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Former Defence Minister Peter Dutton is likely to take leadership of the Liberal Party and steer it further to the Right.
In this article from March, Dr Victoria Fielding examined how the mainstream media was quick to ignore a damning exposé on Dutton’s illegal activities.
Source: FLASHBACK 2022: Friendlyjordies allegations against Dutton met with silence
For some reason, I keep thinking of Monty Python:
Interviewer: I’ve been told Dinsdale Piranha nailed your head to the floor.
Stig: No. Never. He was a smashing bloke. He used to buy his mother flowers and that. He was like a brother to me.
Interviewer: But the police have film of Dinsdale actually nailing your head to the floor.
Stig: (pause) Oh yeah, he did that…
Interviewer: And you don’t bear him a grudge?
Stig: A grudge! Old Dinsy. He was a real darling.
Interviewer: I understand he also nailed your wife’s head to a coffee table. Isn’t that true Mrs O’ Tracy?
Mrs O’ Tracy: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Stig: Well he did do that, yeah. He was a hard man. Vicious but fair.
Blame Kooyong for the rise of the Man from the Monkey-Pod Room. “Keep Josh” sounds reasonable now doesn’t it?.
Dutton didn’t believe the LNP had moved Right enough under Tony Abbott so he gathered those that wanted more of an influence into the Monkey-Pod room the lunchroom meetings. How will the MSM promote him? By putting lipstick on a pig? Will they be believed? They claim if you say things often enough they will. But in the eyes of Australia can this right-wing warrior can be anything but the moronic Qld headbanger we have always known him to be? The worst ever Health, Immigration, Homeland, and Defense Minister?
Dutton has a delicate task ahead if he becomes Liberal leader. If he tacks too far right, he could easily split his own party
In the week after the 2019 election, everyone was talking about Queensland. If not for the Sunshine State, Bill Shorten would have been elected prime minister and Anthony Albanese would be a mid-tier minister. Now, perhaps not enough people are talking about Queensland, at least outside Queensland.
Source: Maroons hold Albo at bay: Labor goes dim in Sunshine State – Michael West
I do believe Mark Sawyer underestimates the loathing all States have for Peter Dutton outside of Qld and then add Barnaby Joyce to the mix.
It might only take the Coalition adopting a new climate target to get back into the game. Dutton, who must know he’ll get only one election, will decide that winning is more important than pleasing the far right. And winning is something he does.
Source: The great conservative undead: don’t write off Dutton – Michael West
To prove that Australia is not immune from this frankly hysterical reaction to electoral defeat, I want to look at the media’s reaction to the ALP’s recent victory. The reaction can be described as nothing short of a tantrum. There is a clear and unsubtle subtext of ‘Listen, you peasants, no one said you could vote Labor’.
Source: Election Reaction: The Media’s Tantrum – » The Australian Independent Media Network
With the defeat of Scott Morrison, Australia has dodged the abyss of Trumpism, writes Peter Henning.
Source: Australia rejects Trumpism in voting out Morrison Government
On Saturday, Australia rejected this march of the religious right to take over our parliament. They chose science over faith and compassion over coercion.
Source: The day Australia “woke” up – » The Australian Independent Media Network
Australia wanted to get in on the act with the Morrison Government promoting us manufacturers not just consumers with Peter Dutton Defense Minister. We were in the import-export business exporting Bushmasters providing territory for bases and even buying 121 tanks. Tanks that proved to be absolutely useless given that even better Russian ones were being blown to smithereens in Ukraine.
Joe Biden has signed a $40 billion aid bill to Ukraine. But the biggest beneficiary isn’t ordinary Ukrainians — it’s the US military contractors set to receive at least $17 billion in additional revenue.
Source: The Ukraine Aid Bill Is a Massive Windfall for US Military Contractors
We owe to one another our time and energies to improve our communities and our nation, and to protect and strengthen our democracy. There’s no guarantee that civic education will heal our wounds or make us more able to enact sensible measures the nation needs — such as reducing gun violence, as well as slowing and reversing climate change, and protecting the right to vote — but I can think of no better way to get to where we need to be.
He Did Not Act Alone
Salvador Ramos, strode into a store and bought two AR-15s the week before the attack, an apparent birthday gift to himself. Anyone paying attention gets that the ease of purchase for such weapons — which are frequently used in mass killings — is an indication of how deep the gun problem in America runs.
Three phases The NRA’s more than 150-year history spans three distinct eras.
Heading straight for Parliament House after arriving back from Tokyo, Anthony Albanese was surprised to walk into his new office today to find that it hasn’t been occupied since mid 2018.
Source: Albo surprised to find PM’s office hasn’t been touched for past 4 years | The Shovel
Despite being underestimated by the previous regime and the Fourth Estate, Australians have swept away the side of politics devoid of empathy, “unfunded” or otherwise.
Source: Morrison carted out in clean sweep as Albo ushered in
Busted!! The LNP strategy of putting LNP supporters in charge of Government Departments is straight out of the Steve Bannon, American GOP Republican and Leninist strategies. The LNP was intent on dismantling the Public Service and has been doing it for the past 13 years.
Agency’s statement, which triggered last-minute scare campaign from Liberals, prompts increasing questions about its independence
Australian Border Force did not issue press releases about any of the five boat interceptions it made in the four years prior to its controversial election-day announcement that a vessel had been detected near Christmas Island, prompting further questions about the political independence of the agency.
The ABF is investigating its election-day conduct, which the acting prime minister, Richard Marles, has described as a “disgrace”.
The agency issued a press release as voting was under way, warning of the interception of an asylum-seeker boat off Christmas Island, precipitating a last-minute scare campaign warning voters to maintain border security by voting Liberal.
The new federal MP for the Queensland seat of Flynn was a founding member of a club formed to promote climate science denial, and was a signatory to an international statement claiming “there is no climate emergency”.
No major US poll has asked if respondents identify as socialist, much less what they actually think. A new survey finds that socialists aren’t just more pro-redistribution and class-conscious than liberals — they’re also far less racist and xenophobic.
Israel laughs at God in the West Bank and Gaza and just gives her the finger
“In the face of enemy violence, the Zionist answer has always been settlement, security and immigration,” Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett declared during a visit to the illegal Elkana settlement in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday. Days earlier, the Israeli rights organisation Peace Now announced that Israel had approved the construction of 4,427 settler homes, the largest settlement expansion project since US President Joe Biden took office.
ATLANTA — Gov. Brian Kemp of Georgia easily dispatched Donald Trump’s hand-picked challenger on Tuesday in a Republican primary that demonstrated the limits of the former president and his conspiracy-fueled politics in a critical swing state.
Source: Trump rebuked with stinging losses in Georgia GOP contests – Twin Cities
US Republican Senators have responded quickly to the latest mass shooting, assuring gun advocacy groups that they have no reason to feel anxious or afraid tonight.
Source: “We promise to do whatever it takes to keep you safe,” Republican Senators assure NRA | The Shovel
No mention of Gun Control
Fox News would rather talk about anything than how easy it is for people with ill intent to acquire assault weapons in the United States.
The MAGA promise
21 are dead in another mass shooting, including 19 schoolchildren. The white slavers of the Old South used to call US slavery our “peculiar institution.” Nowadays we have another peculiar institution, the gun culture.
Source: When it comes to Guns, the US is a Third World Country run by Corporate Lobbyists for a Profit
If Peter Dutton is the best the Liberals can offer as an alternative Prime Minister, then they are destined to become irrelevant in modern day Australia.
Outgoing energy minister Angus Taylor rejects suggestion delay was political and regulator says it was necessary to include ‘most recent network costs’
Writing this a couple of days after the most important election in Australian history, Australians did finally find their voices, and in no uncertain manner told the neo-liberal jackals who had come storming into public life that they were finished. Why the most important election? Because Morrison was on a path to Trumpian glory. Surrounded…
Why the most important election? Because Morrison was on a path to Trumpian glory. Surrounded by white evangelicals and emboldened by the sound of acquiescence from his front benchers, he was on a path to immortality. He had no reason to listen, he suffered no self-doubt.
His disdain for conventional behaviour, his seeming inability to act respectfully toward anyone he encountered, his feigned religious conviction all pointed to something deeply wrong about this man, and his government.
Source: Morrison reaped what he had sown – » The Australian Independent Media Network
The Pentecostal Church’s Seven Mountains Mandate is an affront to democracy and a danger to society.
THE SEVEN MOUNTAINS mentioned in the Book of Revelations in the New Testament are taken by mainstream Bible interpreters to refer to the evil empire on the Tiber, the seven hills of Rome.
A minority of Christians, less historically oriented, have another interpretation.
A branch of dominionism, which sees adherents of their variety of Christianity as entitled to dominion over the Earth, interprets the Seven Mountains as aspects of human society.
The Seven Mountains over which they claim dominion are education, religion, family, business, government and the military, arts and entertainment, and the media.
This is an important part of American evangelical Christianity. It is widely supported by adherents of the collection of churches know as Pentecostal.
Source: The Seven Mountains of control — a threat to democracy
Alex Antic’s “quiet Australians”, are ,it seems, the ultra Right-Wing and the current Liberal Party welcomes them with open arms to guarantee they fall off the political horizon. Frydenberg didn’t lose because he was a moderate he lost because it was clear that he wasn’t and didn’t challenge Morrison for caving into the Right of the Party.
Hardline Coalition MPs and columnists are pushing a narrative that goes like this: the Morrison government positioned itself as “Labor-lite” and lost as a result.
experimenting “with the poison of leftism”, according to South Australian Liberal Alex Antic – because it caved in on net-zero emissions, racked up budget deficits, abandoned “freedom” during the pandemic and shirked on fighting culture wars.
Source: Election 2022 results: A Liberal Party guided by right-wing commentators is in serious trouble
Murdoch won’t change his whole global business model relies on competing for money due to the imbalance of the distribution of wealth in capitalist societies. They rely on supporting those governments that maintain the system of inequity. There might be some occasional criticism of personalities and strategies but when push comes to shove at election time the world knows who the Murdochs support. Their message is certainly not to inform the electorate or support any notion or ideal of a publicly owned media.
Founder and publisher David Donovan explores the significance of the new Labor Government for Rupert Murdoch’s stranglehold over Australia’s media.
Deflection & denial isn’t just a river in Egypt.
It’s never the racist that is to blame for racism. It’s always someone else’s fault.
Murdoch said, “I think when you’re in the news business, and you’re number one … you get a lot of heat and it just comes with the territory,” he told Axios.
The son of Rupert then ignored what right-wing hate hosts like Carlson, Hannity, and Ingraham are vomiting daily into the airwaves, and gave this lame justification of them.
I think the world is more divided and on edge than it has been, you know, for a very long time,” Murdoch said in an interview last week. “I think on the noise around it, so much of it is politicized … And so, you’ve got to be tough about it.”
Which network is dividing the country?
Which network is acting more like a Republican candidate recruiting station than a supposed news and information service?
Which network allows their airwaves to be used as a fundraising vehicle for pro-Trump lawmakers?
Source: Lachlan Murdoch Blames ‘A Divided World’ For Criticism Of Fox News | Crooks and Liars
Long before Israel paved segregated road networks to maintain the separation of Jews and Palestinians, the British had already laid their foundations.
When will the NRA and gun manufacturers be declared the Sacklers of their industries? America is exceptional. Exceptional in the number of mass shootings, the lack of gun control, and the incarceration of its people in the land they call free. It truly is the world leader in the worst of every possible way imaginable and does absolutely nothing to arrest the carnage.
At least 18 children and three adults have died in the latest mass shooting to hit the United States.
Biden, recently returned from his trip to Asia, delivered a statement in the White House in which he could hardly contain his anger over an epidemic of massacres in America.
“As a nation, we have to ask: When in God’s name are we going to stand up to the gun lobby? When in God’s name are we going to do what we know in our gut needs to be done?”
“We have to act,” he said and suggested reinstating the assault weapons ban and other “common sense gun laws”.
Morrison campaigned on the basis that he bested Covid and saved lives. Did we believe him? Or simply take it off the agenda of care?
In a poll conducted by the Guardian in August 2021 about the number of deaths Australians would be willing to accept as restrictions eased, only 3 per cent of respondents felt that 5000 or more COVID-related deaths per year would be acceptable. Sadly, we have surpassed that milestone in the first four months of this year alone. Each day, an average of 45,000 Australians are reporting cases of COVID, a number that is rising and likely a substantial underestimate. Yet where are the sensible public health measures to stem the tide of illness and death? People are dying of COVID
Source: Cases are high and winter is coming. We need to stop ignoring COVID
Matthew Guy really doesn’t have the Community Support
The wave of “teal” independents that dislodged a swathe of “moderate” Liberal MPs in Saturday’s federal election is expected to seep into upcoming state elections in Victoria and New South Wales.
Still, to be fair, the Coalition have always suggested that minorities need to fit in and we can’t just pander to people who don’t accept the society we live in. It’s just a pity that they didn’t realise that women are one of the few minority groups that actually form a majority.
Source: Why We Should Ignore Women And Greenies! – » The Australian Independent Media Network
This Australian version of the Big Lie is the first stage of a war for the future of the federal Liberal Party, with the far-right unable to resist the opportunity to exploit the removal of so many more moderate MPs to drive the federal party away from climate action and towards culture wars, division and attacks on women and minorities.
At the centre of it will be the foreign political party News Corp. Despite its irrelevance to mainstream Australia being demonstrated by the election result, the Murdochs will continue to wield significant influence within a purged Coalition, and the company will seize on its status as an opposition party. From yesterday, the Murdoch campaign of regime change in Australia began — it’s just that the campaign extends to the Coalition as well as a Labor government.
This shouldn’t be treated as some sort of sideshow. When Tony Abbott defeated Malcolm Turnbull in 2009 by one vote, with the backing of News Corp, he set the stage for 13 years of climate wars and polarised, toxic politics. He was aided by Kevin Rudd’s failure to seize the moment and go to an election that would have smashed the Coalition. One mistake is all it takes and the course of political history can be very different.
The Big Lie, Australian style, is just the start.
Source: Election: Australia’s Big Lie (from the right): Morrison went too far left
The Australian election saw historic defeats for the Right and its backers in the Murdoch media. But the Labor Party can’t change the country without fighting for a robust, progressive economic agenda.
News Corp helped push Morrison over the cliff
Regardless, expletive laden’ rants are not what those who attended the Sky News sponsored ‘Paul Murray’s Live Pub Test’ interview with Peter Dutton expected to see at the Eatons Hill Hotel on the northern outskirts of Brisbane a week or so ago. Even if News Corp has absolutely no pretence of impartiality and fairness, they have a duty to consider the mental health of their employees.
Source: Reality bites – » The Australian Independent Media Network
Australia’s Parliament is not the only institution to have been trashed by the Coalition and corrupt corporate interests over the last decade, as Alan Austin reports.
Source: Well done, Australia — now let’s fix the joint up properly
Federal ICAC – The perfect storm for 2025 Anthony Albanese only has to do one thing to guarantee winning the 2025 election and that is to do what he promised and legislate a Federal ICAC that has teeth. It will take 12 months to become operational and another 12 months to finish its first investigations that will likely recommend criminal charges against several federal coalition MP’s which will be just before the 2025 federal election and fresh on voters’ minds.
Albo’s off to the Quad after Morrison will they expect a mouthful of lies from Australia? They won’t get any from Albo but will they believe him?
Here’s everything you need to know about the informal alliance and the upcoming summit.
This is what News Corpse tried to convince Australia of in the last election. That the ALP, TEAL, and GREENS were divisive and hate parties. Look what happened to them.
The richest person in America tweeted last week that Democrats have “become the party of division & hate, so I can no longer support them and will vote Republican.” Hello? Democrats are the party of division and hate? What planet has Elon been living on?
Source: Bombardment by the Billionaires | The Smirking Chimp
CPAC Hungary offered a terrifying glimpse of this country’s future, if right-wing media have their way
“Nothing to see here,” Conway wrote. “Just a former president of the United States sharing a social media post advocating or predicting civil war in the United States. No biggie.” ( George Conway)
Source: “Any Republicans wanna speak out now?”: Alarm after Trump shares “civil war” post | Salon.com
Will the News Corpse business model change? Not at all because the money and wealth that they feed off is not Democratically distributed. Harvey Norman still advertises with them and remembers Frydenberg gave him the money.
Australia has voted for a new government as Labor’s Anthony Albanese gained enough seats to form a minority government and stop Murdoch’s Liberal-National Party Coalition’s attempt at governing for a fourth consecutive term.
Source: Anthony Albanese defeats Rupert Murdoch to become 31st PM of Australia
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