Melbourne Writers Fest Brings the Politics

The Melbourne Writers Festival is set to be held 22-31 August. Heading up the awesome line-up will be some great political speakers including Germaine Greer and John Pilger.

Greer will speak on rage and its uses in enacting social change on Friday 22 August at 7pm at Melbourne Town Hall. Pilger will address two talks; one on Power, Propaganda and the Silence of Writers, and the other on the global cost of free trade.

There is also talks on feminism, Aboriginal affairs, Rwandan genocide, corporate media, climate change and plenty more.

So if you're around Melbourne in late August, it will be definitely worth a look. Stay tuned to the MediaVIGILANTE for all the updates from the fest!

Visit http://www.mwf.com.au/ for more info and tickets to the big events.

Tim Blair, Andrew Bolt...You are being Watched!!

Tim Blair and Andrew Bolt...Even their names repulse me. "No, they're not not Journos!" I scream, to anybody that cares. In fact they're far worse. They're right wing columnists at Murdoch's Sydney's Daily Telegraph and Melbourne's Herald Sun respectively. Nothing seems sacred for these two men, that continue to deny climate change or an Australian Aboriginal genocide even happened among other right wing conspiracies...Yet they continue to be employed by two of Australia's most highly circulated papers (yes, I'm disturbed too.).

Luckily, the people over at "The Blair/Bolt Watch Project" have been monitoring the ramblings of these two men so that we don't have to!!

http://blairboltwatch.wordpress.com/