Selling Fake News
Budget Spin: Labor’s debt a ‘disaster’; Coalition’s debt, three times larger, ‘sustainable’
When gross debt was 16.8% of GDP in 2013 under Labor, the Coalition condemned this as “spiralling out of control” and a “debt disaster”. Now, debt at 40.2% and rising to 50% of GDP under the Coalition is “strong and sustainable”. Either the Coalition was lying then or it is lying now. Or both. The hypocrisy is galling. Alan Austin reports.
Never mind who started it, it’s clear who benefits from the violence in Gaza and Israel right now
In 2016, when the ABC revealed the disgraceful treatment of young people in Don Dale – the youth detention centre now etched into our minds by the image of the young Indigenous man Dylan Voller in a spit hood – the Northern Territory’s chief minister Michael Gunner declared he would “close Don Dale as soon as possible”
Instead, this week he pushed through tough-on-crime policies that will make it harder to get bail for a number of common offences, reduce access to prison diversion programs, and give more discretion to police and less to courts. Far from closing Don Dale, it is now likely to result in up to 116 more youths being detained there and wings reopened to cope.
No comments:
Post a Comment