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 Haven't we heard all of this crap before from the likes of Hitler, Trump, and Tony Abbott and just about every blinkered assimilationist on the planet? History is filled with falsities, bullshit, lies, fiction and myth that need to be tested and sieved through. Multiculturalism is what made Australia unique and immigration and immigrants fled here to escape the ethnocentric, monoculturist, fascist world they'd experienced even less than 100 years ago. Tudge wants history to be a fable agreed upon and a fantasy of our British past. People aren't challenging the past they providing a balance to the over exaggerated nonsense Tudge wants us to be taught.

 His argument is  the essence of what the extreme right wing neo-Nazis, racists have been crying out for for years and Tudge wants to legitimizing and normalizing their complaints against Multiculturalism. He's fundamentally promoting the idea that critical analysis is a form of Replacement Theory. That any negative view, whether factual or not, that criticizes his political position or version wants him replaced.  It doesn't, but he on the other hand wants it banned from from our classrooms,replaced. A view of Australia as a blessed White Christian Colony in the Asian Pacific with all it's 17th,18th,and19th century values and  myths is still in tact. No regard is given to the vast changes that came with Immigration post WW2. Let alone the destruction done when men like Tudge landed on this shore 220 years ago and rearranged the history lived here for 60k years.

Yes, we saw Abbott and the LNP make what Tudge wants  a "degree course" in our tertiary education system that specializes in bullshit isolated from the courses that challenge it's focus. We saw a government try to force University systems to jump to it's tune with bribes. It did and failed with Abbot's Climate Change efforts but found some success " Western History" Now they want to enforce it in our primary schools and up as well just as Hitler did. But even Hitler didn't demand it be as universal as Trudge wants it to be. He confined it to the Hitler Youth movement his version of the German scouts but not to the Education System as a whole as Tudge is trying to insist. 

Tudge is a Cyclops one eyed no originality and is simply parroting Trump's Republican Party and the Toryies in the UK. But I guess that's what the LNP are largely about and have been doing since elected. Recently we saw the establishment of AUKUS and thr "replacement of the French by these imperialistic anglophiles in the Pacific Distracting and dividing us with "culture wars" might be a political tactic so we don't notice just how they have fucked they have managed the nation economically.  I guess even Hitler wasn't original in that. He too turned on foreigners as we have seen the LNP do. They all in that  regard are following in the footsteps of Mussolini who managed to achieve things faster and in a shorter time than than Hitler or what the right of the LNP here would like. There's is the common dream dream Mussolini unashamedly coined as Fascism.

Schools overlook Western history: Minister

 

 

 

 WTF

Dominic Perrottet’s controversial hedge fund is lending to Russia, China, Saudi Arabia and Cayman Islands. What is the NSW Premier doing funding dictators with NSW taxpayers’ money? Michael West reports on the New Generations Fund.

 With no regulated oversight Perrottet has gone to the the shady side of gambling with heavily geared public money.

 Banks and credit agencies agree that the DRF is debt funded. That means that, as NSW is running a deficit, it is using borrowed funds to punt, the funds which belong to the people of NSW, the funds for which the government and the Premier are stewards. It also means this is a high-risk leveraged investment, so when markets tank, it will tank on steroids.

 Perrottet invests in Putin not Parramatta – Michael West Media

 

Against all advise and under the sheets of the secret relationship between Maguire and Berejiklian the Wagga Wagga greant previously rejected on numerous occasions was rubber stamped by....

  According to leaked internal documents, the person who eventually rubber-stamped the project was the treasurer at the time, one Dominic Perrottet.

As journalist Anthony Klan summarised, “Documents from a cache released by the NSW Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) show that just weeks before the grant was awarded to the private Wagga Wagga gun club, in August 2017, NSW Government staff were concerned about the grant process – which needed to go to the ‘Treasurer’ for approval.

“‘We need to ensure that the funding goes to public infrastructure, not to private assets on private land,’ wrote Jenny Davis of Infrastructure NSW.

“The July 8, 2017 email was to seven colleagues, spanning three NSW Government departments.

“‘The project is unusual,’ Davis wrote.

“‘The ERC (Expenditure Review Committee) minute approved it before we had ever heard of it. Our recommendation doesn’t need to go back to ERC, but it does need the Treasurer to approve it.’

“The $5.5m grant, which is at the heart of ICAC’s investigations, was approved just weeks later, in August 2017. Perrottet was NSW Treasurer at the time.”

Perrottet tied to ICAC investigation

That old saying “we get what we pay for ” certainly doesn’t apply to their electorates or the caliber of politicians any longer. We can put that old cherry to bed. They are owned and belong to their donor masters and the dumber and less integrity they have the better. I believe Waleed Aly gives the likes of Christensen, Canavan, et al far too much credit.

That was best distilled when Barnaby Joyce complained that the Nats couldn’t resolve the issue in their party room meeting this week because they didn’t have enough time. As though the government hasn’t had years to think about this. It was like watching someone start cramming the night before an exam, having not cracked open the textbook all year.

 There are many possible reasons for this weirdness, several of them familiar by now. All major parties, but especially those of the Coalition, receive large donations from fossil fuel companies, whose return seems to be fossil-friendly climate policy. The Nationals have become a miners’ party rather than a farmers’ party, evidenced by their occasional trip-ups on issues like coal seam gas.

 COP26 Glasgow summit: On net zero, the Nats can’t go quietly

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Simone Marsh was an environment specialist and regulator of mining activities in both public and private sectors for over a decade. In 2010 she was called into draft sections of the Queensland Coordinator-General’s EIS evaluation report for the world’s first onshore unconventional gas to LNG projects. After becoming a whistleblower, she has investigated and reported on political appointments, donations, lobbying and other events surrounding the project approvals and the resultant socio-economic and environmental impacts.

This is reporting

 Revolving Doors - Michael West

I would suggest that the LNP has taken us closer to being the 51rst State of America than we have ever before. The impetus, however, feels more obvious to us with the support of Murdoch's globalisation of news and opinion in the Anglo-speaking world. While it hasn't come overnight it became a concerted effort with his establishment of Foxtel in the 80s and the increase of commentary over and above the costs involved in investigative journalism. Basically, Sky and Fox News are so formulaic one wonders why the necessity for Chris Kenny Rowan Dean Andrew Bolt et al they could all be equally replaced by a computer.
 Any seeming push against globalisation I'd suggest isn't it is rather a push against International unionism and the globalisation class war which is currently revealing itself in so many places and now spilling out onto the streets. The LNP feels safer locked into a Murdochian spoon-fed world of news and information than it does with the ABC  (ODT)

The Americanisation of Australian political culture

FAKE AND TWISTED NEWS

 

SARAH HANSON-YOUNG PRAISES CHINA AS IT RAMPS UP COAL

News last week: "From January last year to June this year,... China increased its coal fleet by 42.9GW... equal to about eight times Australia’s total electricity capacity." Now watch the Greens' Sarah Hanson-Young keep fantasising: "You've got China closing coal-fired power stations at rates much faster than Australia is prepared to consider..." 

“China has a strong advantage that it is a global leader in solar and wind power, and last year it sold more electric cars than the rest of the world combined. China can become the world’s foremost clean energy superpower,” she said.

Andrew Bolt in order to rush and attack  Sarah Hanson Young is blinkered blind to the fact that China is also the worlds largest clean energy producer the world's largest exporter of product that facilitates renewable energy while Australia is the reverse the world largest exporter of coal. Second only to Saudi Arabia as the world's largest emitters of CO2 emissions per Capita. While building new plants China is closing older plants at a faster rate than we are... Bolt's banner is Twisted for the misogynist attack on Young.

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Van Badham

November 11 at 9:46 PM ·

It’s well known I’ve got *zero love* for the Greens - but I’m not going to cop more lies from Barnaby Joyce and the National Party.
The Liberals and Nationals have been the government of New South Wales for EIGHT YEARS.
The Liberals and Nationals have been the federal government of Australia for SIX YEARS.
The greens are a powerless minor party who less than 10% of the population vote for. They are not and *have never been* a government.
Joyce knows this. Of course he does. But he, his National Party and their coalition partners the Liberals know they are responsible for cutting funding to fire services and national park fire prevention staff. They know they couldn’t be arsed attending meetings with fire chiefs begging for intervention *back in September*. They know their own policies are driving climate change.
So they’re doing what the culpable, the complicit and the guilty ALWAYS DO in these situations:
They’re running a disinformation campaign.

The inflammometer has hit 11, but politicians aren't finished yet

We appear incapable of sensibly discussing climate change at any time, but particularly at times of natural disaster of the sort that scientists will worsen as the globe warms, writes political editor Andrew Probyn.

 

Unprecedented’: Ex-fire boss’ plea

A group of former firefighting chiefs say Australia faces “unprecedented fire danger” and immediate action is needed from our leaders.

 The 23 frontline fire and rescue chiefs are calling on governments to urgently respond to the bushfire danger they say is a consequence of climate change.

“This week’s catastrophic fires are exactly the type of disaster that emergency leaders and climate scientists have been warning about for decades and summer hasn’t even begun,” former NSW Fire and Rescue Commissioner Greg Mullins said in a statement today.
“We are in a new age of unprecedented bushfire danger.
“Climate change is the key reason why fire seasons are lengthening, fires are harder to control, and access to international firefighting resources like large aircraft is becoming more difficult.”

Meanwhile influencers against Climate Change are denying anything exceptional is happening and Insurance actuaries are saying quite the opposite. Read about the fake and twisted news below. (ODT)

Policeman charged with murder over shooting of Indigenous man

Constable Zachary Rolfe, the son of a prominent Canberra couple, has been charged over the death of 19-year-old Warlpiri man Kumanjayi Walker in the Northern Territory .

 

FAKE & TWISTED NEWS

WORST EVER!; WHAT'S HOT IS THIS CATASTROSPHISING

COLUMN Feel like you’ve been played? Look at the apocalyptic headlines earlier this week about the fires in NSW. “Catastrophic fire danger”. “Worst bushfire conditions ever seen”. “Unprecedented”.  “As bad as it gets”.  And global warming alarmists like Greta Thunberg fed hungrily on the cataclysmic headlines. But at the end, what really happened?

First point Andrew Bolt jumps on those who make spelling mistakes suggesting they represent a lack of education and are therefore not really worth listening to. Yet Bolt regularly misspells himself.

Ask yourselves why Insurance Companies are "catastrophizing" along with banks and commercial lenders whose actuaries have reported "abnormal events". Not "normal events" that have not decreased fire and flood claims but increased them. Bolt doesn't mention complaining and telling them that extreme weather events are on the decline? He doesn't tell them all's well and normal, and there's nothing to worry about here. 

 No, his focus, like the tobacco companies, is on discrediting the science or at a minimum create doubt. Allowing politicians to do nothing. However if for a moment he accepted the "exceptional " nature of extreme whether he'd need to accept that the trend in record-breaking events is increasing with global warming and the possibility that the increasing emission of CO2 in the atmosphere is assisting that trend. Even the possibility of an indirect relationship would necessitate action like smoking and lung cancer, which resulted in the Quit campaign. We've seen the battle that that took and there's even a greater one going on with the cry to Quit fossil fuels or transition to alternatives. 

Per head of population, we along with the Saudi's are the worlds highest emitters. The Saudis are doing something unprecedented, making their oil reserves public. Australia is the world's largest coal distributor and doesn't even care to hide the fact. Over the years, the Saudis profited, and they are letting go. Australia has simply let Multinationals in, and unlike Norway, Qatar and other resource-rich nations made money? Why hasn't Australia? These other nations are also transitioning to renewables at a greater rate than we are and not trying to opt-out of the Paris Agreement like Americas has.

TONIGHT: I WALK WHERE PELL'S ACCUSER DID. AND IT SHOWS PELL IS INNOCENT

  WHY CARDINAL PELL COULD NOT HAVE COMMITTED THESE CRIMES

COLUMN, At last, George Pell could get justice. The High Court will hear his appeal and must decide whether Pell was, as I believe, wrongly convicted of the sexual assault of two choir boys. See, Pell could not have attacked those boys at the only time Victoria's Court of Appeal said was possible.  Check where his accuser says he was just then.  

15m ago

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Can you get a more twisted public media campaign based on one man's personal opinion? As an influencer, Bolt is record failure. His only real-time in the sun was just before and after the election of the LNP Government in 2013 when Tony Abbott was his patron, and we all know how long that lasted. Bolt went down, yelling "but he'll change, he'll change. He did he was no longer leader. 

As a conservative Bolt generally has respect or should have it's regarded as the justest system of law available men on this planet, and it's the process that counts not the decision. Bolt railed against it since that process found him guilty. Then according to Bolt, the law was ideologically driven. Well it's financially driven that's for sure, and Bolt's legal team walked away from any further defence, and that's why Bolt spat the dummy. He wasn't going to spend his money on his defence, but he did expect News Corp to, and they didn't believe it was worth it.

Well, not so the case of George Pell he has the funding of the very wealthy top end of town who have allowed Pell the privilege to be trailed judged in every part of that system regarded as the world's best. Bolt hasn't spent any of his time witnessing it simply criticising it from the outside and deems his personal opinion is better than the whole British Justice System. He offers no alternative process other than "I walked in the footsteps of Pell's accuser" The kid is a liar, and Pell is innocent. He may as well exchange British justice for Gypsies crystal ball.

Pell's guilt and possible innocence were evaluated and based on years of investigation. Hours of courtroom proceedings, witnesses and evidence were brought by both sides, not just one to convince the juries. Mentions and 3 court trails of increasing seniority were conducted to see if an injustice has been done to Pell or the claimant. None found for Pell.

 Andrew Bolt and mega-media backing at enormous cost are playing judge and jury and that they are wiser than British law or anyone else. Their opinion is far greater than any independent legal process. The problem isn't just Bolt's opinion it's News Corp a mega-corporate giant at the top end of town that's backing, him and just as they are doing for Donald Trump. The idea of "separation of powers" between the Church, State, Corporate world and the Law are simply discarded by those with the wealth money and power.

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Retirees worldwide may run out of money 10 years before they die

However no problem for our pollies

Political expenses

More than $12,500 a week? The pollies who claim the most in entitlements

Private jets, chartered flights, expensive hotels and sporting events. The Nationals deputy leader spent three out of five nights last year staying at hotels and claiming travel allowances.

 Senator McKenzie's domestic travel reportedly included $20,000 to travel via a private jet from central Queensland to an ice hockey game in Melbourne - a month after splashing $14,000 on a chartered flight to meet Prince Charles in Cairns at a basketball game.

 Many trips featured photo opportunities with Coalition MPs bestowing local sporting grants. Some grants were worth less than a day's travel bill for the senator and her staff.

Remember when Peter Slipper was nailed to the cross by Tony Abbott for a $900 Cabcharge well not so the big spenders it seems. This is why Australia has the most expensive government on the planet for 24 million people (ODT)

• by Nigel Gladstone