Directions for AGE and SMH

The name of the Fairfax CEO is Fred Hilmer.
A friend has found this:

Here's the ABC announcement (from May 2004) of his resignation to take effect some time in 2005.
PM - Thursday, 6 May , 2004 18:49:16
http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2004/s1103005.htm
Fairfax Chief Executive, Fred Hilmer, would step down from the newspaper empire some time next year.

"Mr Hilmer, who's held the top job for nearly six years, told the company he's going for business and personal reasons,"

Under Hilmer's stewardship, the SMH Web Diary has been run by Margo Kingston. She has had a free run from management with Israel bashing. Here is an extract from the Web Diary archive (July 27, 2004) at http://webdiary.smh.com.au/archives/jack_robertson/000147.html

"JEWISH conspiracy theories are so now chic that even the Fairfax group is, curiously, printing this filth. Fairfax, publisher of The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald, has an Internet site that hosts the Web Diary of radical author and columnist Margo Kingston. Kingston this week was asked by a reader to explain why there was little debate over the United Nation's (disgraceful) vote to demand Israel pull down a wall built to keep out suicide bombers.

Simple, wrote Kingston: "(It's) because the fundamentalist Zionist lobby controls politics and the media in the US and Australia." She even had proof "the Libs (were) in the Zionists (sic) pockets". Odd, that Kingston feels a Jewish-controlled media kills debate on Israel, when her paper freely savages that country, as does the ABC on which she often appears. Or is she accusing her own chief executive at Fairfax, Fred Hilmer, and his aide, Bruce C. Wolpe, both Jews, of stopping her and her colleagues from saying even nastier stuff?

Good news, then, for Margo. Hilmer is going, as is The Age editor Michael Gawenda, another Jew. And replacing Gawenda is Andrew Jaspan, editor of Glasgow's Sunday Herald, which says it is Israel's fault that it is attacked by suicide bombers: "Every time the Israeli security forces act using the mailed fist, retaliation is only a detonator away." So Jews can neither shoot back nor build walls to hide behind. Happy now, Margo? "

Apparently Jaspan has been at The Age since October this year.