[csaa-forum] the 'left leaning' Bolt

Louise North northlouise at hotmail.com
Sun Dec 12 15:29:14 CST 2004


Hi Tim,
An industry connection mentioned Bolt's role with the Hawke government; and 
I have since found a reference for you.
Journalist Patrick Carlyon refers to the fact in a Bulletin article on 
24/11/04 "Upright for the uptight".
Hope this helps.
Cheers,
Lousie

>From: langley timmy <timmylangley at yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: CSAA discussion list <csaa-forum at lists.cdu.edu.au>
>To: CSAA discussion list <csaa-forum at lists.cdu.edu.au>
>Subject: RE: [csaa-forum] the 'left leaning' Bolt
>Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 00:23:21 +0000 (GMT)
>
>dear Louise,
>i am interested in where you read that andrew bolt
>worked as an adviser for bob hawke. i have read a
>number of interviews with bolt (by right wing think
>tanks) and he has never said he has worked for hawke
>or anything associated with the left (although he did
>have an aboriginal friend when he was a schoolboy, and
>his parents are dutch immigrants: so he can't be a
>racist, and he knows what it's like to assimilate).
>this lack of any left wing association in bolt's
>interviews may not be surprising, at first, as it
>could be seen as an embarrassment. however, as a
>spectacle of right as you rightly point out, he would,
>like all the other right wing media personae, use that
>left wing past to support his position. for example,
>keith windschuttle constantly proclaims he use to be a
>communist until he 'grew up' (his words) and found the
>truth (that white settlers in tasmania were victims of
>murderous aborigines; aboriginal culure was
>disfunctional and doomed to failure); the statistician
>turned 'sceptical environmentalist' Bjorn Lomborg
>constantly proclaims his greenie past until he found
>the truth (or a market outside statistics).
>the left wing past of these commentators is an
>important element of their image.
>could you please direct me to the reference to bolt's
>left wing past, as bolt (and other press commentators
>like him) is 'phenomena' i'm researching.
>cheers tim
>
>--- Louise North <northlouise at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > I have been watching the flow of emails that the
> > Bolt story has generated on
> > this list and of course, it has become 'talk' in
> > both industry and academic
> > circles.. and having a foot in both camps, I have to
> > wonder if we (the CSSA
> > community) is missing the point about one aspect of
> > the Andrew Bolt
> > phenomena. I am told that Bolt worked as an advisor
> > to Bob Hawke and so
> > perhaps his current right wing diatribe is more
> > about finding a high profile
> > niche in News Ltd, than actually believeing what he
> > writes: ie. he is
> > prostituting himself for the sake of notoriety and
> > career progression.
> > I'd say that Bolt is/has surveyed the columnist
> > scene and has become the
> > John Laws of print....
> > Just some thoughts, perhaps the list already knows
> > of Bolt's 'left' leaning
> > past.
> > Louise North
> >
> > >From: Dr Laurie DUGGAN <l.duggan1 at uq.edu.au>
> > >Reply-To: CSAA discussion list
> > <csaa-forum at lists.cdu.edu.au>
> > >To: csaa-forum at lists.cdu.edu.au
> > >Subject: [csaa-forum] the Bolt issue cont'd
> > >Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 13:13:04 +1000
> > >
> > >Some pretty good points from Christian McCrea.
> > Oddly enough I've used the
> > >opposite self-defensive tactic. As soon as I had a
> > tenuous connection with
> > >a university I introduced myself as a 'student' or
> > an 'academic' rather
> > >than as a 'writer'.
> > >
> > >Laurie
> > >
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Louise C North
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Gender Studies
School of Philosophy
Private Bag 41
University of Tasmania
Hobart, Tasmania, 7001

mob: 0438 541 200
fax (03) 6226 7847

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