Gareth Hutchens
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ABC reporter. Economics. Business. “I never knew a man could tell so many lies, he had a different story for every set of eyes.”
Parliament House, Canberra
Joined December 2010
“As soon as man can disobey with impunity, his disobedience becomes legitimate.”. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762.
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RT @AnitaBrown02: Pleasantly surprised to find such an honest article about media behaviour on @abcnews site. Hope to see more of it @grh….
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People want the truth. They want reporters to be courageous. But when it comes to media literacy, Australians might be shocked to learn how difficult it is for the media to write about the world in plain language.
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What timing. Sit down to read about big tech in the 1930s, and this little thing pops up on my screen.
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Our newsrooms have trapped themselves in the death-logic of passive language.
U.S. Correspondent Lauren Tomasi has been caught in the crossfire as the LAPD fired rubber bullets at protesters in the heart of Los Angeles. #9News. LATEST:
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If we want to live in a world in which individual human and civil rights mean anything, certain groups in society must not be allowed to behave with impunity.
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On the “dole bludger” rubbish that’s being deliberately fanned at the moment. Remember this story, published a week before the 1975 election. It ran in three Murdoch papers. In my next tweets, see what the story said about the girls, then see why the girls complained about it
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(4/4). The RBA reviewers want to strip subsections 2-7 from Section 11 of the Act.
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Regarding the RBA review's recommendation that the Government be stripped of its power to overrule the RBA (a power that's never been used). It's their very first recommendation. Here's the history of why that power is in the legislation. It's for democratic reasons:. (1/4)
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The full-time share of employment in Australia is back to where it was a decade ago
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Why are voters abandoning the Liberal Party? What does liberalism stand for today?
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From 1944, before the "Australian Dream" of widespread home ownership had been created by governments. An official from a Housing Commission tells a public meeting that the private sector shouldn't fear govts getting into the home-building game. The Age, 21 June, 1944
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The Housing Industry Association says population growth is so high the building industry can't keep up. It needs more migrants to be skilled in the trades required to build homes. From its media release today:
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