Tag: Commentary

NSW Election: Too Close To Make Any Conclusions – » The Australian Independent Media Network

I guess that I should be impressed by the fact that the speaker had the intelligence to use the word “if”. After all, various media outlets were telling us that the election was “neck and neck” and that there was a real question about whether Labor would be able to form government, even as a minority. Nobody was pointing out that the Perrottet government was already in minority, had a series of scandals apart from Gladys, as well as a series of questionable decisions such as knocking down stadiums and trains that didn’t fit in the tunnels.

Source: NSW Election: Too Close To Make Any Conclusions – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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Wren’s week: NBN failures, internal poll leaks and dead fish

Democracy lives or dies by a fair and unbiased media. With Murdoch and his Channel 7 and Channel 9 allies, our democracy is under threat. Fortunately, social media and the growing independent media (including this publication) are helping to right the imbalance. Please support your independent media. It is the last bastion of democracy. Read it, subscribe, pay for it.

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Politics is broken — but then it always has been

The “politics is broken” narrative tends to universalise the failure of conservative politics, instead of reaching further into the inherent weaknesses of liberal democracy. The Anglo-European democratic tradition proclaims the glory of rights and freedoms, while systematically denying rights and freedoms to women, to First Peoples, to people of colour, to people with disabilities, to LGBTQI people — in other words, to the majority of the population.

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Former Lt. Colonel Blames Hillary Clinton For The Rise Of ISIS | Crooks and Liars

It was all Hillary’s fault. Dubya had nothing to do with the creation of ISIS.

Source: Former Lt. Colonel Blames Hillary Clinton For The Rise Of ISIS | Crooks and Liars