The Lavoisier Group, Peabody Coal and the climate deniers

3 Feb 2018 | Global warming skeptics the Lavoisier Group deny funding from the fossil fuel industry, but the ...  

Why the big four banks asked for a royal commission

1 Dec 2017 | The tactics the big banks are employing now have been used in the U.S, by the tobacco, gun, ...  

Think for Yourself: Should Lottoland be banned?

11 Nov 2017 | Is Lottoland just another form of gambling or something more nefarious? IA critical thinker John ...  

IA submission to the Future Of Public Interest Journalism Inquiry

23 Aug 2017 | One of the news stories you may easily have missed, what with the eclipse in America and the ...  

Advertising and the Budget: The $5 billion tax break to make us unhappy

18 May 2017 | Australians will provide a $4.8 billion tax benefit this year to companies to sell us things we ...  

Australian test cricket ends summer on a high, though Channel 9 leaves sour taste

9 Jan 2017 | The test cricket was wonderful, but the advertising was (as usual) appalling, writes Lachlan ...  

Consumer win: Misleading conduct cases turn to scientific evidence

23 Dec 2016 | Recent cases of misleading and deceptive conduct show an increased role for scientific evidence in ...  

Behind the Liberal Party’s #FakeTradie ad: Massif artistic excellence

20 Jun 2016 | The Fake Tradie ad is an insightful piece of subversive modern performance art, says the fake ...  

RESEARCH: Sea level rise from global warming likely to cause massive costs

16 Mar 2016 | A simple relationship between sea level rise and the massive potential costs of future coastal ...  

The Superbowl ... and other adverts with a little bit of sport in the background

8 Feb 2016 | Corruption and advertising in sport. Once again, sports correspondent Lachlan Barker doesn't shy ...  

#CoalisAmazing? A brief history of mining industry spin

14 Sep 2015 | Coal’s critics have had their fun on Twitter with the Minerals Council's latest clumsy ads ...  

Worse than ice: Push to kill off killer alcohol during TV sports broadcasts

29 Jul 2015 | A new push out of Western Australia to reduce advertising for Australia's most dangerous drug on ...  

A father's wisdom

18 Feb 2015 | The venerable Mark Twain of Federal Parliament delivers some timely words of wisdom.  

Here we Joh again! Newman to spend $20m in pre-election ad blitz

19 Dec 2014 | The Campbell Newman LNP Government’s own figures and statements show it is set to spend nearly ...  

Punting on mugs: Australia’s dangerously deceptive gambling ads

18 Nov 2014 | The brazenness with which Australian commercial bookmakers promote their products seems to know no ...  

Here we Joh again! Leopard Newman removes Queenslanders' rights to object to mines

29 Sep 2014 | Just as Queensland considers some of the biggest mining proposals in its history, a midnight ...  

Selling "green" choices to political conservatives

3 May 2013 | Award-winning veteran science journalist, Tim Radford of Climate News Network, reports on new ...  

Alan Jones and 2GB — lessons not learnt

10 Oct 2012 | By pulling all the ads from the Alan Jones Show, 2GB is losing money hand over fist — but have ...