Fighting Fake News with REAL,6/12/19; Evans is wiser than the LNP; India Cultural Misogyny Rules; Rick Morton sleeps well while all week Andrew Bolt's been tossing and turning and doing a Trump;

 

Gareth Evans plays down 'innocuous' China influence on universities

Unfortunately, sane heads like Gareth Evans remain smothered when the politics of division is the only game in town. Asylum Seekers Muslims Africans Marriage equality have all been brought out by the LNP in order to draw attention away from the crap job the government has been doing to the economy since the GFC, when we were the 2nd beat in the world and are now languishing near the bottom of the OECD ladder. Yet Frydenberg keeps yelling the Australian economic fundamentals are good the economy is resilient and we are beating the headwinds. Now the new political distraction is China.(ODT)

Australian National University chancellor and former foreign affairs minister Gareth Evans has warned the Morrison government not to be 'over-obsessed with security risks'

 Mr Evans said it was reasonable to protect the research of high military sensitivity, but he believed Chinese government-funded Confucius Institutes were largely "innocuous" and no more dangerous to Australia's national interests than university partnerships with British, French and German organisations.

Watch them try to take Evans down. (ODT)

Crime

Indian rape victim set on fire by mob on way to testifying

One of the woman's alleged attackers was released on bail the week before the incident.

Rape victim set ablaze by gang of men on her way to court in India

 

 FAKE AND TWISTED NEWS

ANOTHER ABC STAFFER DEFENDS PASCOE'S FALSEHOODS

Another ABC staffer defends untruth. Bhakthi Puvanenthiran, head of ABC Life: "B*lt doesn't want ABC TV to run an adaptation of Dark Emu bc if it does, hundreds of thousands more people will be exposed to the rock solid research." I bet Bhakthi hasn't checked this "rock solid research", but trusted the 20 errors of conflicted apologist Rick Morton.

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The bizarre effort Bolt has put to attacking one man is so Trumpish it appears more of a self-defence of Andrew Bolt that an indictment of Bruce Pascoe. Is his entire week of hysterics meant to convince us Indigenous Australians were merely hunter-gatherers for 60,000 years no. It seems more of a defence of Bolt trying to tell us he's a journalist needing to be believed.

Bolt ignores the archeological evidence that has been found that disproves his arguments. Of bluestone canals miles long built for entrapping eels and other evidence. Why funding not forthcoming for deeper research into the 60,000-year-old cultures that inhabited this land one wonders when massacres sights have been discovered in increasing numbers. Bolt's attack on Pascoe adds nothing to the strength of the denial white man's history in all it's aspects is wrong. It's simply a paranoid effort to justify Terra Nullis and declare the legitimacy and invasion of Australia under British law.

Bolt's panic in this context simply makes his bullshit stand out in relief and Rick Morton's questions relevant and to the point.