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VIC LIB LEADER REACHES USE BY DATE

So obvious he was such a great counterweight for Dan he should be kept so the job gets done. Dan has enough on his plate without someone else trying to skew the facts.(ODT)

It seems O'brien hasn't impressed those that elected him Leader . And this story appearing in the Fin Review just says it all . He is finished . Rupert has hung him out to dry . A massive failure of Leadership on his behalf they will say . They will attempt to make him the scapegoat for their abysmal policy vacuum and immoral attacks on Dan Andrews . The Vic Libs have not had a real "Leader" for decades, and don't look like finding one among their current crop .

The Victorian Opposition has been unable to capitalise on the Melbourne quarantine debacle, triggering great internal angst, writes Aaron Patrick.

Leaving Australians behind (ODT)

 Low wage growth confirmed (again) – critics say plans are needed - » The Australian Independent Media Network

Why is it when the hard yards are required it's the normal Australians that are required to do the work to save the country. The banks get saved the stockmarket rebounds but it's the mom and pops of Australia that have to pay. Those big houses built were never meant for single families but shared housing for three families working casually on call 7 days a week.(ODT)

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MORALISING RAY HADLEY REACHES SETTLEMENT WITH STAFFER

Before anyone trusts Ray Hadley's moralising attacks on me or others, know what you're dealing with. He has reportedly settled a bullying claim from a former producer after handing over a "substantial financial sum". 

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Two arseholes chest bumping in the schoolyard Bolt won't do anything if he has to pay. News Corp certainly won't back him. We know what we are dealing with listening to Andrew Bolt who takes pleasure in attacking the personalities of young women like Greta but he's rather more cautious when it comes to Hadley just pounding his chest like some alpha ape.
Hadley and Bolt have a history and Bolt is coming out bruised. He's been called "soft on paedophiles" with Hadley being quite direct. Bolt's response feigned pain of an opinionator for over 30 years. Threatening legal action Bolt's shadowboxing referring to a case that really has nothing to do with him why? Because Hadley was hitting Bolt and landing real punches. 

“You bloody well are. You are soft on paedophiles. And the only reason you’ve made an apology is because you’ve been targeted by various social media groups for your creepy behaviour.
“That poor boy shouldn’t have been penning that letter. he shouldn’t have been subjected to that on Sky News on Tuesday night and I hope there’s been a lesson well learned here by Mr Bolt.” Hadley

PETER SINGER: VIRUS LOCKDOWN MAY BE "OVERREACTION"

Philosopher Peter Singer on Victoria's crippling lockdown: "It’s been done on the basis of relatively unsure evidence, both about the costs and the benefits... We should take into account the years of lives lost, not just number of deaths. That it’s less tragic for a 90-year-old to die than a 30-year-old seems clear to me."

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So Peter Singer a Philosophical ethicist is now who Bolt stands behind when a few days ago he denied that he was saying what Singer posits.

In the audio from last week (below), Hadley produces some figures about how many people die from the common flu every year: it’s between 350,000 and 600,000 worldwide. But that’s out of around a Billion cases. And that’s with a vaccine to limit the death rate.

By comparison, so far, the world’s recorded only almost 13 Million (but rapidly rising) cases of Covid-19. Yet, we have almost 600,000 deaths already. So, once we get to a Billion cases, without an effective vaccine, the death rate would be in World War II proportions.

Read more at: https://www.radioinfo.com.au/news/ray-hadley-questions-how-andrew-bolt-could-refer-him-left-wing-commentator © Radioinfo.com.au

“I think Bolt, like a lot of very conservative people - Donald Trump included and the president of Brazil -  keep saying it's no more than the common flu.”
In the audio from last week (below), Hadley produces some figures about how many people die from the common flu every year: it’s between 350,000 and 600,000 worldwide. But that’s out of around a Billion cases. And that’s with a vaccine to limit the death rate.

By comparison, so far, the world’s recorded only almost 13 Million (but rapidly rising) cases of Covid-19. Yet, we have almost 600,000 deaths already. So, once we get to a Billion cases, without an effective vaccine, the death rate would be in World War II proportions.
“How people can actually call it a flu is quite beyond me,” says Hadley “What Bolt and Alan and other conservative commentators’ view is, is that the economy is more important than human life and that's not something that I agree with. and that the you know that he made a remark in his column today that it’s only old people die. If it was my grandfather. my grandmother or my great grandfather, great grandmother… I'm not going to cheapen their lives by dismissing it as just old people dying. I think it's really uncharitable and I think it's undignified. It's cruel.”


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ANDREWS GOVT THREATENED TO JAIL BOSSES OVER VIRUS. HOW ABOUT POLITICIANS?

The Andrews Government threatened to jail  bosses whose workers died of coronavirus. So who in the government itself should now be jailed? My editorial from The Bolt Report.

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Well You can start with Scott Morrison who finally said sorry today. His excuse "there is nothing guaranteed in a pandemic"  That's as much as the excuse Bolt used when it became obvious the LNP had made greater mistakes than they were admitting to Bolt Trumpster apology was politicians on and all made mistakes, I aged-care the LNP from Abbott to Morrison made criminally reckless ones.

CLIVE PALMER: ON THE THIEVING WESTERN AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT

The Western Australian Government is behaving like a robber baron - changing the law to avoid paying Clive Palmer compensation for unlawfully stopping his mine. Incredible. Hear it from Palmer himself, on The Bolt Report.

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This isn't about Palmer and McGowan it's about the Bolt Report desperate for an audience

CORONAVIRUS: MAN IN 20s DIES, BUT FROM THE VIRUS OR WITH IT?

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews says a man in his 20s has died from the coronavirus. This lets him claim the virus "does not discriminate", so don't attack him for his wide-spread bans and not focussing more on protecting the old. But  after questioning on the youngest fatality, Andrews admitted the cause of death wasn't clear.

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So Andrew Bolt is now writing death certificates encouraged by American right wingers who claim George Floyd died of Fentanyl and not cardiac arrest due to suffocation by a cop. A man in his 30s also died last week but Bolt kept silent on that last week. Was that clear case of a Covid death or did he ignore it as it was inconvenient for him? As he's been insisting the young aren't casualties of the virus.  Other news reports have no problem announcing the 20-year-olds death was due to COVID. Bolt's been convicted in the past of being loose with his facts and he proves it time and again.

CORONAVIRUS; VICTORIA'S SCANDALS SHOW WE DON'T NEED TO PANIC

COLUMN Victoria – even after 410 new infections on Wednesday and 21 more deaths – proves there is no need to panic about this coronavirus. What the growing list of scandals shows it that just doing the basics - and doing them well - could spare us many of the deaths. And a lot of these bans. 

Bolt's back over each one day underreach the next Open the economy to self-regulation one day to greater State control the next. Any wonder he's being attacked from pillar to post by his own industry. he's totally irresponsible broadcaster encouraging individuals to do what they want.

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1. You may never have heard of him, but Andrew Barkla was Australia's highest-paid CEO in 2019

   
   With a pay cheque of almost $38 million, IDP Education's Andrew Barkla earned about 420 times the average full-time wage.
    The Star newspaper of Canada reported that at least 80 per cent of the students who had failed to demonstrate the standard language proficiency were from India and had taken their IELTS tests at centres in India managed by Australia-based IDP Education.
   This is, however, not the first time that inconsistencies have been found in the way test is conducted at centres in India.
   Earlier SBS Punjabi had come across at least two 'operators' based in India who were openly promising the desired IELTS score in exchange of money.
   

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   Dec 4, 2019 - Andrew Barkla has been the CEO of IDP Education Limited (ASX:IEL) since 2015. First, this article will compare CEO...

   Its increased 1652% times since this report was written??? We know Universities around the world have been hit hard by COVID-19 yet this CEO seems to be Teflon. 
   
   
   

   

   
   

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How deep a hole will Scott Morrison dig?

Prime Minister Scott Morrison is ignoring the opportunity to make a better Australia out of this pandemic.

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Research shows peoples lives are shortened by COVID-19 Men by up to 15 years. This is Andrew Bolt's trivial disease that has no effect on young people. The earth is also cooling isn't that right Mr Bolt?

Key points:
From the start of July, a quarter of COVID-19 infections have been in Victorians aged in their 20s
Four children are in hospital and 20 per cent of the state's coronavirus patients are under the age of 50
A senior ICU nurse manager says there is no doubt that that younger adults with coronavirus will die

 Intensive care nurse's blunt warning over coronavirus risk to younger adults - ABC News

 

 Europeans feeling loss of faith in US

 

More than 60 percent of those surveyed in France, Germany and Spain had negative views of the US and some 70 percent held the same views in Portugal and Denmark.
Forty-six percent of French respondents, and 42 percent of Germans, said their view of the US had worsened "a lot" as a result of the novel coronavirus crisis.
  if Trump wins another term in November, Allard believes the relationship will be harder to repair.

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DANIEL ANDREWS BLAMES US AS SIX MORE DIE IN NURSING HOMES

Another six Victorians have died today from the coronavirus - three in their 80s, three in their 90s. Yet Premier Daniel Andrews blames the public for not doing the "right thing" - as if a mum without a mask, pushing a pram in a park, is responsible for not guarding the doors of the nursing homes, more than 60 of which have had infections.

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 Andrew Bolt's Covid-19 gesture to work on a Friday repeat himself before taking his dogs for a walk, The the deaths in privatised aged care homes is Daniel Andrews fault he hadn't deployed the Police, ADF, or Private Security to guard the doors of institutions manned by the poorest workers in the State many of whom have abandoned their stations. It's so easy for this supporter of private enterprise to flip the blame and put on those he calls collectivists. His solution stricter regulations and greater collectivist actin is required. Bolt loves to make out he's a sage. He's an idiot for sure a savant I'm afraid not.
What private measures would have improved the current measures? The measures China has adopted? They now have a quarter of 3.5% economic growth. Isn't that what Andrew Bolt's been calling for? He claims it would be easy to achieve if the LNP were in control. It doesn't seem to be the case according to Frydenberg. The one thing is certain Bolt has ridden the coattails of the Rise of the Murdoch Dynasty but he's hardly been a contributor to that rise and he's certainly been helping deflate it here in Australia where it's bleeding money.

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Morrison ditched Turnbull-era plans for greater transparency in political lobbying

 The ANAO audit - a follow-up to an audit it published in 2018 - again found major flaws in what it described as a "light touch" system. The Attorney-General's Department's own analysis showed the Code fully met just one of 10 principles for "transparency and integrity in lobbying" set down by the global Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

 Why is it Australia refuses to adopt Worlds best practise frameworks and only march to its own tune disregarding universal OECD standards? Self-interest seems the case with so many ex-ministers acting as un-listed lobbyists for unlisted interests.(ODT)

With traditional car sales in 'permanent decline', Tesla is soaring to the top of the pile

Tesla is now the world's most valuable car manufacturer as shares surge over 400 per cent, but tech companies like Elon Musk's have big questions to answer over ethically sourced materials, writes Gareth Hutchens.

US hospitals at capacity as COVID cases rise in 39 states, Spain races to contain spread

The US continues to fight its first wave of coronavirus infections amid fears Independence Day parties could fuel a fresh spike in infections. That comes as Spain's latest outbreaks are linked to bars.

 In the US, rising cases in 39 states cast a shadow over Fourth of July holiday celebrations, while President Trump claimed that 99 per cent of cases were "totally harmless".

 In Texas alone, the number of COVID-19 patients currently hospitalised rose to a record 7890 on Saturday compared with 3247 just two weeks ago.

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DAN ANDREWS GOES ALL CHINA ON VIRUS TOWERS

COLUMN We now know what it’s like to live in a Chinese dictatorship. Premier Daniel Andrews has locked up 3000 residents in nine Melbourne public housing towers. And he’s warned them: get tested or stay longer than five days in your arbitrary home imprisonment. Indefinite imprisonment, for committing no crime. Imprisonment, sanctioned by no court.  

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Guess yo-yo Andrew Bolt is back to declaring the virus trivial again after his long weekend in hibernation after telling us how dangerous it was. He takes 3-day breaks at his private getaway or "holiday home" in "isolation" the one he bragged about before falling off his perch and breaking his arm. 

 

He offers absolutely no advice as to how our or any government ought to approach these global pandemics as they simply don't exist as far as he's concerned. Yet he complains more loudly and more often that the world around him thinks otherwise. He's more than happy to see us bomb and kill Muslims in Middle East Afghanistan and New Zealand and have others do it for him. That's taxes well spent as far as he's concerned. But public health seems a step too far.

Bolt's an idiot isn't he guess believes Andrews has gone all China because he professionalised the CFA as well and thinks the public well being comes before the individuals. It worked for 1.3 billion Chinese why shouldn't it work for 5 mill Melbournites. China has 4 active cases of that trivial disease called Coronavirus.

 

Bolt's quite happy to see migrants anyone forced to live in overcrowded spaces and conditions deal with this fast-spreading illness as he does "voluntarily" after all he doesn't live in population-dense conditions where even mice are born round-shouldered and illness can spread like a bush fire. He's freely avoided people most of his life and called it shyness.

 No sympathy for any of Bolt's shy people in those towers either. They simply shouldn't have even been allowed into Australia according to him. They are more dangerous than the disease according to him and vote Labour.(ODT)

KEVIN RUDD BUYS A BEACH HOUSE. SO IS GLOBAL WARMING OVER?

COLUMN Kevin Rudd in 2009 warned that global warming “was putting at risk over 700,000 homes and businesses around our coastlines”. Now the former Prime Minister has just bought a coastline property himself. Hmm. Rudd once lectured us that “climate change was the moral challenge of our generation”. I think hypocrisy outranks it. And Rudd has form...

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I do believe Rudd will be paying extra insurance for the privilege as insurance companies are fully aware of the dangers of climate change to their bottom lines. When I last looked Australia's councils were restricting the construction of "new" buildings in areas deemed dangerous and providing warnings in others not asking residents to pull their houses down. Lindsay Fox wants to grab the public land a Portsea right up to the shoreline but Bolt seemingly ignores that.

 

 Bolt has a holiday house how is it the media allows him his privacy.  Privacy and isolation would have been a primary condition of purchase I'm sure. What amazes me Bolt peaks over the fence and evaluates and discloses everyone else's life invading their privacy but and the public don't do the same to him. Why is that Australian's pay him due respect but he allows himself the moral right to invade the private lives others? 

 

How his wife went apeshit when it was publicly revealed their son worked for the IPA. How angered was Bolt when he was forced to move out of his house because someone became aware of where he lived and that he worked from home. Yet Bolt does what he demands others don't do to him. (ODT)

 

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Breaking: Pauline Hanson’s morning racism to become a Sunrise exclusive. #auspol

Hanson axed from TV after racist rant

One Nation Leader Pauline Hanson has been dropped by Channel 9 after she went on a spectacular offensive against the Melbourne residents trapped inside nine housing commission towers, calling them...

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Andrew Bolt Grabs a Bauer Media Opportunity to Support Hanson Against Migrants

TONIGHT: PAULINE HANSON ON BEING BANNED BY THE SHAMELESS HYPOCRITES AT NINE

On The Bolt Report on Sky at 7pm: Pauline Hanson on being banned today by Channel 9 for "racist" and "divisive" things she said about the people locked up in Melbourne towers. I'll show you clips showing just what hypocrites Nine are. Plus ABC chairman Ita Buttrose's shameless defence of the ABC's bias. And Meghan Markle: is there a bigger whinger? 

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 In boosting Pauline Hanson Bolt tries to boost himself He had Mark Latham on twice last week and now his leader Pauline. Fake Nationalists one and all clubbing to promote division and racism in Australia. Fake in the fact that he makes out that Ch9 is somehow his opposite because they unlike him are opponents of "free speech" and the ABC somehow are also deniers by moderating Hansonite values. It's rather hypocritical o Bolt who has a record along with wjth Sky from banning people from their shows/ Blair Cotteral is one that come to mind along with Fraser Anning.

The fact is "free speech" has never existed in any society and the term might well be regarded as an oxymoron. The ABC at least provides a platform for opposing views and values because Bolt says they don't is hardly a justifiable fact. Andrew Bolt's speech certainly isn't free it comes as a sponsored expense for Murdoch media to maintain their corporate image as a PR platform for the Right. What they sell is a fake product values dressed as news and one-sided opinion, not debate presented as fact.  Unaccountable ideas expensively sponsored as monologues that echo division in Australia rather than unity. You won't find "we" on The Bolt Report only a nightly" them and us".

Bolt wraps himself in the Australian flag but is by no means a patriot as are the vast numbers of  Indigenous Australians who welcome us to their country only to be laughed at by Bolt and his ilk. Along the migrants that truly want to be here more so than Andrew Bolt who can't even be bothered to holiday here. He'd rather spend his time either hidden away or better still out of the country of his birth.