labor wins election
And probably with a MAJORITY.
Murdoch was wrong YET AGAIN!! The Greatest Losing Influencer .
YES, SKY NEWS BLEW THEMSELVES UP. Tim Smith, Peta Credlin, Michael Kroger, left with little to say
Daniel Andrews is on track to overtake John Cain Jr as Victoria’s longest-serving Labor premier.
Victorian election
PM congratulates Andrews on victory; Liberal blame game begins
Matthew Guy is clinging to the Liberal leadership, but some of those who loomed as his most likely challengers look poised to lose their seats, which leaves a former party leader weighing up his options.
‘Disaster upon disaster upon disaster’: Liberals assess damage
The Model of LNP Promises
What’s a promise or, more specifically, an election promise? Is it a guilt-edged set-in concrete commitment made during an election campaign? What if the circumstances change after the campaign making it impossible to fulfil? Is a promise a legal commitment? Is it nothing more than just a proposal? Tony Abbott said this about promises
Tony Abbott said this about promises before the 2013 election
“It is an absolute principle of democracy that governments should not and must not say one thing before an election and do the opposite afterwards. Nothing could be more calculated to bring our democracy into disrepute and alienate the citizenry of Australia from their Government than if governments were to establish by precedent that they could say one thing before an election and do the opposite afterwards.”
That is an unambiguous promise that one couldn’t take any other way than how it is written or spoken.
Yet:
“The day before the 2013 election, Tony Abbott said there would be no cuts to education, no cuts to health, no changes to the pension, no changes to the GST and no cuts to the ABC or SBS,”
Source: Promises, Promises, Promises –
LNP Blame Game
Republican leaders say the recent shooting in Colorado was a tragedy that never should have happened and have called for new laws to make it harder for citizens to open gay nightclubs.
Source: Republican Party responds to gay club massacre, proposes immediate ban on gay clubs | The Shovel
Nationalism = Replacing History with Myth
A new documentary challenges Israel’s narrative about 1948 and the forced displacement of Palestinians.
The state of Israel so fears its own history that it passed a law, in 2011, penalizing anyone who commemorates the day of its establishment as one of mourning rather than celebration. Dubbed the “Nakba law” after the Arabic word for “catastrophe,” which Palestinians have always used in reference to the establishment of the Israeli state and their own displacement, the law captures the existential anxiety of a country that has never acknowledged its past even as it continues to struggle with its ramifications.
Israel’s narrative of its own birth is tightly orchestrated and controlled. Before the military opened its archives of the 1948 war, it issued a policy forbidding the release of any documents detailing the forced deportation of Palestinians; any human rights violations, including war crimes, committed by Israeli forces; or anything that might “harm the [Israeli Defense Forces]’s image” or expose it as “devoid of moral standards.”
Few in Israel are interested in finding out anyway. What happened in the days leading up to and following Israel’s establishment, at what cost their country came to exist, are questions that generations of Israelis have refused to ask. “For Israelis, the founding myth is that the Palestinians just ran away by themselves,” Alon Schwarz, an Israeli filmmaker, told me when we recently met. “Israel is lying to itself.”
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