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Watch this Space: Doc Martin on the Tele's gaffe, Pauline Pantsdown, RAAF

Martin Hirst wraps up the week: Daily Tele pinged for a second time, Pauline Pantsdown's spat with The Oz and hurried changes to the Crimes Act après botched [...] 
Doc MartinMartin Hirst@ethicalmartini
Kathy Jackson in court: You're so vain

Despite facing 70 fraud and deception charges, the Liberal's former poster girl, Kathy Jackson, strutted, posed and rolled her eyes for the press outside a [...] 
Peter Wicks@madwixxyKathy Jackson
Watch this Space: Doc Martin on sale of ASIC, ABC bias and celebs Deb 'n Tarsh!

Plenty for IA readers to get their Tweets into this week when Media Watch picks on two of Doc's fave former students, the eternal fight over Aunty's bias (is [...] 
Watch This SpaceDoc MartinMartin Hirst
The great economic divide explained

Colin Cook discusses the failures of our economic system and why the gap between the "haves" and "have-nots" is only deepening, via a modern-day parable. [...] 
Colin Cookinequalityinequity
Watch This Space: Doc Martin on media reform bill — business as usual?

Dr Martin Hirst deconstructs the Federal Parliament's long overdue media reform bill, due to report back to the Senate in November. 
Doc MartinMartin Hirst@ethicalmartini
The sharks, the scent of blood and Sam Dastyari

The mainstream media are relentlessly – frenetically – in pursuit of Senator Sam Dastyari over a meagre $1,600 donation — but why? Dave Donovan expla [...] 
Sam DastyariBarnaby JoyceChinese donations
The mainstream media's unseemly self-praise over Kathy Jackson's charges

The old media are rewriting history about Kathy Jackson and who broke the story she was rorting HSU members' funds.  
Craig ThomsonPeter Wicks@madwixxy
Watch This Space: Doc Martin picks over this week's 18C and Safe Schools bunkum

Introducing IA's new weekly column by the legendary (Doc) Martin Hirst as he picks over this week's bunkum on 18C and Safe Schools from our bigots and [...] 
Martin Hirst@ethicalmartiniRita Panahi
Law finally catches up with 'heroic' whistleblower Kathy Jackson

With Kathy Jackson being charged of 70 offences, all the rats who promoted her as a "brave whistleblower" are suddenly silent. Luckily, Peter Wicks remembe [...] 
Peter Wicks@madwixxyKathy Jackson
Fairfax, News Corp and bleeding the ink out of newspapers

Can you imagine a world where your only media options were News Corp publishing? Who would hold the powerful to account [and] how would we know verifiable [...] 
Martin Hirst@ethicalmartininewspapers

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