Fighting Fake News with REAL, 17/4/23, Trump, Peter Dutton's Grift, Morrison mustn't be forgotten, Dutton and abused kids, Lidia Oh Lidia abused,

  

 

The grift works in two ways. First, it allows him to campaign against the Voice on his own terms. He sets out a problem and decides the Voice would not address it, ignoring every other problem the Voice might help fix. It is a rhetorical trick: take something broad and undermine it with something specific, distract with anecdote, mention children.

The second part of the grift is more insidious. It rests on the racist trope of “normalised” abuse, the lie at the heart of the Intervention and the Stolen Generations. It says: these people are not like you, these people hurt children. In the context of the Voice, it says: these people can’t be trusted with their own babies, why should they have a say in policy?

The Northern Territory minister for Police says Dutton’s claims are baseless. Crime rates are down since January. Traditional Owners say Dutton has not met with them. They say his claims are insulting.

Dutton’s grift (The Saturday Paper )

 

 

The likes of Scott Morrison and Stuart Robert must be held accountable for the wicked ROBODEBT Scheme. By this we mean prison.

People died and to Morrison is just a big joke . We must never forget Scott Morrison is a wicked man.

  

Dutton says he spent sleepless nights worrying about sexually abused kids

 

 

One might well ask why Lidia Thorpe makes front page of The Age? Particularly when the article is 'free to read" but not so the one on Peter Dutton.

"“It’s sad people are utilising whatever they can to drag me down when we’re trying to discuss important issues in this country,” Thorpe said in a statement."

Vision has emerged of the independent senator yelling and swearing at a group of men outside a strip club in Brunswick.Senator Lidia Thorpe in heated exchange outside strip club