Andrew Landeryou
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| Andrew Landeryou | |
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| Born | 1970 Australia |
| Occupation | Journalist, businessman |
| Genres | Politics |
Andrew John Clyde Landeryou (born 1970)[1] is an Australian journalist [1] and businessman. In recent years, he has attracted attention initially through website "The Other Cheek: Andrew Landeryou's Blog of Freedom" and more recently VEXNEWS.[2][3]
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Background
Landeryou is the son of Bill Landeryou,[2] a former Leader of the Opposition and then the Government in the Victorian Legislative Council and a minister in the Australian Labor Party Victorian state government of John Cain. Andrew Landeryou has been active in the past in the Labor Party, and particularly the Labor Right faction.[4] Subsequently he has been described as a "Liberal party blogger." [2]
Student politics and business
Landeryou was elected as President of Melbourne University Student Union, taking office in January 1991.[5] A referendum of union members removed him after five months when he proposed commercialising the union's services.[6][1] He spent five months in Costa Rica.[2][1]
In May 2005, he was required to attend at a liquidator's examination of the affairs of MUSU, more than a decade after he had ceased being an office-holder.[7] [8][9][10]
Journalism
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"Landeryou has some purchase in the mainstream media with a News Limited column, but essentially he's working in the blogging space, using his political, business and media contacts to embarrass, harass and hold to account the state's worthies and not-so-worthies, and his own enemies, through open publishing. Whatever you think of his politics, Landeryou is a lively and engaging writer who find things out - one whose "inquisitive" approach allows him to uncover and share new information."
—ABC News[11]
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In 2005, Landeryou established a weblog commenting on Australian party politics called The Other Cheek - Andrew Landeryou's Blog of Freedom. According to ninemsn, it is a "popular" website and to ABC News it is a "gleefully-muckraking, tabloid-style blog",[11] for which he has been described as "notorious".[12] His blog focusses on internal gossip rather than political analysis.[13] A political activist linked to the Socialist Left Lucy Saunders who had been criticised on VEXNEWS wrote on ABC News Online that "The overwhelming majority of what Landeryou prints(sic) is vague rumour, personal vendettas and outright fiction. Very occasionally, though, some actual facts sneak through."[14] He also publishes Vexnews.[15]
Landeryou regularly accuses the Melbourne newspaper The Age of politically-motivated left-wing bias, including against himself.[16] He clashed with another political blogger, Stephen Mayne, in 2006 when they accused each other of being spivs.[17] High-profile independent political candidate Lew Twentyman applied for a court intervention order in 2008 after VEXNEWS published a series of stories on Twentyman suggesting the charity worker was wealthier than he had publicly revealed.[18][19] Twentyman later withdrew the application.
A more supportive Andrew Bolt from the Herald-Sun refers to Landeryou as "always entertaining." [3] and "often compelling." [4]
VEXNEWS and Landeryou's blog predecessor has regularly pre-empted mainstream media on a wide variety of stories, sometimes prompting front page news, as it did when it revealed AFL footballer Brendan Fevola's attack on a Melbourne journalist [5]. Landeryou also broke a major story drawing on Liberal party sources when he revealed that the authors of an anti-Ted Baillieu website were employees of Baillieu's own party [6].
Other front-page stories prompted by Landeryou's investigative reporting include a Fairfax story about Australian politicians sanitising their Wikipedia articles [7] and a story about a Christian Family First candidate who had exposed himself in photographs. Landeryou declared him 'Australia's smallest loser', an epithet repeated by MSNBC's Keith Olbermann when he covered the story for US cable news[8].
References
- ^ a b c Wood, Leonie; David Elias (23 April 2005). "The tycoon, the missing husband and the millions". The Age. http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/The-tycoon-the-missing-husband-and-the-millions/2005/04/22/1114152319764.html. Retrieved 12 December 2009.
- ^ a b c Caldwell, Alison (4 May 2005). "Landeryou takes aim at enemies with blog". The World Today (ABC Radio). http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2005/s1359986.htm. Retrieved 12 December 2009.
- ^ Franklin, Roger (15 November 2007). "'Dirty' war of old and new Labor". Herald Sun. http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/roger-franklin-dirty-war-of-old-and-new-labor/story-e6frf7kx-1111114877163. Retrieved 12 December 2009.
- ^ Wood, Leonie (4 May 2005). "Landeryou promises to tell it how it is". The Age. http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/Landeryou-promises-to-tell-it-how-it-is/2005/05/03/1115092498322.html. Retrieved 12 December 2009.
- ^ Poynter, John Riddoch; Carolyn Rasmussen (1996). "Officers of the University, 1935-1995". A place apart: the University of Melbourne : decades of challenge. Melbourne University Publishing. ISBN 0522845843. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=yKEfrmr_OykC&pg=PA467.
- ^ Davidson, Rjurik; Jolyon Campbell (1 May 1991). "'Labor Inc' alleged at Melbourne Uni". Green Left Online. http://www.greenleft.org.au/1991/10/1426. Retrieved 12 December 2009.
- ^ Wood, Leonie (30 April 2005). "Landeryou returns and opts to stay in custody". The Age. http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/Landeryou-returns-and-opts-to-stay-in-custody/2005/04/29/1114635752383.html. Retrieved 12 December 2009.
- ^ Caldwell, Alison (5 May 2005). "Landeryou appears in court". ABC News. http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2005/s1360998.htm. Retrieved 12 December 2009.
- ^ "Melbourne University Student Union Inc (in liq) v Ray [2006 VSC 205 (14 June 2006)"]. Supreme Court of Victoria Decisions. Australasian Legal Information Institute. 14 June 2006. http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/vic/VSC/2006/205.html. Retrieved 12 December 2009.
- ^ Elias, David; Leonie Wood (26 May 2005). "Landeryou threatened me, says liquidator". The Age. http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/Landeryou-threatened-me-says-liquidator/2005/05/25/1116950754154.html?oneclick=true. Retrieved 12 December 2009.
- ^ a b Wilson, Jason; Axel Bruns and Barry Saunders (15 May 2008). "Baillieu and the blogs of war". ABC News. http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/15/2245684.htm. Retrieved 12 December 2009.
- ^ Crawford, Carly; Ellen Whinnett (24 August 2007). "Greens MP confirms her husband now a woman". Herald Sun. http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,22298840-911,00.html. Retrieved 12 December 2009.
- ^ Bruns, Axel; Jason Wilson, Barry Saunders, Lars Kirchhoff, Thomas Nicolai (October 2008). "Australia’s Political Blogosphere in the Aftermath of 2007 Federal Election". Internet Research 9.0 conference (Copenhagen: Association of Internet Researchers). http://snurb.info/files/aoir2008/Australia%27s%20Political%20Blogosphere%20in%20the%20Aftermath%20of%20the%202007%20Federal%20Election%20%28AoIR%202008%29.pdf.
- ^ Saunders, Lucy (23 April 2008). "The end of the free internet?". The Drum Unleashed (ABC News). http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/stories/s2225054.htm. Retrieved 12 December 2009.
- ^ Windisch, Margarita (4 July 2009). "Reds under the bed, rats in the sewer". Green Left Weekly. http://www.greenleft.org.au/2009/801/41223. Retrieved 12 December 2009.
- ^ Landeryou, Andrew (14 November 2006). "REVEALED: Secret Email Exchanges Between The Age and the OC // Can You Handle The Truth?". The Other Cheek. http://andrewlanderyou.blogspot.com/2006/11/revealed-secret-email-exchanges.html. Retrieved 12 December 2009.
- ^ Powell, Sian (29 September 2006). "Bloggers brawl for votes". The Australian. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/pynes-affirmative-gag/story-0-1111112284015. Retrieved 12 December 2009.
- ^ Higginbottom, Nick (11 July 2008). "Youth worker Les Twentyman wins ban on blogger". Herald Sun. http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/les-twentyman-wins-ban-on-blogger/story-0-1111116881237. Retrieved 12 December 2009.
- ^ Howe, Alan (17 July 2008). "Smears and sinners". Herald Sun. http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/smears-and-sinners/story-e6frfih6-1111116935005. Retrieved 12 December 2009.
