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Quid Pro Quo: who paid who before the Election and what do they want?

by Stephen Mayne | Feb 5, 2020

Nine months after the Election, we find out who bought it. From News Corp to GetUp, from Adani to the Australian Bankers Association, Stephen Mayne, the country’s top journalist on campaign finance, looks at the big donors, what they are buying

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 One thing that gives me hope is the backlash against high-profile marketer, Russel Howcroft. Though not as culpable as those who deliberately misdirected scientific discussion, he helped Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s office improve the selling of its climate policies. This wasn’t a workshop to improve the policies – but to improve the spin.

So, to those that continue to misdirect and sow doubt over global heating, I ask, ‘are your pay cheques really worth it?’ And do you realise that by promoting the reputation of polluters you’re damaging your own personal reputations? In 10 years’ time having any link to coal or gas on your resume won’t be a good look.
The Public Relations Institute of Australia’s code of ethics states that members "shall not knowingly disseminate false or misleading information". I suggest that any communications professional that positively represents fossil fuel interests is doing just that.

 My fellow spin doctors, you're going to regret spruiking fossil fuels

  

If Australia was 100 people, here's where we'd stand on climate change 

If Australia was 100 people, 84 of us would want action on climate change. So who are the other 16?

  

Nationals turmoil threatens to spark fresh round of climate wars within the Coalition 

By political reporter Jane Norman and national regional affairs reporter Lucy Barbour about 2 hours ago 

Scott Morrison has to navigate an issue that has become a death warrant for fellow prime ministers in the past decade and the Nationals could be set to make doing so more difficult.

FAKE NEWS

 

HOW THE LEFT HATES: REZA ASLAN GLOATS THAT RUSH LIMBAUGH HAS CANCER

Ex CNN man Reza Aslan gloats over Rush Limbaugh's cancer diagnosis: "Ask yourself this simple question: is the world a better place or a worse place with Rush Limbaugh in it?"  He shames himself and the Chicago Theological Seminary stupid enough to hire him. This same low life once gloated that an innocent Covington student had a "punchable" face.

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Here's a case of the pot calling the kettle black. Richard Di Natale resigned as the Greens leader primarily because he had a serious life-threatening operation last year and also because he wanted to spend time with his family. Bolt smeared him for it but made a joke of it in the process. He made no mention of the operation but smirked at Di Natale's use of the expression "the need to spend time with the family" as if he were being disingenuous. That's the hypocrisy of Andrew Bolf for you. Ask yourself this does this low life Andrew Bolt make Australia a better place? Are you better informed?(ODT)
What Bolt ignores is Rush Limbaugh Has Advanced Lung Cancer Now. But Then, He Asked For 'A Medal For Smoking'

Rush Limbaugh, who announced this week that he has advanced lung cancer, has a history of praising the practice of smoking.

MELTDOWN!: TRUMP WINS DEMOCRAT CAUCUS IN IOWA

 

GREENS LEADER ADAM BANDT'S VICIOUS RANT AS POLITICIANS MOURN BUSHFIRE DEAD

 

HOW DECEITFUL IS PAUL BARRY, THE ABC'S CLIMATE HYSTERIC?

 If only the Tobacco lobby had the media power of Sky 2gb and News Corp today!!
Firstly have we heard Bolt mention the fool Jim Molan made of himself on Q&A  when he said he pays "no attention to the evidence" science has provided over the past 40 years on Climate Change he prefers the opinions of idiots we have to assume because he doesn't name them like Andrew Bolt no doubt. Misinformation isn't a right and Andrew Bolt and the Sky crew are practised at just that. They do it under the guise of selecting facts then opinionating on them when in fact it's propaganda paid for and media-driven. Murdoch Media globally presents a uniform policy and message of denial and misinformation on Climate Change throughout the English speaking world.

 In fact, Murdoch himself is a wanna be Fossil Fuel Baron, a Director of Genie Oil which Bolt never mentions that's exploring illegally in the Israeli occupied territories of the Golan Heights of Syria. A class-action suit or ban on their advertisers is well deserved for that alone.

Bolt begins with bullshit Paul Barry didn't exclusively attack Sky News he directed his comments to 2GB  and the News Corp papers. Sorry Bolt, you weren't the sole focus of his attention. As for the years of misinformation, you have been putting out you spent more claiming the planet was "cooling" than "slightly warming.  So why now pretend otherwise which is fundamentally and primarily a piece of bullshit. You spent years quoting and venerating Roy Spencer and still do as the guru of denialism.

Bolt, unlike Jim Molan, claims he's a facts man who strangely enough often provides Molan with the space to spread his self declared "opinions only" views which he openly declares are better than the facts for which he has no regard.  Opinion rather than the years of evidence collected by the global scientific community are the foundation on which he bases policy not the facts and conclusions of the worlds most prestigious institutions. But then Bolt has no regard for scientists or experts other than his fellow Murdochians who all dance to the same tune.

 Bolt's fact whatever we do will not make bushfires stop so Australia has no global responsibility only to adapt as we are only 1.3% emitters of Greenhouse gasses.. Guess Bolt should have been around when we sent troops to fight in WW1 and WW2 in the foolish belief we needed global response to the Germans and Japanese despite the fact we were on the other side of the planet. We were small then too. We know what Bolt's response was to the Ebola virus don't we "do nothing"! So we don't need to support any global effort. No Bolt doesn't mock science when he calls it just another "religion" "a cult" " a money-making con" does he? He gets away with his crap simply because of the 24/7 news cycle that allows him the privilege of being a yo-yo going in any direction his masters allow as long as it's attached to their string and yes they are The Murdoch's Sky and News Corp. Even James Murdoch the son of Rupert agrees with Paul Barry over anything  Bolt has to say.

Imagine, Bolt has Gerard Henderson from News Corp to talk about "preaching and "no right of reply" on the Bolt Report now that is the "pot calling the kettle black".

 These two weren't laughing at the well to do and educated doctors of Warringah were they when they showed just how influential people can be when they got rid of Tony Abbott. (ODT)
And – NO – Australia cannot achieve a favourable outcome on its own but it can join the other countries which are already making far greater efforts then we are.
And – NO – we cannot undo the damage which we have allowed to happen but we can to some, possibly significant, degree limit the extent of further damage.
You never know what you can achieve until you try – but you will achieve nothing by failing to try! (RJ36)