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an inability to remove its jacket get down and dirty and fight for what it believes in the sort of news media crap that labor has been experiencing for some years now would not have happened to bob hawke or to paul keating they could speak directly to the news media or the public and make it stick during julia gillard s era i complained a number of times that labor was unable to fight for itself gillard took a wrong turn on this when in response to a rambling question in the national press club she responded with don t write crap you can t counter journalists by insulting them it aggravates them making matters worse her communications minister senator stephen conroy rushed out a media reform bill early in 2013 at the beginning of the longest election campaign ever he wasn t serious about it possibly because it was a hurried effort tossing it on the table with a take it or leave it comment conroy s bill was met with furore mainly from murdoch s news corp print media the daily telegraph and others likened conroy to certain tyrants labor responded with anger official complaints and warnings the main objection was to censorship although the bill had nothing to do with censorship it proposed a public interest media advocate pima an individual with two functions to ensure the regulations the media had previously agreed to were enforced by the media regulator and to oversee takeovers and mergers of existing media outlets which at the time were subject to limitations the real source of media s anger was the pima which was seen as a barrier to future takeovers rather than the lie and furphy of censorship see what the federal lnp government has done since with media takeovers and mergers while claiming before and after that australian news media is now more diversified than ever due to publications appearing on the internet and across social media more print media is now in the hands of news corp and tv channels are being merged there s now less diversity not more bill shorten eventually became labor s leader shorten needed to take public speaking lessons along with the mps standard course in dealing with the news media there was no doubt he needed them i m sure they would have been suggested to him but he was probably offended by the idea his delivery was soft ish usually with frequent digression as one thought seemed to need more detailed explanation or led to another thought leaving things unexplained sentences would often end in a way that completely lacked emphasis the gentle pumping of his left fist would have me shaking mine i wanted him to shout and thump the lectern occasionally i wanted to see some real passion it never emerged to solve its problem labor ministers could turn to people already in their offices the senior news media advisers these people usually are journalists seasoned in politics or other fields they are experienced communicators and observers of political and public reactions if anyone knows how journalists think it is another journalist i can t tell you who the labor or liberal senior media officers are i no longer work in that area but i can imagine where the liberal advisers worked previously lnp ministers campaigns sound like daily telegraph page one headlines short punchy and to the point even when misleading everyone gillard made another mistake in hiring a media consultant from the uk although he d worked for uk labour he was out of touch with the australian version and the australian people whoever these advisors are now i can t believe alp mps are paying any serious attention to them perhaps they only hire them to write flowery speeches being careful not to offend anyone why doesn t labor take news corp on some say news corp is fading no one takes any notice of news corp today others say taking on news corp would be political suicide the lnp federal government s preferred approach was to make a 30 million donation to murdoch s fox sport supposedly to publicise women s sport a gift that no other tv channel received i think labor should go into battle every time news corp starts one of its nasty campaigns failure to do so leaves them open to a litany of lies and distortion that is time consuming and frustrating to deal with you can t deal with it if you haven t developed the necessary skills rate this leave a comment december 15 2016 i have a few questions for you do you think corruption in politics can be addressed by a new political party one specifically designed to deal with the problem is corruption in politics inevitable is it the inevitable consequence of adult behaviour is it true that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely is this a cliché with some truth to it is queen elizabeth ii corrupt is the pope corrupt is the un security council corrupt are you prepared to continue to vote for political parties that are occasionally tainted with corruption or with members who are accused of corruption would you vote for a political party that dealt severely with elected members found guilty of corrupt behaviour do you think political parties might be influenced by donations they receive from big corporations is it reasonable that corporations that legally manage to pay no tax in australia should receive subsidies from the australian government on what grounds are you satisfied that the continuing sale of public assets is the right thing to do what assets if any should governments and taxpayers retain do you believe in trickle down economic theory why or why not would you work as a volunteer to raise funds locally for a local candidate to avoid the obligation that might come with a corporate donation to your party should replacement senators be nominated by their party or should they be elected by voters should the most senior party officials decide who can represent the party in parliament should all candidates for parliaments state and federal be local people chosen by local party members free of interference from state and federal executive members would you like to have a say in what policies a party should pursue and implement should this be left to career politicians and party executives to determine should parties politicians or candidates be obliged to keep their promises should there be severe penalties like loss of seat for an elected parliamentarian who deliberately lies to mislead voters how should a candidate or an elected politician who deceives his or her party be dealt with is it reasonable that a party in government should favour one sector over another do you believe that balanced government is a necessity or that balance over time is a reasonable alternative what area of policy is most vital to australia s future do you believe the original australians the indigenous aboriginals should be treated equally without further delay and uplifted to the utmost of their abilities are you satisfied with the treatment and assistance provided to australian aboriginal communities to this point should australia continue to rely on the usa as a major defence partner can you outline an alternative approach switzerland has a long standing reputation as an independent unaligned nation can you see a role like that for australia in the pacific and near asian region do you think a centrally based political party favouring neither traditional labour nor traditional capital sectors could have a role in providing stable progressive and balanced governance in australia do you see issues such as those outlined above progressive forward thinking and balanced or populist do you think the term populist might used in the pejorative to denigrate popular or challenging ideas are you prepared to work for a new political party that would implement the basic philosophy outlined above would you like to participate in trouble shooting and fleshing out some of these ideas into actual policies what is the greatest threat facing the attempted formation of a new progressive political party today what is the first step in forming such a party rate this 8 comments february 20 2016 why religion i m an atheist a hard core non believer religion grew out of mankind s increasing self awareness and a feeling that somehow we were just too significant for our life to end with our death hard to say when it began but neanderthals showed reverence for their dead and ancient egyptians and not only the pharaohs went to extraordinary lengths to provide for their afterlife religions are now firmly rooted in almost every culture and all without a shred of evidence for an afterlife most are based on a magical mystical unexplainable appearance of rarely seen entities issuing orders on how to behave from now on in much the same way the conquering general rides into town climbs the town hall steps and tells you how it will be from now on i object to this nonsense because basically it relieves many from the need to think for themselves because of that i see religions as being anti human rather than humanist in my world i have no doubt about my afterlife worm fodder dust to dust and no soul or spirit to go to some nonexistent place i am not religious but i manage to behave in a moral way with constant concern for the well being of my fellows i wonder what we could achieve as humans if we all dumped these old fashioned unproven and very strange religious beliefs and began to think for ourselves rate this 3 comments august 31 2015 why turc is a farce the royal commission into trade union governance and corruption turc is a farce it is not hard to prove this proof hangs on a single item a royal commission has been established to do the job existing law enforcement agencies should be doing it is as simple as that for reasons not known to me the trade unions do not argue my case they have appeared before the royal commission for months only objecting recently when it was learnt that commissioner dyson heydon had accepted and deferred an invitation to be a guest speaker at a liberal party event whether or not the event was a liberal fund raiser is irrelevant commissioner heydon initially responded by saying he would attend only if the royal commission was no longer sitting at that point he was well aware of the possibility of a perception of apprehended bias he responded appropriately the royal commission has been set up to drag trade unions and labor through the mud there is no doubt about that some mud always sticks a well established principle in dirty politics the coalition government leader tony abbott announced his intention to establish a judicial inquiry into the australian workers union awu while he was opposition leader just before the 2013 federal election after gaining government he announced the inquiry into the awu would become a royal commission and would be extended if we go back to abbott s days as an economics and law student at sydney university we find a young man who aggressively attacked student unions across australia as a disciple of the extremely reactionary bob santamaria who hated the labor party trade unions and practically everything else we also find dyson heydon sitting on the rhodes scholarship selection panel and favouring abbott ahead of at least three honours students later in abbott s life as an employee of former liberal prime minister john howard we find dyson heydon sitting on the legal panel that advised abbott s no case at the republic convention heydon was later appointed to the high court by the howard liberal government i now return to my original premise speaking outside the royal commission australian council of trade unions actu secretary dave oliver said any offences committed by trade unions or their officers should be investigated and handled by the state police the australian federal police the australian crime commission the australian competition and consumer commission and the fair work commission he s right the really important question in all of this is why are these authorities not doing the job they were established to do why is it necessary to budget 80 million so far and to spend 60 million so far to investigate trade unions through a royal commission this superfluous spending is occurring when the nation is said to be suffering a budget emergency and a debt and deficit crisis brought on by the previous labor government according to treasurer joe hockey hockey used this imagined situation to introduce a shocker of a budget in 2014 which he described as fair he later told a new zealand audience the australian economy was not in trouble tony abbott used the imagined critical budget and deficit situation to carry out wholesale slaughter of the labor government s climate change environment and other programs along with a heap of welfare and funding for ngos considered by some to have a voice capable of criticising his government allied with that was an on going campaign against perceived bias in the abc again silencing his critics but there s more to it than that abbott admitted the 2014 budget had gone too far that his government had to learn how to be fair the 2015 budget was designed to recover some of his lost political capital but his personal popularity rating has not recovered since early in 2013 the free trade agreements ftas abbott s government is signing will create great disparity between the wages and conditions of imported workers and those of trade union members if the trade unions are silenced discredited or wiped out they will not be able to highlight and campaign against these discrepancies the big unions are also the main financiers of labor party election campaigns abbott s actions are also part of the liberals long term campaign for lower taxes replaced in part by a bigger and broader gst and smaller government the one depending on the other the long term implications of this are not being dealt with by the news media or anyone else as far as i can tell the government s implementation of a harsh reconstruction of australian society and culture is allied to the terms of its ftas as well as for ideological reasons it was necessary to digress above to point out what the abbott government has been doing why are the established authorities not dealing with crime and corruption in the trade unions they are ferreting out and dealing with crime and corruption in corporations companies and political parties it has been put to me by a union member and by a queens counsel that the royal commission into trade unions is necessary because the various police and other authorities have not been able to gather evidence of crime and corruption in trade unions or are incapable of prosecuting it but clearly this is a nonsense proof of the nonsense lies in the evidence that has been uncovered and recorded by the royal commission the royal commission is an authority with authority to investigate just like the authorities mentioned above the royal commission s investigators have this information in their possession before they put 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