His words were good too, though. Keating tore the concept of AUKUS – an alliance between two fading empires and their enthusiastic vassal state – to shreds, explicitly shaming Albanese’s barely beating lefty heart for selling off Australian sovereignty to the Yanks and Poms, paying an absurd amount of money for the privilege, and receiving a small quantity of chunky underwater boats and an endless quantity of nuclear waste in return. Art of the deal, baby!
Source: Paul Keating said mean things about me and my stupid newspaper and now I have hurt feelings | The Shot
Australia’s old media is fighting an internal civil war trying to justify their cheerleader style of reporting federal politics. In this case, it’s regarding Australia’s highly questionable $368 billion expenditure on submarines. The Canberra Press Gallery reporters have been exposed for failing dismally in doing their job to keep politicians accountable and they have spent the last few days attacking former Prime Minister Paul Keating to somehow justify their failings.
Peter Hartcher, on of the “Red Alert” journalists said regarding Keating “He made the absurd claim that the government had “no mandate” for the policy. In fact, Albanese took the AUKUS plan in principle to the 2022 election as Labor policy”.
The stupidity is that statement is both the coalition and Labor have AUKUS as part of their policy so voters had no choice and we never knew it was going to cost $368 billion. So, to say “Labor had a mandate” because they took it to the 2022 election is deceptive at best and dishonest at worst.
Not only have senior Nine journalists Peter Hartcher and Matthew Knott had their reputations trashed writing the Red Alert series but at least 2 other journalists, David Crowe, Malcolm Knox and SMH editor Bevan Shields have written pieces defending them and Nine’s papers which has achieved nothing except throwing their own reputations under a bus.
Peter Costello should resign as chairman of Nine Entertainment before more damage is done on his watch.
Source: Peter “Low altitude flyer” Costello throws Nine’s journalists under a bus to attack Paul KeatingKangaroo Court of Austr
One positive derived from this fracas. The ALP doesn’t hide it’s disputes behind closed doors and allows for diverse comment. The LNP sacked Malcolm Fraser and want Turnbull to go as well.
In the face of his stinging critique of Australian leaders and journalists for putting the nation at risk with its ill-conceived submarine subservience to the U.S. and Britain, Keating sustained withering counterattacks. Rather than listen to him as an elder statesman, the way most societies throughout history have listened to their elders, he was condemned as yesterday’s man who had lost touch with the world today.
Source: A Sane Voice Amidst the Madness
During his recent National Press Club appearance, former PM Paul Keating scolded mainstream media journalists — who deserved every stinging syllable of his pinpoint-accurate words, writes Belinda Jones.
Source: Keating’s skewering of mainstream media spot on
The Media's Reply
The very fact that that Hartcher turns to "What Keating didn't say" goes to the core of the fact that Hartcher has no response to what Keating did say. Maybe that's because the majority of Australians agree with Keating and not Hartcher who was the orchestrator of the most egregious piece of media ever produced by an Australian "news organization". Some 20% of Australians believe in the subs but even those that do question the price and our sacrificed sovereignty.
Costello's was doing a Murdoch always does running Red Alert was an attention grabbing excercise for ratings and a promo for the future favors of Corporate lobbyists showing they too can do what New Corpse does. Stokes and Ch 7 are also cut from the same cloth and showed it running defense for Ben Smith for same reasons the money. Money that flows to them from the top down. They are Australia's 3 Corporate stooges, performing monkeys on behalf of not just Australia's most conservative wealthy but the planets. Meanwhile the rest of the planet watches on gobsmacked at our lack of critical thought.
The former prime minister didn’t reveal that the government gave him a private, early briefing on the AUKUS deal, and Albanese returned every call he made to him.
It’s what Keating didn’t say at the press club that was most disloyal
Peter Hartcher
Political and international editor
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