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News Corporation employs Andrew Bolt and provides him with a platform ensuring the inequality of speech. Bolt's Blog not only advocates conservative, right wing and Tea Party views it moderates out most opposing opinions which he is entitled to do. However Andrew Bolt simply lies when he says he provides an arena for fair and balanced discussion in a no spin zone. He doesn't it's all spin.
Friday 19 August 2022
Fighting Fake News with REAL 19/8/22; Truth in Humour; Informed Rumours; Frydenberg Howard and the Seat of Cook;
Even after Morrison made Josh Frydenberg look as if he didn't have a clue what was going on and the seat of Menzies tossed him out. Josh is being whispered as the "come back kid". He was the Treasurer who hid reality and spruiked fake news about the economy to the whole nation. How fucked is Cook if they welcomed him?
Even fresh from the mortifying news that he was sharing the second highest post in government with his leader, former treasurer Josh Frydenberg is being spoken of as a Liberal saviour. Apparently Peter Dutton has not inspired the nation in his role as opposition leader.
As outrage swirls around Scott Morrison for running a secret parallel ministry, there is are some wistful musings about the prospect of Josh getting back into parliament, even by replacing ScoMo. The former PM has become an unwelcome presence on his own side, and few would be sorry to see his back. Perhaps only Labor really wants him to hang around.
Enter the Liberal elder statesman. John Howard has lunches with Josh Frydenberg. They talk politics, Honest John helpfully informed Radio National’s Patricia Karvelas on Wednesday. She then asked him about the prospects of Josh taking Scott Morrison’s seat of Cook.
Scott Morrison’s attempt at securing a legacy has blown up in his face
“What’s astounding is the kind of determination that Scott Morrison was bringing to bear.
‘‘What you had … is a kind of Trump envy.”
‘‘Morrison wanted to imitate that in some way to try and
accumulate some of the kinds of expanse of executive power that was not
naturally allowed under our parliamentary system.”
Many conventions of Westminster democracy, like public
servants providing frank and fearless advice without thinking of
politics, have slowly declined without much notice.
But Mr Morrison’s secret portfolio scheme was an unusually direct challenge to pretty core principles of democracy.
Australian democracy has always been a form of ministerial
government: one person is vested with the legal authority to administer a
portfolio and be held responsible for it.
By repeatedly inserting himself as an alternative decision
maker Mr Morrison violated a key principle and one likely to feature in a
legal challenge over a project he cancelled while secretly acting as
the Resources Minister.
The secrecy that surrounded Mr Morrison’s accumulation of power was also incompatible with transparent government.
But a secrecy fetish alone does not entirely explain behaviour he had only recently disclosed.
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