Minutes after Pell’s conviction was quashed by the high court, the News Corp columnist Andrew Bolt posted a blog saying the cardinal was innocent and pointing the finger at the ABC for allegedly conducting a witch-hunt to have him convicted.

One doesn’t need to be a genius to note News Corp and the IPA have had a self interested agenda to rid the nation of the ABC. Bolt couldn’t have a more nepotistic up-close and personal relationship with the IPA. His son James works for them Bolt did podcasts with Roxham a regular on his Bolt Report and now father and son interchange on each others shows. It seems grooming is a term better used to describe what’s occurring here rather than any notion of market place merit.

Their agenda has been pure and simple to rid Australia of the ABC the most trusted news service in the country and to set up a quid pro quo relationship as exists in the USA where  Murdoch Media’s Fox Corp is the quasi voice of the WhiteHouse press. Their agenda to take control of the political/economic narrative of the nation in the interests of Citizens United and other donor associated think tanks that represent  1% of the country. The IPA has grown in immense influence in Australia while our unions have been reduced. They have develpoped pathways to LNP politics for their staff and like no other association this century their 75 pt political agenda has been  taken up as the policies since the Howard and accelerated under the Abbott government.

No Cut’s to the ABC have become 1000 cuts under Abbott/Turnbull/ Morrison’s LNP despite the outcry of Australians. So much so the ABC budget has been flatlined back to 1984. Death by a 1000 cuts is better understood as the News Corp/IPA/ LNP-2020 virus an intended and terminal condition. (ODT)

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