Andrew Bolt's Blog,13/11/17; Bolt trying to spotlight himself again; Newspoll and Murdoch's reverberations; The bully Flip; Walter Mitty Commentary;

 

 

PLEASE THINK I DESTROYED TURNBULL. IT FLATTERS ME

Fairfax pundits like Tony Walker can't have it both ways - that Sky News talks to no one, yet destroys Turnbull: "Not least of Turnbull's problems are the agitprop activities of a phalanx of hyper-critical conservative commentators augmented by disaffected former Tony Abbott-era staffers whose views play out incessantly in a Sky News echo chamber."

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Bolt would love to believe he has that much power however he has none without News Corp. That lesson was learned the hard way by Bill O'Reilly in the USA after he got the sack. Bolt isn't even their rating leader at Sky News as O'Reilly was at Fox. When he's named,  named by others that is such as  Tony Walker it's done only in as much as Bolt is just another one of the chorus of organ grinder's monkeys that makes up the real voice behind the scenes at News Corp, Murdoch's Media the muzak. News Corp not Bolt fuels the Abbott Conservatives the tail that wags the dog of the Liberal Party.

Andrew Bolt is just another tool at News Corp who never wanted to be a journalist in the first place too hard all that verifying and validating facts. He was there at a time when things were changing. An obituary writer that was happy polishing the facets of dead peoples personalities rather than ever having to give real substance to his subjects lives. He was and still is a literary make-up artist and hasn't moved on. He's one of the witches in Macbeth one of a Greek Chorus who without a by-line or the gift of a show given him by Rupert would be a backroom nobody.

 Unlike Bill O'Reilly his role model Bolt doesn't command ratings (25,000 if he's lucky nationally) on Sky. He's well behind the pace of others, and he's a page filler in Murdoch's print media, not a drawcard or headliner. He's also just a stooge for Steve Price as Steve Price is on The Project never really "the show" as we saw when he tried to grab the show off Miranda.

In all of these positions Bolt imagines he's center stage and hates it when anybody casts a shadow. When that does happen it's more often in-house bitch'n by Bolt a hissy fit as he had with Devine. Andrew Bolt is a media Walter Mitty trying to claim center stage yet again for the News Corp chorus. He lives under Murdoch's belief that if you say it often enough and loud enough you can even raise the dead.

TURNBULL CRASHES: 45% TO LABOR'S 55

Niki Savva two month's ago claimed to see the "green shoots" of recovery for Turnbull. Now Newspoll shows the Liberals facing catastrophe: "Labor [widened] its lead over the Coalition to 55 to 45 per cent." Turnbull's lead over Shorten as preferred leader is slashed to 2 per cent. This is his 23rd poll behind Labor, with worse to come.

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The Liberal Party staffers were allowed to grow fat under the auspices of John Howard. They crowed when Labor lost the election because it's backroom back then ensured the ALP fell apart.  News Corp with control over 66% of Australian print media ensured it was amplified until the lying Tony Abbott the drover's dog got power. A Punchdrunk in-fighter he thought his lying was safe with the hands of  Murdoch and the IPA behind him. However, we soon learned what we knew all along he wasn't fit for the job. He wasn't the smartest of politicians to be the team leader Rupert made him out to be. He even fast became an international joke and brought the country down in the eyes of the world.

 While Turnbull was elected leader of the parliamentary branch of the party but inherited the f'wits of the Organization that culture hadn't changed and they have ensured that just changing the leadership wasn't enough.

It only takes one crew member to sink any ship and one with a heart filled with revenge like Abbott to wield the axe is enough. Tony Abbott has guaranteed the sinking of the SS Liberal Party along with the incompetence of the organization's fossilized backroom.

ATTACK ON CHRISTINE FORSTER SHOWS LEFT HAS A LICENCE TO BULLY

Column When three far-Right peanuts merely  heckled Labor Senator Sam Dastyari in a pub last week the political class went feral. But when Leftists physcially attacked Tony Abbott's sister, a Liberal councillor, and tore her jacket there was barely a word of criticism. So why does the Left have a licence to intimidate?

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Bolt's flipping peddling backward like a Trumpster. The bully is flipping and now crying, victim

1) By taking the intent out of the actions he's trying to compare. The situations that Sam and Christine faced aren't equivalent.

2) Sam Dastyari faced the personal attack of himself for being an Australian immigrant, an Iranian, all because of his identity and heritage. He was set on by a minority of bullying moronic white nationalists who Bolt denounced superficially. However, Bolt was really an apologist for these goons disliking their poor style but not their intent or politics which he fundamentally supports.

3) Christine wasn't attacked because she was Christine but because she was an active member of the Liberal Party.

4) The Party that is regarded as criminal in every way because of misery and suffering being dealt handed down to 600 desperate people On Manus, used as little more than a political tool by the ultra-conservatives of the party they represented.

5) Dastyari was a victim of racism Christine one of protest is not.

  There is no equivalence Andrew Bolt. Christine Forsters foot along with her brothers is firmly planted on the throats of asylum seekers at Manus and people were protesting on their behalf to get it off.

CITIZENSHIP SCANDAL: TURNBULL WEAK, BUT SHORTEN DANGEROUS

Column   Yes, Malcolm Turnbull has been weak in this citizenship crisis. But Bill Shorten has been worse — utterly shameless.  Shorten is hiding Labor frauds and  last week asked the Liberals to join a mutual protection racket. And consider: Liberals MPs have at least admitted they are dual citizens and resigned, but not one Labor MP will.

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Bolt only seems to have one bullet in his gun and it's a rubber one. Has anybody noticed that over the past week Bolt hasn't mentioned the Labor politicians that have been "let down by Labors backroom? "Shorten is plainly hiding Labor Frauds" is the that the best News Corp can come up with too frightened to name and shame because the just might be proved wrong. Why is Bolt doing this undocumented slagging of Shorten? It's simply to say "If Turnbull’s dying leadership wasn’t now the big media story, Shorten’s conniving and conspiring surely would be."Bolt

Bolt couldn't give a rats about Shorten other than to make sure he can say Turnbull is worse and we need to listen to Chris Kenny who said bring Abbott back. Yes the Chris Kenny who wrote and describes Nauru Detention as a holiday resort for the Murdoch Shameless Chorus that turned Australia from the land of the "fair go " to the land of the 'Don't Go' in the eyes of the world all for the sake of politics at face value but corporate power of the backroom.

PUBLISHER DROPS ANTI-CHINA BOOK FOR FEAR OF CHINESE REPRISALS

Clive Hamilton is a Green with extremist views on global warming. I totally support his freedom to speak and am shocked that we've got to this: "Australian publisher Allen & Unwin has ditched a book on Chinese Communist Party influence in Australian politics and academia, citing fear of legal action from the Chinese government or its proxies."

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Bolt is attacking Allen & Unwin a privately owned publisher for cowardice for taking and paying attention to the legal advice given by its lawyers. The same sort of legal advice being paid for to keep News Corp protected from the once convicted liar Andrew Bolt and serial defamer. Yet we don't ever hear Bolt personally attacking News Corp for holding him back why?

 When Bolt does find himself in trouble and any retractions that are necessary we don't hear about the stifling of free speech by News Corp is common practice. As Bolt always says from his glass house private corporations are entitled to choose what they wish to do after all Murdoch media certainly does just that. As for individual 'free speech' in Australia and lying well that's another matter  Bolt was never just convicted as an individual of lying. Our defamation laws protect individuals from a constant barrage of lies from the  Bolts of media and he should know because he's been found guilty of just that. Had he not been a media tool he'd have had all the freedom he wants. News Corp published it. Their lawyers failed them.

Here is an opportunity for Bolt to Publish Clive Hamilton's anti- China views. He won't so this remains nothing but noise. After all, they both seem to agree but all Bolt's done is made wild generalizations about a situation the details of which we know nothing. Generalisations that it seems don't need any supporting proof which seems odd.

WILL THE LIBERALS HAVE TO SPLIT?

The Liberals may be too divided ideologically to stay a single party. Take the brawl over whether people should be free to dissent from gay marriage: Conservatives will back  James Paterson’s bill with its broad  protections. Yet the Liberal Left supports Dean Smith's bill with almost no protections. Turnbull is cooked if he supports either. 

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The Liberals should split but it's not in Abbott's interest to do so because should a split occur with whom would he form a coalition of "trust", let alone of competence?  There is nothing more certain the Liberal Party is split and has been since Abbot has tried to steal the bat and ball after he lost the team vote of captain.



The piggy that caused it
 

ONE NATION LOSES ANOTHER SENATOR IN JUST FIVE MINUTES

Fraser Anning won just 19 votes on his own at the election, and is now a One Nation Senator purely because he was on the One Nation ticket. Yet no sooner is he in Parliament than he arrogantly acts like he was chosen just for being him: "Senator Hanson ... said Senator Anning had abandoned her party to stand as an independent." Another opportunist.

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 "Another damn opportunist of the kind that have so discredited politics." Yes just like the Conservatives in the Liberal Party that kept threatening to leave and knowing the careers would be over if they did.  How many times has Bolt threatened a split on their behalf being nothing more than a boom box it the end just noise.

LET'S SEE IF GOVERNMENT CAN MEET THIS GAY-MARRIAGE CHALLENGE

UPDATE The bill is actually from Senator James Paterson, a libertarian: "A  conservative-backed same-sex marriage bill enshrining wide-reaching shield laws for celebrants, businesses, educators, charities and parents opposed to gay marriage will be taken to the Coalition partyroom in a looming showdown over freedom of speech." UPDATE: Paterson explains.

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 The Liberal promise  $122 million dollars spent on a continued attempt to throw Democracy overboard. We were told it was a waste of money and Bolt and his mates are about to prove it. The "Let's See" in the banner above comes as a threat. Let's see if this "yes" vote can stand the heat and see the light of day. This has nothing to do with the vote taken the democratic followthrough that should now automatically take place. We have fallen back into step with the Abbott challenge of saying Nope to everything. What was once regarded as Colonial Rule if it ever came from the bottom up reject it or steal it? The people Australians have nothing to do with the outcome and demands of those believing they are born to rule. Citizens are merely sheeple MP releases rival bill same-sex marriage that rollbacks discrimination laws

GETUP! HELPS CHOOSE MEDIA POLICEMAN

Why are News Corp newspapers allowing a far-Left activist group help to police them?: "The deputy chair of activist group GetUp!, Carla McGrath, will help decide who will be the next chairman of the Australian Press Council." 

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Every reason we should thank ourselves for an organization as transparent as GetUp. You never know what the IPA is up to and who they support financially

HARDY BOASTS: TAXPAYER-FUNDED WRITERS' FESTIVAL TO BE "LEFT-OF-CENTRE" ECHO CHAMBER

The Melbourne Writers Festival's artistic director promises to use her taxpayer funding to create a festival of the Left, diverse in everything but thought: "I’ll ... create left-of-centre experiential artistic events that bring together humans from rich and diverse backgrounds." She's the one who wrote: "Tony Abbott, I hope your cock drops off."

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Has anyone other than Bolt realized that he has never been nominated or even been considered as an author other than the copywriters employed to flog something pretending to be a book that isn't? That is also very much a taxpayer-funded event. It may be indirect funding but funding nevertheless. Promoted by NewsCorp via its tax evaded losses and subsidies. 

IF TURNBULL'S THE PROBLEM, BISHOP IS NOT THE ANSWER

Liberals and commentators must stop backing leaders on the basis of poll popularity, rather than strategic and leadership smarts. Take Peter van Onselen today, repeating arguments for Julie Bishop he once made for Malcolm Turnbull. Haven't we seen with Turnbull - and Julia Gillard - that popularity melts like summer snow if you're just no good?

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Well Tony Abbott certainly had neither the smarts nor the popularity when his party dumped him. Just how many times did he promise he'd heard the message and would change? How many times did we hear Bolt promise he would change? How was it that Bolt could make those sorts of promises for Abbott. Those ware way more than just opinions. In the the end even Bolt shut up and turned to Shorten as his target as he was sick of being an Abbott apologist.

Here he is no doubt starting not to just spruik  the Abbott message again but along with the associated BS he's changed learned from the past about what leadership means. He's the "only one"

Andrew Bolt's Blog,11/11/17; Abbott the shadow boxer wit a crystal jaw; Using Christine Forster; Bolt complains about the way he uses statistics,

 

 

KENNY: BRING BACK ABBOTT

Chris Kenny makes the case for a return to Tony Abbott: "Marginal MPs know Abbott would fight Shorten on core issues dividing the major parties. He is not popular but he has legitimacy and known campaigning skills."  And the Liberals would have something to fight for other than mere power.  

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 "To dump another prime minister, like another swipe on political Tinder, runs the risk of confirming the shallowness of the enterprise."
"Abbott would also give the Liberals something to fight for ... provided the MPs themselves actually understood what that must be."Bolt
 While the rise of Authoritarianism was always part of the News Corp agenda. The wimpish uncertainty in these Murdochians Kenny and Bolt are self-evident here just listen to the nervousness of tone of Herr Commandant Bolt.
  The call to bring Abbott back from the dead has always been on the cards as a primary goal of News Corp and never more evident than Murdoch's personal involvement at the Alfalfa Club in Atlanta in Feb trying to fake boost him. The rise of Abbott and the destruction of Turnbull is essential to Murdoch's media takeover of Australia and the leading voice behind the IPA's corporate takeover of the country. The urgency is written in the silence of the Murdoch press about what's in the Paradise Papers and the real bleed and burden to our economy and the pockets of ordinary Australians tax evasion.
Welcoming Mr. Nope Nope Nope back is welcoming back the ransacking of Australia. The push for the return of mismanagement over genuine problem solving necessary. It's all or nothing for Rupert who knows he hasn't another 8 years at the helm and that's the urgency of risk he must take to get his puppet in control. It's now or never.
 The shallowness of the bluff and the destruction of the Liberal Party is the stake that's on the table not really the destruction of News Corp. Failure, however, will prove that Rupert is never right 100% of the time and will give the next generation the balls and incentive to take the company in another direction. After all the consolidation of Trump has been a total failure given the recent elections like Virginia and the Abbott like results in the Polls for Trump. Fox is hemorrhaging revenue.  The Trump fervor just isn't happening anymore.The grab for Sky UK seems to be falling apart along with the demise of May and Abbott is still and always will be seen as a total disaster down under. If 21rst Century Fox is up for sale something serious is up because News Corp rested on its profit-making shoulders like the world on Atlas is Rupert really Atlas? 
"Today, authoritarians rule an increasingly large part of the globe, but the leaders of the free world lack the motivation and gumption to create a new U.N.-style League of Democracies. In the meantime, as individuals living in a free society, we believe it is our moral obligation to take action to expose human rights violations and to use our freedom to help others achieve theirs."
Corporate Tax evasion, lack of transparency and  Authoritarian control were always tightening under Abbott a good place to start and a noble fight would be to liberate them. Remember Abbott never won the election that the ALP lost. A dog could have won and it did. Abbott was never a leader always a shadow boxer with a crystal jaw.

 The fitness of Murdoch is questioned in the UK. Why is 21rst Century Fox now up for sale?

• As exemplified in Fox News’ culture of sexual harassment and racial discrimination, there is an identifiable link between 21st Century Fox’s poor corporate governance and what is broadcast on the news outlets it owns.

• Recent Russia-related coverage and commentary on Fox News and in The Wall Street Journal signify that the Murdochs and their news outlets continue to meddle in politics in damaging ways.

• Regulators should be acutely aware that the line separating opinion and news programming at Fox News is nonexistent. The hiring of former White House national security aide Sebastian Gorka to a news position and a recent report from British broadcasting regulator Ofcom ruling that individual segments on Tucker Carlson Tonight and Hannity were in violation of broadcasting standards reinforce this fact. There are many more segments on Fox News programs from the last year that should be taken into consideration to assess 21st Century Fox’s commitment to broadcasting standards.

• Sky’s warning that Sky News could close if 21st Century Fox’s bid is not approved is suspect at best. No evidence has been presented showing that Sky News’ closure was being planned before 21st Century Fox’s proposed acquisition.

• The CMA should also consider that aside from Sky News, 21st Century Fox post-merger would have access to -- and potentially take financial and political advantage of -- information about consumers by way of internet service.

 Media Matters submits supporting evidence after testifying to U.K. regulator against 21st Century Fox, Sky deal

LEFTIST THUGS ASSAULT ABBOTT'S SISTER

Leftist thugs use illegal immigrants as an excuse to assault people here: "Tony Abbott’s sister Christine Forster ... was attacked by an angry group of protesters who surrounded her and her partner outside a Liberal Party fundraiser. Ms. Forster had her jacket torn to shreds." Makes Sam Dastyari's treatment seem mild, so where's the outrage?

HOW THE ABC ABSOLVES THE THUGS WHO ATTACKED CHRISTINE FORSTER

Leftist thugs attacked Christine Forster and her partner -  abusing, jostling, spitting and tearing Forster's jacket almost in half.  But the ABC claims Forster was merely caught on fire from both sides: "Manus Island protesters clash with police as Christine Forster gets caught in crossfire." 

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No Bolt you can't get away one day attacking Forster for her disloyalty to her brother not daring to attack his daughter Frances and then using Christine as Joan of Arc for the Liberal Party it doesn't wash. Maybe it's time to ask Christine or would that be just too risky that she just might not claim the martyrdom position you're giving her. She is after all the inappropriate mother you and Abbott spoke of a danger to her children.

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" No, the illegal immigrants on Manus Island are a mere excuse. These Leftist protesters really just wanted an excuse to go bully someone. They are the fascists they denounce."Bolt
Blot's own words  show he's "flipping" 
1) It started with asylum seekers being called "illegal immigrants" when the world recognizes the fact they aren't and only fascists apply their own definition of illegal.
2) Christine Foster has been raised as the flag bearer by fascists for something she doesn't support. Notice Bolt made no attempt to ask her what she thought. He merely used her.
3) The purpose of the fundraiser was money to keep people suffering and the support for Dutton declaration that 600 humans under threat and suffering are simply doing it to themselves and have been for over 4 years.
4) The cry we are the victims by Dutton Bolt et al just doesn't wash and that's becoming increasingly self-evident. They tried to silence the doctors, the teachers, the social workers and threatened them with incarceration and are now calling them the bullies once again using Christine the "yes " voter that Bolt said hated her brother and was a case for social welfare to investigate as a mother. Now she's his Joan of Arc. The problem is she doesn't get a say.

TWO PEANUTS DO NOT MAKE US ALL RACISTS, NEEDING MUZZLES

Two idiots heckling Sam Dastyari in a pub apparently makes us all racist, according to Fairfax's Jacqueline Maley: "The claim that Australia is not racist is clearly rubbish." So what do 200 foul-mouthed Leftist who abuse, threaten, spit on, physically attack and rip the clothes of women trying to get to a Liberal dinner make us?

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Two idiots heckling Sam Dastyari in a pub makes us all racist, according to Fairfax's Jacqueline Maley: Bolt
Bolt can't stand the heat when his argument logic is applied to him. Two Muslims declaring vengeance for IS anywhere in the world is sufficient proof for Bolt to tell us all Muslims are a threat. But it doesn't apply when he is caught in the same net as two patriot Blues. As Bolt casts the shadow over Waleed Aly he hates the sting when it's done to him. Waleed doesn't say ouch! because he knows Australians don't believe it. The same can't be said of Bolt.

 

 

ONE NATION PRESS CONFERENCE GOES PEAR-SHAPED

Pauline Hanson's press conference with her candidate for Thuringowa hit a snag when a Channel 7 journalist asked him about ads run by his sex shop. Watch.

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Bolt stays silent on the sexual culture that was exposed as central to News Corp but he's is quite ready to throw Hollywood and One Nation under a bus to keep the focus off Murdoch's organization and Bolt's personal and often failed harassment of women within it. He once used to call Miranda Devine the Devine Miranda until she bit back.

 

ANOTHER ONE? HOLD AN AUDIT NOW

How can the Governor-General assent to any law made by a parliament so compromised? An audit is now essential: "Turnbull government MP Nola Marino may have acquired Italian citizenship through marriage, in what would represent a new twist in the eligibility crisis that has engulfed the federal Parliament."

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Pushing hard for an Election Now!  Abbott to be the leader of the opposition again. What the hell if they lose and destroy the Liberal Party in the effort. They wanted to manage but never learned but we did.

LET THEM ALL IN, CRY LEFTISTS AS THEY MONSTER THOSE WHO SAY NO

The Australian: "Asylum-seekers and refugees at the Manus Island processing centre had regularly travelled into town to allegedly have sex with underage girls and buy or sell drugs." An activist at yesterday's violent protest: "I think every refugee should be brought here and should be granted asylum in Australia."

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PAYWALL for PROFIT

Now, this is fake news on top of calling the people of PNG idiots who couldn't see what was going on. Yes, Children were born a Rohingya married and wants to resettle in PNG and has been refused.
Does Bolt even write this stuff he's been a professional for over 30 years and  we get this "
"An activist at yesterday's protest outside a Liberal party fundraiser, where guests were abused and attacked:" Bolt The man can't help but rely on others to write for him.
Australian Government struck deals with PNG and Cambodia and paid them 100's of millions of dollars for agreements that are and were never going to work. They silenced professionals with the threat of jail to not speak the truth. When all else has been proven to be false. They still have Murdoch to turn to. Remember Chris Kenny's "Nauru is a holiday resort" article. Dutton's "I'm the victim"

JOHN ALEXANDER QUITS. SAYS HE IS BRITISH

Now Liberal MP John Alexander has just quit, admitting he is British. When Parliament resumes in a couple of weeks, the Turnbull Government will hold just 74 of the 148 seats until Barnaby Joyce wins back New England. But why hasn't Labor's Justine Keay quit, too?

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 Sack the Liberal Party Organizers and shame Pete Credlin and her husband for failing to do their job. Crossing Ts and dotting Is is the function of the backroom Paul Kelly and Nikki Savva realize that and are Murdochians who recognize that only to be attacked by the revivalist zealots. Does Bolt tythe to to the conservative wing I doubt it he's a Dutchman first who thinks like a Boor second and would never give up his dual citizenship third.

 

MIRANDA DEVINE WITNESSES THE ABBOTT REVIVAL

Credit to Miranda Devine, reporting on Tony Abbott's big fundraiser last night without any digs about "Delcons" or Abbott's failings: "Abbott revival meeting: 'I have plenty of life left in me so tonight I rededicate myself to your service'  to chants of 'Come back Tony'"

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" Credit to Miranda Devine, reporting on Tony Abbott's big fundraiser last night without any digs about "Delcons" or Abbott's failings: " Bolt

What a slap in the face for a journalist to be praised fro what they didn't write bu obviously could have. How much Murdoch manipulation is revealed in this sentance along with sexist paternalism from Bolt. One might well ask why this fund raiser was scheduled for a time when Turnbull was overseas? There are plenty of unanswered questions  News Corp won't attend to in this Shakespearean play. Only 900 attended hardly a landslide unless you qualify it like Bolt and say "off a small base". Has anyone ever attended a revival meeting Miranda was right it was like attending a Cult. Remember Jones Town.

ANDERSON: WHY ARE THE LIBERALS IGNORING FREEDOM?

Former deputy prime minister John Anderson warns the Liberals to take freedom seriously. Where are its planned protections of freedom of conscience when gay marriage becomes law?: "The Liberal Party is in peril of forgetting that there is more to free societies than free markets." Too many fixers and chancers.

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These are ghosts so far removed from reality the onlt threat is not supporting the separation of  power. The conservatives want Christian Sharia enshrined in our constitution particularly the Public Service. Their concept of freedom is not for all citizens. Nor is it it would seem a pillar of the Liberal Party