Sunday 9 December 2012

CUT AND PASTE THE OZ 8/12


Someone who isn't credible and can't be taken seriously? Treasurer, say it ain't so!

WHAT is it that comes in threes? AKA, don't blame us, we've only got Wayne Swan's words to go on.
ABC1's 7.30 on Tuesday:
CHRIS Uhlmann: Well, Treasurer, the last time the cash rate hit 3 per cent you described it as an "emergency low", so what is the emergency this time?
Wayne Swan: Well, I think anybody using the term "emergency" to describe our current circumstances or interest rate settings is simply someone who isn't credible and can't be taken seriously.
The Treasurer's economic note on October 18, 2009:
(RESERVE Bank) governor (Glenn) Stevens reiterated his previous statements that interest rates have been cut to emergency levels and that "over time, interest rates will need to be adjusted towards a more normal setting as the economy recovers".
Ray Hadley in The Daily Telegraph yesterday:
THEY reckon one of Swan's advisers once told him he was the least-informed treasurer since Federation. He allegedly replied: "I didn't know that."
The Australian yesterday:
THE head of the University of Sydney Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies has defended his refusal to assist an Israeli civics teacher who has designed programs for Jewish and Arab children with research work in Australia. In a stinging critique of Australia's foreign policy, Jake Lynch said the centre boycotted Israeli institutions "because of the deficiencies of official foreign policy and diplomacy by Australia and other influential states".
Snapshots from a career. From Transdiffusion.org:
ORIGINALLY the Hull reporter on Yorkshire Television's Calendar program, Jake (Lynch) was the first face on Network North. Jake was never the most relaxed presenter though he did improve with time, building up some on-screen chemistry with co-anchor Dawn Thewlis. However, he didn't stay long.
Birth of a nickname. Tim Elliott in The Sydney Morning Herald on March 13:
RADIO is actually (Fran) Kelly's second career. She came late to journalism, at 29, and cheerily admits to having had no training, apart from volunteering at the community radio station Triple R. "What I am really am (sic) is an activist," she says.
Gerard Henderson on Media Watch Dog yesterday:
ON Radio National Breakfast this morning, Fran ( "I'm an activist") Kelly adopted her traditional stance of support for a carbon tax and green energy projects when interviewing NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell. Unlike Ms Kelly, Mr O'Farrell has a sense of humour . . . and the following exchange took place:
O'Farrell: Let's not have Gerard accusing you of being an activist again. The fact is that the private . . .
Kelly: Sorry, Premier. What was that based on?
O'Farrell: I'm just saying let's not have Gerard Henderson accusing you of being an activist again. I'm trying to make a joke . . . sorry it didn't work.
A missed opportunity. Catherine Deveny on Twitter yesterday:
HEY Catherine Deveny haters! Put your money where your mouth is! I'll be in the dunking booth at Brunswick East Primary Twilight Market NOW!
The Economist yesterday:
IN a recent issue of the beloved comic book . . . Clark Kent quits his job as a journalist at the Daily Planet because the paper has gutted its news coverage . . . Yet things have started to look a bit less grim . . . Revenues from advertising are still falling, but those from circulation have at last started to stabilise. At some papers, such as The New York Times, circulation revenues this year are forecast to offset the decline in advertising for the first time in at least five years . . . Gordon Borrell, of Borrell Associates, thinks newspapers are in a similar situation to radio in the 1950s. When TV became popular, many advertisers fled . . . but within several years some returned to radio and ad revenues stabilised at a lower level. By the time this happens to newspapers, Clark Kent may want his old job back.

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