Channel 10 cancelled it last week and has yet again kicked it from pillar to post. It's so highly rated you see and was given the attention they believe it deserves.
It was them for free by Murdoch as an Advertorial against the ALP. How is it that's it's not regarded as a donation to the LNP? Notice how Bolt's ego has been dented yet again.
"Terribly sorry, but yet more time changes because of car races. It’s a miracle you’ve stuck with us:"Bolt
When Universities are forced to operate on a commercial model to attract overseas students for the purpose of self financing. When tutors, lecturers and senior lecturers have no tenure and the success or failure of departments and courses depends simply on supply and demand. When the expectations of students is little more than the paper chase for courses offering the false promise of jobs, excellence runs a significant last. What we see are reports and complaints that come from a clash of expectations that don't match reality.
The Education industry has become so important to the economy is it at all unusual the a VW attitude has become the norm. Sell courses and ensure they succeed at any cost even if the promise is false. Students returning home have a premium piece of paper. Local students have been sold a debt on false expectations that there's any number of jobs available for say lawyers. So much so one law company was seen selling internships for $27,000 why? False promises.
Christopher Pyne under the Abbott government wanted to adopt the failing American model of privatized tertiary education that is fast becoming bankrupt in the US leaving students with nothing but an immense debt and no future. America is now actively supporting a return to government supported education to reduce student debt that is now in the trillions of dollars.
This is what we should have said: “You are welcome to our country.
We will greet you, but we expect certain conditions to be met in
relation to cultural assimilation.”
What Bolt and Phelps expect is for Greeks and Italians to give up their very strong traditions it would seem.
"If one goes through the list of the six key determinants of
culture—language, law, religion, food, clothing and entertainment—one
finds that they are overwhelmingly British"
There are quite a number that have been here for 30 and 40 years that have never found it a necessity to become fluent English speakers. Particularly those little old Greek and Italian ladies dressed in black. Language,religion,food,clothing and entertainment still separates them today as much as it did when they arrived in the 50s and 60s. The integration comes with their children and not overnight. It was the same with Vienamese and Chinese and it's why we encouraged the notion of multiculturalism it softens all attitudes and creates a bridge between communities rather than the gap and stress that rapid assimilation demands. It's why we have China Town, Little Vietnam, Little Italy, The Italian clubs , The Greek Clubs.
Australia has a shortage of skilled labor we advertise but get no response from Bolt and Phelp's preferred migrants. Many worked in the car industry Abbott ensured it's death as it did in many areas of manufacturing. Bolt and Phelps in their bigoted way refuse to even accept that most Asylum seekers are professionals whether legal or illegal simply because they are Muslim. They tell us they can't speak English which is another lie as many are multi lingual. There is no evidence they are a greater burden on us either due to social welfare or criminality.
It's why Bolt and Phelps are talking a load of crock. They are blind to what has happened in the past and is still happening now. Multiculturalism is a journey, a path to assimilation that doesn't just occur over night and it's what has happened in all the settler countries like Australia, USA, Canada and NZ. What is exclusive to Australia is we call them "New Australian" Nobody in the world is regarded as a New American, New Canadian, ,New New Zealander. There they are Indian Americans, Polish Americans and proud to be Americans. Just as proud a Lebanese here are proud to be Australians. When do Phelps and Bolt suggest that their end is achieved? Obviously never when Phelp's criteria are held a the standard Richmond's Houli needs to be judged by. When does one become Australian? 50% of us have a first or second generation connection to a migrant family.
Bolt and Phelps believe in far more restrictive immigration, a white judeo christian culture that will produce our apartheid in the Pacific. Yet they expect all the benefits of being respected global citizens however with none of the responsibilities to realities that surround us..
Bolt's notion of protecting "free speech" is in fact the ideal of protecting uncivilized abuse and hate speech rather than civilized reasoned and persuasive speech. Since 1979 the courts haven't been over flowing with vilification cases in fact there have been very few. Except for Bolt's case I can't recollect any. So why the urgency if it's only to legislate the right of abuse. Conservatives talk of the fact that it will free up the courts which is patently false. In an authoritarian system abuse, vilification and threat readily flows from the top down. The army boot camp is a perfect example where the sargent can say anything he wants to the recruits in any number of ways and it substantiates his authority. The grunts don't have the same right of either power or control.
In democratic society the playing field isn't equal and nor is 'free speech".It is freer for some than others. The flow also reflects the power and control. It's why Bolt's case was so apparent because the situation was reversed. Free speech might be an ideal as is the want of an equal playing field but it's not the fact. Bigot's don't have the right to be bigots and nor should they. People do need to be protected from uncivilized abuse and hate speech and any legislation that allows it lowers the concept of civil society.
Link Paywall to Murdoch's Australian.
" Pathetic. What you’d expect from someone who’s been a union hack from her student days."Andrew Bolt
Stephanie Balogh is pathetic because she's been a 'union hack' since her student days. We can't say that of Bolt as he was a student for such a short time no one remembers him. But that can be said of Tony Abbott Joe Hockey or Christopher Pyne who were basically Liberal hacks since their student days. They must be deemed pathetic as well and they were.
So the politics of envy entails anybody belonging to the 99% of the Australian electorate asking questions of the 1%. However it doesn't apply when the investigation is directed in the other direction and the top 1% are asking questions of the 99% as they are in the Royal Commission. The Top 1% tax returns are protected.
Link paywall to Murdoch's Australian
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So Turnbull needs to be taken down personally, but Shorten also needs to step up:"Andrew Bolt
Andrew Bolt sounds like a man who wants Malcolm Turnbull brought down. Why is it Shorten needs to suspend the CFMEU when 7/11 doesn't require any suspension? Developers can start Phoenix companies and rip people off as often as they want. That the CBA doesn't require any action other than an apology?
Why is it that union members aren't required to sit on company boards as they are in Germany making the whole system less adversarial. Why is it that suspensions are always only applied to union the worker associations?
Why did we let them in?
Had we known what this son of Dutch migrants would be doing in Australia in the 2000s when they arrived in 1958 the same question might well have been asked of them. Andrew Bolt has been involved in so many defamation and vilification cases that he hardly stands out as a person of good character or a model citizen. When he argues his points he switches sides to suit the occasion he flips and flops. He's an innocent speaking the truth who doesn't vilify or disparage Muslims he's the model Australian in his own opera. It's Muslim victimology that actually makes them reverse racists who threaten Bolt's safety. He has applied this same argument against the indigenous people that took him to court but it didn't wash with the judge. Bolt still cries that he was the victim of unfair laws.
It's strange Bolt believes everything ISIS has to say but generally finds it hard to believe what Australians generally have to say, particularly if they accuse Andrew Bolt of driving them to the point of violence. When that happens Bolt says , "see I told you so victimology". There is every reason the laws surrounding Section 18C should be made stricter because Andrew Bolt and those like him do incite violence or the threat of violence as the email below shows.
This email is crude but it is an understandable response to Bolt's vilification and religious hatred of Muslims that he has been spreading for years. However he get's hate in return he then immediately cries victim and "why did we let them in". If one understands the history of what went before and what generated this sort of reaction the question is more valid when asked of Andrew Bolt. Why did we let him in? Let's hope Malcolm Turnbull has a closer look at Andrew Bolt.
Link The Telegraph
97% of the worlds best known and peer-reviewed scientists agree on the issue of global warming and Bolt call's it a "cult" The 3% who disagree with global warming according to Bolt that are the "real" scientists of the day. That's akin to saying Eric Abetz was right when he linked cancer to abortions and all the medical researchers that laughed at him were just members of a religious cult.
Yet again Bolt takes a single issue of a weatherman in France who has nothing to do with science or research but is only tied up with the politics and opinions that surround the science he however is the man to be heard. Bolt distorts what's happening as evidence against science and it's method. Just by calling science a "cult" merits as refutation of the scientific process and is sufficient to reduce it to voodoo.
The politics of French TV is the politics of French TV they haven't a clue or care who Andrew Bolt is they do care that an employee went outside the bounds of his contract
Link Andrew Bolt, Tim Blair
What's this but churlish mudslinging from the conservative right attacking what they see as the conservative left. I'm afraid it's more like Bolt's looking in a mirror and sliming the reverse image of himself without realizing it. This is the sort of unsightly insight-less "free speech" that he believes our laws need to protect. Someone is free to abuse handicapped children to their face just because they have the right to be bigots and it's too subjective for our courts to deal with. The courts didn't think so in Bolt's case.
Link Jakarta Post
" Christians persecuted in Indonesia:" Andrew Bolt
"Muslims persecuted in Australia " example
Andrew Bolt's banner has as much validity as the example below it if it was a banner about Bendigo. Bolt simply doesn't tell the whole story only his because he has vested interest in promoting Islamophobia. He has no interest in reporting what really happened was a dipute as much about local politics as it was about religion. No, Bolt would rather suggest that 350 mill Indonesians had the Christians in their crosshairs and their backs to the wall. Yes disputes happen even here. They don't define Australia as local disputes don't define Indonesia.
In typical Bolt style you only get part of the story. In 1979 and agreement was made between the Muslim and Christian communities that only one church and four small Christian houses of worship would be built in the district of Aceh Singkil. The church became one of 10 and the broken agreement was protested after a peaceful 36 years. At a meeting between all parties protestors, church board members and officials it was agreed that the churches would be demolished on October 19th.
The President Jokowi was quite clear and no Christian Indonesia is not burning or being put to the sword.
"Stop the violence in Aceh Singkil whatever the reason behind it not to mention if it's related to religion or faith it will kill diversity" President Jokowi
“Stop
violence in Aceh Singkil. Any act of violence, whatever the reasons
behind it, not to mention if it is related to religion and faith, will
kill diversity —Jkw,” President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo said on Wednesday
on his Twitter account @jokowi. - See more at:
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2015/10/15/thousands-leave-aceh-after-church-burning.html#sthash.qo39HvVX.fGXMeaIj.dpuf
The
church was one of 10 in the regency that was protested by the Islamic
group. At a recent meeting at the regency office between the protesters,
the churches’ board members and local officials, it was reportedly
agreed that the churches would be demolished on Oct. 19 - See more at:
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2015/10/15/thousands-leave-aceh-after-church-burning.html#sthash.qo39HvVX.fGXMeaIj.dpuf
The
church was one of 10 in the regency that was protested by the Islamic
group. At a recent meeting at the regency office between the protesters,
the churches’ board members and local officials, it was reportedly
agreed that the churches would be demolished on Oct. 19 - See more at:
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2015/10/15/thousands-leave-aceh-after-church-burning.html#sthash.qo39HvVX.fGXMeaIj.dpuf
The
church was one of 10 in the regency that was protested by the Islamic
group. At a recent meeting at the regency office between the protesters,
the churches’ board members and local officials, it was reportedly
agreed that the churches would be demolished on Oct. 19 - See more at:
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2015/10/15/thousands-leave-aceh-after-church-burning.html#sthash.qo39HvVX.fGXMeaIj.dpuf
Link CNN, FP
What Bolt fails to remind us of all these wars we see today were inherited from the Republicans. Charlie's War financed the Mushadin in Afghanistan which became the Taliban. Why? To get the Russians out of course and gain control of oil in Kazakhstan. It gave birth to Al Qaeda. They invaded Iraq under the guise WMDs and gave birth to Al Qaeda in Iraq which morphed into ISIS two years ago. Obama didn't create what we see today. He inherited it. The American people voted for him and voted because they wanted out of Iraq and Afghanistan they knew they had another Vietnam on their hands and didn't want more body bags flown home.
" Obama refused to seriously engage in Syria, again creating a vacuum filled by the Islamic State - and now Russia."
Syria was never an overt American war it was covert. They assisted the rebels that now Bolt wants bombed. Some of these rebels morphed into ISIS not because the US had left Iraq but because of the the Sunni disenchantment with the Shite run Iraqi government, because they had the equipment supplied by the US to them in Syria and they had the military trained leaders of Saddam's elite army in strategic command. Some were even trained by the Americans. They were able to make a rapid move into Iraq not because of any vaccuum created the Sunnis tribes were always in Nth Eastern Iraq and the Anbar Province was their natural home. The Sunni population merely supported rebels and welcomed them over the repressive Malaki Shite Government in Baghdad. The notion of Iraq as a sovereign entity had become meaningless to them.
There was no vacuum filled by Russia either as Bolt claims. Russia has been in Syria for years and has always had a naval base there. Russia has always been the underwriters of the Assad regime. To suggest Russia and Iran had just moved into a vacuum in Syria is ludicrous. The whole Syrian war began because the Sunni Nth were starving due to a 6 year drought and famine and they asked for assistance from their government. When denied they protested but only found bullets and bombs in reply.
Bolt's whole interpretation of the Middle East as being a Democrat error is nothing more than Republican propaganda. Yes all these wars were due to American involvement and a serious error of judgement in pursuit of American interests. However the actions began with Republican aggression and has now dissolved into Democrat headache attempting to mitigate unwanted aggression which has resulted in a mess and very complex situation. The Repulicans have no solution to nor does Bolt. Any criticism is about the 2016 elections only. It really has nothing to do with the Middle East.
