Media Sauce: Was Chris Mitchell running the country?

12 Oct 2016 | Mitchell's constant references to getting drunk might account for the lapses in taste, judgment ...  

Media Sauce: Is public broadcasting about to die?

5 Oct 2016 | Media Sauce is our new weekly column by the inimitable (Doc) Martin Hirst. This week, develop ...  

Dastyari and Irons: Mainstream media and crime in politics

3 Oct 2016 | 'When your mainstream media tell you you’re unhinged (or biased) for questioning them, they’re ...  

Watch This Space: Doc Martin on fascists, patriots, reclaimers and thugs

1 Oct 2016 | Like Greece's neo-Nazi Golden Dawn, Australia has its own fascist thugs, writes Doc Martin Hirs ...  

IA podcast #8: Dr Martin Hirst on Trump, News Corp and factualisation

28 Sep 2016 | In this exclusive member's only podcast, managing editor David Donovan talks to journalist, ...  

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

24 Sep 2016 | Martin Hirst wraps up the week: Daily Tele pinged for a second time, Pauline Pantsdown's spat with ...  

Kathy Jackson in court: You're so vain

20 Sep 2016 | Despite facing 70 fraud and deception charges, the Liberal's former poster girl, Kathy Jackson ...  

Watch this Space: Doc Martin on sale of ASIC, ABC bias and celebs Deb 'n Tarsh!

17 Sep 2016 | Plenty for IA readers to get their Tweets into this week when Media Watch picks on two of Doc's ...  

The great economic divide explained

13 Sep 2016 | Colin Cook discusses the failures of our economic system and why the gap between the "haves" ...  

Watch This Space: Doc Martin on media reform bill — business as usual?

10 Sep 2016 | Dr Martin Hirst deconstructs the Federal Parliament's long overdue media reform bill, due to ...  

The sharks, the scent of blood and Sam Dastyari

7 Sep 2016 | The mainstream media are relentlessly – frenetically – in pursuit of Senator Sam Dastyari over ...  

The mainstream media's unseemly self-praise over Kathy Jackson's charges

3 Sep 2016 | The old media are rewriting history about Kathy Jackson and who broke the story she was rorting ...  

Watch This Space: Doc Martin picks over this week's 18C and Safe Schools bunkum

3 Sep 2016 | Introducing IA's new weekly column by the legendary (Doc) Martin Hirst as he picks over this ...  

Law finally catches up with 'heroic' whistleblower Kathy Jackson

1 Sep 2016 | With Kathy Jackson being charged of 70 offences, all the rats who promoted her as a "brave whis ...  

Fairfax, News Corp and bleeding the ink out of newspapers

28 Aug 2016 | Can you imagine a world where your only media options were News Corp publishing? Who would hold ...  

Daily Telegraph: If you're going to ridicule research do your homework

23 Aug 2016 | The playground bullies at Rupert Murdoch's Sydney comic book have taken to ridiculing academic ...  

How Rupert Murdoch went bad

13 Aug 2016 | According to Evan Whitton, Rupert Murdoch went bad 56 years ago, and stayed bad. Always with an ...  

2016 Census and the erosion of trust

9 Aug 2016 | The weakness of the Coalition Government's argument that the Indigenous and homeless will be ...