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Van Badham

1 hr ·

This is vile.
Australia has given an Australia Day honour to Bettina Arndt. If you haven’t been keeping up with her recent work, she recently platformed a paedophile, creating a chatty video in which a convicted criminal who groomed & raped a child *bragged about his crimes*, while she herself blamed children for “sexual provocation”.
If she is what’s “honoured” as an Australian, it is no honour AT ALL.

It’s all in this article. It WILL make you enraged.

Writer and sex therapist made Member of the Order of Australia for her advocacy for men

Bettina Arndt awarded Australia Day honour for services 'to gender equity'

The good news about the new shamelessness of our politics? We will get used to it

 24/7 News Cycle makes everything Normal and it's what Murdoch/Trump rely on for business. Distrust is the new normal of even Real News (ODT)

Over repeated exposures to their aversion, taxpayers will adapt and become less reactive, purely as a survival mechanism. Much in the same way that catastrophic fish kills used to be a source of apocalyptic horror, but have now been downgraded to a minor story which must get in line behind carbonised koalas, tragic property loss, and the deaths of front-line bushfire heroes.

  

But most of all, I hate being lied to.
So no, I don’t feel proud today. I feel angry at how a great country is being destroyed by political hacks whose only goal is to keep their nose in the trough.

 Today I am supposed to feel proud - so why am I so angry? - » The Australian Independent Media Network

 

FAKE NEWS

 

Bolt's symbolic Colonial invasion revisited again and again and again 

BRUCE PASCOE SCANDAL: YOLNGU NOW DENOUNCE THIS 'ABORIGINAL HISTORIAN', TOO

Now the Yolngu of Arnhem Land denounce "Aboriginal historian" Bruce Pascoe and his fake history. Elder Terry Yumbulul: "Our people... call for an investigation into Bruce Pascoe, his claim to Aboriginal ancestry and the financial benefits he and his businesses have derived from claiming Aboriginal ancestry he has been unable to verify."  

1h ago 

So What killing the man doesn't destroy his message just makes Bolt look the fool. He does it all the time Waleed Aly , Waleed Aly's wife, Adam Goodes, Yassmin Abdel Magied, and countless others make him the idiot of Sky News trying to be Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson etc but he simply can't cut the mustard. 

 Pascoe has always acknowledged that the history of his family has been difficult to fully piece together and that his Aboriginal ancestry is more than three generations away from today. Richard Guilliatt’s profile piece was written in May 2019, but it’s clear that Bruce Pascoe has been on Bolt’s attack radar for a long time.
Bolt first sneered at Bruce Pascoe’s claims of Aboriginal heritage in 2012, well before ‘Dark Emu’ was published. Since then, he has shamelessly leveraged the work of other people in mounting his attacks on Pascoe and his work.
What’s mildly amusing in all of this is that Bolt has probably never read ‘Dark Emu’ .
He’s been asked several times, most recently by Rick Morton writing in The Saturday Paper and each time he’s refused to directly answer: (Hirst)

 How 'Dark Emu' upset the Right-wing media