MUSU was in big trouble from the moment the careerists in the University Labour Club (devoid of ideology but endowed with a born to rule mentality equal to any young Liberal) managed to turn student political positions into paid employment, and then gain real control, with little accountability, over real budgets.

Originally most student funds were quarantined from the, elected for a one year term, student officers via a Board of Management. The percentage of student funds under direct student management was small.

Once they had control a (sandpit?) corporate model prevailed and in a short space of time privatisations and contracting out changed the landscape forever, and made a few young people very wealthy.

Combine Labour aristocracy, sons of mere apparatchiks, with immaturity and a 1980s greed is good mentality, add the kindergarten views of Keating and his economic urgers, and it would not be surprising if you got a train wreck and perhaps some seriously dodgy deals.

The Landeryou site, in my reading, shows that the 80s obsessions and the good solid "hating" so beloved of the apparachiks, still have a place in his heart.

Hopefully justice will be done and I for one would be very wary of regarding Andrew Landeryou as a victim of anyone. And I certainly would be more inclined to trust what I read in the Age than anything on his site.

The last refuge of a scoundrel - accuse an honest journalist of bias.

I've been a regular visitor Landeryou's blogspot since it was revealed in the daily tabloid. My residence is not far from one of Landeryou's nemesises - the Liquidator. It's always interested me why one would need a Roller, Merc Convertible and 4 wheel drive - all with personalised number plates. Ah! how the other half live.

Greetings, thank you for the plug for The Other Cheek, very kind of you.

I have not accused any honest journalist of bias.

I have shown in rather forensic detail the grotesque array of error and falsehood in the coverage of the MUSU matter and the Lew matter in The Age and other outlets.

As for the rights or wrongs of my views, I'm not going to try to persuade you on that point, although I welcome your criticism and am happy to debate any issue any time.

And as for student organisations, I think it is painfully clear that their corporate governance is inadequate. VSU might not give them the opportunity to correct this or it might force them to, I don't really know.

But to blame MUSU's problems or student unions' problems generally on the Labor right is absurd, and a total cop out by the ultra leftists who predominantly control these organisations.

See you over at andrewlanderyou.blogspot.com

Game on.

Interesting. This morning the link to Andrew Landeryou's site throws up absolutely nothing.

I'll let others decide whether the site throws up nothing or not but it's definitely on the air. Enjoy.

Game on.

Yes, it's back. Must have been a transitory fault.

Interesting also that it is currently being subjected to a spam hacking attack. Its content is obviously upsetting someone.

You're probably the best person to ask actually, what's the best way of combatting this sort of thing.

There was a good article about this in the Saturday Age a few weeks ago. Had a nice diagram overiew of where the money went.

If that Saturday Age story was a good article, then I am an expert in public relations. It was a Leonie Wood special, a hatchet job replete with unverified claims and wild speculation unsupported by anything. We'll see whether that is ultimately judged to be good journalism or a very, very unprofessional display. Truth is the first obligation of every journalist. And if you're not verifying crucial facts how can you report the truth. And if you're not maintaining a real degree of independence from both sides of a complex dispute, how can you report the truth? And if you're not keeping the story in proportion and infusing it with opinion, how can you report the truth? I'm not saying it's easy either, I respect the craft of journalism very much. Speaking truth to power is at the very heart of what society needs the media to do. Democracy depends on it. And it depends on journalists taking those duties as seriously as possible, knowing that what they do is important not just for their publication but for the citizens they serve. If you want the whole story, warts and all, read my blog, you won't get it from The Age.

Andrew, I heard you on the Faine show. It was good to hear what you had to say, it did make me think there was more to the story than what was published in the Age. If only your blog had a nice graphic like the Age :-)
Reading this sort of stuff is a real life lesson on the possibly inadequate, biased, profit and sensation driven old style established mass media.
It's lucky you have the tech. savvy to be able to get up your own blog so quickly to let the public know what you have to say.

I note that Landy's likes to post anon comments all over the Web in support of himself. Repulsive slime that he is. The reality is that that MUSU money disappeared again and again into bank accounts and companies controlled by AL.

I look forward to a long jail sentence. Ah, the joy.

The best thing to do with the likes of Andrew is nothing at all. Just ignore him. That's what will make him really cranky. I wish more people would realise he's just a self-serving troll and ignore him.