Jeff Kennett
TGIF, right? The weekend, of course, plays a huge role in our collective consciousness.
Rebecca Black doesn’t feel any need to get down on Tuesday. Rappers don’t name their Rollerskating Jams ‘Thursdays’.
Yet, recently we’re being lectured by those at the top of society’s payroll that we should start treating weekends just like any other days of the week. Suddenly, it seems like everyone who’s ever looked out a high-rise office window with a scotch in hand is against paying workers more on Saturdays and Sundays.
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When Hawthorn looked like crashing out of the finals, former Victorian Premier Jeff Kennett came to the rescue.
Kennett, the Hawks’ president, didn’t flinch when he gave the Hawks players and coach Alastair Clarkson a giant kick up the butt last week. His strong criticism gave the media plenty to fuel in the lead-up to the Hawks’ do-or-die match against Melbourne.
Captain Sam Mitchell defended his Hawks teammates and an “outcoached” Clarkson after their pitiful loss to the Sydney Swans, while former Hawk star Shane Crawford hit out at Kennett.
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Brendan says:
Jeff only stuck the boots into Hawthorn because he saw how Brett Ratten’s spray got Carlton fired up the previous week. However, where the players might react positively to their own coach privately and publicly slagging them off, a public spray from an outspoken politician turned president, with limited afl… Read more »
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Peter says:
Your dreaming… Read more »
Channel Nine’s decision yesterday to cave in to the bullying of the Victorian Government and Beyond Blue is deeply depressing. No doubt the network could see it was in a lose-lose situation.
Even if it were to win in the courts and have the injunction lifted which prevented it from broadcasting a 60 Minutes piece on the suicides of four teenagers in Geelong, it would be forever hostage to the accusation it had blood on its hands if any others from the school were to take the final solution.
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Benji says:
After the revelations on Media Watch on Monday night regarding 60 minutes harrassment of the parents who didn’t take part in an attempt to bully them into it, not to mention the fact that pictures of the deceased children were used in promos without the parent’s approval, I personally think… Read more »
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Dan says:
“When do-gooders and governments start asking courts to ban programmes they haven’t seen because they discuss matters they would prefer left alone we are entering dangerous waters” except beyond Blue HAVE seen it. We don’t have unlimited freedom of speech, and if there’s a reasonable possibility that running a story… Read more »
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