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News Corporation employs Right-Wing Broadcasters providing them with a platform ensuring the inequality of speech. Their Social Media Platforms not only advocate conservative, and extreme right-wing wing views. They monitor out most opposing opinions which they are entitled to do. However, they also simply lie when they say they provide an arena for fair and balanced discussion in a no-spin zone. They don't it's all spin.
The ABC & SBS are "the peoples broadcaster" independent of Governments and in the case of their funding Governments are intended to be merely the clerks. For the past 22 years the L-NP in government has acted as the owners of this Independent Statuary Body upon which Democracy hangs. They have exercised the equivalent of wage-theft during that time. We will no doubt see the L-NP promise to throw some crumbs they took away back this election, and crow over their generosity. Then like Abbott's promise of "No Cuts to the ABC" only see them go back on the attack again if they win. It was Morrison that declared a "cut " wasn't a cut it was simply an "efficiency review".
This is the hose Morrison prefers not aged-care and how he's like to care for women, young on their backs prostrate and masked. Dreaming of Grace to....
Ms Higgins shared the message from Mr Joyce with the Herald
and The Age after he called on Wednesday for an anonymous minister who
made derogatory comments about Mr Morrison in a text message
conversation with former NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian to identify
themselves.
Abbott said let them die in dignity. Heroes for the sake of the economy
What was Scott Morrison’s plan when he decided Australians
should “live with Covid”? Did he give any thought to the impact this
would have on older people living in aged care homes? Sarah Russell
reports on the plight of our most vulnerable.
Whatever, I’m sure that he’ll get a glowing reference and
will have no trouble picking something else up in the near future. Like I
always say, you’ve got to hand it to Scotty. Yes, you do. There’s no
way he’ll get off his backside and do it for himself!
If Novak Djokovic did indeed have Covid last month, then
he's as safe as any vaccinated person in Australia. In fact, the Lancet
medical journal now says the evidence shows that people like him should
be as free as anyone to travel.
PROOF THAT MORRISON GOVERNMENT IS PLAYING POLITICS WITH DJOKOVIC
Proof that the Morrison Government wants to kick out Novak
Djokovic as a political menace, not a health one: "Immigration
Minister Alex Hawke will not make decision on whether to cancel
Djokovic’s visa tonight. He had four hours to make a decision if they
wanted to keep him in detention." If Djokovic was really a health risk,
why let him out?
The
saying "Fake it until you make it" doesn't apply to Andrew Bolt whose
been faking it his whole career and has never really made it. His
opinions aren't built on a foundation of facts let alone knowledge.
Djokovic
lied on his visa application and in doing so commited a crime here. Asylum seekers are deported and sent back to countries they fled from often to face death. Afghanis weren't allowed in because their paper work wasn't supplied. The refugees who came by boat and sought asylum and have been illegally held some for a decade. Yet Djokovic is a problem for Morrison.
Furthermore Djokovic failed to
isolate in Serbia after a positive reading for Covid, a crime in Serbia as well. He claimed to have isolated but was training in Spain. Yet he's free and not detained because of our government's incompetence. Bolt and News Corp make out he's the victim.
Morrison might be stupid and trying to play politics but according to our laws he's currently making an exception for a real "illegal". He would be right to
send Djokovic packing but instead he's amplifying not just the hypocrisy of our immigration laws but his government.
Bolt is best staying on holiday rather than
trying to promote News Corp's "fake and incomplete news". Simply piss off, fade away and retire to his beloved Socialist Netherlands.
Officially
launching his campaign for “positivity” on Saturday, Opposition Leader
Matthew Guy promised there would be no lockdowns under a Victorian
Coalition government.
Ever slowly, the citizens of the world are coming to the
realisation that such vaccines will always risk being imperilled in the
absence of fair and equal distribution across the globe. Given the
freedom to mutate in unvaccinated populations, more variants of
SARS-CoV-2 will emerge to penetrate the protective shield. ( Dr Binoy Kampmark)
In the case of Covid Matthew Guy is doomed to fail. With Omnicron rising, the EU, UK, and USA surging and hospitals faltering Matthew Guy sounds more like Custer than even Napoleon.
Multiculturalism
has been an undeclared boon to the LNP. Their pre-election tactic historically has been to
fragment and divide electorates in any manner possible and the diversity
of multiculturalism is the means, the vehicle, they use to achieve just that. Slice
and dice electorates thinly to limit majority unity. The ALP on the other hand
works to unify that working family majority made up of diverse cultures. They
remain consistent with that goal win or lose.
It's quite the revese when not in election mode. In power or not the LNP are in fact anti-multiculturalists whose
ideology is the Assimilationist. The flipside of the coin which demands we all goose step to
the same tune. They are in fact cultural Autocrats, Nationalists &
bigots. The LNP rarely appeals to any underlying material data, facts or rational
analysis to present progressive policies. But rather they target emotions,cultural difference and basic fears
instead. The ALP battle is to find a pathway through the emotional
and cultural labrynth in an effort to unite us and formulate the
progressive, material policies to benefit us all.
There
was a time when politics, our Democracy, saw a battle being fought for the
center. Today it seems the LNP has moved to the extreme right where
power for powers sake has become the only prize and their service only
dictated for and by the wealth of their donors and the media who run a cash for
comment and profit point guard business like Murdoch media globally.
The
ALP is the only party with a will to still fight for Democracy but with one arm tied behind it's back in a fight against the extreme right, money and media. The
LNP 's dream is today is to regulate Voter ID, rid us of compulsory voting and
the independant critical eye of the ABC who is there to vet whoever is in power. Because
the LNP like the American Republicans, Orban, Erdogen, and Putin aren't prepared to accept
loss a fundamental without which Liberal Democracies can't exist.
How can we forget Abbott's war cry of Nope Nope Nope to any Democratic compromise? He ran second in
history to Gorton for the least Bills passed by any government. Gillard on the other hand
came close to setting the record for the most and with a minority government. She accepted service in the name of the people. Morrison has spat the dummy and simply stepped aside.
Just when you think this government can’t get any more
sneaky. In a Human Rights Denied,virtually unnoticed move, the
Coalition government has snuck an alarming last-minute amendment into an
aged care bill before Parliament that removes the legal and human
rights of aged care residents. The amendment removes the civil and
criminal protections to which all other Australians are entitled. If a
member of the public is restrained without their consent, the
perpetrator can be charged. In contrast, an aged care resident who is
restrained without their consent will have no legal recourse. Then the
government has the gall to try to claim that this amendment relates to a
recommendation of the Aged Care Royal Commission, when it is the
complete opposite of what the royal commissioners recommended.
False Flag definitely not ANTIFA but certainly anti-DAN.
“The movement,” says Deakin University senior research fellow Josh
Roose, “is riddled with far-right and alt-right extremists who, with
their growing reach through social media and in the context of
developments in the US and Europe, pose one of the more significant
challenges to Australian democracy in recent memory.”
The Prime Minister has said he will propose the government’s own
version. Lambie scoffs at this: “That’s not an ICAC, that’s a feather
duster.”
three examples of Morrison government ministers who were
engulfed in controversy and left or lost their posts, but were later
appointed to other ministry positions: Christian Porter, Linda Reynolds
and Bridget McKenzie. “People here,” she says, gesturing at Parliament
House, “are untouchable. The people are onto ’em, it’s in their face,
and they’re sick of it.”
Morrison seems more intent on protecting politicians from scrutiny than
on delivering a meaningful anti-corruption commission. If he won’t
deliver, the task would pass to the next government.
When you have rorts and corruption and do nothing about it during your term in office and before an election what you do have is a TRIAL RUN
If preparing to create laws that allow MPs to sue and defend "at tax payer expense" while allowing parliamentary privilege to stand isn't enough. Morrison is trying to stop class action suits against corporations and is determined avoid any ICAC body with teeth. LNP is a one-way street named Autocrat and it's Morrison daring the voter to try and sue him or his friends. Let's not forget he's the guy whose best friends are reported to be QAnon and he and his wife employed and holidayed with them them. To say he didn't know is a stretch too far. Does saying that make me a troll?
Under
the new laws people who believe they have been defamed online will also
be able to get court orders forcing social media giants to reveal who
posted.
Australian conservatives claim that “woke” students and left-wing
lecturers pose a threat to free speech on university campuses. But the
real “cancel culture” is coming from the Right.
75% of Covid related deaths have occurred in Morrison's Aged Care Homes and still two thirds of the staff aren't vaccinated.While Morrison tells Australians to "count yourselves lucky"under his leadership.
Vaccinations
for aged care staff lag well behind the initial schedule promised by
Aged Care Minister Greg Hunt in February, new federal figures show.
The stench of fraud has followed Trump like a passenger by his side all his life. He used his wealth and the threat of law to keep his history a secret.
Their "fraud" cost the agency $130,000, according to the OIG report. No charges were filed.
Display
homes, Chadstone stores and bus lines are among roughly 100 new
locations added yesterday. It comes after an aged care worker was
confirmed to have COVID - a mystery case that’s caused ‘extreme
concern’.
But
the Federal government has hit back, with Scott Morrison saying
Victoria has had generous funding from Canberra, and it wanted to
“ensure Victoria doesn’t close itself again”.
For years the Wasps kept the Catholics a nd Jews at bay. They believed them to be dangerous. Howard cosied up to the brethren.
We need to stress again that authoritarianism is underpinned by religion. Australians need to decide whether they prefer a progressive secular future or a continuation of our trend to elect fundamentalist MPs and further Christianise our three tiers of government.
Both the Liberal National Party (LNP) and Australian Labor Party (ALP) leadership
remain obsessed with pandering to the illusory “Christian vote”. This
alone perpetuates our status as a "soft theocracy".
But taking political candidates
from Pentecostal and evangelical churches and packing more Christians
into parliament puts a distinct strain on a viable democracy.
Religious freedom is indeed a civil right for all — including the true public majority who do not practice a particular religionand
who do not want any form of religion forced upon them. The problem with
overzealous people of faith is they claim spiritual superiorityto “know God’s plan.” Really? How?
We need to avoid religion becoming weaponised to assert Christian dominionism — with its ultimate aim to kill democracy and enthrone Jesus.
I
was vaccinated on Friday. Now a voice in my ear keeps whispering: “This
is Bill Gates. Buy Microsoft.” No, wait. The thought in my head is
actually: Enough! There’s no excuse left for another lockdown. Let
conspiracy theorists die from the virus, if that's their choice. We've
almost finished protecting the vulnerable, and that's enough.
It goes to show what Andrew Bolt imagines equality is. He's opinion is total unsubstantiated gaslighting of those who simply don't have the same freedom of choice, the privilege he has. His level of risk is apparently the same as that of front line workers, essential workers the homeless or those who survive on a weekly pay packet and support a family. The very idea that we all have an "equal choice", face equal risk and have an equal chance of contracting Covid can only come from an ignorant selfish asshole in a position of privilege. Currently the evidence is that the vaccination rollout will continue until June 2022 and Bolt has had his jab in May 2021.
That's a level of privilege that the majority of Australians don't have. Bolt was vaccinated on Friday did he have to stand in line and wait for 4 hours like some Victorians did? What about those that can't or their doctors simply can't accommodate them because they still haven't sufficient vaccine? Yep Andrew Bolt is simply a selfish asshole who inconvenienced saying out loud "I'm alright Jack get out of my way" Currently it's predicted that herd immunity or full vaccination won't be reached until June 2022. Bolt makes no mention that on global comparison Australia ranks over 100th among nations being competently vaccinated.
Three things are immanently necessary all In Morrison's juridiction 1) effective quarantine 2) effective vaccine and rapid rollout and 3) JobKeeper when and if lock downs are necessary. 4) Andrew Bolt as the coal mine canary to test and prove Covid-19 is non existent in critical exposure sites he claims are "safe". Currently Morrison's LNP has failed on all counts. Bolt claims he knows the way but it's execution remains a tight held secret.
Call
it "virus theatre" - theatrically wiping down even street signs to stop
the virus. Or wearing face masks out in the open air. New research
confirms that won't do much at all. The main way this virus is
transmitted means a lot of our protections make little sense or
difference.
Yet
another virus myth is exposed: That this coronavirus is often spread by
droplets that stay on things such as lift buttons and tables.
This belief fed pandemic paranoia, pushing us to take ineffective precautions and stage crazy “virus theatre”.
That included council workers washing down roadside posts and street-crossing signs, and companies “deep cleaning” offices.
It
also encouraged governments to play down a great danger in many
quarantine hotels, while meanwhile forcing Australians to wear face
masks outdoors, where the risk of infection is about zero.
Here we have an Aussie "whinger" not really an informative critic but a "whinger". Someone who doesn't believe in taking the best of care and precaution but just the minimal is sufficient why? Because he doesn't suffer from the level of risk. However, coming from the voice of the most unsocial, the least welcoming, prick in Australia we are meant to stand to attention. Bol is someone who doesn't really give a shit about his neighbors or others. He criticizes without offering how any of his alternatives might even be executed. For him all solutions are simple never complex because others don't matter. He's the living breathing caricature of the worst Australian, the last person you'll ever see with his shoulder to the wheel helping out. He's security bound and if out in the world wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire.
His claim that "we've almost completed protecting the vulnerable" defies logic not just of the Australian experience but from that experienced by other nations far better vaccinated than we are. Does Bolt listen to any news other than Murdoch's? It appears not.
But under concerted attack from the federal opposition on Thursday,
Mr Hunt acknowledged that 16 of Victoria’s 598 aged care homes had not
had any doses delivered to either residents or workers.
While Nomadland goes out of its way to avoid talking
politics, its genius is in locating the emotional truth of what it’s
like to be one of the many millions of Americans cast adrift by
disaster.
Labor is predicted to claim up to 53 out of 59 lower house seats on the
back of a stunning 13 per cent swing in Saturday’s election, leaving the
Liberals with a predicted three seats.
Scott Morrison’s modus operandi mimics John Howard’s ( and Trump's ). It is essentially
to run government on a day-to-day basis, with little or no longer-term
strategic thinking or planning on major policy issues – it is almost
solely driven by political and marketing strategising, headline
announcements/events/stunts.
Morrison can't keep his promise to Australia but now he promises 1B to the Pacific soon the World. We know what a Bitcoin's worth. What's a Morrison promise worth you can't bank on it.
This is the voice of Cancel Culture. Indigenous Australians experienced this for over 200 years. When they complained nobody listened. Now White Australians are feeling it too. To complain conservatives label it Woke. Murdoch media disregards it so just suck it up.
In the past month alone 10 security businesses, Chatime bubble tea,
restaurants, medical centres, a toy retailer and an IT services business
have been pinged by the regulator for short-changing workers.
Remember, last week Andrew Bolt preached FEAR that China was preparing for WAR. He's simply a warmonger.
The US will spend, if we want to
be purists, $716 billion on the military. It’s actually a lot more
because the National Security Agency is part of the military, and the
CIA to all intents and purposes is military in nature and between them
their secret budgets top more than the $50 billion that was leaked in a
Congressional hearing eight years ago, and could be double that now
since so much more US military activity is now handled by Special Forces
acting under the direction of the CIA, but for sake of argument let’s
just leave it at $716 billion. Russia’s military budget is $65 billion,
and even if you tripled that to account for how much more expensive
everything is in the US from soldiers’ pay to weapons systems would
represent less than a third of what the US spends. China’s military
budget $183 billion, and again, you could double that if you like to
account for different costs and it would be less than half of the US
military budget.
This doesn't even account for what exists now in hardware and troop numbers. China is intent on it Belt Road Initiative investment.
Andrew Bolt's hey day was with a PM who knows he wasn't the best for this country and neither were the senior ministers in his cabinet. It goes to show just how self occupied Bolt is. He really doesn't know he was just a toy in the hands of much politically smarter persons.
Given the disaster that is aged care in Australia — the ongoing misery
so many senior Australians endure in substandard care in an industry
chronically underfunded and under-resourced — surely we would get a
break from the prime minister’s incessant focus on spin and presentation
and get some substance?
The very fact Morrison says rape, sexual molestation of women is Australian Culture, workplace culture something he can't change, only about talk about makes him the nation's current day leading enabler. No matter how much he feigns sorrow maintains it's a police matter or supports any male simply because they say "I didn't do it" he's maintaining a culture that should be cancelled. One that continues to blame women.
Morrison listened to Jen didn't he but neither of them put their mind to change anything. Porter needs to do more than just say "I didn't do it". He needs to step aside and let an independent investigation take charge. Then we just might be able to say we have leaders.
Hanging on America's coattails now Trump has gone Morrison is considering alternatives???
Attempts
to stage-manage the Aged Care Royal Commission report by Prime Minister
Scott Morrison and Health Minister Greg Hunt underline the government’s
failure to address the problems in aged care. It’s “market” based
approach is the problem, not the solution, report Dr Sarah Russell and Elizabeth Minter.
ABC
stars Paul Barry and Louise Milligan became embroiled in a Twitter
squabble on Monday night after Barry was criticised by an audience
member for lacking female representation when discussing recent
allegations in Canberra.
You really do have to laugh Andrew Bolt brought Rowan Dean on to "The Bolt Report" to do a twosome roast on the ABC for presenting a history program about James Cook to which they massively, blindly in chorus objected to. Laughing away at what they considered was their own smartness Dumb and Dumber didn't notice that the program was actually produced and paid for by Murdoch's Foxtel History channel. They were objecting to the content of a series being shown on their own cable network.
Bolt's response "Well the ABC showed it" " I regularly object to Murdoch media content more than the ABC objects to itself" As Paul Barry said "Really Andrew Bolt?" And so do I repeat "really when would that be ?" What we are witnessing here is a puerile effort by Dumber than Dumb Andrew Bolt attempting a payback for being caught out for what he did so badly mocking the ABC and was caught out. He really is a F--wit.
New
York Governor Andrew Cuomo has experienced an “extraordinary
turnaround” as within only a year he has gone from the “hero of the
pandemic” to his career being on the line, according to Sky News
Washington Correspondent Annelise Nielsen.
Anything to steer away from the shitstorm Morrison is facing about Aged Care, Rape, Kelly, and Vaccinations. How many of our elderly died in the government not regulated poor houses suffering without dignity under Morrison's and the LNP's watch. Bolt can't look at Australia he has to take us to the USA
Prince Harry and Meghan
Markle are trying to “latch on to that star power of Oprah” to become
more powerful and influential in the United States, according to Sky
News Washington Correspondent Annelise Nielsen.
"According to Sky News "says more than enough doesn't it? Fox News has just employed the nation's No 1 media liar recently ex president Trump's White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany
So any suggestion from anyone in the Murdoch stable telling us "the news" is actually the equivalent of a QAnon fact.
Oprah's really producers nailed it, not the other way round. Guess Fox lost out and had an ice block's chance in hell getting Meghan and Harry on their network. Bolt, Australia's social climbing, racist, sewer rat, certainly didn't get a look in. His producers wouldn't even bother. Harry & Meghan are rating royalty in America and so is Oprah who wanted them it was a lay down mizzaire that no Murdochian would get the gig.
Their popularity is beyond the stratosphere when it comes to rating numbers and their trust in Oprah is something Andrew Bolt has only achieved with the likes of Milo, Lauren Southern and other like dirt bags. Oprah was at their wedding. Some wiser countries have banned a number of Bolt's guests yet he's rushed to give them air time. Maybe that's why Fox Corp never got the show. Oprah hasn't been used Andrew Bolt has and welcomes it.
Certainly his star shines far less less today since Tony Abbott PM who ended up on the back bench died. Bolt's a prick who somehow would have us believe Harry and Megahan have their hats out like he's had for the past 30 years. He's certainly never merited the heights Oprah has. Does he think for a moment Harry and Meghan would beg to be on his meager little show? We saw the following Bolt achieved with his podcast of 5 weeks. He'd beg to have them on?
Does he for a moment dream he's Australia's answer to Oprah? Should he even be paid as much as US great Trumpster liar Kayleigh? He's glad women don't have as great a profile on Sky News as they do on Fox if they did he'd be Bolt who? Isn't it about time he was shown the door and Sky had as many women on air as the ABC?
