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Australia has marginally improved its global corruption ranking but remains well behind New Zealand and Denmark, which ranked equal best in the world for anti-corruption measures.

Australia improves corruption ranking but gets 'no gold star for effort'

 

We need a Whole Revolution: Why Incremental Change won’t Solve the Climate Crisis

 

 

 FAKE & IGNORANT NEWS

FROM AN ANTI- AUSTRALIAN

SCENES FROM HOTEL AUSTRALIA, IN THE LAND OF ANYWHERE. #2

I've been attacked for saying immigration is now more like colonisation, but news reports keep confirming it. Here's Greek Australian Armani Nikkas III from Oakleigh kicked out of the Australian Open: “Today we were supporting our country, the Greeks, and we were chanting... We’re just celebrating, supporting our people." Who I .s "our" people? 

4m ago  Andrew Bolt

This coming from an Australian that hates the place holidays in the Netherlands and wears their colours when attending international matches certainly treats the place as his, hotel but it certainly doesn't mean that Greeks from Oakleigh are the same as Andrew Bolt and hate the place.  What getting kicked out of Institutional events like the Australian Open merely shows the leaders behind our institutions don't represent the true Multicultural nature of this country. I repeat Andrew Bolt is unique in that he was born here and wishes he wasn't. Australia does symbolise a Hotel to him but doesn't to the majority migrants that live here and love the place. The difference between Armani Nikkas and Bolt Nikkas loves Australia and Bolt doesn't Nikkas identifies as a Greek Australian Bolt as a Dutch Australian who if he had to sacrifice his dual citizenship he'd sacrifice being Australian first. It's the way he was raised.

BRUCE PASCOE: FEDERAL POLICE CLOSE INVESTIGATION

The Australian Federal Police has closed its investigation into "historian" Bruce Pascoe, who claims he's Aboriginal. Genealogical records suggest all his ancestors are actually of English descent, yet Pascoe has won a NSW Premier's award for best indigenous author and is a professor at a university indigenous  centre. Here's what police say.

23/01/2020

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 The information Bolt wants you to PAY FOR

And Even More 

BRUCE PASCOE SCANDAL: NO, POLICE DIDN'T CLEAR HIM OF FAKING ABORIGINALITY

This Age  and Sydney Morning Herald  headline is fake news: "AFP dismisses claims Dark Emu author faked Aboriginal heritage for profit." The Australian Federal Police made no such finding, but it seems these newspapers want you to believe it. UPDATE: These papers are trying so hard to make Pascoe seem Aboriginal. Check the Age's latest picture

.Well, have charges been laid? If not what conjuring act is Bolt playing rest assured he's playing at something most of us would scoff at. SMH can't be said to be all wrong or playing sneakier games than the unscrupulous Andrew Bolt does. The truth will come out, and Bolt won't be the hero.

 AFP drops Bruce Pascoe investigation after author accused of faking Aboriginal heritage

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 Morrison Agrees To Allow Protests If They Don’t Take Place In Public Or Express An Opinion – The Shovel

Immigration

Influx of Asians to reshape Australia, Malaysian PM says

Mahathir Mohamad, the Malaysian prime minister who for years blocked deeper Australian engagement with Asia, now says Australia will integrate with Asia, and that Australia's European roots will give way to Asian influence.

Change is coming and it's just over the horizon

Fake and twisted news

THE PROTEST THAT DEFINED THE BARBARIAN LEFT

Last week’s violent protests in Melbourne symbolised in many ways why they’re the new barbarians. This isn’t just because these Marxists and Greens showed they were mini-totalitarians. It also showed they were anti-work, post-truth, deaf to debate, tribalists, hate-driven and appallingly ignorant about history. 

"The protests also showed other symptoms of the decline of Western civilisation."

 At every point in time, Andrew Bolt was there yelling the same right-wing message that these Australians were the enemies of the State and Western Civilisation as we know it. Long haired unemployed gits and dole bludgers, Marxists and ignorant thrill-seekers. At each turn, the paid media Andrew Bolts have been there repeating themselves while the demonstrators and their issues changed the course of politics. But for the media conservatives, nothing has changed in their efforts to stop time. Or to the results of their wasted efforts. Because politics in the meantime did change and is changing as we speak. While the voices of protest have moved on the sound of Andrew Bolt hasn't, to that extent Nothing has Changed. (ODT)

 But as the "Ban the Bomb" movement gathered momentum in Western societies throughout the 1950s so too did opposition to the British tests in Australia. An opinion poll taken in 1957 showed 49 per cent of the Australian public were opposed to the tests and only 39 per cent in favour.^[ In 1964, Peace Marches which featured "Ban the bomb" placards, were held in several Australian capital cities. 

^{In the 60s and 70s, we marched against the Vietnam War, Apartheid and were beaten by the police. Andrew Bolt was there hurling abuse on behalf of the minority of conservative interests.}

 In 1974 and 1975 concern came to focus on uranium mining in Australia and several Friends of the Earth groups were formed. The Australian Conservation Foundation also began voicing concern about uranium mining and supporting the activities of the grass-roots organisations. Concern about the environmental effects of uranium mining was a significant factor and poor management of waste at an early uranium mine, Rum Jungle, led it to become a significant pollution problem in the 1970s. The Australian anti-nuclear movement also acquired initial impetus from notable individuals who publicly voiced nuclear concerns, such as atomic scientists Richard Temple and Rob Robotham, and poets Dorothy Green and Judith Wright.

In 1975, Moss Cass, Minister for the Environment and Conservation, led parliamentarians and ALP branch members in expressing concerns about the effects of uranium mining. A key concern was the adverse effect that uranium mining would have on the northern Aboriginal people. Cass said: "nuclear energy creates the most dangerous, insidious and persistent waste products, ever experienced on the planet".

 And there was Andrew Bolt yelling protestors are mini totalitarians anti-work,post-truth deaf to debate tribalists hate-driven gits appallingly ignorant of history. They have, but as far as Andrew Bolt is concerned Nothing has changed other than the Murdoch Press, the IPA and the conservatives want to stop change itself.

NO GRAMMAR, BUT GREAT EGO

One of America's most Left-wing universities is no longer about teaching but affirming: "'Resources at The Evergreen State College for Undocumented and DACA students' states tutors in the college’s Writing Center ... don’t correct grammar. 'Tutors are there to provide culturally sensitive feedback on writing (though not to correct grammar)."

1h ago

Andrew Bolt obsesses over manners grammar dress, politeness and demands cultural assimilation before he'll listen to your ideas or what you have to say. Style comes before Meaning to Bolt, and that is a means to neutralise any dissent on your terms reducing everything to his.

It's such bullshit because style didn't save his arse when he got kicked out of University. Style fails to hide his hypocrisy when he says he wants to retire to a Socialist country while complaining about the least Socialist one he lives in. What Bolt fails to mention is he expects the assimilation of Meaning by the adoption of a very regimented Style of teaching not just grammar but content. 
Immigrants to Australia were and still are generally better educated than Andrew Bolt. Drs, Nurses, Scientists, Engineers and other migrant professionals have the skills to offer this country. However, they can't simply because Andrew Bolt and their professional associations won't allow it. They not only require them to show they are skilled but more importantly, at the English university level but along with other Culturally relevant questions about cricket etc.

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Trump says homeless damaging environment

The US President has threatened San Francisco with action if the city fails to tackle the growing number of people living on the streets, who he says are contaminating the Pacific Ocean.

US President Donald Trump says San Francisco's homeless are damaging the environment and he will ask the Environmental Protection Agency to issue a notice to the city in less than a week.

Mr Trump said the issue was an environmental one because "tremendous pollution", including syringes used by homeless addicts to inject drugs, was flowing into the Pacific Ocean from Bay Area cities.
"They have to clean it up. We can't have our cities going to hell," he told reporters aboard Air Force One.
"They are in serious violation."
Mr Trump and officials in San Francisco and Los Angeles have been at odds over what the President believes is their failure to tackle the growing number of people living on the streets.
Earlier in the day, US Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson rejected requests from California for more money to fight homelessness, saying the Trump administration was already doing its part.
 

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CORPORATE INTELLIGENCE = CLIMATE CHANGE MEANS POLICY CHANGE

For corporate Australia, climate crusading is simply smart business

Morals and culture wars aside though, the simple reality is that for most big companies, speaking and acting on climate change makes commercial sense

  from BHP's point of view, the measures were prudent steps to take to ensure the long-term health of the company. "It’s almost irrelevant what we think about climate science, so long as the rest of the world or enough of the rest of the world thinks this is important,"  BHP chief financial officer Peter Beavan explained in a subsequent call with investors.

"The issue for us from a business perspective is...this could, probably will, have an impact on the demand for a number of the products that we produce today. And therefore, the profitability of this business."

 

IN PRAISE OF WAGE THEFT WAGE 

  Christian Porter praises 'shoppies' union that stripped workers of $1 billion

Josh Cullinan, secretary of the Retail and Fast Food Workers' Union, said it was "remarkable" that the minister would describe the SDA in glowing terms when "the largest wage theft that's been perpetrated in Australia is the wage theft that's been committed by the SDA".
Josh Cullinan helped expose the dodgy deals between big business and the SDA union.
He said the union was complicit with employers in "stealing penalty rates, casual loadings and other conditions" from retail and fast-food workers.
"Even today, workers continue to suffer the exploitation under rotten SDA deals," Mr Cullinan said. "McDonald's workers still don't have penalty rates on weekends.
An SDA spokeswoman said the union "continues to reject the assertion that agreements it has negotiated have ever left workers worse off" and that it had a "proud history of delivering the best possible outcomes for workers".
Mr Porter, who is reviewing the nation's industrial relations laws, made the remarks during a Q&A after his speech to the Committee for Economic Development of Australia's national conference, where he unveiled a discussion paper on his promised wage theft legislation.

 
FAKE NEWS- News Corp presents
Whack - a - Mole Bolt calling Trudeau a Racist... Trudeau has Changed Bolt hasn't

JUSTIN TRUDEAU? IN BLACKFACE? HA HA HA HA HA HA HA

WOKE BLOKE VIDEO Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is the clown prince of woke. This sanctimonious preacher declared "racists don't get to define who we are as a country", yet now admits he himself was racist for posing in blackface. How we laugh to see the woke revolution now eating its own.  My editorial from The Bolt Report. UPDATE: he blackfaced again!

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THE CONVERSATION BANS QUESTIONING OF CLIMATE CULT

UNIVERSITY SCANDAL Where are Australia's academics to protest against the silencing of debate on The Conversation, a website sponsored by 34 of our universities? The Conversation says it will ban anyone who questions the global warming orthodoxy, but so far, I've heard only one academic author on the site condemn this "zealotry" and attack on academic inquiry.

15m ago

Andrew Bolt, who promotes a physicist on his show as being an expert in marine biology and even promotes himself as a leading expert on Climate Change when selling IPA publications which are far from the truth. He is significantly aggressive that academic institutions might actually want to protect their reputations when it comes to academic argument and the excellence of ideas in the market place. They wouldn't rush to set up a Flat Eart Department or a Creationist one on campus and have them or Bolt infect their journals. Bolt, on the other hand, is quite happy to have all and sundry be called academics and scientists and believes that a Flat Earth Science Dept is reasonable if it can get the funding. That's the crux there is no truth as far as Bolt is concerned just the power of narrative. Creationist Science why not it too should have their equal place among academic departments turning Australian Universities into a free market place of ideas totally controlled by investors like the IPA but not the Chinese, Muslims, or Indigenous Australians and those not white.

What is a peer-reviewed debate but a restriction in the free market place of ideas even moronic ones like Andrew Bolt's?  It's a BANNING!!!

 Freedom isn't entirely what Bolt is about is it because he also supports copyright patents and IP protection the tools and laws that restrict competition and give ownership of ideas to only some in Bolt's illusory free-market dream. The notion of freedom becomes qualified and constricted in those circumstances. The banning of the Chinese freedom needs to be by law and not just competition. Imagine a market place where ownership of ideas was banned and real competition promoted?

The Conversation doesn't BAN the questioning of Climate Change at all; it welcomes it. Bolt could present his arguments in the peer-reviewed process, but he doesn't because he simply hasn't any identifiable peers who are eager to review him. He doesn't even invite any on his show and allowing them the privilege of his desk and mike.

FREE SPEECH NOT FOR CHILDREN CLAIMS ANDREW BOLT  ONE vs 150, OOO

Andrew Bolt self-proclaimed "expert" on Climate Change spent a decade and a half telling Australians the world was COOLING claiming he understood the Science better than global scientists. The fact is Bolt's a failed Humanities student the word "sorry" has never passed his lips when found being sooo wrong.

  As for spelling Bolt makes worse mistakes than kids with the posters trying to get people's attention, they certainly got his more attention, in fact, than even he gets. Demonstrations liked this certainly helped change the direction of our policies on the Vietnam War, and  they weren't even as big as todays.

 Corporation CEO's are now changing the policies of their companies. Banks, Super and Hedge Funds are also divesting away from coal, and fossil fuels Bolt seems to have lived a very "stationary life" He's been heard to  say he'd dictate what his daughter wears on his decency scale, not hers while criticising an Imam for saying much the same..ODT)

Global climate strike

'This crisis, it affects everyone': Organisers say 100,000 at Melbourne's climate strike 

Melbourne's climate protest has topped the national attendance ladder, with an estimated 100,000 students and workers bringing city streets to a standstill this afternoon. 

• by Paul Sakkal, Sumeyya Ilanbey and Charlotte Grieve

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PERFECT. LIBS DUMP TURNBULL, WIN ELECTION

Can it get any better? The Liberals dump Malcolm Turnbull, the Leftist, and win a miracle election. Scott Morrison's new government will be without Turnbull, Julie Bishop, Christopher Pyne, George Brandis, Craig Laundy and Julia Banks. The dissident and whiteanting Left gone, and the conservatives and anti-warmists triumphant. You may celebrate.

18/05/2019

PAYWALL 

The once giant that represented Andrew Bolt's dream of what the Liberal Party should be is no longer Tony Abbott is gone. However, we won't have seen the last of him, and he will crawl back in some form or another wait and see. Murdoch still has uses ahead for him. He left with the message that's it's just "one bad day in 25 years" and will try to crawl back in another three years. However, Warringah showed what this election was about, and it wasn't Tony Abbott or the likes of him. We showed the same in Kooyong with a 7% swing against the Treasurer leaving him rattled.  The wealthy have a conscience, while the media and PR merchants can still, however, con the desperate. They eagerly took $80 mill of Clive's money. How often and how much was spent by Clive Palmer advertising with News Corp and Sky for the LNP simply to trash the ALP. Don't for a moment believe News Corp is really celebrating a Scott Morrison win. Will Palmer pay his account?
We lost yes, but Australia voted against Abbott's extreme right and Andrew Bolt. The election win has revealed what a  fake he really is putting on the mantle of a winner when his team within the LNP were definitely losers.  Australia took an almighty leap Left not Right yesterday back to centre politics and away from that tail that kept trying to wag the dog the LNP, away from the ideas and demands of the extreme conservatives.
Kooyong may not have won, but they scared the shit out of Frydenberg. While the media and PR firms, companies had to build ScoMo a straw man to hide the rest of the Liberal Party from plain sight. It goes to show the power of the 24/7 media cycle where 6 years of chaos are forgotten so quickly, and an election can be won on empty promises alone. The reality ahead for the next 3 years, unfortunately, will bring no reforms and the wealth and income gaps that have grown these past six years will simply increase. Our children will be the first generation left in Australia in a world left in a weaker state because of their parent's distribution of wealth simply left to inheritance with and less opportunity other than nepotism.

Tony Abbott still can't see the man in the mirror

https://www.theage.com.au/federal-election-2019/tony-abbott-still-can-t-see-the-man-in-the-mirror-20190518-p51oqk.html

 

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NO WONDER THE ABC HOSTS LOOKED GRIM

More good news from this election result! The ABC can't collect the bribe Labor offered: "Federal Labor would end a funding freeze on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation   if elected, effectively restoring $83.7 million to the public broadcaster over three years." 

19/05/2019

 PAYWALL

A gloating Bolt is all one needs on a great sunny Autumn day. Who needs a camp follower, a fairweather friend who tries to put on the mantle of the winner undeserved. He never thought Morrison was up to scratch. The reality is Bolt, and now he's sucking on the teat of celebration as if he won. We saw Center politics in Australia win, and Bolt's conservative right lose.
The ABC has been sliced and diced from day one of Abbott's reign. We saw it cheated and lied about solely on behalf of the IPA and News Corp and yet it's not dead. It's changed, yes, but it's still alive. What Bolt calls grim is the face of impartiality and the realisation its future won't be easy. What you see on Bolt's face is a fake smile because as of today he will continue to undermine and snipe at the ABC who he needs more than they need him. Those he calls winners and fellow travellers at Sky will live to see another day. He's little more than just a camp follower today and has been since Abbott got the boot white-anting the Liberals whenever he could. His blog site is noticeably not Bolt but really just a total PAYWALL  for News Corp.

 

TURNBULL CONGRATULATES MORRISON FOR A WIN HE HATED

After all, he did to sabotage Morrison's campaign, including endorsing Julia Banks, Malcolm Turnbull tweets: "Congratulations @ScottMorrisonMP on an outstanding personal victory."  Son Alex, who even recorded robocalls for GetUp, has meanwhile deleted the Twitter account he used to attack the Liberals. Can give it, not take it.  

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Remember when Andrew Bolt turned on Adam Goodes like a rabid dog? He's doing much the same with the Turnbull family that actually put the Liberal Party back on the track to the political success that allowed them to create their fantasy leader ScoMo. Bolt may not be trying to rip out the throats of the Turnbulls based on colour or religion, but he's undoubtedly frenzied over each and every move they make.
It reminds me, however, of the time he went for Adam Goodes and only managed to have himself written into Australian pantheon of racists. History will document the degree of extreme racism and vilification that he reflects exist in this country.
  Australia's racism has been documented in a recent film "The Final Quarter" let's hope Andrew Bolt is given pride of place in the doco. If he's lucky, it will show him for what he is. One of Australia's leading media racists, a convicted vilifier and hate-monger currently allowed to practice his bigot driven invective filled PR and propaganda under the guise of opinion rather than advertising a false product for commercial gain.
When will reason redefine Bolt's opinions for what they really are the attention grabbing ads for attracting subs to News Corp mastheads concocting PR for the purpose of the commercial sale of fake news, hate and propaganda?
Redefined as advertising and false product shouldn't Bolt's views be prosecuted in the same manner as Peter Foster's?

'This is what racism looks like': Filmmaker opens up about Adam Goodes doco

After an emotional response to previews, The Final Quarter is about to reignite debate about racism in sport when screenings start in June

If Andrew Bolt isn't documented here he should because he's a clear example of Australia's racist howl. His attack on Alex Turnbull private citizen is certainly the cry of a Fascist media voice to silence a persons rights in our Democracy. As for Adam Goodes had he not been black would have been left alone.

DIDN'T THE MEDIA SAY GOVERNMENTS SHOULDN'T CHANGE LEADERS?

That's another media myth busted. And maybe Scott Morrison should now scrap the rule that would have prevented him from saving the Liberals: "The Liberal party has moved to disrupt the cycle of leadership instability by resolving that sitting prime ministers can in future only be removed by a two-thirds party room majority."

19/05/2019

PAYWALL 

This the real sign of the Quizzling and Gollum the sign that says to Morrison stop blocking the way for the rise of another ultra-Conservative in the ranks. Changing leaders is good, not bad and should be "encouraged" Remember how he screamed when Abbott was dumped and gloated when the same was done to Turnbull. Now he wants that opportunity to continue for who, Hastie? Morrison should get rid of that rule that would otherwise block another ultra-right-wingers path.

"In fact, one of the things, I think, he will have to do is take some of the elements of the Labor campaign and look at them and say, 'Well, where were the issues that motivated some people to vote Labor, and what can I do to and ameliorate — assuage those concerns?'."
Currently, the Government's climate and energy policy is a strange amalgam of Mr Abbott's policy approach and Mr Turnbull's. Annabel Crabb ABC

 

THEY CALLED IT A GLOBAL WARMING ELECTION. IT WAS. THEY LOST

Greens leader Richard Di Natale: “This is a climate change election." Labour leader Bill Shorten: "This election is all about climate change."  Guardian Australia editor Katherine Murphy: "2019 is the climate change election." It was indeed, and they lost. This election has changed the climate. But it's the intellectual climate. Brilliant.

18/05/2019
It was a Climate Change election, and we saw Bolt's boy Abbott embrace it while Bolt made no effort to report his massive jump left because that would have been too embarrassing.
The government is committed to the Paris Accord but will now prove its plan has got an iceberg's chance in hell of achieving that without some strong progressive changes. What they have are no unified plans but just bits and pieces and an insufficient bandaid fund, and as a result, we will see increased CO2, higher future costs and current cost of living expenses go up. Coupled with the increased casualisation of jobs will Australians will become poorer and more in debt to a system that wants them that way.  There will be an increase in jobs, and they will be part-time, and every Australian will be entitled to share 2-3 shifts with the security and benefits that their kids get working at McDonald's. 
Australia voted but not enough.

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 26 January 1838 was the very first public holiday ever marked in Australia

 

Day to Day Politics: Are they all raving lunatics? Bloody conservative bullshit. - » The

 For me, the changes brought about by the advancement of science and technology have been astonishing. As a progressive, I crave change that is worthy and is advantageous for the betterment of society and the world that we inhabit.I believe that our lives should be subject to constant reflection, otherwise the way forward is locked into the constraints of today’s thoughts.You cannot change what happens. Particularly when you have no control over it. What you do have control over is the way in which you respond. John Lord

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 Australian Values:  It used to be Simpson and his donkey now it's Matthew Guy is the donkey

So, in Victoria, Matthew “The Family” Guy has announced that Victorian schools will be instructed to teach “Australian values” under a Liberal Government, as well as getting rid of all this trendy nonsense of teaching about sustainability, Asia and aboriginal history. Of course, Safe Schools goes because an Australian environment needs to be dangerous and there’s also going to be a greater concentration on “literacy, numeracy and writing.” Writing, of course, being a totally separate thing from literacy.
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