Monday 30 May 2022

Fighting Fake News with REAL; 30/5/22; Peter Dutton; Barnaby Joyce; Anthony Albanese, NRA


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 " We are going to clean up Labor's mess"  

The words of the opposition leader to the Liberal Party room who have been in power for a decade and doesn't seem to realize it.

"Mate it's your mess not the ALP's"

 

Former defence minister Peter Dutton will become the first Queenslander to lead the Liberal Party. The ...

Dutton first Queenslander to lead Liberals

 

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An effective opposition leader, one who can reframe his party around mainstream values, is good for us all.

His forays into racial stereotyping –saying in 2018 that Melburnians were afraid to go out to dinner because of “African gang violence”, and his 2016 comments on the “mistake” of resettling Lebanese Muslim immigrants in the 1970s – were deeply disappointing.

Dutton is also notorious for boycotting the apology to the Stolen Generations (something he later said he regretted), which will put him, and his party, in an interesting position when they formulate a response to a referendum on the Voice to parliament. Dutton, as a former Queensland cop, has seen Aboriginal disadvantage up close, and perhaps he believed the apology was tokenistic.

But symbols matter in politics, and the Uluru Statement from the Heart is not virtue-signalling from a white-woke minority. Besides, what the right-wing of the Liberal party calls “woke” is becoming increasingly mainstream, especially when these issues are framed for what many of them are – a request for fairness.

Source: Peter Dutton has the worldview of a Queensland cop. It’s in our interests to give him a go

Barnaby Joyce's leadership and character are both on the line.

Barnaby Joyce’s character on trial in leadership vote

The long wait to learn if the Albanese government has the lower house numbers to govern without the support of independents could end as early as Monday.

There was no fresh counting in the three seats that remain in doubt after the election just over a week ago, according to respected ABC election analyst Anthony Green.

“Staff will be processing declaration envelopes to be ready for a big count on Monday. That should clarify the final result – unless the three seats remain ultra-close,” he tweeted on Sunday.

Source: Labor on the brink of learning if can govern without independents

 

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

The new prime minister has a much stronger hold on power than the election results suggest at first glance

Anthony Albanese on course for at least six years in power


The National Rifle Association annual meeting over the holiday weekend drew a smaller than expected crowd, according to attendees and exhibitors, adding to the sense that the preeminent gun lobby was on the ropes. Some speculated that the horrific school massacre in Uvalde, Texas, just days before the convention and the ensuing cascade of cancelations by scheduled speakers and entertainers helped deter the crowds. (Kerry Picket/The Washington Times)

The National Rifle Association annual meeting over the holiday weekend drew a smaller-than-expected crowd, according to attendees and exhibitors, adding to the sense that the preeminent gun lobby was on the ropes.

Source: Uvalde slaughter casts a pall over NRA’s Houston convention as entertainers, members skip the event – Washington


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