One of my guilty, I won't say pleasures so let's go with habits, is skimming through the Daily Telegraph while waiting for my coffee at the local cafe. It kills time and I can check out the content without giving any money to Murdoch鈥檚 media empire.
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News Limited鈥檚 flagship newspaper, The Australian, said in a September 2010 that it wanted the Greens to be 鈥渄estroyed鈥. The paper鈥檚 latest attacks on Greens Senator Lee Rhiannon, which include allegations she held secret meetings with a high-level KGB spy 40 years ago, confirm that its editorial bias hasn鈥檛 budged an inch.
Remembrance Day, on November 11, was celebrated again this year in the Australian media with pictures of red poppies and flag-draped coffins and historic photos of Australian soldiers who gave 鈥渢he ultimate sacrifice鈥 from the human-made wasteland of Flanders to the stony deserts of Afghanistan.
Paying tribute to the ten soldiers killed this year in the long war in Afghanistan, Governor-General Quentin Bryce said that Australians were good at remembering: 鈥淲e seem to know what we ought to hold onto and what is best let go.鈥