Holiday News Round Up

Apologies for the projected silence ... I'm on holidays, blogging on a library computer, and a weird feeling it is too.

Other than the passage of El Packer, it's satisfying to report that very little has happened over the holiday period (unlike this time last year, when we were all still absorbing the shock of the Boxing Day tsunami). I note that one Alan Bedford Jones plans to add Crikey to his long list of litigation targets (a list which includes just about anyone who's criticised him on the public record), for publishing 2UE rival Mike Carlton's article claiming Jones' racially inflammatory attitude helped spur the Cronulla riots. Two observations: Firstly, could Jones - as I earlier suggested when I blogged this article - be walking himself smack bang into the first legal test of the new sedition laws? Secondly, has Jones ever listened to Carlton's Friday News Review? Clearly not ... :)

Secondly, I note that the SMH's Michael Duffy took only four months to uncover the unhappy truth about the Liberal candidate for Macquarie Fields and so-called whistleblower nurse, Nola Fraser - that she was at best a misguided sensationalist, and at worst, delusional. His article was based partially on the Sunday Show's expose of the Camden and Campbelltown Hospital affair - which, he claims, `the media ignored'. Well, not all the media, Michael. Vive la blogging, as usual!

On that note, this is likely to be my last post before New Year's, so drive safely, party safely, and have a safe one everyone.