains about false advertising? I decided [...]

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I checked out the Telegraph, Australian, SBS, ABC, Indymedia and Sky News websites and below are the best three photos I could find of today’s protests. None fully capture the ‘sea of people’ that was in the city, but they’re better than the Steve Jacobs photos at the SMH website. Cam at Sydney Indymedia Ariadne [...]

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The Sydney Morning Herald website is running a gallery of ten photos of the industrial action taken by thousands of workers in Sydney’s CBD. But you won’t see thousands of workers in the photos… Not one of the Fairfax photos has more than 200 protesters in it. Fairfax’s photos make the protest look like a [...]

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