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 Majority of voters oppose budget cut to ABC funding – poll | Media | The Guardian

 

Seven in 10 Australians believe a strong, independent public broadcaster is critical to a healthy democracy, according to a poll by the Australia Institute. Photograph: Richard Wainwright/AAP
A majority of Australians believe a strong, independent ABC is critical to a healthy democracy and oppose a cut to ABC funding, according to a new poll.
The Australia Institute poll found 70% of people wanted a strong ABC and 60% agreed the ABC needed a “boost to long term funding”.

 

Pauline Hanson written into One Nation constitution as effective ...

Fascism has really arrived in Australia and goes unreported by Andrew Bolt a great fan along with Tony Abbott who said " politicians are better a second time around" at her book launch recently.

1 day ago ... Pauline Hanson written into One Nation constitution as effective president for life. Only after resignation of hand-picked successor will national ...

The One Nation senator Pauline Hanson has been written into her party’s updated constitution as effective president for life.
With no term limits on her presidency, the constitution names Hanson as leader of the party’s national executive as well as the registered officer for its divisions, giving her considerable heft, News Corp reported.
“The president of the party is Pauline Lee Hanson,” the constitution now states. “Upon resigning from the position of president, Pauline Lee Hanson shall appoint her successor to become the next president of the party.”

 

GOVERNMENT STILL BEHIND IN NEWSPOLL. WHAT DOES IT TAKE?

So why does the Government still trail Labor in Newspoll, 49% to 51?: "Malcolm Turnbull’s popularity has leapt to its highest levels since the 2016 election on the back of one of the most well-received ­budgets in a decade and a $140 billion personal income tax cut plan." And Bill Shorten lost four MPs in a  humiliating citizenship bungle.  

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Bolt hates the fact that Newspoll has changed it's methodology and doesn't actually show that the LNP is being trashed 49:51. Isn't a significant measure is it. It isn't enough to root for Tony. However does Bolt even read the papers? Why hasn't he notified us of the Fairfax Ipsos poll which unlike the News Corp poll has the LNP behind 46:54 much more to Abbott's and Bolt's liking.

The strangest article today was seen in the business section of the Age where it has Rupert Murdoch calling for government help against Facebook in much the same way as he calls it for help against the ABC, they are both competition. In both cases he's on the moral high ground claiming Facebook is damaging "journalism" due to fake news and the ABC is left-wing and biased because it asked questions of accountability. But doesn't Facebook get its news from organizations like News Corp and aren't they both in the practice of churnalism having dumped their journalists for opinionists? Haven't they both help destroy journalism, in that case, making the ABC more relevant? In the case of the ABC Murdoch's gripe is that the public broadcaster is a mix of left-wing bias and is allowed to compete subsidized making an unlevel playing field or hindering the "free market". In the case of Facebook he's calling for government regulation of the "free market" and in the latter he wants the ABC deregulated and destroyed to enhance the "free market". Both it seems to have nothing to do with principles of journalism nothing to do with freedom at all just business and government alliance for Murdoch sake against competition in the realm of PR, influence and marketing for those with the most $$$ to spend. It's not those 100,000 workers that the Herald Sun suggested were illegal and threatened Melbourne armed with banners that's for sure.

 

DRUGGED TO STOP THEM SHOWING THE PAIN OF DIVORCE

The children wouldn't even "need" these drugs if divorce and being born into a single-parent home wasn't so stressful: "Troubled children are being doped up to keep them calm in class, psychiatrists have warned. A new study says boys and teens from unemployed single-parent families are more likely to be given antipsychotic drugs."  

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Best concentrate on divorce, stress, anxiety and dysfunction that exists in lower class families and blame the inadequacies of the adults to cope on them Bolt finds himself in a bind when he says many can't cope but many can divorce is good and divorce is bad floundering with no explanation. In fact, Bolt's all over the shop trying to sound wise when he's not.

Why do anxiety and stress exist in the families? Why does it exist in all classes and across the board? Bolt never looks to comparative statistics and outcomes in other countries except for the likes of the USA which we have been increasingly modelling ourselves on and if the stats are any indication we are doomed to increasing failure. 

 However comparisons with countries that have shown a marked success are never mentioned by Bolt because it just might shine a light on the fact that we are totally wrong in the way we have structured our institutions to release the the stresses forced on all families and the individuals within them and why there is so much breakdown RD Laing a psychiatrist in the 70s UK of the Politics in the Family organization itself that inevitably results in breakdown medication and self -medication across the board and not just given to children of any particular class that can be found in homes.

Those Democratic Socialist nations realized to reduce the stress on all individuals long-term institutional changes needed to be made to take the stress of all individuals no matter how their lives are structured and now the outcomes to those radical changes have in the 2000s  begun to bear fruit in the outcomes after 30 years plus. 

There is no magic formula Health, Housing, Education and all Social Services are free to take the social psychological pressures off all individuals raising children to be independent and adults too enabling them to make the choices they want for themselves without the over the complexity of forced reliance and over dependence on each other. Because if the world caves in due misfortune the state is there to back citizens up. The outcome of that social engineering can be found in schooling, health, jobs for all citizens and not just the magical few. But Andrew Bolt will never direct any reader to examine the outcomes in countries like Norway, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands and others because it's too dangerous for him.

THE REAL BIGOTS IN THE ISRAEL FOLAU WITCHHUNT

Column Who are the real bigots here: superstar Israel Folau, or his persecutors, who are trying to drive him out of rugby union? Everything about this “scandal” smells of a witch-hunt by hypocrites. They are against Folau not for what he does on the field but what he believes.  

37m3A hoax this is a promise that leads you to a PAYWALL to the Herald Sun to which opinion isn't free. It is however on the ABC and the details far more informative and balanced. It's strange isn't it when Bolt refers to Indigenous Australians it's generally in terms of negative stereotyping never mentioning that they are one of the stronger practising Christian groups in the country. He raises a referendum figure of 40% plus against same-sex marriage when in fact it was over 60% for. Bolt's 40% of the majority weren't practising or even Christians at all which makes his statistics look very manufactured. If Israel Filou was an outstanding sports person and a Muslim who sympathized and understood some of the arguments IS put out if he were Waleed Aly would Bolt hold him up as representing as many Australians as Bolt likes to suggest instead of an extreme fundamentalist Christian minority of only 10% of Australia? Why has the Anglican church got 150 churches up for sale? Why has the Catholic Church closed so many of theirs if there's a 40% following?
Boly wh claims "I'm not a Christian" sounds very much like a fundamentalist in disguise and he speaks in tongues too.

CATE BLANCHETT NAILS A WARMIST ROLE

Give Cate Blanchett another Oscar, this time for playing the modern global-warming preacher. She's nailed this one, portraying the telling of untruths, the alarmism and now the useless gesture by wearing the same Armani dress twice in four years.

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 What a lazy bastard Bolt is repeating last week's post on Cate Blanchett. This is just a carbon copy of a repeat of a Cate hate post he did last week. Blanchett also joined some female celebrities in a public MeTo moment pointing out that the Canne Festival was dominated by male presenters some 59 women to 1650 men in the past year's statistics Bolt avoids. He prefers mockery the sign of a bully trying to be heard. What he fails to mention she gets more attention globally than Bolt is respected and known on a larger scale and simply put she is on the winning side.
 More amusing fact Bolt fails to mention is his favourite wannabe investor here Adani has a coal-fired power plant in India absolutely new worth a $1 billion which he's been trying to sell for 5 cents and can't seem to get a buyer. Now that's funny.