Sunday 11 August 2013
The Christian Democrats tread a strange path in the 2013 federal election campaign
Wednesday 7 August 2013
The Liberal Party's 'white bread' campaign advertisement
Thursday 1 August 2013
CSG industry begins to spend "multi-millions of dollars" to drown out Northern Rivers and other communities across Australia
The Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association, which represents more than 80 full member companies and 250 associate member companies, kicked off the 'Our Natural Advantage' campaign last night.
A spokesperson for APPEA declined to comment on the exact amount but said the spend was "significant" and "in the multi-millions of dollars". The TV ads will be supported by print and radio……
Unfortunately for APPEA and Metgasco the Australian media is not always obliging:
Australian Financial Review Editorial & Opinion, 30 July 2013
Friday 5 July 2013
Coles stores in the Northern Rivers may not brush off customer concerns so quickly after this ACCC media release
Coles pays infringement notices for alleged misleading country of origin claims
1 July 2013
Tuesday 19 February 2013
Has to be the worst ad placement yet
Saturday 9 February 2013
Truth in advertising and the coal seam gas industry
- 4 September 2012
Does she really want CSG?
Perhaps an NCV reader can answer these questions.
Tuesday 9 October 2012
Alan Jones not as popular with radio listeners or sponsors even before his latest distasteful remarks?
Radio station 2GB has the Alan Jones show on air in the 5.30am to 9am time slot from Monday through to Friday.
- Alan Jones had dropped 1.7 points of potential airtime share for his morning time slot between 24 June and 1 September 2012, down 2.4 points on the comparable survey period twelve months ago.
- His listener age demographic (popularly believed to be predominately those 50 years of age and older) has also been quietly falling away from the radio station since at least early 2010.
Wednesday 3 October 2012
2GB haemorrhages advertisers and Jones loses appeal against court ruling that he indulged in "racial vilification"
Friday 7 September 2012
Wednesday 15 August 2012
Ya can't say f&^k in a Facebook ad
I have removed the posters from the clubs facebook pages as of 30 July 2012.
Thursday 19 April 2012
'Push to add drama' (video)
Thursday 12 January 2012
Label says "organic" and "non genetically modified"? Buyer beware!
Eat well indeed! I won’t get caught like that again.
Sunday 8 January 2012
That's it! Kraft's off the menu on Australia Day
At first I thought April Fool’s Day had come early this year, then I remembered that we’re talking about Kraft here.
Saturday 7 January 2012
Classic Aussie Blackboard Advertising
Sunday 20 November 2011
Northern Rivers businesses on notice regarding future carbon tax claims made to consumers
Sunday 14 August 2011
Thursday 28 July 2011
MeadowLea and The Case of the Missing Non-GM Oils
Snapshot from MeadowLea About Our Products Ingredients, 26 July 2011
MeadowLea promotes its margarines as Non GM on the outside of its tubs.
However, on the base of the these same tubs a question arises as to the legitimacy of this claim.
Firstly, only the canola seed is claimed to be Non-Genetically Modified on the tub bases.
Secondly, on the bottom of Salt Reduced and Extra Light tubs, I've noticed the claim only covers part of Vegetable Oils 65% (Containing 52% Canola & Sunflower Oils) and Vegetable Oil 31% (Containing 26% Canola & Sunflower Oil) respectively.
So what is the nature of the remainder of the vegetable oil (13% and 5% in the examples quoted) called plant & seed oils on its website and hidden within the term Vegetable Oil(s) on its tubs.
Could it possibly be from plant material that cannot be guaranteed as Non-GM?
Hhmmmm.....
Tuesday 21 June 2011
Look how far the Liberal Party hasn't moved in the last year
The Australian Libs and Nats are definitely a one-note coalition under the leadership of Tones of the Fork-ed Tongue Abbott.
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Tuesday 17 May 2011
Magistrate orders Berlin held in custody until early June
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The Daily Examiner on 17 May 2011:
John Xavier Berlin is in jail.
An advertisement placed by Berlin in a Clarence Valley newspaper earlier this month was deemed by Magistrate David Heilpern in Grafton Local Court yesterday as a breach of bail.
Berlin, 62, of Maclean, already on a 12-month good behaviour bond for offences of impersonating police last year, had last month been granted bail on 14 other criminal charges, many involving impersonating police.
But an ad in the Clarence Valley Review's Memoriam classified section in early May, a dedication to a police constable who was killed on duty in Sydney in 1989, stated that it had been inserted by former NSW Police Commissioner Peter Ryan and "former Australian Police DCI John Xavier Berlin - shot 28.12.96".
Berlin, through his barrister David Imlah, denied placing the advertisement.
Mr Imlah said Berlin suffered "difficulties" in his lumbar spine, was on heart medication and suffered from a psychiatric disorder which was not named in court.
"Mr Berlin is a very unusual man and I find it very difficult to represent him at times," he said.
Police prosecutor Mark Sinclair outlined an email trail showing that Berlin had in fact paid for the ad in question.
"This accused is thumbing his nose at the courts," he said.
Mr Heilpern said the prosecution had a very strong case.
"Who else has a vested interest in claiming that he was shot on duty? Who else would pay money to claim that he was a DCI (detective chief inspector)? The answer is, of course, that nobody does," Mr Heilpern said.
"Mr Berlin lives in some parallel universe in which, again, someone has conspired to place an ad in a local paper.
"It's a world of fantasy and make believe and he is seeking to hoodwink the court.
"Police contacted the ex-police commissioner Peter Ryan in the UK and he denied all knowledge of the placement of that ad."
Berlin was denied bail and will next appear in Grafton Local Court on Monday, June 6, at which point, Mr Heilpern said, the court would re-evaluate the situation.
Berlin's charges include using a police insignia, making a false statement to obtain money, and making false accusation subject other to investigation.
Monday 25 October 2010
Around the traps in the last few days.....
A bit of free promotion APN didn't need?
With the euthanasia debate heating up, I was amused to see that APN Outdoor received a bit of free promotion on the nightly news last week after one of its outdoor billboards advertising in Yagoona ran a large advert promoting the pro-choice position. Probably won't please the bishops.
Fine print on the back of that NBN envelope?
NATIONAL Broadband Network users will not be able to use their telephones in a power failure unless they pay for a back-up system.
Telstra copper lines will be replaced by NBN fibre as part of the $11 billion deal with the federal government.
NBN Co has a hands-off approach to ensuring lines will be available at all times.
Customers will rely on the fibre network for broadband and fixed telephone services. Each home and business will need a network termination unit for power.
The unit needs a standard 240 volt, 10 amp power outlet and without that it cannot work.
If the unit loses power, telephone lines will not work unless NBN users have a back-up battery system, an optional item under NBN Co guidelines.
The peak electrical body says NBN Co and the government must ensure service providers guarantee basic telephone services or people's lives could be in danger in emergencies.
The company says it will not supply, install or maintain the battery back-up. That means network users will have to purchase a back-up unit and battery, and ensure the unit is next to a power outlet.
Users must buy the back-up unit from their NBN service provider. The 12V 7.2Ah sealed lead acid battery for the back-up costs about $50. {The Australian 22nd October 2010}
NSW water raiders using #agchatoz to tweet their displeasure....
nswirrigators: 464 pages of Volume Two of #basinplan just released online. Saving the environment by ruining a forest? http://tinyurl.com/3x4umuw #agchatoz
nswirrigators: 3.30pm on the day #basinplan volume two was meant to be released and nothing yet. These people do not learn... #agchatoz #abcrural
A victim of friendly fire
"This is a debate that Australians need to have about the future of banking, and the banks now are clearly ignoring the government," Mr Hockey has said. "The Australian people need to know where the banking system is going."....
Liberal MP Don Randall launched into a withering attack on Mr Hockey's suggestion, labelling a "typical lunatic fringe idea" from the Greens - until it was pointed out that it came from the Coalition's top money man. "It's really going to have a negative effect on our economy ... it's really a worry". {news.com.au 21st October 2010}
Ad astra takes on Tony
Take the attack on the Government by Tony Abbott over the contemporary court martial of three Australian soldiers in Afghanistan. In a particularly contemptible assault he accused the Government of ‘stabbing the soldiers in the back’ and not giving them the support they deserved, of abandoning these men fighting as they are for their country. It was a powerful and aggressive strike. Yet what did the mild-mannered Stephen Smith say? He said Abbott’s words were ‘unfortunate’. Too right they were, but in the hurly burley of politics, words hardly like to make headlines, hardly likely to effectively rebut the Abbott charges.
I would have preferred him to say to Abbott: “How dare you have the temerity to make such outrageous accusations. It was the Howard Government, in which you were a minister that created the process for such trials of servicemen thought to be in contravention of the rules of engagement, and it had bipartisan support from Labor. You know perfectly well that in this process Government has no part to play, nor have politicians or politics. You know that this Government wants the process YOU established to bring about a considered outcome and that it wishes to play no part in it. Yet you come along with this completely illegitimate accusation which you know is dishonest, in order to score political points. And you were only too willing to enlist Alan Jones to promulgate this deception, something he was only too ready to do. Worse still, you allowed him, without contradiction, to denigrate the female prosecutor for laying the charges, even although you knew that she was acting completely in accordance with the process the Howard Government established. How dare you behave in this disgracefully disingenuous way, cast aspersions on those involved, and the Government too, although it is NOT involved. This is worse even that the usual low standards of political discourse which you employ. You are a disgrace.” {The Political Sword 22nd October 2010}
Too much fiction in Pollieville, U.K.?
A BRITISH MP enraged her constituents and her party after letting slip that her blog, which tells people how hard she works, is "70 per cent fiction".
Nadine Dorries, a Conservative MP for Mid Bedfordshire in southern England, made the admission to investigators during a sleaze inquiry that cleared her of abusing the Government's expenses system but found that she misled voters. {news.com.au 22nd October 2010}