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EXCLUSIVE: Governments' sickening ignorance towards starving wildlife

EXCLUSIVE: Governments' sickening ignorance towards starving wildlife

 ONE WILDLIFE CARER has described Australia as a “concentration camp for animals”. Her description has merit, given the current starvation crises which are driving surviving wildlife to extinction, aided and abetted by governments. 

 

 

 What might be regarded as a well-formed 74 years old's opinion of our Prime Ministers 



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Menzies was a silver-tongued liar who took us into the disaster of Vietnam. McMahon, often labelled our worst Prime Minister, was a treacherous backstabber despised by most of his cabinet. Howard also lied us into a futile war and aroused our worst instincts of greed and racism.



Abbott was a nutter. Turnbull talked the talk but never walked the walk. Of Labor PMs, Hawke's cabinets were loaded with dazzling talent. Keating was brilliant but eventually lost touch with the people. Rudd blew it on climate change; Gillard on same-sex marriage.



But however flawed, all these Prime Ministers had a vision for the nation, of what we might become. They had policy ambitions, a sense of direction, a concept of the demands of leadership.



Morrison exhibits nothing of this. Scratch the surface and there is nothing there. He is a glib charlatan, a mountebank, a sideshow juggling act, an empty and frivolous collection of slogans and clichés. He is, beyond any doubt, our worst Prime Minister.

 

FAKE NEWS

 

HOW THE HERALD TURNS PASCOE INTO AN ABORIGINE

This is beyond coincidence. Once again the Sydney Morning Herald chooses a darkly lit picture that makes the very white "Aboriginal" historian Bruce Pascoe look more Aboriginal. Compare with how I'm pictured. It's almost as if they're too scared to show readers what Pascoe really is. Can you trust a newspaper which manipulates reality like this?
30/01/2020 
How often have we heard that there is "no such thing as Race " from Andrew Bolt? That it was merely a political construct that gave justification for slavery. What about his bullying rant" I'm not a Racist if you call me one you are"? Well, he seems to be declaring himself one here and now with his insistent smearing of Bruce Pascoe for not just rewriting white history but damning our Inglorious Colonial past as a denied Invasion of occupied land.
 Why is Bolt's primary criticism not what Pascoe has written in Dark Emu but his skin and non-Aboriginality? It's because Pascoe agrees with Bolt that records do show he's a white man and European without Indigenous ancestry.  It's that Bruce Pascoe isn't an Aboriginal admits it but is looking further to see and that appears to be a crime in Bolt's eyes. Pascoe's own inquiry prevents Bolt being dragged back into court again and he's taking full advantage of that.
However, why can't he be sued for defamation? After all, Bolt's current, use of a fake letter by a Yolngu elder who declared Bolt has smeared him might well qualify. As he's not a Yolngu tribal elder and he never wrote what Bolt has attributed to him. It takes money to sue for defamation and News Corp has that power in spades.
Bolt though really is fucking his own reputation but then it's so maggot-like he doesn't seem to care. Showing he is everything Judge Mordecai Bromberg said of him when he convicted Bolt of Racial Vilification under the RDA Act way back when it stuck.
Bolt was a great help in the Minister's decision to have Bolt's current ally Jennifer Cashman sacked for her involvement in his personal vendetta against Pascoe. He should have been sacked by News Corp and Sky News when he attacked Australian of the Year Adam Goodes only to make an utter fool of himself. 

EXCLUSIVE: Yolngu Elder did not author letter