tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-113775592024-03-13T20:23:59.438+10:00ARCHIVED - THE DAILY MAGNETCommentary of tremendous social and political import.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger501125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11377559.post-85883877101541968852015-03-22T18:08:00.000+10:002015-03-22T18:08:32.820+10:0050 ways to leave your blubber(ing on)This month this blog is a decade old! It's been one heck of a journey!
The Daily Magnet has seen me through under-grad, 10 YEARS of journalism practice and practise, raising my wee littlees until they were giants, and, 4 PMs & 3 changes of government!
Twaddling on through injustices, heartbreaks, epiphanies and long-distance friendships, The Daily Magnet has bridged so many gaps, but Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11377559.post-38631355598341189962015-01-18T16:24:00.002+10:002015-01-20T16:43:31.396+10:00Race in media content - not all media workers are journalists
Hi there – so, on the 20th of June I made a
complaint about the composition of the Letters to the Editor section in The
Australian. You can judge for yourself:
(Hard to read due to size? Look in the pages sidebar)
Members of the Australian Journalists Association are
compelled by a Code of Ethics to present news content in a way that is balanced
and not biased. I think that is a goodUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11377559.post-28659387626820671762014-12-24T22:55:00.000+10:002014-12-25T23:00:22.443+10:00Not a creature was stirring
Holy cheeses - it's the December holiday already! I have a cold & am just writing briefly tonight to wish all my readers a happy & safe break. Big "cheers" to all the readers (& my uncharacteristically rockin spammers) who have signed up for my twitter feed - hope you're having a great time this long weekend.
I'm planning a New Years Resolutions post - I should be over this Unknownnoreply@blogger.comLaurence G Hanscom Field (BED), 200 Hanscom Drive, Bedford, MA 01730, USA42.470859 -71.28936799999996842.447433 -71.329708499999967 42.494285 -71.249027499999968tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11377559.post-76754558506258431792014-11-14T23:28:00.002+10:002014-11-14T23:28:53.086+10:00Equality in education post - an exercise in persistence In 1954 segregation became illegal in the US, although in the South, a region notorious for white supremacist racist terror and the political oppression of African Americans, the government(s) made no effort to implement the changes. The NAACP pushed for reform by nominating children to enter into segregated 'white' schools. This change arrived in 1960 after little Ruby Bridges (6) began Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11377559.post-64655786829114903662014-10-27T00:19:00.005+10:002014-10-27T00:19:43.117+10:00Please help Julieka Dhu's family - sign their petitionOne of the things I have been planning to post is a link to DICWC(WA)'s campaign for an independent inquiry into the death of young Julieka Dhu - there was a national protest on Thursday and there is a petition that you should all sign.
Julieka, 22, was imprisoned for unpaid traffic fines but living in the remote North West of Western Australia getting around is almost impossible without a car, Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11377559.post-76054984817531505222014-10-26T18:53:00.001+10:002014-10-26T18:54:46.020+10:00Subscribe by emailThere are a few of you who drop by this page regularly to check for updates. I know they've been sorely lacking over the last few months - I had some technical difficulties... :{{
However, if you want to keep up to date without the hassle of visiting just sign up for email notifications (in the right hand side bar) and then new posts will be delivered into your inbox.
It's just an optional Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11377559.post-15738129386069538402014-10-26T18:27:00.000+10:002014-12-07T13:22:46.522+10:00Old school journos - lifters not leanersSomewhere in my writer's muddle, I have a paper that examines the work of Gary Hughes and Gerald Ryle - two traditional journalists who touched on the placement of domestic spies and police into the Australian media.
This was only a small facet of a larger investigation by the journalists of Victoria's Special Branch, whose mass surveillance practices were outlawed in the 90s. Media Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11377559.post-69292439406401399432014-10-26T16:29:00.003+10:002014-12-07T13:09:30.492+10:00Where in the world is: Would-Be-Roger-Moore? How to spot him...
At the moment I’m re-reading
Phil Rees Dining with Terrorists (2005).
It’s a controversial book and not one
you travel around with, without the obligatory, innocuous, fluffy puppy and
flowery covering. Just the word terrorist is problematic for a journalist. It’s a
fully loaded term – or rather, it has become a fully-loaded term by journalists
who’ve become synonymous with regurgitated Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11377559.post-43244725877275440502014-09-14T15:15:00.000+10:002014-09-14T15:15:02.475+10:00What type of justice are you shopping for? Update...
##UPDATE
In response
to questions that have followed from yesterday’s post, there are a few things I
should add:
That the overly attentive bald fellow
in question is not actually any type of
friend – I was being sarcastic – deadly funny, I am;
This specific type of interference/harassment
routinely coincides with court cases relating to police human rights abuses – not army – and Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11377559.post-51851671222613489622014-09-13T16:38:00.000+10:002014-09-13T16:38:09.602+10:00What type of justice are you shopping for?Four stories from yesterday's news inspired this post. Now I have to thank my very special hair impaired friend for going so far out of his way to remind me so clearly yesterday afternoon, to check what cases were going through the courts. Bingo. It was quite a shadowy day, in the big picture of things. I did make a FB post about this yesterday, to acknowledge my follicly challenged Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11377559.post-38177725833339282772014-08-31T15:58:00.002+10:002014-08-31T15:58:54.418+10:00Another Bloody Sunday
TODAY: Sad news in Pakistan #Islamabad where 300 anti-corruption protesters have been hospitalized, the number of dead, unknown. After violently attacking all media present, police released an official order to cease filming and broadcasting the bloodshed of protesters.
Government spinners have since claimed that the news cover was escalating and perpetuating the protests.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11377559.post-15441006696692592322014-08-17T16:40:00.001+10:002014-08-17T17:07:34.326+10:00An Apple a day keeps the tech-heads in pay
So the long-promised education post became an onerous task after the
hacking of my computer and iPhone in mid-July - hence the delays. While my
iPhone is still working, it is clear that problems remain and they have curbed
my indulgence in podcasts (sadly, I am a retro girl - but podcasts are a really time-effective way of catching up on news, latest education Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11377559.post-86456232678741892502014-08-11T02:30:00.001+10:002014-09-01T02:34:59.074+10:00Quick noteDesperate times call for desperate measures. It would seem that there is not much levity around at the moment, so excuse Junior (gratuitous cat pic to the right).
There are some concerning issues in the news currently and it is hard to blog about upbeat topics when there are such dreadful events suddenly springing up around the globe - ebola outbreaks, war, civil unrest, religious persecution, Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11377559.post-67079336874372141752014-06-16T20:43:00.005+10:002014-06-16T23:19:31.397+10:00Media brandings, spin, propaganda & other mischiefSo this post is re-visiting the US Guantanamo debate, which is very complex but important insofar as it is a robust examination of detention conditions, torture and human rights - and, moreover, it is an examination that is being openly conducted by the public (& world media), based on the highest expectations of that public about democratic standards, humaneness and judicial independence. Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11377559.post-11472799832850183682014-06-01T19:24:00.002+10:002014-06-29T21:03:54.302+10:00Reconciliation week: Echoes of Stolen GenerationsHaving researched contemporary and past historic cases of unlawful child removal by the government - past and present, one of the things that remains consistent in that data, is the complete lack of transparency of individual workers, who can act unlawfully, with total impunity.
DCP's claims of 'neglect' can be flexuously wielded as means of racial dominance, in what is the Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11377559.post-78679825282700407492014-05-26T17:31:00.000+10:002014-06-29T20:20:17.371+10:00'Sorry' seems to be the hardest word - ##NB Warning - there are images of deceased persons at the end of this postWhy is 'sorry' more relevant today than every before? 'Sorry' really isn't about just yesterday. It isn't just about the Stolen Generations anymore. It is quite a complex thing to understand - it's about today, & what we allow to happen in our society, today.
##NB Warning - be aware if you scroll down the page, that there are names and images of deceased persons, towards the end of Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11377559.post-80835395447720929602014-05-26T05:06:00.001+10:002014-05-27T00:40:43.390+10:00Three decades of SA justice history: Derek BromleyApril 28th marked 30 years since the prison gates slammed shut behind South Australian man, Derek Bromley. A victim of the government's 'Stolen Generations', Bromley's supporters are the first to admit that as a youngster, Bromley epitomized the 'rebel without a cause'. They would probably contend that it was his larrikin background, plus his Aboriginal heritage, andUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11377559.post-65826616279447790372014-05-21T03:34:00.003+10:002014-05-21T03:50:34.530+10:00Catching upA few substantial obstructions to blogging have cleared in the last fortnight, not least of which has been some outstanding issues from uni that have been revisiting me.
Two days afterwards, my poor old long-serving notebook died of repair-start-loop-related-heat-exhaustion. We've been together so long the new rig will take a little getting used to. I miss XP already (I insisted Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11377559.post-75784284282490208212014-04-16T05:54:00.001+10:002014-04-16T12:28:24.830+10:00Is that all there is?I know that I give The West a lot of robust scrutiny, but I do regularly (at least a few times a year ;} ) read reasonable or even interesting stories in it. Over my coffee today, I read an interview with a writer. He had commenced his professional life as a scriptwriter - of some note, but not much merit in my opinion - although that's neither here nor there because you can'tUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11377559.post-71093322644874432282014-04-08T03:16:00.003+10:002014-04-12T02:41:10.290+10:00Brandis' masterplan to repeal race hate prohibition and the Racial Discrimination Act [1975] Within the current debate about the Commonwealth Attorney General repealing or amending sections of the Racial Discrimination Act, one aspect strikes me as a bit anomalous.
Can I really be the only person contemplating this elephant in Mr Brandis' room?
The public is well aware that in the post-911 political climate, & more so since the revelations of CIA Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11377559.post-23316779371488685112014-04-05T20:13:00.001+10:002014-05-21T17:10:16.117+10:00Local stuff So the 'extraordinary case of Matt Smith' throws a new light on today's revelations on the cover of The Weekend West regarding lost forensic evidence. It is amazing how the WA Police Service never ceases to find ways of avoiding effective internal scrutiny.
In other news from WA's mainstream monopoly...Corrective Services are considering opening a vets wing in WA jails, notUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11377559.post-58414888175057468412014-02-23T17:41:00.003+10:002014-03-24T04:46:41.853+10:00Experts - Indigenous affairs - whose the cool crew, whose not allowed to talk, who decides and why?I know that a lot of readers who visit this blog are interested in the issues surrounding Aboriginality and human rights - so this clip of Noongar academic and activist, Robert Eggington, will be of interest, as he is one of Australia's foremost speakers on these vital matters.
Interestingly, Mr Eggington, who is a very esteemed expert, raises the issue of censorship, favouritism Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11377559.post-13679819693405176722014-02-23T02:01:00.002+10:002014-02-23T02:01:54.129+10:00FoI, Public interest disclosures (whistleblowing), damage control, govt spinners & Edward SnowdenHave I ever mentioned how much I love reading Open & Shut?
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11377559.post-34979224676302963192014-01-22T00:14:00.000+10:002016-05-09T02:51:25.972+10:00Spratt taser case draws to a partial closeThe two police officers who have copped the brunt of the fallout from the Corruption and Crime Commission's exposure of the prisoner abuse of a mentally-ill, homeless Aboriginal man, have each been convicted of three counts of assault.
The CCC Inquiry into the use of tasers in the arrest and detention of Kevin Spratt during a week in police and prison custody during 2008 found the man had been Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11377559.post-41116609420993762072014-01-21T01:26:00.004+10:002014-02-23T02:03:10.951+10:00So many 'bikie' answers, though the 'bikie' questions are MIA - hmmph, unsettling...I may be a bit elusive over the next few weeks. Apologies. I will get back to the parallel of the Guantanamo evaluation to Australian detention conditions, soon.
I read this this morning and thought it might be of interest to some of the readers of this blog. This is a very interesting op-ed from Terry Goldsworthy regarding the recent and really quite unique Qld bikie laws. From Unknownnoreply@blogger.com