Today, Andrew Bolt descended into a new abyss... He quoted Barnaby Joyce questioning of what Julia knew of her former partner's "fraud" 17 years ago... and Bolt promised to dig more dirt on this "affair"...

These days, IA is – according to online resource Alexa – probably the third most popular independent news and opinion website in Australia in terms of traffic (behind Crikey and On Line Opinion).

It’s not every weekend we get a close look at such characters, whose influence is so terrifying we wonder why we stay in a country where such thought predators ply their hideous wares.

Australia's media landscape has been rocked for a second time this week with News Limited announcing a massive restructuring of the way it delivers news.