Not only is The Age newspaper very committed to distorting its news in keeping with the enviro-politics of its "partners" like Earth Hour, it seems some of its most senior journalists are also very personally attached to recycling.
Recycling other people's stories that is.
A couple of weeks ago, we noticed the Australian's Rick Wallace do an interesting piece on how recent share market woes had impacted on the state's asset base given how much it is exposed to financial markets through the investments of government owned insurers, super funds and the like.
While the headline number was in the billions, Wallace noted that it didn't have much direct impact on the budget but was more a factor that influenced how much of a dividend some of the government insurers could pay back to consolidated revenue.
While yawning through yesterday's Age, we were jolted from our slumber by seeing state parliamentary press python Paul Austin's by-line above essentially the same story, without acknowledgement of the original.
Off his game, some his colleagues are saying of Austin's recent journalistic form. Indeed he's definitely got something else on his mind other than thoroughly and professionally doing his job if recent cut & paste jobs from Hansard/Liberal State Council speeches and this shameful act of plagiarism are any guide.
Game on.
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