Эндрю Ландериу: Австралиялық блогер және кәсіпкердің тағдыры

Australian blogger and businessman

Andrew John Clyde Landeryou (born c. 1969–70) is an Australian former political blogger. 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 was active in the Labor Party, and particularly the Labor Right faction. He was elected as President of Melbourne University Student Union, taking office in January 1991. A referendum of union members removed him after five months when he proposed commercialising the union's services. He then became managing director of IQ Corporation, a sports statistics company, which was invested in by Solomon Lew until it went into liquidation in 2003. He was also a co owner of Marbain, a company with a contract with MUSU. After he failed to answer a court summons in December 2004, Landeryou spent five months in Costa Rica. Landeryou was declared bankrupt by the Federal Magistrates Court in May 2006.

In 2005, Landeryou established a weblog commenting on Australian party politics called The Other Cheek – Andrew Landeryou's Blog of Freedom. Lucy Saunders, a political activist linked to the Socialist Left who had been criticised by Landeryou, wrote on ABC News Online that "The overwhelming majority of what Landeryou prints is vague rumour, personal vendettas and outright fiction. Very occasionally, though, some actual facts sneak through." He clashed with another political blogger, Stephen Mayne, in 2006 when they accused each other of being spivs. After The Other Cheek was deleted in 2008, Landeryou launched the short lived tabloid website VEXNEWS, which closed in 2013. Andrew Bolt from the Herald Sun referred to Landeryou as "always entertaining" and "often compelling," while The Age newspaper described the site as "dirt dishing". VEXNEWS broke a story revealing AFL footballer Brendan Fevola's attack on a Melbourne journalist. Landeryou also broke a 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. Other front page stories prompted by Landeryou include a Fairfax story about Australian politicians sanitising their Wikipedia articles 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.

Landeryou was arrested along with two other men in St Kilda at 2.40am on the morning of the 2016 federal election, with police stating that they seized box cutters from the car the men were travelling in. They were charged over an alleged vandalism spree in the Melbourne electorate of Labor MP Michael Danby. At the time, Bill Shorten said “anyone in an election who is conducting vandalism deserves to have the book thrown at them”.

In 2018, Landeryou purchased the domain name davidlangsam. com, and used it to portray David Langsam – a journalist who edits Biotech Daily – as "some kind of Rene Rivkin style tout pitching stocks without a financial services licence". Langsam, who does not offer stock tips, successfully applied for an interim intervention order against Landeryou in the Melbourne Magistrate's Court, which prohibits Landeryou from contacting him, approaching him, or writing about him. The two parties then reached an out of court settlement where Landeryou agreed to turn the domain over to Langsam.