Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
“Edwin Pope (whose writing graced the pages of the Miami Herald for decades) felt a responsibility when he sat down to write. “I held the gun,” Pope noted. “I didn’t want to fire it randomly. I always wanted to be fair, even to people who didn’t deserve it.” When I finish writing an article – […]
“Those little voices you hear in your head aren’t sources.” Thomas Hauser (Counsel for Chris Dawson): Do you agree, just having a look at that, voice 1 is you saying “this podcast series is brought to you by The Australian”? (Hedley Thomas): Yes. Then voice 2 is someone else? A TV reporter. Voice 3 is […]
We’re living in an age when responsible journalism is under siege. Too often, good writing and journalistic sensibilities take a back seat to lesser agendas. I’d like to offer some thoughts on what it takes to be a responsible journalist and good writer Thomas Hauser Now, the soft soil. Now what was that episode about, […]
I was chatting to a well-know fella that I share a love of true crime and racing with the other day (both of us on the side of light, or him anyway), and we were discussing the punt. When sharing his tips for the Bendigo meeting two days hence, the man gave me three. One […]
Remember we told you about 2 years ago that how Phoenix Thoroughbreds – one of Australia’s biggest yearling buyers – was a money laundering scam washing money from a global crypto scam? No-one listened at the time, not the newspapers caught hold of it a couple of weeks after we published our story, and claimed […]
How can a track that has had multi-millions spent to reconstruct possibly be as bad as Ipswich? It simply defies belief. This short clip is from the Stewards vision of a race on Wednesday. They are throwing up clods like they do a heavy. No-one has come out between races to plug the surface. The […]
Detective Constable Daniel Pool is the NSW cold case copper whose investigative genius has put Chris Dawson in the dock fighting for his life on a charge of murder. If it was your life on the line you’d like the police officer putting it there to get the basics right, wouldn’t you? But hey, what’s […]
You called any suggestion of a confirmed sighting as a cruel hoax, didn’t you? Yes. You just decided that you didn’t accept their evidence, is that the position? No, I decided that their evidence wasn’t sufficient to get to the level of it being a confirmed sighting, in my view. So again, it was any […]
In highly unusual circumstances, it has been revealed that the author of The Teachers Pet podcast, award winning journalist Hedley Thomas, this week gave evidence at the murder trial of the accused Chris Dawson under what is known as section 128 certificate, which is legal protection against self-incrimination. Under the terms of the section 128 […]
I am no fan of abortion, with my personal view being that I wouldn’t do it, and would die inside if my Maggie did. Thankfully for both of us, she shares my views. But neither of us are saying we’re right, for it is not our place to do so. We make our personal choices […]
