Fighting Fake News with REAL, 13/3/23, Peter Costello, Robodebt,ABC

 

 

Nine Entertainment-owned papers have been talking up the prospects of Australia going to war with China while failing to declare that Nine chairman Peter Costello has made $millions in recent years lobbying on behalf of defence companies.

Source: Nine chairman Peter Costello is now promoting war with China after making $millions lobbying for defence companiesKangaroo Court of Australia

 

we have heard from the architects, those charged with the responsibility to provide essential social services to all Australians, and who instead left us with a decade-long legacy of abject failure and wilful neglect on a multi-faceted grand-scale of human pain and suffering.

Source: Robodebt’s architects suffer temporary embarrassment, its victims are gone forever | The Shot

A 40-minute strike

Is the current ALP government even genuinely intrested in strengthening our Democracy and returning the ABC to be the Independant Statutory body it was originally designed to be? Emphasis on Independant and not the victim of a cabal as it has been of the previous government Abbott’s and Morrison’s LNP, the IPA, and Murdoch ,Costello, and Stokes Media all competing for the wealth of the minority interests not even necessarily Australian.

Bottom line, the organisation continues to lose talent. Hence the ongoing threat of strike action and the recent efforts by ABC Alumni to lobby the government and crossbenchers to do more to undo the damage of a decade of cuts.

“We need the current government to help the ABC rebuild,” says Dempster.

 

Rupert Murdoch may be running out of political clout and financial luck.

For decades Murdoch has been a pernicious influence on journalism, politics, climate policy, progressive ideas and whether nations go to war or not.

Source: Is Rupert running out of political clout and financial luck? – Pearls and Irritations