Pascoe also noted that Morrison refused to condemn the violence that occurred when the US Capitol was stormed by rioters in January, unlike Conservatives such as the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and German Chancellor Angela Merkel. A week later, Acting Prime Minister and Nationals Party leader Michael McCormack added fuel to the fire generated by LNP backbenchers spreading false or unsubstantiated statements on social media by stating Facts are sometimes contentious, and what you might think is right somebody else might think is completely untrue. “That is part of living in a democratic country. In 2015, on the release of a report into bullying and harassment in the military, Australian Army Lieutenant General David Morrison stated: ‘The standard you walk past is the standard you accept’. The comment was reflected on by a writer for The Huffington Post who went on to suggest Every time we accept the status quo of poor behavior, we are endorsing it. A strong leader should not only advise of behavior that is appropriate, they should embody it. They should be the person telling us that we don’t tolerate bullying or harassment. Morrison and the state premiers aren’t necessarily being booted permanently from Twitter or Facebook or inciting mobs to invade the Parliamentary buildings on Capital Hill, Spring St or George St, but they are implicitly supporting behaviours that demean the democratic process by not speaking out about them. They, and the parties they represent, are also openly involved in a winner take all battle where belittling, bullying and harassment of those with different opinions is not only common, but expected. In recent months, the US has seen the results of a winner take all battle of wills for the future of the country. Let’s hope our leaders observe, reflect and actually lead, before it’s too late.
The sad joke – » The Australian Independent Media Network
A few weeks ago, Peter Dutton decided to release dozens of refugees who had been held in Melbourne hotel rooms for more than a year because it was “cheaper for people to be in the community than it is to be at a hotel or for us to be paying for them to be in detention.” What a revelation. Dutton told 2GB radio the released men had been assessed as not being a threat. Which is a turnaround from his fearmongering 2 years ago that the medevac bill, allowing these refugees to receive medical treatment on mainland Australia, would lead to “Alleged murderers, rapists and paedophiles” coming to Australia. Speaking of not being a threat, another court decision will be made today about the ongoing detention of the Biloela family. Priya, Nades, and their Australian-born daughters, Kopika, five, and Tharunicaa, three, were taken from their home in Queensland and moved to Melbourne in March 2018 and have been detained on Christmas Island since August 2019. Department figures provided to the Senate estimates process last month show keeping the family detained has cost $1.4m in the past year.
No they can't deal with
the principle rape in Canberra but they can deal with this family to the
tune of millions of dollars. Follow the bouncing ball of hypocrisy
If there is one thing you can rely on from our government, it’s inconsistency – » The Australian Independent Media Network
Now amidst a once-in-a-century pandemic, the United States has record-high stock prices while 54 million Americans are at times going hungry. Perhaps not even King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette of Revolutionary-era France could be so blind as not to see the enormous social issues the response of policymakers and central bankers are creating before our very eyes.
Bank neoliberalism sets the stage for the next Trump
The K-Shaped Recovery: financial fortunes fork as JobKeeper, JobSeeker cliff looms
A record share market and bouncing property prices are a boon for many Australians yet the economic recovery is shaping up to benefit the wealthy at the expense of those less fortunate. Michael West reports on the K-Shaped Recovery.
‘Didn’t want to hear it’: Liberal staffer says bosses dismissed her sexual assault
A former Morrison government adviser has alleged she was raped by a colleague in a minister’s office in Parliament House and then had the matter “dismissed” because it became a political problem.
Brittany Higgins, a former adviser to two cabinet ministers, aired damning claims on Monday night that key people within the government failed to offer enough support while the alleged rapist did not suffer any consequences.
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Murdoch's WSJ Response shows the only side Murdoch is on is profit. He might appear to be anti- Trump now but is ready to change again. The 24/7 News Cycle ensures everything said today is forgotten tomorrow so much so truth is irrelevant only the headlines count. Andrew Bolt has certainly a believer in that lesson never saying sorry for being wrong but very much a failure.
He has failed because he's simply what Judge Mordecai Blomberg declared lazy Journalist/Commentator who when he has nothing to say is obsessed with singular causes that reveal who he really is like Climate Change Denier, White Christian Supremacist, Misogynist, a cancel culture thug, and the ABC's diversity that's representative of a nation he despises. When Bolt struggles to find topics to write about so he simply returns to topics repeats attacks on people and subjects time and time again as if their new when they're. It all goes to reveal who he really is a failed journalist held in low regard and cheap by Murdoch's standards.n
It shouldn’t take a rape to change political culture that women have endured for years
A Culture Andrew Bolt said wasn't in any misogynistic but rather the women within it were simply acting badly towards men. Until recently Bolt was defending the behavior of the men in the LNP. Will he even address this case in the same way or admit he was wrong?FAKE NEWS
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