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PRUE MacSWEEN ON SURVIVING THE SUNRISE 'SCANDAL'
Prue MacSween hits out at the protesters and the trolls who attacked her over the Sunrise controversy, when she called for more Aboriginal children to be removed from danger:
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Just how schizo is this segment Bolt puts together with Prue MacSween they don't even agree with each other.
Yes, they agree on The Intervention but not on Stolen Children. However, Bolt demands greater Intervention because Aboriginal Culture is at fault. Prue M demands it because Child protection and Welfare is a great failure. Something Bolt both want more of for less cost but Prue M wants fundamentally changed because CPS to her is a dysfunctional industry out of control. The strange thing is Indigenous activists believe that too and they to want their children protected and want participation and a say in its management.
Bolt's always been on about Aborigines being dysfunctional and child molestation is his proof. No mention that sexual molestation is also rife in white communities as well. He proudly says he has huge ratings off a small base that's a plus but low when compared with free to air ratings of Waleed Aly. He says Aboriginal child molestation stats are huge off a small base as well but fails to mention that it's prevalent in the wider white population too but for years has tended to be ignored. He never mentions any cases like the group of people in Perth who were busted or the ex-policeman recently jailed for using his granddaughter for child pornography. What of the regular the number of non-aboriginal men queued up to go on sex tourism jaunts. Yes, non-aborigines are caught and jailed for incest as are Australia's clergy and childminders. The sexual molestation of children has been revealed to be everywhere. But no mention of the dysfunction found in Bolt's wholesome Christian and white culture at all when at the same time advocating that there is no such thing as race.
Bolt jumps aboard an opportunity to kick the living daylights out of Indigenous black Australia. Prue M doesn't she directs her complaint to the systemic inadequacy of the CPS as does Indigenous Australia. Neither CPS are listening nor is Prue M or the Indigenous Activists listening to each other and Bolt is actually taking advantage of it to justify his Racism.
Hundreds of years of generational welfare dependence have been brought on by the politics of Christian do-gooders whites that have kept the indigenous Australians unequal and raised with that self - image of inequality while being introduced to drugs alcohol a natural self-medication for escapism that whites use as well and some profit by. Generations of disadvantage and lack of opportunity haven't destroyed the need to survive poverty which has nothing to do with the history of being Indigenous, black or living in remote areas. because The very same can be found around the corner and in Bolt's community of Melbourne. Indigenous Australians didn't invent inequality.
The problem is white Australia has never historically helped to eradicate inequality only assuage it. It has never allowed the poor to complain because if they did they just might see that they have had their feet on the neck of those unfortunate who actually want to stand up. White people are increasingly seen today living in the same conditions and behaving in the same way as the indigenous poor while child molestation is ignored and has nothing to do with poverty or aboriginality.
The middle class have buried and simply have not paid attention to their own vices while scapegoating others to praise themselves All they have achieved a culture of distrust of the welfare man and that's normal. Individuals have been taught to distrust and resent each other in a culture of blame because they are dependant on each other. Furthermore, all our institutions encourage it. Wives learn to resent their husbands and vice versa workers their bosses and children adults simply because of a lack of freedom to be ones-self.
Aboriginal children are removed from families when neither they nor their families want it. Lang Hancock advocated sterilising Aborigines would as the kindest measure the best form of Child Protection and Andrew Bolt isn't far off that, Prue MacSween doesn't and neither do Indigenous Australians who love their kids as much as any Australian. Bolt is using their inequality and grievances to condemn them the victims and not the historic inequality our institutions actually promote. His an ultra- Racist victim basher who is invisible in his mirror.
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Bolt loves to use the term Aborigine and paints them all generally with one brush rarely mentioning the Multicultural complexity of the First Australians unless it's of advantage to him to do so. Nor does he accept the diversity of the "rest" of us when it doesn't suit him. The instruments chosen by Deborah weren't Victorian. She, therefore, was misusing her aboriginality in some activist and devious way and dividing the homogenous "rest". The indigenous divide wasn't being made at all Australians were treated with the respect and all were and being mourned as Australians. Bolt was and is one declaring loudly any distinction and that Deborah was the one disrespecting "his Team"
It's magnified in Bolt's nitpicking racism and self-defence that doesn't hold water when read.
"The anthem featured Aboriginal clapping sticks, while didgeridoos, not indigenous to Victoria, accompanied the guests of honour, and played again later." Bolt
Bolt was the one offended and only he was and remains vocal about it. Offended by being invited to mourn but not his teams way.
"This ludicrous formality, now obligatory at most state government functions, has rarely sounded so utterly inappropriate as it did here."
Yes, Bolt lives by the rule that bears his heritage of GOING DUTCH. He simply should not have crashed the service simply with respect to the dead which he showed none given his thoughts.
" Those who perished in towns such as Marysville, Kinglake and Strathewen need no welcome to their country, as if strangers to the land they loved, lived and died in."
Sorry Bolt they weren't welcomed as if strangers, they were welcomed as joining others that also died on that land before them Australians one and all. You are the one that seemed to have been the only one refusing to share that understanding. But then you generally are the outlier. Apparently the dead in that fire all were members of Bolt's Team whatever that means?
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How about this Andrew Bolt, you claim to be the sole-income earner in your family and say it often with a complaining tone. You have to take your family on holiday. You have to dream about and sacrifice things you can't have and are deprived of because of your wife. Could you live off what you were earned in 1985 today and provide? If you had to what would you be forced to change other than the level of your condition? Well, the ABC's budget was in today's terms $1 billion the equivalent of the $ 475M government revenue in 1985. All it has increased is what it is required to do according to its charter with the same revenue value. There is no "fat" like the undocumented grant of $30M given to Sky News by Turnbull never really explained. Or the corporate welfare tax cut they are trying to give now. Remember when pay TV was promised with "no ads" well that's dead and buried.
NORTH KOREA PLAYS CHICKEN
The problem with brinkmanship diplomacy is that North Korea plays that game, too: "North Korea has threatened to cancel next month’s summit between Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump in protest at US-South Korean military exercises." It's banking that Donald Trump wants this meeting more than Kim does. Which is a real risk.
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The chicken player was Trump moving the US embassy to Jerusalem. Chicken is the Military exercises held by Trump on his insistence. Chicken is Trump and the 3,500 lawsuits he's threatened over the years against people with less money. Playing Chicken is what bullies do.
PAPERS, PLEASE
Oh dear. Not again: "Malcolm Turnbull will be campaigning solo this week in the by-election for the federal Queensland seat of Longman because ... [candidate] Trevor Ruthenberg, who was born in Papua New Guinea, has held up the preselection as he waits for the finalisation of paperwork to clear him to run for the Labor-held seat."
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Has anyone noticed that Bolt isn't quoting Abbott on this remember when the NSW Libs were caught taking bribes from developers? He said it was the fault of the laws and not taking the money. They aren't saying that now are they.
THE GREAT TOM WOLFE DIES
Such a terrific writer: "Tom Wolfe, famous for works like The Bonfire of the Vanities, The Right Stuff and The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, has passed away in Manhattan at the age of 87." His Bonfire of the Vanities is unfortunately even more relevant today, in this age of Twitter mobs and identity politics. If only we'd taken more heed.
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One thing is certain Tom Wolf could write Bolt can't but he makes a living at it. Donkeys can't race or ever be thoroughbreds either.
COURT OFFICER SACKED OVER PELL BREACH
Once again, no comment until I am free to: "A County Court staffer has been sacked after being caught looking up highly sensitive information relating to Cardinal George Pell’s impending trial on historical sex charges. There are now fears that the major breach of security may have compromised the integrity of the criminal case."
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PAYWALL The question was he paid to do it and get caught? Bolt hasn't the guts to comment and fight for free speech the way Deryn Hinch once did.
