Tag: Role Models

LNP, LNP Government

Looking for a loophole – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Morrison has made it clear

That the standard you walk past is the standard you accept. While Joyce is probably correct that there is no illegal activity here, the morals and ethics stink to high heaven. If others in the Parliaments around the country see the standards that are acceptable according to the leadership, those will be the standards they aim for.

The lack of accountability is endemic – the South Australian Liberal Government passed laws to emasculate the state’s ICAC in the same week as Joyce was telling the world that Porter would do his time in the ‘sin bin’ and return to the front bench. The laws were passed with indecent haste The bill passed the Lower House on Thursday evening, within 24 hours of the first debate in the Upper House, with no MP from any party voting against the changes. It then went back to the Upper House, where it was unanimously supported again. [our emphasis]

Source: Looking for a loophole – » The Australian Independent Media Network

LNP Government, Uncategorized

Jones and Morrison: Doing right by our country’s double standards

In this week’s farcical pared-down version of Parliament, the Press Gallery weren’t even allowed within breathing distance of the far more important Government. Treasurer Josh Frydenberg, however, coughed and spluttered over everyone, and touched everything in sight with his undisinfected hands in an exemplary display of what not to do during a pandemic.

Like the shock jocks it encourages and applauds, there is always one rule for the Morrison Government and its allies and another for everyone else.

via Jones and Morrison: Doing right by our country’s double standards

Fight against Fake News, Fighting Fake News, Uncategorized

Old Dog Thoughts- Is this who we really are once a Rainbow Nation now a Bogan Nation?

Illustration: Alan Moir

Fighting Fake News with REAL, 14/9/19; Do the math and and ask are we a role model nation?

Trumpsters, Uncategorized

Sexual assault still plagues Australia’s defence forces and ‘boys will be boys’ doesn’t help – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Australian flag patch on soldier

Given the President has been let off the hook ultimately with this “boys will be boys” excuse. It has direct revelance to Don’s early cultural upbringing at the military academy he attended. All records of his stay there have been secreted under legal threat from the public why?. (ODT)

Military sexual violence is elevated, regular and predictable within the ADF. The situation in the US seems even more dire. What unites both cases is that neither country seems ready to challenge the “boys will be boys” justification and acknowledge the very real damage it can inflict.

Sexual assault still plagues Australia’s defence forces and ‘boys will be boys’ doesn’t help – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)