Bruce Lehrmann losing his suppression order protection last Thursday (26/10/23) and being outed as the “high profile” alleged Toowoomba rapist will have a huge impact on his defamation cases against Channel 10, Lisa Wilkinson and the ABC. Reports are that Bruce Lehrmann used cocaine on the night of the alleged rape in Toowoomba and his…
The bottom line is that attacking the “media” as phony undercuts public trust in receiving factual information from all medium conduits. Democratic institutions can only survive with an informed citizenry. If the owners of the mediums distributing this corrupting message care more for their profit margin than providing valid information, then the institutions that guarantee their existence will collapse. (Nica Lacata)
We have an obligation to address the question of truth and its political meaning during a time of widely communicated nonsense. We have an obligation to support the values of reason and human freedom. The role of social scientists and truly independent media is to disturb, bear witness to, resist systems of oppression not support them. These principles, in the age of emerging fascism, are under attack by a horde of far-right members of the LNP and gangster Capitalists and anti-media crying out their sponsored right to “free speech” in a quid pro quo chorus.
Independent Statutory Bodies like the ABC are essential to ongoing Democracy
Shane Dowling demonstrates why his argument for “free speech” doesn’t really make sense to me. He’s an example of why any argument about “free speech” can’t be run without being accompanied by discussions about “for what”, ” Individual or common” “liberating or restricting”, “public or private”, “small or mass- media” and/or “who owns the technologies that distribute it?
Simple arguments for and against the notion of “free speech” simply never cut it and have been shown to go nowhere. It simply doesn’t exist in any real world as we know it. He’s right when he says government tinkering doesn’t help or strike a balance either. Maybe it’s time to break the stranglehold of private corporate media has been able to build over the years like an East India Company once did and colonize us. After all the condition in which we find ourselves in today Climate, Indigenous Affairs, Homelessness, etc is History and requires the strength of action to move forward and that’s neither random or free. The Independence once intended for the ABC was intended to make governments accountable while the many and varied smaller voices squabbled over their sponsored interests to flourish and discover the meaning of the terms Common Good, News, and Information seemingly lacking today.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and the Labor Party are in the process of trying to legislate new “misinformation laws” which if passed will give a few people, a lot of power, to override free speech in Australia.
Given Lachlan Murdoch’s track record the odds of him failing would be pretty high.
The Voice “No Campaign” is driven by the lies of spineless News Corp CEO Lachlan Murdoch and his puppets Senator Jacinta Price and wannabe Liberal Senator and Murdoch employee Warren Mundine.
Governor-General David Hurley and the $18 million fraud scam
I published an article in August 2022 titled “G-G David Hurley had more meetings in 2021/2022 with the CEO of the fraudulent $18 million charity than Scott Morrison” which says is part:
Scott Morrison was exposed on Thursday (7/4/2022) as being the key decision maker, in collusion with Governor-General David Hurley, for giving $18 million of taxpayer’s money to a charity, The Australian Future Leaders Foundation, that doesn’t exist except on paper.
The Australian Future Leaders Foundation is reported to “have no office, website or staff, apart from three directors” (Click here to read the article)
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