



The explanation for the narrow range of the podcast’s pre-occupations is obvious enough. He is the author of a gem of a book about the Byzantines and his undogmatic and agreeable presence on Ms Edwward’s site is as anomalous as is his presence on the ABC’s airwaves. And if you subtracted from the podcast’s interview catalogue those which deal with either feminist, black- or Islamic-grievance or climate change, you would be left with, well… Richard Fidler. However, if you examine her website you will notice that the writers are overwhelmingly women and the writing is overwhelmingly leftist stock-in trade. The Garrett is produced in Melbourne by a lady named Astrid Edwards, who interviews “writers on writing”. If you want a true sounding of the depths to which the trade of journalism and the vocation of writing in our country have fallen I suggest you can do no better than listen to or read the recent interview and transcript of Louise Milligan, the much-feted anti-Pell fanatic, on a podcast called The Garrett. Wallington would subsequently send Pell to a Supreme Court trial after a committal at which Milligan testified Author Louise Milligan enjoyed a friendly chat with magistrate Belinda Wallington on ABC radio.
