Frances Nolan

[...] Jon Faine is a well-known, fairly ferocious radio-presenter on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s ( [...]

[...] which results in the wider issue being obscured. I can’t recall the last time the carbon tax was mentioned in relation to climate change. As I see it, the whole point of the carbon [...]

[...] insurance case found its way to his desk. Faine then ventured into pro-bono work for the public interest which involved working with The Age and the ABC. He managed to weasel his way into a more [...]

[...] anthropogenic global warming to a mainstream audience.  But that was seven years ago and public interest is slowly, but surely, fading away. If the people aren’t interested, why make it an issue? [...]

[...] reflected his humanity, his belief in the country and his compassion for his family and future generations. In less than an hour, the country learned more about Brian Harradine as a Senator and as a [...]

[...] ability and/or desire to research, investigate and accurately report the issues the future generations must face. Al Gore’s documentary ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ was perhaps the most effective way [...]

When I heard that Kevin Rudd had succeeded in becoming the leader of the ALP, I realised that my confidence in Gillard succeeding was severely misjudg [...]

The opening line to Gillard’s misogyny speech ‘I will not be lectured about sexism and misogyny by this man’ is delivered with righteous indigna [...]

[...] .  On the same day, he was also a guest on ABC’s 774 Morning program advocating greater public discussion of youth suicide. Despite efforts such as these to bring this taboo out into the open, [...]

[...] , and Rudd introduced a policy that the Liberals could not oppose. A space has opened for public discussion on the pressing issue of global warming, yet as I read my morning newspaper, it gets no [...]

[...] . A similar intensity of emotions occurred when I listened to Gillard’s farewell speech on ABC radio. Gillard’s expressed her understanding that essentially ‘politics is politics’. Her party [...]