Chris Mitchell is an Australian
journalistJournalism is the craft of conveying news, descriptive material and comment via a widening spectrum of media. These include newspapers, magazines, radio and television, the internet and even, more recently, the mobile phone...
and is editor-in-chief of
The AustralianThe Australian is a broadsheet newspaper published in Australia on Monday to Saturday each week since 1964. The editor is Chris Mitchell and the 'editor-at-large' is Paul Kelly....
. He began his career on the former afternoon tabloid, The Telegraph, in 1973 and after working on The Townsville Bulletin,
the Daily Telegraph (Australia)The Daily Telegraph is an Australian tabloid newspaper published in Sydney, New South Wales and country NSW, by Nationwide News, part of News Corporation...
and the Australian Financial Review, became editor of
The AustralianThe Australian is a broadsheet newspaper published in Australia on Monday to Saturday each week since 1964. The editor is Chris Mitchell and the 'editor-at-large' is Paul Kelly....
in 2003.
The AustralianThe Australian is a broadsheet newspaper published in Australia on Monday to Saturday each week since 1964. The editor is Chris Mitchell and the 'editor-at-large' is Paul Kelly....
is owned by
News CorporationNews Corporation is the world's second largest media conglomerate as of 2008 and the world's third largest in entertainment as of 2009...
.
In 1996, the newspaper he edited at the time,
The Courier-MailThe Courier-Mail is a daily newspaper published in Brisbane, Australia. Owned by News Corporation, it is published daily from Monday to Saturday in tabloid format...
, claimed that the prominent Australian historian,
Manning ClarkCharles Manning Hope Clark, AC , Australian historian, was the author of the best-known general history of Australia, his six-volume A History of Australia, published between 1962 and 1987...
, had been awarded the
Order of LeninThe Order of Lenin , named after the leader of the Russian October Revolution, was the highest decoration bestowed by the Soviet Union...
.
Chris Mitchell is an Australian
journalistJournalism is the craft of conveying news, descriptive material and comment via a widening spectrum of media. These include newspapers, magazines, radio and television, the internet and even, more recently, the mobile phone...
and is editor-in-chief of
The AustralianThe Australian is a broadsheet newspaper published in Australia on Monday to Saturday each week since 1964. The editor is Chris Mitchell and the 'editor-at-large' is Paul Kelly....
. He began his career on the former afternoon tabloid, The Telegraph, in 1973 and after working on The Townsville Bulletin,
the Daily Telegraph (Australia)The Daily Telegraph is an Australian tabloid newspaper published in Sydney, New South Wales and country NSW, by Nationwide News, part of News Corporation...
and the Australian Financial Review, became editor of
The AustralianThe Australian is a broadsheet newspaper published in Australia on Monday to Saturday each week since 1964. The editor is Chris Mitchell and the 'editor-at-large' is Paul Kelly....
in 2003.
The AustralianThe Australian is a broadsheet newspaper published in Australia on Monday to Saturday each week since 1964. The editor is Chris Mitchell and the 'editor-at-large' is Paul Kelly....
is owned by
News CorporationNews Corporation is the world's second largest media conglomerate as of 2008 and the world's third largest in entertainment as of 2009...
.
In 1996, the newspaper he edited at the time,
The Courier-MailThe Courier-Mail is a daily newspaper published in Brisbane, Australia. Owned by News Corporation, it is published daily from Monday to Saturday in tabloid format...
, claimed that the prominent Australian historian,
Manning ClarkCharles Manning Hope Clark, AC , Australian historian, was the author of the best-known general history of Australia, his six-volume A History of Australia, published between 1962 and 1987...
, had been awarded the
Order of LeninThe Order of Lenin , named after the leader of the Russian October Revolution, was the highest decoration bestowed by the Soviet Union...
. This claim was later shown to be false.
http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transcripts/s780388.htm
In a speech given in Adelaide on 20 February 2006,
Clive HamiltonClive Hamilton is Professor of Public Ethics at Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics and he also holds the Vice-Chancellor's Chair at Charles Sturt University. Hamilton is the founder of The Australia Institute, a public interest think tank, and from 1993 to 2008 was its Executive...
(director of
The Australia InstituteThe Australia Institute is an Australian social value orientated think tank conducting public policy research, funded by grants from philanthropic trusts, memberships and commissioned research....
) identifies Mitchell as one of Australia's climate change "dirty dozen", a group of
climate change skepticThe global warming controversy is a dispute regarding the nature, causes, and consequences of global warming. The disputed issues include the causes of increased global average air temperature, especially since the mid-20th century, whether this warming trend is unprecedented or within normal...
s with considerable influence over Australian Government policy (others are :
Hugh MorganHugh Morgan may refer to:* Hugh Morgan , frontman of the New York-based rock/hip hop group Fun Lovin' Criminals* Hugh Morgan , Australian former CEO and environmental campaigner...
, John Eyles,
Ron KnappRon Knapp has been the CEO of the Australian Aluminium Council since 2001, after heading the World Coal Institute.In a speech given in Adelaide on 20 February 2006, Clive Hamilton identifies Knapp as one of Australia's climate change "dirty dozen", a group of climate change skeptics with...
, Alan Oxley,
Peter WalshPeter Alexander Walsh AO is a former Australian senator and Labor politician.Walsh grew up in Doodlakine, Western Australia, where he was a wheat and sheep farmer. He was elected to the Australian Senate in 1974, and served as Minister for Resources and Energy from 1983 to 1984 and Finance...
, Meg McDonald, Barry Jones (former head APPEA),
Ian MacFarlaneIan Elgin Macfarlane , Australian politician, has been a Liberal Party of Australia member of the Australian House of Representatives since October 1998, representing the Division of Groom, Queensland. He was born in Kingaroy, Queensland, and was a farmer and president of the Queensland...
, Alan Moran, Malcolm Broomhead, and
John HowardJohn Winston Howard, AC was the 25th Prime Minister of Australia from 11 March 1996 to 3 December 2007. He is the second-longest serving Australian Prime Minister after Sir Robert Menzies....
).
http://www.tai.org.au/documents/downloads/WP84.pdf
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