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The Mac Attack Continues

 Thursday, 4th May, 2006

Further to my piece on Tuesday about the attack on the reputation of Macquarie Bank as a result of its involvement with the Beaconsfield gold mine, I notice that The Australian was at it again this morning.

This time it was an editorial which disguised an attack on Macquarie as a defence of union leader Bill Shorten being at the mine site.

"Mr Shorten is doing Australians a service in communicating information of vital interest in a gripping human drama," the paper said. "The real problem is what his role says about the deafening silence from any senior representative of the web of corporations who own, run or profit from the Tamar Valley goldmine and the distance they have chosen to place between themselves and the disaster."