The Canberra Times – my unpublished letters
Just to show I am an equal opportunity sort of guy and that it isn’t only The Australian which doesn’t publish my letters, here are some which the Canberra Times has decided not to print this month....
View ArticleWomen must fight to win equal pay
An article of mine in Thursday’s Canberra Times on the gender pay gap and the need for women and their unions to take militant industrial action to overcome it. Comments (see the link under the...
View ArticleUnions: fighting against asbestos, unlike the Hawke Labor Government
There was an interesting report in Thursday’s Canberra times about asbestos in the ACT and the union fight against it. Recently released cabinet documents under the 30 year rule show that the Hawke...
View ArticleThe Canberra Times and left-wing writers
I sent this to the Canberra Times, with whom I have a love-hate relationship, on Saturday morning. John D J Taylor wonders ‘if the Murdoch press would so readily publish the views of a far-left H...
View ArticleThe Canberra Times: to renew my subscription or not? Or how the mainstream...
I sent this to the Canberra Times Opinion editor for consideration. John To renew or not to renew, that is the question. A few weeks ago my Canberra Times subscription renewal notice arrived. This...
View ArticleICAC, the Canberra Times and building unions
I have just sent this letter to the Canberra Times in response to Jack Waterford’s article today arguing for an ACT ICAC and using bullshit from the trade union witch hunt to justify it. Given the...
View ArticleSimon Corbell, A.C.T. Labor Party Attorney-General, defend the building union
This is a letter I sent to the Canberra Times on Thursday. John It appears that in the pre-selection process Minister Simon Corbell has lost support among many ACT Labor Party Left faction members....
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The left and the mainstream media
I sent this to the Canberra Times in response to their publication of Rick Kuhn’s good article on the veneer of democracy in bourgeois society. John My thanks to the Canberra Times for publishing...
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The Canberra Times or The Australian?
I am one of those older gentlemen who has read newspapers every day of my adolescent and adult life. For many years now it has been part of my morning routine to read the Canberra Times, the...
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The Canberra Times quotes me in an article on our anti-Reclaim White...
In an article in the Canberra Times on our anti-Reclaim Australia rally on Sunday at Parliament House, Christopher Knaus quotes me: Prior to the arrival of Reclaim, John Passant, of the Solidarity...
View ArticleThe Canberra Times whitewashes Invasion Day
This is the link to my article in Independent Australia about The Canberra Times and its whitewashing of Invasion Day. It starts off: John Passant asks why the whitewash of the Invasion Day protest in...
View ArticleA question to readers of Fairfax media – has the Sheehan finally worn off?
By now most of my Australian readers will know the story. Last Tuesday (24 February) in the Sydney Morning Herald (and online via The Age and The Canberra Times) long time conservative Fairfax...
View ArticleThe Canberra Times – my unpublished letters tell a tale
I thought I would include some of my unpublished Canberra Times’ letters to show the degeneration of the newspaper from the Fyshwick Pravda (always an overstated claim by hyperventilating conservative...
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The Canberra Times’ Big Stoush: Read All About It (From One Perspective)
(IMAGE: asheshwor, Flickr) The Canberra Times is engaged in a ding-dong battle with the ACT Chief Minister, and if you believe the letters to the editor page, it has staggering levels of support. John...
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