Andrew Bolt's Blog,20/4/18; Lest we forget Andrew Bolt's Bigoted tirade against Yassmin Richard Flanagan has wiser words;

 Richard Flanagan: 'Our politics is a dreadful black comedy' – press club speech in full | Australia news | The Guardian

Anzac Day, which is a very important day for my family, was always a day to remember all my father’s mates who didn’t make it home. But it was also a moment to ponder the horror of war more generally. But of late Anzac Day has become enshrouded in cant and entangled in dangerous myth. If this seems overstated ponder the bigoted bile that attended Yassmin Abdel-Magied’s tweet last Anzac Day in which she posted “LEST.WE.FORGET. (Manus, Nauru, Syria, Palestine ...)”
I read this as a plea for compassion drawing on the memory of a national trauma.
Most refugees on Manus Island and Nauru are fleeing war, Syria has half a million dead and more than 11 million people exiled internally and externally because of war, and Palestinians, whatever position one takes, suffer greatly from ongoing conflict.
And yet as the attacks on Abdel-Magied showed, some were seeking to transform Anzac Day into a stalking horse for racism, misogyny and anti-Islamic sentiment. For hate, intolerance and bigotry. For all those very forces that create war. The great disrespect to Anzac Day wasn’t the original tweet but the perverted attacks made on it, in, of all things, the name of the dead. Those who think they honour Anzac Day by forgetting contemporary victims of war only serve to make a tragic mockery of all that it should be.

We should, of course, question these things more. We could ask why – if we were actually genuine about remembering patriots who have died for this country – why would we not first spend $100m on a museum honouring the at least 65,000 estimated Indigenous dead who so tragically lost their lives defending their country here in Australia in the frontier wars of the 1800s? Why is there nowhere in Australia telling the stories of the massacres, the dispossession, and the courageous resistance of these patriots?
The figure of 65,000, I should add, is one arrived at by two academics at the University of Queensland and applies only to Indigenous deaths in Queensland. If their methodology is correct, the numbers for the Indigenous fallen nationally must be extraordinarily large.

As one prominent commentator noted, “Individually and collectively, it was sacrifice on a stupendous scale. We should be a nation of memory, not just of memorials, for these are our foundation stories. They should be as important to us as the ride of Paul Revere, or the last stand of King Harold at Hastings, or the incarceration of Nelson Mandela might be to others.”
The commentator was Tony Abbott, announcing the French museum, speaking of the dead of world war one.
And yet how can his argument be said not to also hold for the Indigenous dead? After all, Sir John Monash became a great military leader in spite of considerable prejudice. And so too Pemulwuy and Jundamurra.
Of course, such a reasonable and necessary proposal as a museum for the Indigenous fallen would at first be greeted with ridicule and contempt. Because in the deepest, most fundamental way we are not free of our colonial past. Freedom exists in the shadow of memory. For Australia to find out what freedom means it has to face up to the truth of its past. And it’s time we decided to accept what we are and where we come from, because only in that truth can we finally be free as a people.
 

SALLY'S UNIONS WILL RUN RIOT AGAINST BASTARD BANKS

The unions now have a formidable leader in Sally McManus. She may be telling fiery untruths, but who will listen now to bosses and the Liberals when the banks are now exposed as bastards?  My editorial from The Bolt Report.

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Bolts editorial bemoans the fact that Banks have been stupid enough to admit massive wrong doings  done to hundreds ot thousands of clients dead and alive to the Royal Commission. Without directly so he bemoans the fact that the current government has put them in this invidious position of having to tell the truth. Bolt can't call any of this fake news as much as he would like to. He tries even today to claim that the lack of findings into the Royal Commission into Unions flpped and now the Capitalists News Corp's bread and butter have shot themselves
So in old fashion terms of terms he's set to do some very unsubtle media damage control on their behalf. So forget the fact the fact that "the Capitalists" have kicked an own goal. Forget the fact that if the banks have admitted to  corrupt practises that all sectors of coorporate finance and business also  operate in the same manner as banks and that corruption and criminal practices are in fact institutionalised and have been since Christ threw the dealers out of the temple.
No Bolt changes direction and bemoans the fact that this Royal Commission has given a gift to not the ALP but the Unions and together they will use it for the detriment of Australia. Nothing about the  the systemic detriment capitalists do. 
It seems the public don't have a right don;t have to be angry even if they are only the 10%-15% of the swinging voters. The fact is they are  most likely to be the middle class those that have been ripped off by the banks  and have been for years. They aren't likely to be unionists anyway. They know what the banks have been doing, they have complained and they have watched the LNP refuse to do anything about it and the Conservatives in the LNP the most vocal, Tony Abbott the loudest. Imagine if this Commission encourages and enquiries into all the corporate sectors Insurance, Big Pharma, Construction Accounting etc etc . What will the current government do?After all we are getting  glimpses into live animal export and into  the work for the dole scheme ? Michaelia Cash refusing  to realease the reports of a two year investigation into deaths in the work for the dole scheme. She is telegraphing the model of lack of tranparancy this government prefers
Bolt's banging a very old beware of the unions drum talking about 30 years ago simply to draw attention away from what's being revealed today and I'm sure the ultra conservatives will try to provoke the 8% of Australians in unions to strike and act. I doubt Bolt will be that trigger
But I'm also sure the unions and the public have a better grasp of historical truths that amplify the need for unions. But moreso the need for union representation on corporate boards like Germany to protect consumers and ordinary Australians from the criminal actions being revealed today. Practicle changes are required far more than Bolt's media distraction of traditional muckraking propaganda. 
Yes we had a Royal Commission into the Corruption in the Unions and what actually came out of it were some misuse of petty cash claims about some $13,000. Misuse of credit cards and Tony Abbott's Joan of Arc was found to be an imbezzeler informer turning out to be a complete liar to save her arse. I'm afraid Bolt's trying to piss on a bush fire and he's doing in a color and tie

African Gangs Makes Melburnians Afraid To Go Out,…

Now, I know that I'm meant to write satire but sometimes I…

 “This type of behaviour can attract penalties which include jail time. That’s how serious these things are.” Scott Morrison

" I can’t imagine any Liberal politician telling us that maybe, just maybe, a car theft could attract a penalty. You know, it might. And that penalty could include jail time. So, shucks, guys, you really shouldn’t be doing that sort of thing. I mean it’s that serious. So please don’t do it again, hey? Of course, it’s not like AMP and some of the banks were actually taking your car for a joy ride. Nah, they were just giving some people advice that led to them losing their home." Rossleigh