Fighting Fake News with REAL; 1 /01/22; Murdoch's Manipulation; Rat's Chaos benefits Morrison; Climate Change : Trump's Dress Rehersal; Robert Reich;

 

 

Manipulation in 2014 has grown and grown

  

 Manipulation in 2022  has grown to a whole Nation

  

Murdoch Media National Manipulation

More Blathering from Morrison.

Just can't believe we are seeing this man say this.

Morrison is the worst ever Prime Minister Australia has had since Federation

But after all it is NewsCorp publishing this. They are part of the Liberal Party propaganda machine.

National Times

 

 How do you begin to declare a new "system" is in place when there is no apparent "system" in existense? It seems it seems Morrison wants chaos and confusion about the real numbers  of Covid infected people in the community. Less is a benefit to the government and and unregulated grab for RATs will guarantee that the real numbers are lower than they really are.

 Morrison on the other hand has created a capitalist monster of a jungle with speculators draining the market of RATs for profit. A night club owner buying up 86.000 kits to sell. Morrison's ideal market has been let loose to battle against itself rather than team together to fight the common cause, the pandemic. With no concern about long term effects of Covid or the pressure on our hospitals all Morrison's done is offered a slightly qualified "let it rip" coupled with yet another promised gov strollout, "kits are on their way". Doctors were telling Morrison months ago to buy what he hasn't until now with no certainty of arrival. A promise of RATS has been made to a limited number of sectors when these kits become available Morrison has pledged. The States can do the rest it's simply not his problem. He's changed the definitions of the pathways to success and failure  told Australia what they were. Now it's up to us... he doesn't lick the stamps. 

 The nation’s Pharmacy Guild proposed a “hybrid” model to the government, warning a free-for-all on tests would leave the system swamped by healthy people wanting to stock up.

Politics

Coronavirus pandemic

Pharmacies opposed widespread free tests amid fears ‘worried well’ would overwhelm system

 

State and federal governments may be scrambling to secure rapid antigen tests to ease the burden on PCR testing, but several Melbourne businesses recognised the potential of the fast-acting and relatively inexpensive technology months ago. Nightclub owner Martha Tsamis has sold more than 800,000 of the 15-minute tests since October, when she negotiated distribution deals with manufacturers in Australia, China and South Korea. Ms Tsamis had originally bought a few thousand rapid antigen tests for staff and patrons of her late-night venues Chasers in South Yarra and Inflation in the CBD. Now, her new business Oz Medical employs seven full-time staff and supplies thousands of the tests to every Australian state – other than Western Australia, where they remain prohibited.

Source: Year of the RAT: Positive results for rapid test entrepreneurs

 

Changing Definitions 

 

Increasingly dire ecological damage and severe impacts of the climate crisis are pushing the natural world towards a mass extinction event unparalleled since the age of the dinosaurs, conservationists in Germany warned this week, with humanity possibly facing self-annihilation if behaviors do not change.

Source: Within Decade, Planet’s Natural World Facing Largest Mass Extinction Event Since Dinosaurs

 

The first attempt to subvert a democratic election result was chaotic. Donald Trump and his allies are better organised now.

Washington: One year after thousands of his supporters stormed the US Capitol, Donald Trump plans to mark the anniversary on January 6 with a news conference at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.

It will be no mea culpa.

In a statement issued before Christmas, the former president made it clear that he would use the event to reassert his false claim that the election was “stolen”, and launch yet another attack on the bipartisan select House committee investigating the incident.

“Until then, remember, the insurrection took place on November 3rd,” Trump said, referencing the day of the 2020 election.

“It was the completely unarmed protest of the rigged election that took place on January 6th.”

Democracy

The Capitol attack was Trump’s dress rehearsal

 

But in more recent years I’ve come around. As America has moved closer to being an oligarchy — with staggering inequalities of income, wealth, and power not seen in over a century — and closer to Trumpian neofascism (the two moves are connected), “It’s a Wonderful Life” speaks to what’s gone wrong and what must be done to make it right.

Soon after “It’s a Wonderful Life” was released, the FBI considered it evidence of Communist Party infiltration of the film industry. The FBI’s Los Angeles field office — using a report by an ad-hoc group that included Fountainhead writer and future Trump pin-up girl Ayn Rand — warned that the movie represented “rather obvious attempts to discredit bankers by casting Lionel Barrymore as a ‘scrooge-type’ so that he would be the most hated man in the picture.” The movie “deliberately maligned the upper class, attempting to show the people who had money were mean and despicable characters. This … is a common trick used by Communists.”

The FBI report compared “It’s a Wonderful Life” to a Soviet film, and alleged that Frank Capra was “associated with left-wing groups” and that screenwriters Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett were “very close to known Communists.”

This was all rubbish, of course — and a prelude to the Red Scare led by Republican Senator Joe McCarthy of Wisconsin, who launched a series of highly publicized probes into alleged Communist penetration of Hollywood, the State Department, and even the US Army.

The movie was also prelude to modern Republican ideology. Since Ronald Reagan, Republicans have used Potter-like social Darwinism to justify everything tax cuts for the wealthy, union-busting, and cutbacks in social safety nets. Rand herself became a hero to many in the Trump administration.

Source: Want to Know What to Do about Trump? You Might Start With “It’s a Wonderful Life” | The Smirking Chimp

Fighting Fake News with REAL; 25/12/21; Morrison's Xmas Gift to the elderly; Australia's Xmas Gift to the World; Murdoch makes it to the MOST HATED list;

 

 

 UNREPORTED MORRISON'S XMAS GIFT TO THE AGED " LET IT RIP"

The ‘let it rip for Christmas’ COVID policies urged by Scott Morrison and Dominic Perrottet have come home to roost where they were always going to – on the elderly. More than 100 aged care homes are now in Tier 0 severe lockdown, the number suffering COVID outbreaks nearly doubling in a week. Rather than “opening up” for family Christmas, thousands of elderly Australians are confined to their rooms today, having a solitary Christmas lunch, denied all visitors, not even allowed to share the meal with their peers. On behalf of the distressed residents, their worried families and the shockingly stretched aged care workers, I invite the Prime Minister and NSW Premier to “stare down” the virus and take “personal responsibility” for a few weeks in solitary confinement, without a personal photographer for company. The tragedy of Christmas 2021 for the residents and staff in aged care facilities has been (almost) unreported.

Source: Aged spend Christmas alone, thanks to PM and Perrottet

  

Australia's Xmas gift to the world

 

Morrison's gift to Amazon and other corporations prevent class action suits

 

  "ANNOUNCED BOOSTERS" then Morrison's cut us loose, personal responsibility his gift, after all, he doesn't hold the hose.  He deems vaccines are like Sunscreen.

CONSEQUENCE

 Omnicron x70 more infectious than Delta

Victoria’s healthcare system faces a staffing crisis at a critical time when hundreds of staff are in isolation and COVID-19 hospitalisations are on the rise.

Fears for hospital system as cases rise and staff availability falls

 

 

"It’s hard to know quite where to start with the winner of 2021’s Crikey Arsehat of the Year award. The relentless dysfunction, the contempt for accountability and tolerance for corruption, the sense he loves his title and hates his job — it billows in all directions like ink in water, drawing the eye in too many directions at once.

Still, over the course of a single week in March, Scott Morrison managed to display a great many of the traits that ultimately delivered him one ...

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Scott Morrison did enough in a single week to earn himself the title.

He's slippery, he's dishonest, he's the PM: meet Crikey's 2021 Arsehat of the Year

Australia's own Rupert Murdoch makes it to No 5 in America

VoicesThe 10 Worst Americans of 2021

Fighting Fake News with REAL; 17/12/21; Democracy or Corruption; Journalism, MSM, ACCC

 

 

 

Morrison should stop asking us what we can do for him and ask what he can do for our country ?

A new analysis of more than 190,000 grants shows that Liberal seats have received 3 x as much federal funding as Labor electorates.

Pork-barrelling is the most costly form of soft corruption in Australia – and corruption it is [Unlocked]

Pork-barrelling: the heart of democracy, or ineffective corruption?

 

In Australia, for example, coverage of asylum seekers in the conservative, particularly tabloid, media has over the last decade been based too often on the incorrect framing that they are “illegal” and “queue jumpers.” Too rarely is the coverage based on the facts. This media (intended) failure has enabled the government to continue to persecute innocent people who came to us seeking safety.

Culture war “games” have thus turned life and death issues into something too “political” to address (either rationally) or intelligently. The spirit of Schwartz Media, Michael West Media and our other organisations dedicated to holding the powerful to account needs to be embraced by our legacy masthead writers. We need to consider the laws that can be crafted to balance the damage done by Malcolm Turnbull’s 2017 slashing of our media ownership laws. In a moment when the climate and democracy decay form a deadly helix, we cannot afford to have entertainment or agenda masquerading as news.

We need to debate new ways to fund the reliable news utterly critical to the functioning of democracy.

Too much is at stake to allow our news to frame this moment as “business as usual.”

 

Source: Depressed by the press: journalism bows to the authoritarians – » The Australian Independent Media Network

 

Morrison hates accountability — this is no secret. Since the start of his political career, he has acted with scant regard for any form of repercussions and any standards he cannot actively control, he rages against. He has consistently lost his temper in Parliament and the truth is an anathema to him. In many ways, he should be a strong media’s dream. He is a constant source of supercilious behaviour, masquerading as an everyman for which journalists can constantly critique.

The media is meant to act as a watchdog for those in power. Politics already has too few checks and balances to ward off corruption in this country, so a fawning media only emboldens this behaviour further. If some in the media aren’t going to do their job as the Fourth Estate, it seems all rather pointless.

Source: Mainstream media is Morrison Government’s puppet

 

 

 

 

The Bulletin 

The LNP has systematically foregoes Democratic process for that of Cultural Capture. It works far better than Carbon Capture. You simply appoint up close and personal ideologically trusted persons, without tender, to positions of influence in pivitol systemic roles whenever, and wherever possible. We have seen appointments made to the UNHCR, the ABC board, Heads of the Public Service Departments, and to countless untendered Consultancy contracts. All to cement and ensure sympathetic future outcomes  even if elections are lost. It could be argued it's a form of  human resource "pork barreling", an understood quid pro quo system of unspoken transactional  exchange.

 

The nomination of a respected lawyer with strong ties to Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch to head Australia’s powerful competition watchdog agency is drawing scrutiny.

On Tuesday, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s government tapped Gina Cass-Gottlieb to become chairwoman of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.

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MURDOCH FAMILY ASSOCIATE NOMINATED TO BE AUSTRALIAS COMPETITION WATCHDOG

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Fighting Fake News with REAL 13/12/21; Don't Look Up -Movie, ABC's Insiders Platform for Murdoch; Media Concentration

 

 Adam McKay’s new movie may be the first film in 57 years to equal the comedy and horror of Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece.

 

“Don’t Look Up” Is as Funny and Terrifying About Global Warming as “Dr. Strangelove” Was About Nuclear War

 

 The case for a review of Insiders and sacking its producers, presenter and most regular guests has strengthened as the year has progressed, writes Alan Austin.

Dominated by untrustworthy Murdoch agents

Over the year, guest journalists made 133 appearances on the 44 Insiders programs. If we count presenter David Speers, that is 177 contributions. Of these, 92 were current or former employees of Murdoch’s News Corporation, the most untruthful and discredited “news” organisation in the English-speaking world.

That’s 52%. Another 32 journalists, or 18%, were from the pro-Coalition Nine Entertainment network.

There is no need for the public broadcaster to engage employees of organisations with proven records of falsifying data, suppressing vital information and blatant political manipulation. Australia has many journalists with excellent credentials Insiders could have used.

ABC’s Insiders doesn't serve its viewers or the nation

Murdoch merriment

The release of the Senate report backing a call by Kevin Rudd for an inquiry into the Murdoch media empire could not have come on a more appropriate day. It was tabled in parliament hours before Lachlan and Sarah Murdoch hosted their annual Christmas bash in Sydney’s Bellevue Hill for politicians, media personalities and the business elite.

The Labor and Greens senators on the committee recommended a judicial inquiry with the powers of a royal commission into media diversity, ownership and regulation – although Labor’s media spokeswoman, Michelle Rowland, immediately ruled it out as ALP policy.

Committee chair Sarah Hanson-Young: “The evidence that the Murdoch media empire is indeed a dangerous monopoly was heard loud and clear.”

The rhetoric didn’t seem to bother the Liberal MP Dave Sharma or the NSW health minister, Brad Hazzard, who were guests at the soiree alongside Qantas boss Alan Joyce, Atlassian founder and billionaire Scott Farquhar, the former NRL and FFA boss David Gallop and racing and rugby league administrator Peter V’landys.

The member for Wentworth, Dave Sharma, arrives at Sarah and Lachlan Murdoch’s Christmas drinks. Photograph: Bianca de Marchi/AAP

Everyone from Murdoch’s Australasian chief, Michael Miller, and Sky News Australia boss Paul Whittaker were invited, and presenters Peter Stefanovic, Chris Kenny, Paul Murray and Sharri Markson made the grade.

For the record, the report defines media concentration by saying Australia now has only three national-scale commercial media voices.

The biggest is News Corp, which controls about two-thirds of metropolitan daily newspaper circulation, Sky News and a free-to-air channel in regional areas.

Next is Nine Entertainment, which owns the Nine television network, and the former Fairfax mastheads the Sydney Morning Herald, the Age and the Australian Financial Review, as well as digital properties.

The third player is Kerry Stokes in Western Australia, who holds a controlling interest in Seven West Media Ltd, which controls the West Australian, Perth’s Sunday Times and the Community Newspaper Group, which owns 23 local newspapers across Perth, as well as the Seven TV network.

Fighting Fake Facts with REAL 10/12/21; Call for Royal Commission into Media; Murdoch Influence; LNP Regional Rorts; Morrison Humour; Oil-backed opposition to wind farms;

 

 

 

We witness the blithe abuse of billions in public funds, just as the nation confronts record deficits.

Shameless pork-barrellers have normalised political graft

 

A Labor and Greens-dominated Senate committee has called for a judicial inquiry with royal commission powers into media diversity - a finding rejected as a “stunt” by the Liberal deputy chair

In a majority report backed by Labor senators, the Senate’s communications committee concluded a judicial inquiry with royal commission powers was needed to “determine whether the existing system of media regulation is fit-for-purpose and to investigate the concentration of media ownership in Australia”.

But Liberal senator Andrew Bragg, the deputy chair of the inquiry, savaged the findings in a dissenting report, saying the inquiry had been “a stunt conducted at taxpayers’ expense”.

The recommendation was welcomed by former prime minister Kevin Rudd, whose campaign for a royal commission to examine News Corp Australia’s influence on the domestic media landscape led to the creation of the Senate inquiry.

 “This report vindicates the concerns of the 500,000 Australians who last year signed the record-breaking ePetition calling for a royal commission,” Mr Rudd said.

Call for royal commission-style inquiry into media splits Senate committee

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How much influence does the Murdoch media have in Australia?

A little administrative juggling, and an unlikely set of funding proposals magically turns into reality, writes Jommy Tee in his continuing series on regional grants.

Michael West Media (MWM) has previously outlined the corrupt process where 161 grants worth $165 million were manipulated by the ministerial panel overseeing BBRF Round 3 and Round 4 and heavily skewed to Coalition seats. Round 5 grants worth $300 million were announced in early October. Not surprisingly the grants were heavily skewed to government seats by the ministerial panel that interferes in the awarding of the grants, despite the evidence of government officials.

First, let’s turn to the secretary’s evidence. Labor’s Senator Murray Watt tried to drill down into the opaque process of the advice that the department provided to the ministerial panel. The secretary responded:

… it may be in the nature of our advice into the cabinet deliberations, which, ordinarily — I think it is in the public interest for us to be able to do that in a way that remains private for governments of all persuasions going forward.

An extraordinary statement from the head of a department that oversees among others the rorted Community Development Grants, Urban Congestion Fund, and Commuter Car Park Fund.

 

 Source: Rampant rorts in the regions: how it happens – Michael West Media

 

He does all of his own stunts.

Scott Morrison wins Best Costume Design, Best Supporting Actor at AACTA Awards 

 

Local think tanks that previously supported offshore drilling have engaged in a wide-ranging campaign to stop the expansion of offshore wind farms.

Source: Oil-Backed Group Opposes Offshore Wind for Environmental Reasons

Fighting Fake News with REAL 14/10/21; News Corp Promotes Climate Change like Philip Morris Promotes Anti- Smoking and Greenwash Scott

 

 

 

 He leads a government of ministers who are a power unto their own. Morrison and Joyce for personal reasons want in Free Speech on Social Media curtailed and policed. Alan Tudge wants Free Speech on University campuses less regulated and meanwhile Peter Dutton wants any Woke agenda in the Defence Force stopped, banned shutdown. It seems he'd close down Sydney's Mardi Gras if he could. At least it's clear what Morrison is about absolutely nothing but being  a part of the coalition of IPA, Murdoch and seemingly electioneering photo-shoots and PR. If this is true Morrison certainly hasn't heard it.

 

 There is nothing original in this move. Philip Morris declared it was about to "UNSMOKE" the world. That it was anti-smoking, and even e-smoking but was investing heavily in delivering tobacco in an alternative way via IQOS technology and heat-sticks. They were  going to be better than any nationally driven QUIT campaigns Yes, like Philip Morris Angus Taylor and Rupert Murdoch are about to De Carbonize Australia no, the planet, and deliver coal and fossil fuels in an alternative way to the Globe. First is to change the language about what it is they and the industry are really doing They are going to Ladbroke, no Clean the world. Second is to throw heaps of money at Murdoch to promote it and by establishing a taxpayer Welfare Fund of $250bn for the industry, which by the way is neither a tax nor a subsidy to be paid by any Australians, but a loan. It's not a leg up but it's because of the ignorant, and irrational divestment of funds from export of such profitable and economically efficient climate saving resources. It needs to be done to save not retrain or create the few jobs lost. Jobs being lost more by the  automation of the industry rather than the consequence of renewables.  Third is to create a technological smokescreen and "green-wash" the filthy product and habit just as Philip Morris has done Smoke.

 Nicotine will still be delivered along with " nano-particulates" instead of carcinogenic tar and smoke. Mind you those 52 new chemicals will also have unadvertised but known side-effects. However a cleaner man-made CO2 will be delivered into the atmosphere as has always been done because  "Net-Zero Emission by 2050 was never a Zero- CO2" says Angus. Even Andrew Bolt is in on the act and allowed to call this flip "rubbish" not because he's against it but rather the very "science of global warming is a religion". The methodology is faith based and Bolt's laser logic of denial-ism far far more precise, scientific so Murdoch,Taylor and the LNP don't really need to pander or even listen to other nations,banks, corporations or Greta that mad mentally deranged child,or let alone 80% of the public to govern this stand alone country.

 But for those of us who have been watching closely, it also seems possible, even likely, that this sudden awareness of climate change by News Corp signals a new and more sophisticated greenwashing of the political discourse.

 News Corp suddenly promoting climate change action is just another example of how the Coalition and the MSM operate in tandem to create and ...

Michelle Pini

 

The COP26 climate negotiations are just weeks away, and the tide is now turning against international finance of coal-fired power generation. The implications for Australia cannot be ignored.

 Asia’s energy pivot is a warning to Australia: clinging to coal is bad for the economy

How Murdoch manipulates the climate of Australian politics

 

Australia faces an intensifying risk of global investors divesting bonds or equity if we don’t join other nations in making a net zero emissions commitment for 2050, the Reserve Bank has warned.

 Investors could shun Australia without 2050 net zero commitment, RBA warns | Reserve Bank of Australia | The Guardian

 

 

COP26: Morrison’s Payments Cut Due To Not Having Reasonable Reason For Refusing Work

Morrison’s case manager says he is not meeting the mutual obligation requirements for finding work

Fighting Fake News with REAL 23/9/21; Morrison Dines with Murdoch; Aukus; Christian Porter

 

 

  

The biggest scandal is that the AFP and ASIO seem to have no intel on the activities of these domestic terrorists who are readily capable of organizing these events leaving our police forces blind. Yet they claim to know what Islamists, Communists, and other activists are up to. It's over a 1000 days since Morrison promised ICAC and with it transparency yet this has been the most secretive government we have been left with. They make Fraser,Turnbull Hewson and so many past Liberal leaders look like left-wing activists.

Experts say the far-right and anti-lockdown actors are latching on to the concerns of construction workers in attempts to represent themselves 'as a true voice of the people'.

A man who eats a pastry sack filled with ground up pig snouts and cow tongues each day, says he’s not taking the vaccine because he is unsure about its ingredients.

‘You Just Don’t Know What’s Inside The Vaccine’, Says Man Who Eats Meat Pie For Lunch Every Day | The Shovel

 

Biden’s desire for an alliance against China in pursuit of a return to “rules-based order” — heavily slanted in favour of the West — has been oft-expressed. The south must be ruled out. But so too, it would seem, must be the EU. Germany is still dependent on exports to China for its prosperity, and the Belt and Road Initiative is increasing China-EU trade at a cracking pace.If the US doesn’t trust the EU regarding China, it would have a major interest in breaking any link between Australia and France, as the latter remains a Pacific power. It would have been ridiculous to mobilise NATO in the Indo-Pacific with the EU about to announce its own common defence plan. The US doesn’t want equals in its new alliance, but subordinates who look like equals. Australia has played that role for decades, knows it by heart. But the UK? Well, AUKUS from its end forms part of a new post-Brexit “global Britain” push. What could be more global than policing your old imperial waters? Does it actively want to do that? Maybe. Maybe not. But what it needs from the US is a free trade agreement.Biden had said that the UK was at the back of the queue, especially if Brexit wrecked the “Good Friday agree

 Deciphering AUKUS: it’s not really about the submarines

 

The Daily Times

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Newscorp the Home of Fake News . ( Kevin Rudd)

So the Murdoch media today in The Australian attacked my argument that they’re a Liberal Party Protection Racket.

Oops…They obviously didn’t see these front page shockers—after praising Berejiklian, now they’re attacking Dan for plans to ease restrictions!

Newscorp Bald faced liars and the publishers of FAKE NEWS .

 

National Times

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Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison meets with Rupert Murdoch’s top Lieutenant in New York. ( The West Australian, The National Times 21/9/2021)

The West Australian Newspaper is reporting that Scott Morrison has made sure to allocate time to meet and have a intimate dinner with Newscorp CEO Robert Thompson.

Scott Morrison was originally traveling to attend the QUAD meetings we were told. But it seems there is an alternate reason for the Prime Ministers international travel and was to also attend a meeting with Newscorp.

No doubt forthcoming election strategies were on high the agenda.

Moreover, tax payer money was used to fly the Prime Minister to the USA and like Scott Morrison's previous trip to the UK he has managed to fit some private activities to what he called a busy schedule of meetings.

What this does confirm is the fact The Liberal Party and Newscorp are one and the same with Newscorp only too willing to be the propaganda arm of the Liberal Party.

However, the question that must be answered is what is in it for Newscorp - and the answer on everyone's lips is the sale of the ABC and the SBS, this making Newscorp Australia's National Broadcaster.

 

 

The Daily Times

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And the Disgusting Newscorp BIAS continues. (Sleeping Giants and Twitter)

The Herald Sun publishes FOURTEEN pages + an editorial trashing Dan Andrews & the Victorian open up plan.

When Gladys released the NSW plan for two days it was Octoberfest, Christmas, New Year's Eve , Freedom Day, cheers, pubs, travel & family

But it's gotton that bad that Newscorp doesn't even bother hiding the bias these days.

Just straight out Dan Andrews attacks and articles worshiping Gladys Berejiklian who in fact created this current mess with her GROSS incompetence

It's classic Newscorp -FAKE NEWS.

Just imagine for one moment that the identity of Christian Porter was transformed into that of a Labor Minister. How do you think the Murdoch media would react? Well, let me tell you. The Australian, Sky News, The Herald Sun and other news outlets (where the truth goes to die) are completely ignoring the issue of where the money come from to pay Porter’s bills, and that parliamentary standards are worsening under this Government. It is like they take delight in the destruction of those things necessary to make our democracy work.

You can imagine the uproar if this happened under a Labor government – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Fighting Fake News with REAL, 7/9/21; Murdoch Gladys, Memes, Cartoons, Humour, JobKeeper AHRC, Andrews,

 

 

 

Why has it still, until very recently, been intellectually respectable in Australia to be a climate change sceptic, when that is no longer tenable in most countries in the world?

At least partly because News Corporation has tethered the debate at that end of the spectrum.

News Corporation has been heading into an intellectual, financial and even existential dead end. Advertisers flinched. The chances of renewing the ageing readership were disappearing. As successive surveys show, the outlets were losing audience trust.

News Corporation will still be trying to shape the debate, but it has been forced to shift ground to do so. That’s significant.

It may be too late. News Corporation may already be losing its grip. It’s something to watch.

 

News Corp’s shift on emissions coverage reveals something about the nature and limitations of the power of the Murdoch organisation.

News Corp’s shift on emissions reveals limitations of power

News Corp Calls For Urgent Action On Y2K Bug

“Y2K is starting to become a real concern for our readers"

 

This is a matter of fact not an endorsement of everything Chinese

JobKeeper payments flowed to a string of upmarket luxury brands, with some able to increase their profits in the depths of a recession.

Gucci, Cartier, Bulgari: Millions in JobKeeper for luxury retailers

Big business doesn’t vote, small business does. That’s the dilemma for Scott Morrison and Josh Frydenberg as they try to keep JobKeeper secret heading into the election. Michael West reports.

 Political Dynamite: JobKeeper for billionaires a campaign wrecker for Morrison, Frydenberg – Michael West Media

 

Why is the Australian government devoid of any original strategic tactics of it’s own? Every move they make is directly from Trump’s American Republican Party the GOP? They don’t appear to have any specific tactics that are in any way Australian. They aren’t in anyway transparent but only intent on gaslighting the Australian electorate.

Yesterday the federal government quietly appointed Lorraine Finlay as the next human rights commissioner. She is a Murdoch University legal academic and human trafficking specialist with the Australian mission to ASEAN. Media releases from Attorney-General Michaelia Cash and the Australian Human Rights Commission both praised Finlay’s academic expertise and work in international human rights law. But they neglected to mention hers deep ties to the Liberal Party, as a former upper house candidate in Western Australia and president of the state’s Liberal women’s council. They also overlooked her years spent vocally taking positions that might put her at odds with the AHRC.

 The new human rights commissioner has perfect credentials (Lib, IPA, 18c)

 

 

The media has reported on Victoria and NSW's handling of COVID-19 in vastly different and inequitable ways, writes Dr Victoria Fielding.

Media bias for Berejiklian and against Andrews is clear

We join NSW’s Premier Gladys Berejiklian at her daily 11 am press conference.

Gladys boasts about how her Government is teaching us to 'live with COVID'

 By Ad astra This is a short piece. There is no need for lots of words. Images are sufficient. Have you noticed the cluster of loud-mouthed men that has appeared recently on our Melbourne streets, fists raised, shouting messages of defiance directed at our those in authority? Who are they? What is their…

What is revving up the bully boys?

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