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Beyond Scrutiny

Australia’s TV media companies have told the National Anti-Corruption Commission committee that they should be exempt from being investigated for corruption by the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC). I captured it on video, as per below, and it is amazing how brazen the media companies are thinking they can publicly demand to be above the law.

Source: Australian media companies want to be exempt from being investigated for corruption by the National Anti-Corruption CommissionKangaroo Court of Australia

 

Well, it would be because there is no jury. What I’m trying to say is that the decision has been made by the people who matter which – as I am sure you know is the Federal Coalition. Lidia Thorpe has failed to declare a conflict of interest.

Peter Dutton has led the charge, announcing that Senator Thorpe must leave Parliament because ‘you can’t receive those briefings during the day and then hang out, you know, in nice circumstances of a night-time with a bikie.

 

Source: We Don’t Need A Kangaroo Court To Decide That Lidia Thorpe Is Unfit To Stay In Parliament – » The Australian Independent Media Network

No sensible person will be seeking the office. But the Tory Party is riddled with the insensible. Sunak is likely to recontest. The leader of the House of Commons, Penny Mordaunt, is also a contender. Even Johnson, who did more than most to denigrate the office, is contemplating a return. For the moment, the lettuce won out. At the very least, it deserves a run.

Source: Exit Liz Truss; Enter Lettuce – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Dutton says he has numbers to become British PM

On current polling, Victorian Premier Dan Andrews looks set for an even bigger win on November 26 than his monster 2018 victory. The most recent Morgan poll has Victorian Labor leading the Coalition by 20 points in two-party-preferred (2PP) terms, though that poll also shows a substantially higher independents vote.

Source: VIC Liberals are a circus, while NSW Labor prepares for power

 

 

 

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"That's $1 after we deduct costs and commissions"

 

 Albo

 

Election diary No. 15: Wednesday, 2 March 2022. That I’m using the word “war” in my heading is unfortunate; however, it is what it is. A war started by an egregious international bully, an egotist with a right-to-rule attitude, a plank over his own eyes, and a blurred nostalgia for times long gone. The political…

Source: Bullying is symptomatic of world leaders, including ours, and war is the outome – » The Australian Independent Media Network

 

Lauding News Corp???

UK based GDI Index proves itself to be useless and almost consiratorial as News Corp is. It’s based in the UK where Rupert Murdoch’s media behemoth was proved at a Tory government inquiry to be totally corrupt. Where the world saw Murdoch do an Alan Bond and feign dementia to stay out of jail. He had close The News of the World and fled to America to continue what he does best there. Misinform the public. Currently, he’s spreading misinformation for Russia’s Putin, and Fox News is being celebrated by Putin’s State Media services. I guess the UK based GDI is too.

The efforts of a self-appointed ratings agency that surveyed Independent Australia and 33 other Australian outlets have shown how you need to be careful in the tricky world of publishing. A report by the group called Global Disinformation Index (GDI) declared that the News Corp publications – Courier Mail, Sydney Telegraph and Herald Sun – were less likely to spread disinformation than Independent Australia.

Source: Dud UK-based media index lauds News Corp and bashes ABC, SBS and IA

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Instead, Carr doubled down in another tweet saying unless another minister fessed up “who has most to gain from undermining further a flailing PM?”.

There is nothing “common” or united in this view unless you a totally paranoid lunatic fuckwit that no longer knows up from down. Turning to Andrew Bolt only proves the new "conservatives" are on the fringe and and are idiots. As a commentator on Australia Bolt’s been wrong most of the time. For 2 decades he's sold us the world was “cooling” and "science" was just another religion. He said he once worked as a belly dancer’s minder. Yes, that commentator, that Walter Mitty who kept telling us Abbott had seen the folly of his ways and was about to change.

Bolt’s not a commentator he’s just a media monkey straight out of Dutton’s Monkey Pod room and wants him and the other apes in charge. Bolt lost LNP patronage when he lost Abbott and Dutton is his only opportunity for attention again. Sacked from 2GB shamed by Miranda and a failure producing his own podcast. But then this Australia-hater also wants to retire to a barge in Amsterdam dreaming he could write a book. Amersterdam one of the most “socialist, multiculturalist, multiethnic cities in the EU with a population twice that of Melbourne where he won’t walk the streets in daylight. If Conservatives see Andrew Bolt as their “leading” media voice and “intellectual” then we know the country is safe.

Bolt was, to our misfortune, an accident waiting to happen. While working for Murdoch in the 80’s he actually hated “News” and the work it entailed. No doubt not very good at it he became their obit writer even that was a mental strain and gave it away for PR. He hated the demands of journalism so his hand went up for what was regarded as a Dorothy Dixer job, when right-wing opinion only was required by Rupert. He’s been there ever since and today is most likely awarded as the APC’s most complained about nuisance given News Corp and Murdoch media are listed as 66% of their complaints.

A common view is that “Dutts”, as they call him, could save seats in his home state of Queensland and help stem the bleeding to the right on issues of vaccine mandates and religious freedom elsewhere. The view has support outside the parliamentary Liberal Party. One of Australia’s leading conservative commentators, Andrew Bolt, used his popular News Corp column on Monday to urge: “Peter Dutton, get ready to lead”. Bolt wrote the Prime Minister Scott Morrison “looks finished and is now making a fool of himself to get some love”. The columnist, like many across the Parliament, was simply aghast at Morrison’s stunt on Friday where he massaged a woman’s scalp and washed her hair for the benefit of the cameras in a Melbourne salon.

Source: Paul Bongiorno: ‘Dutts’ to the rescue in a sure sign of desperate times

 

What Dutton isn’t suing Carr for his “hurt feelings”. It raises the question that Carr knows he wouldn’t dare because he really just might have the goods on Dutton. Heaven help Australia if Dutton the once head of the Monkey Pod room, Mr Boomgate, did win the job.

Former Labor foreign affairs minister Bob Carr has doubled down on his allegations that Peter Dutton is behind the leaking of explosive texts about the Prime Minister. The Defence Minister described Mr Carr’s claims as “baseless” on Sunday night – after he tweeted an accusation that Mr Dutton was the serving Liberal cabinet member behind the leak of messages blasting Scott Morrison as a “complete psycho”. “Bob Carr’s tweet is baseless, untrue and should be deleted,” Mr Dutton tweeted a little over an hour after the allegation was made. But Mr Carr, who is also a former NSW premier, told Sky News on Monday that he had a “rock solid media source” for his allegations – although he would not reveal who it was.

Source: ‘Most to gain’: Bob Carr doubles down on Dutton text claims

 

 

"We're absolutely flat out"

Michaelia Cash confirms “No time for Federal ICAC, what with all the scandals!”

 

Capitalist redistribution of wealth only ” trickles up” but it’s done intentionally and systemically.

It’s one of Australia’s most complex legal challenges. Experts have found that only 1 in 20 people can properly understand a retirement village contract. There is a better way if only politicians could agree to help retirees, reports Callum Foote.

Source: Retirement villages: the most complicated finance contracts in Australia – Michael West Media

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A Youtube spokesperson said the website had taken steps against Sky, including removing videos from the media outlet’s online channel and issuing a ‘strike’ against it, causing it to be temporarily suspended from uploading new content.

“We have clear and established COVID-19 medical misinformation policies based on local and global health authority guidance, to prevent the spread of COVID-19 misinformation that could cause real-world harm,” a YouTube spokesperson said in a statement.

YouTube has not said what videos published by Sky it removed, but the platform doesn’t allow content medical misinformation about COVID-19 “that poses a serious risk of egregious harm in contradiction with local and global health authorities’ guidance about COVID-19 treatment, prevention, transmission, and social distancing.”

Sky News Australia banned from YouTube for seven days over Covid misinformation

 

 MPs who want the ABC banned complain about the freedoms private organizations like You Tube have and these conservatives want to implement Fascist Policies here banning YouTube's private org freedoms.

Federal MPs Craig Kelly and George Christensen have claimed YouTube’s week-long ban for Sky News Australia is “censorship”, while the channel slammed the tech giant for a “disturbing assault on freedom of thought”. As The New Daily reported on Sunday, YouTube has restricted the account of Sky News – one of the biggest channels in Australia, with more than 1.86 million subscribers – for a week and deleted several of its videos, as part of a crackdown on COVID-19 ‘misinformation’.

 Sky News YouTube ban is ‘censorship’, conservative MPs howl

 

Having moved on from his role as Home Affairs Minister, Peter Dutton has passed on a backlog of asylum seekers vulnerable to exploitation.

Peter Dutton’s legacy — Australia’s biggest labour trafficking scam

 

Taxpayers might well question millions funded to the Menzies Research Centre by the Australian Government, given the think-tank’s overarching Right-wing ties, writes David Paull.

 How the Australian Government is fostering Right-wing extremism

 

She is back but where the hell is the Deputy PM

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Opinion

United in confusion: It’s tough for 30-somethings to assess vaccine risk

The PM and his Deputy

Within a week of the coup that reminded Australia he still exists, much to the country’s chagrin, Joyce has told Melbourne he “couldn’t really give a shit” about its pandemic challenges. And that “you can almost smell the burning flesh from here”.

That last bit could be a sign he is having a stroke, and he should probably get checked by a GP.

Further evidence of this questionable behaviour can be found in Darren Chester’s description of a phone conversation he had with Joyce as “incoherent”.

Expanding his views on the coronavirus, the new-old deputy PM said, “It’s like saying I want zero cases of measles, mumps. We’re going to shut the borders for that? It’s just not possible.” This is news to smallpox, which was actually declared eradicated in 1980. Thus eradication is indeed possible.

Joyce then put the taxpayers’ money where his mouth is and walked into a petrol station without a face mask, for which he was fined $200.

Given all he’s accomplished in the week since becoming deputy prime minister again, his greatest achievement so far is in making Australians yearn for the return of Prime Minister Scott Morrison.

 

Minister of Defence Peter Boomgate Dutton

But while the propaganda machine assaults us with nightmarish ideas about the looming threat of Beijing – aiming to inspire the same fear it did in regard to Islamic terrorists – it doesn’t have to worry too much about gaining popular support, as the public has no say in war decision-making. In this country, the National Security of Committee of Cabinet makes the decision on whether our nation goes into battle – that’s unless, as Bolt is concerned, China pre-empts a war with the US by turning its guns on us. The National Security Committee is currently made up of Scott Morrison, Josh Frydenberg, Marise Payne, Peter Dutton, Simon Birmingham, Karen Andrews, Michaelia Cash, and quiet probably as of this week, Barnaby Joyce. From here, it’s just a waiting game to see if the war remains cold, as it did with Russia, or it heats up like our successful ventures into the Middle East.

Source: Dutton Asserts China Is Now the Enemy, Not Islamic Terrorism

 

Coalition protects wealthy retirees’ investments under cover of Covid-19 pandemic

The Coalition moved to protect the superannuation of Australia’s wealthiest retirees at the same time it was encouraging the nation’s poorest to raid their retirement accounts. And they continue to protect the wealthiest even though the Australian share market is back at record highs. Elizabeth Minter reports.

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‘America living up to the Declaration of Independence’: Verdict a moment of hope for Floyd supporters

Ben Crump, the attorney for George Floyd’s family, said the guilty verdict was a victory for “America’s quest for equal justice under the law”.

Would Trump have "pardoned" him? 

 

‘A measure of justice’: Harris welcomes Chauvin verdict

“A measure of justice isn’t the same as equal justice,” she said. “This verdict brings us a step closer, and the fact is we still have work to do. We still must reform the system.”

 

 

The above video seems to corroborate other tweets that say the victim called the police herself because she was being attacked by other teens. In response, the police killed HER. The one who called for help. 

 The shooting occurred just minutes after Derek Chauvin was found guilty of all 3 counts. It just never ends.

Police Shoot 15-Year Old Black Girl Dead In Ohio

 

 

 

 

Kevin Rudd

 

LOOKS LIKE DUTTON IS BEING GROOMED TO BE PM BY MURDOCH

Morrison's standing in the polls is slipping, and Lachlan Murdoch has noticed. Not to worry, seems like there's a Murdoch campaign to boost their long-favoured son, Peter Dutton.

Can I hear the sound of knives being sharpened? #MurdochRoyalCommission

 

 

 

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Fake News and Misinformation

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‘We have evidence that woke politics is making the west desperately weak

Sky News host Andrew Bolt says "we have evidence that woke politics is making the west desperately weak" after New Zealand's Foreign Affairs Minister refused to criticise China on COVID-19's origins or on the treatment of Hong Kong and its activists. "As I’ve said before, New Zealand is selling out Australia – and the west – to keep sweet with the genocidal Chinese dictatorship," he said. "New Zealand figures other democracies can do the fighting. New Zealand can meanwhile sweet talk China and clean up business wise. But it may be worse than that. I think woke culture is also to blame. "New Zealand’s foreign minister is dizzy with her new age earth worship and old nature gods. For her, China is an ally in the fight against global warming, which seems to her far more important than the danger of war. China would be laughing."

 

It seems Bolt's notion of " we have evidence" is Bolt's opinions nothing much more. Having stolen the term 'woke' he feels he now owns it. He's certainly not offering any "evidence"that all is well with the world of Australia or that if any change is required it means going forwards backwards.

 What Andrew Bolt is saying is he has the facts and "woke politics" that Black Lives Matter from who he stole the term has no hard data that demands any radical change in the way we live. Rather any protest desperately weakens us. Andrew Bolt somehow makes out he's the voice at the tip of the spear standing between us and the disgruntled left who are demanding the overturn of our white western Christian male heterosexuals traditions and hierarchy of privilege deserved, earned, and inherited we have today. Indigenous Australia, Muslims ,Africans and junkies simply want what he has. 

Acceptance of Bolt's opinions is meant to unite us. Strange just how few people listen to or follow him though. Boltsters are in fact non existent or are just a minority within a minority the LNP who see democracy as a danger to their power. Bolt is little more than a back rub and comforter for a minority of aged WASPS in Australia that remember when Catholics were the Muslims of today. His quota of Australian listeners are largely to be found in the rural regions of the country. 40% of which he will lose when Sky's 'free to air' contract with WIN is over in July.

 Andrew Bolt is the one who divides us, denies us, and refuses to allow us to be diverse multicultural secular nation we are. The nation that has fundamental economic problems not cultural ones that weaken us. He isn't a patriot but the very reverse but generally demands we all  live in his assimilated world of beliefs, "alternative facts", but materially divided.  One that needs more and stricter policing, less media like the ABC more administration of all our social and cultural and welfare institutions and less regulation of our economy. 

"We have evidence" is simply a euphemism for "enemies out to get us"

 

 

 

Global warming is ‘not a great threat’ and trying to stop it is ‘more pain than gain’: Bolt

 Global warming is “not a great threat” and trying to stop it almost certainly means “far more pain than gain,” according to Sky News host Andrew Bolt. “Here’s something else that would make China laugh,” Mr Bolt said. “The global warming religion of elites in the West. Here is the West slashing its emissions at such a huge cost to allegedly save a planet that’s actually doing fine. “We are being played. As is our own prime minister; Scott Morrison is about to join a summit on Thursday of 40 national leaders. “It’s been called by US President Joe Biden to put pressure on the West to cut its emissions even more – no wonder China’s all in favour, and Morrison seems absolutely ready to move to promise to cut Australia’s emissions by more, to eventually – it’s suggested – to net zero.” Mr Bolt spoke with former Resources Minister Matt Canavan about the issue. “I’d love to think we could cut our emissions to net zero and not lose a single job in manufacturing and in mining, or have a single farm go bust,” Mr Canavan said. “But we all know that’s just not realistic.” 

 Andrew Bolt a fish that believes it can swim not just upstream but up Niagra Falls and all the others will follow him. He calls the 97% agreement of rationalists, climate scientists the planet's experts a 'religion'. Rather than an exacting methodology which over  the past 50 years of rational data collection, testing, peer reviewed examination and refining year in year discovery. While Andrew Bolt only  offers up the same evidence he's been churning to for the past 20 years as if it's proof the rest of scientific discovery is wrong or at least less reliable.

The world's nations are all in step again since Trump has gone and Australia's LNP stands alone. The planet's and our nations industries are doing the same uniting and investing in the transition to reduce emissions. The LNP however refuses to help what private enterprise is doing but claiming they are progressive.

  Andrew Bolt's working for an old man who makes his fortune out of the politics of division and hopes to score big with Genie Oil so long as the transition away from fossil fuels is slowed. Yes Murdoch is the biggest media contrarian and influencer in the western world when it comes to denying the urgency of climate change but even he has become an echo from the past. The WMO has just released it report on global warming and the past 6 years have been the hottest on record and the extreme weather conditions the worst yet the planet's CO2 emissions keep rising. Australia is the stand alone nation that doesn't give a shit.

 

 

Putin ‘tests’ Joe Biden with growing military border force

 ASPI Foreign Policy expert Michael Shoebridge says Russia’s growing military presence in Ukraine is something the world must be “paying much more attention to” – as Russia continues to establish both significant ground and naval forces in the region. “Russia has continued to mass more troops on the Ukrainian border – there are over 100,000 Russian troops there now – that’s more troops than they massed when they invaded Ukraine back in 2014," he said. “They’re bringing 15 small ships from their Caspian flotilla into the Black Sea and ships from their Black Sea fleet – they’ll have about 50 warships in the Black Sea and they’ve closed part of it to other states’ naval assets including the Ukrainians. “You’ve got to think, why now? I think there are a number of reasons and they’re not all just about Ukraine.” Mr Shoebridge said a possible reason would be the Russians are testing the “new president” Joe Biden and asserting “Russian power” in the region. “I think they’re wanting to test the new US president. They’re also wanting to use this moment to say, ‘don’t forget about Russian power’,” he said. 

Donald Trump modeled himself on and made Putin he was and still is his greatest asset. Trump in 4 years weakened America and strengthened the world's dictators so much so we are now witnessing the outcome of his 4 years as President. Biden has to unite America and prove to the likes of Putin that there are more than just one nation that he needs to deal with when it comes to the Ukraine. The UK, EU, will need to show Putin he hasn't the world on a string. 

Fear is Bolt's tool of trade and he generates and broadcasts it daily.

 

 

Russia thinks Joe Biden is ‘too weak’ to stop them

 

 Sky News host Andrew Bolt says it seems Russia, as well as China and Iran, have all “now figured” that the leader of the free world is “just too weak” to stop them – as Russia increases military presence without consistent opposition from Joe Biden. The remarks come as Russian troops have reportedly amassed 150,000 troops on the border with Ukraine and increased their naval presence in the Black Sea. “It's like Russia, and China by the way and Iran, have all now figured that new US president Joe Biden is just too weak to stop them - and so far it seems he is,” he said. “Biden did order two US warships to the Black Sea to warn off Russia from Ukraine - but changed his mind when Russia got angry and pulled them back.” 

 

A nation doesn't just become weak over night it be comes weakened over time and that was Trump's time and with the help of the Republicans. It only took 4 years their cartel to take control and weaken America. The Russians were on the border with the Ukraine as far back as 2013 Iran was at bay and China and America were coexisting under Obama. However they consolidated in anger when Trump their greatest ally became President. Even Nth Korea was laughing.

Bolt never mentions the fact that the US military is bigger than Russia, China and Iran combined. They have x10 the military hardware. The world wont stand by and just watch. America with Biden has allies that's without the UK and EU. Mind you Australia is less staunch and a little more reluctant. So the numbers suggest the opposite of Bolt's prediction that under Biden it is too weak. Yes, it was weakened by Trump but the Americans are deployed and armed nearer to Moscow than Putin is to the US.

 

 

Jury for Derek Chauvin trial ‘must be very scared’: Bolt

Sky News host Andrew Bolt says he wonders whether the jury for Derek Chauvin’s trial would even “dare consider” whether the former police officer is innocent given they have seen the “race mobs burn their city in protest” of George Floyd's death. “The politics of race – identity politics generally – is threatening the idea of justice in the West,” Mr Bolt said. “With people identifying so fiercely with race, the pressure is on to simply punish people of one race to placate another. “Right now in Minneapolis in the US, a jury is deciding its verdict in the trial of Derek Chauvin … they must be very scared.” Sky News Washington Correspondent Annelise Nielsen said “these were all considerations made during the jury selection process". “The idea that there could be a threat to their security was prefaced by the judge in that he’s actually not had any of the jurors shown in the live feed and there is a suppression on their identities," she said. 

What Andrew Bolt says is of little or no concern to the American jury. His belief in reverse racism and replacement theory has been repeated time and again on Fox News. He's simply an echo of head office. Fear it seems has been taken out of the equation here. It wasn't however the same on July 6th  when Trump called for his supporters to take the Hill while he watched and pleasured himself like Nero. That was a day when fear broke out in America. Not in this trial. 

UPDATE

Chauvin was pronounced guilty and not out of "fear" or any conspiracy Bolt can think of but the law and a jury of his peers. No doubt it's not over and it will be appealed.

Ability to ‘freely exchange controversial ideas’ an important part of any democracy

 Sky News Digital Editor Jack Houghton says "the ability to freely exchange ideas", even if those ideas are "somewhat controversial or offensive" is an important part of any democratic institution or country. Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan is pushing for Islamic nations to band together to put pressure on western nations to boycott trade if it did not criminalise blasphemy of the Prophet Muhammad. "It's such an important western ideal and to have a world leader want to corrode that is extremely dangerous. What's been concerning to me is in the media, there hasn't been this widespread outrage," Mr Houghton said. 

This coming from a man that demands "manners" be the judgement on which we judge men seems somewhat hypocritical. There was a tradition not that long ago that sex politics and religion weren't spoken of in the company of others. Bolt's traditionalist but feels free to say what ever he wants in public. There was a time that people went to speakers corner to do just that without fear or favour. Andrew Bolt wouldn't do that today but with megaphone in hand he demands the freedom to incite extremists to fight.

 Muslims don't mock Christ as he is regarded a prophet of Islam. Muslims are expected to welcome all men into their homes yet we are free to mock Mohamed and slam the door in their face and Bolt demands that as his civilised right and freedom. Is it any wonder he's "shy and has no friends" his excuse for hating to even attend PTA meetings. Imran Khan seems to be simply asking  for the West to be mannered and civilised and think what we really want. Say what you want at home privately but act with manners and respect in front of your neighbours. It strikes me that's what Bolt says are his as his standards but doesn't practice them and denies he should answer for his hypocrisy. He's called for Muslims to be banned from public forums because he disagreed with their ideas. He's called for them to be deported and locked out.

Bolt should have been charged for incitement long ago and held as a recruiter of extremists. A divider calling for Christian youth to fight back with the same conviction as Islamic terrorists did in Barcelona. He admired their "conviction". He's called young Christians cowards. gutless but when an Australian did kill 50+ Muslims in Christchurch NZ. Bolt went into hiding for 4 days. He came out declaring himself a man of peace doing a Trump and saying there was confusion on both sides and denying he'd done anything wrong. When he entertained the shooters heroes on his Bolt Report 

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GREED PUNISHED: SOCCER SUPER LEAGUE COLLAPSES IN 48 HOURS

Fans beat rich club owners. How could those owners get this so wrong that their plans collapse in just 48 hours?: "Manchester City has withdrawn from proposals for a European Super League and Chelsea is set to do the same after a furious backlash against the controversial plan." UPDATE: All six British clubs pull out.

Did Bolt complain when India's billionaires took control of cricket? Or that a Greedy Amazon took over global retailing. Is Netflix a Greedy corporation? It certainly captured the market with 205 million subscribers and growing and even producing content in every country. Greed is the nature of Capitalism and the not so "free market". The so called 'free market' Bolt so much admires is a myth an illusion. Seemingly a supporter of a  free market and Democracy Bolt is the very opposite and a supporter of the Corporate State. 

If a Super League had formed Murdoch's Foxtel would have to queue and line up to negotiate a new deal or simply loose all rights to say Netflix or the Super Leagues own channels. Foxtel without sport would be dead as it's already struggling getting subscriptions. Yes, Capitalism is greedy. Only 10 corporations control most of the business in the world. The Morrison LNP is about to boost the  ability of corporations here to do more harm than they already have by deregulating the market and their costs by half a billion dollars. Doing it at a time when we have seen more wage fraud, tax evasion, and subsidies given our biggest industry players than ever before in our history. Bolt's certainly isn't seriously complaing about "greed" because on any other day he celebrates Capitalism deregulation and small government. He's personally one of a few millionaires working for a billionaire whose very nature is to be greedy.

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Watch live: Holgate tells Senate inquiry she was ‘humiliated by our PM’

Former Australia Post boss Christine Holgate has blamed PM Scott Morrison for driving her out of the top job, accusing him of humiliating her in Parliament.

“I lost a job – a job I loved – because I was humiliated by our Prime Minister for committing no offence and then bullied by my chairman Lucio Di Bartolomeo, who unlawfully stood me down under public direction of the Prime Minister,” Ms Holgate told the hearing.

“This made my leadership at Australia Post untenable and seriously threatened my health. I
have done no wrong. Their bullying of me was far from over. I was subjected to a biased investigation and intimidated with constant threats of further allegations and criticism.”

Ms Holgate said this caused her health to deteriorate “to the point where I could not find my voice to fight back”.

 

Coronavirus pandemic

Second case of rare clotting disorder linked to AstraZeneca in Australia

Australia’s medical regulator has confirmed a second case of a rare clotting disorder following vaccination.

 The new case was in a woman in her 40s from Western Australia. She remains in hospital in a stable condition.

Media concentration by Murdoch, Nine and Stokes, and ABC cuts, a danger to democracy – report

by Elizabeth Minter | Apr 12, 2021 | Economy & Markets

The heavy concentration of media ownership in Australia corrodes democracy. The antidote is a thriving public broadcaster, but by 2023, Coalition cuts to the ABC will add up to $1 billion. Elizabeth Minter reports.

 

Don’t believe the hype: The powerful wield 'cancel culture'

Recent outcries of "cancel culture" are red herrings that should be dismissed, writes Dr Rashad Seedeen.

Peter Dutton has jumped on this defamation train by going after Twitter users who took umbrage with his "he said/she said" characterisation of the Brittany Higgins alleged rape case.

“I’m not going to be defamed in that way, and people should know that if they want to do that, there’s a price to pay for it.”

Such actions encourage a culture of self-censorship where writers second-guess and curb their writing in order to avoid derailing their career or potential defamation cases in the future.

Cancel culture exercised by those in power has a direct impact upon the capacity for the public to engage in a necessary discourse in democratic processes to make informed decisions, as the media is hamstrung by a culture of fear and intimidation.

Unlike Twitter mobs, people who hold institutional power can exploit their position to actually destroy the lives of their targets.    

When we examine this on a global scale the stakes become much higher.

 

Hiding the truth ensures the powerful remain unaccountable

There is no greater threat to the rule of law than actions which seek to prevent the truth from being discovered by an impartial judicial process.

 

Nation ‘At Front Of Queue’ Discovers It Is In Wrong Queue

Australia has been waiting in line for doughnuts, it has been revealed

Traitor Trump's Delusional Rant Angers GOP Donors

GOP donors were not happy with the narcissistic baby man's "horrible" ravings.

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 Scotty is sending my clinic 50 doses a week

coronavirus

Record 844,000 vaccine doses given in UK in one day

 

 

Dangerous floods in the valley are not new. On April 4, 1817, Governor Macquarie lamented “it is impossible not to feel extremely displeased and Indignant at [settlers] Infatuated Obstinacy in persisting to Continue to reside with their Families, Flocks, Herds, and Grain on those Spots Subject to the Floods, and from whence they have often had their prosperity swept away …”

Dangerous floods are inevitable, so stop putting people in their way

 

  

Some firms receiving JobKeeper have paid out increased dividends to shareholders and bonuses to executives, and one leading expert argues "that's purely due to bad design" of the scheme.

JobKeeper pays dividends

 

Another Taylor shocker: Auditor lambasts dodgy handout to energy company that couldn’t do the job

Another scathing audit reveals how the fix was in for coal-fired power proponents — but even then they couldn't pick a winner.

 

 

The Coalition's recent history of deception makes Christian Porter's protestations of innocence harder to believe, writes Alan Austin.

Distrust in Government and Coalition harms Porter's claims of innocence

 

Who needs JobKeeper when  Rorts are aplenty

• Proposal that Christian Porter can return to ‘full-time salary doing part-time work’ further fuel for fury, Labor says

  However Government’s advice that victims of domestic violence should use super to escape abusers a stark contrast, Kristina Keneally says

  
  

• Peter Dutton charged taxpayers $465 for flight on day he was special guest at private event

   Remember what they did to Peter Slipper!!
  

   The home affairs minister, Peter Dutton, charged taxpayers $465 for a flight to Maroochydore on the same day he was the special guest at a private event in Noosa River. 

   

   Mar 21, 2021 21:27

  

  Israel seizes Palestinian foreign minister’s travel permit after visit to International Criminal Court over war crimes probe

  Palestinian Foreign Minister, Riyad al-Maliki, who was returning to the West Bank from a meeting at the International Criminal Court (ICC), was held up at a border crossing and got his VIP travel permit revoked by Israel. 

  FAKE NEWS & MISDIRECTION EXPOSED Cancel Culture king Andrew Bolt hasn't tried to sell subs for the Herald Sun for the last four days. It goes to show how non essential workers are overpaid and aren't hired or fired according to their service or value to society's needs.

   News Corp is very much a corporate agent for the loudest and uninformed mindset of cancel culture right wing ultra conservative minority but economically pwerful groups in Australia. The very opposite of what media and "free speech" in a Democracy was originally meant to be.

   Save the ABC it once better served the purpose of critically forcing the government to justify itself and who it really serves.