28 May 2017

Media

17 Jan 2024
How they killed journalism / The West Report: 
It wasn't just Google that killed journalism. 
It was management, the HR revolution, and the rising power of special interests too.

7 Jan 2024
TSP: the Bruce Lehrmann trial

7 Dec 2023
A-G Dpt incl: Rights & protections / Legal Syst / Nat security / Intergrity ...
ART to replace AAT

Crikey:
Since rape charge dropped, defamation settlements for Bruce Lehmann include:
$295,000 from News Corp (Guardian Au)
$150,000 from ABC (SMH rpt) for Lehrmann's legal cost
$104,000 from Ch7 for his accn in northern beach unit
TND: Lehrmann-ABC defamation settlement details released  
Meanwhile, compensation payout to Higgins was:
$2,300,000 from the ABC (the Au rpt).  
NACC investigating the payout (and the investigation is held in confidence?).

 
Defamation is the new battleground of the culture wars
BERNARD KEANE

“The irony of the culture wars providing the battleground for defamation battles is that it is not the ‘woke’ who are using defamation laws to pursue others for their statements.

“Instead, it is right-wing politicians who seem to be easily ‘triggered’ and who are resorting to the courts to seek legal remedy when they have the power of a parliamentary position to hit back at any criticism.”

Andrew Wilkie, Ind Member for Clark reveals: Ministers not held to account. Politicians not included in the draft 'Misinformation and Disinformation' Bill
28 Nov 2023
Gu: Ben Roberts-Smith ordered to pay media outlets’ legal costs over failed defamation action
Judge rules in favour of Nine newspapers after former soldier sued over articles portraying him as a war criminal
25 Nov 2023
MW: Should Albo 'do a Dan' Andrews, bypass Murdoch's News Corp, go straight to the people?

21 Nov 2023
Crikey: Dreyfus pushes substantive overhaul of secrecy laws after years of expansion
Secrecy laws applying to public servants will be simplified and improved, and there will be better protections for journalists.
Review of Secrecy Provisions - Final Repor
Gu: Labor and Coalition team up to retrospectively authorise ‘unlawful’ use of material gathered 
by Australian agency

The Conversation: Disinformation campaigns are undermining democracy. 
Here’s how we can fight back           

22-4 Sep 2023
Shane Dowling: Global elite Rupert Murdoch fakes “resignation” from Fox and News Corp boards 
to avoid financial liability for his crimes
P&I: Murdoch stepping down - Don't believe it! 
Ch7 owner billionaire Kerry Stokes now in charge of Newscorpse
#auspol

The Shot: Fuck Rupert Murdoch

28 June 2023
the juice media: Honest Government Ad / Labor via YouTube Au

1-2 Jun 2023
The Shot: “The poison in Australia’s bloodstream”    

Gu: Ben Roberts-Smith loses defamation case, with judge finding former SAS soldier committed war crime Ben Roberts-Smith defamation loss bad news for Seven boss as Nine marks ‘day of justice’
Ben Roberts-Smith resigns from Seven after losing defamation fight against Nine
The Ben Roberts-Smith defamation judgment: read Justice Anthony Besanko’s full summar

26 April 2023
Fox News: Tucker Carlson has been sacked. 
Peta Credlin, Andrew Bolt and the like will be next?

24 April 2023
Bernard Keane on Lachlan Murdoch dropping his defamation case against Crikey
 
21 April 2023
 Fox Corp has more than 100,000 non-Murdoch shareholders. They deserve better.
 
Lachlan Murdoch
 His lawyer said the website, Crikey, intended to exploit the outcome of the Fox-Dominion defamation case in the U.S. 
 
19 April 2023
The US$787.5 million settlement means Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch will not have to testify about coverage of the 2020 US presidential election.
 
6 April 2023
Gu: Astonishing’: cost of Inland Rail doubles to $30bn as review savages Coalition over project

4 April 2023

Crikey owner Private Media has a week to update its defence, which could now include personal correspondence between Murdoch family members.

31 Mar 2023

Geoffrey Watson SC, director of the Centre for Public Integrity and former counsel assisting the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC), said it was appalling that a former Commonwealth attorney-general would appear to sue the Commonwealth.

“The role of an attorney-general has been the Commonwealth’s senior lawyer privy to all its secrets and its legal strategies. To then try and turn that into a market commodity appals me,” he told Crikey.

“It feels like a betrayal.”

30 March 2023
10-17 Mar 2023
friendlyjordies: you can have it all
23 Feb 2023
Dear reader,
Crikey’s mission is to hold the powerful to account. We exist to publish what others shy away from.

As you know, Lachlan Murdoch commenced defamation proceedings against us last year for publishing an article that questioned the role of Fox News and those who run it in the lead-up to the January 6 riots. 

More than ever, we stand by our reporting.

If you think this kind of journalism matters, and if you believe in freedom of speech, please support our defence fund.

All donations exclusively fund our legal costs relating to this case. Full terms and conditions, updates and information are available on the GoFundMe page.

18 Feb 2023

13 - 16 Feb 2023

22 Jan 2023
The new social network and its interconnected ‘fediverse’ is a welcome alternative to blustering rival Twitter and Elon Musk

16 Jan 2023
Government says Acma will be able to impose a compulsory code of conduct against disinformation on digital platforms 

Paul Karp viaGu: ‘Utterly disgraceful

6 Jan 2023
28 Dec  2022
Gu: Elon Musk breaks world record for largest loss of personal fortune in history
20-23 Dec 2022
Gu: A very American coup attempt: Jan 6 panel lays bare Trump’s bid for power
in explosive January 6 meeting


8-19 Dec 2022
The MSM were angry about Twitter suspending corporate journalists but don’t care when independent journalists critical of officialdom — including from CN — are banned.
Richard Ackland viaGu: What sort of country are we? 
That’s the question implicit in Lachlan Murdoch v Crikey
26 Aug 2022 Today Crikey have launched a crowdfunding campaign via GoFundMe. 
4 Apr 2022 Gu: Biden speaking out & loud - Murdoch 'most dangerous man in the world'

Chris McGreal viaGu: 
The media mogul and Fox Corp are being sued for allegedly broadcasting ‘lies’ about the voting machine company

Richard Ackland viaGu: What sort of country are we? 
That’s the question implicit in Lachlan Murdoch v Crikey
26 Aug 2022 Today Crikey have launched a crowdfunding campaign via GoFundMe. 
4 Apr 2022 Gu: Biden speaking out & loud - Murdoch 'most dangerous man in the world'

Shane Dowling on ACT Police media officer trying to help Bruce Lehrmann by stopping the media from naming him after a court attendance notice was issued
        Money Talks (late night 13 Dec): 
Case settled. Multimillion-dollar deal paid via taxpayer-funded not disclosed. 
 Lehrmann maintains his innocence and is expected to pursue civil remedies of his own for loss of reputation and employment and potential defamation action against media

30 Nov 2022
WATCHING THE EYES A new history of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance ultimately provides cover for those nations’ modern day crimes.

23 Nov 2022
Rather long (19:32) but interesting. 

12 Nov 2022
Covid-positive passengers told to stay away from public transport after biggest single outbreak since Ruby Princess
5 Nov 2022
Thread on Twitter with RonniSalt

28 Oct 2022
Update: Elon Musk claims he has acquired Twitter ‘to help humanity’
Tweet comes as advertisers fear one of his first moves as chief will be to restore Donald Trump’s account
27 April 2022 Gu: Twitter takeover: 
EU and UK warn Elon Musk must comply or face sanctions
Chaotic and crass: a brief timeline of Elon Musk’s history with Twitter
22 Oct 2022
28 Sep 2022
new Four Corners interview shows
7 Sep 2022
Crikey’s Landlord List: how many politicians own multiple homes?

31 Aug 2022

28 Aug 2022
Kevin Rudd: Former prime minister Kevin Rudd says 

26 Aug 2022
Today Crikey have launched a crowdfunding campaign via GoFundMe. 
  Here’s the link, and please retweet.
Bernard Keane: Labor’s deafening silence on Murdoch meeting (with PM + DPM + FA min)

If it's true that the three most powerful people in the government met with Lachlan Murdoch on Wednesday, what does that say about lobbying and influence in Australia?

25 Aug 2022
Bernard Keane: Why the nation needs to break up News Corp — and 
how News Corp has shown us the way
24 Aug 2022
resulting in a kind of political pornography
23 Aug 2022
Lachlan v Crikey for defamation over Jan 6 article. 
The lawsuit was filed late on Tues in Federal Court in NSW
Murdoch has recruited Sue Chrysanthou SC

Crikey: Freedom of public interest journalism taken for the test in a courtoom
Crikey said on Wednesday that the site “stands by its story”
Tweet with Bernard Keane
15 Aug 2022
Bernard Keane: Adviser or lobbyist? Costello’s future hangs on what he did for Packer
What's the difference between a consultant and a lobbyist? 
'In 2011 I personally paid you 300k (cph [Packer’s company Consolidated Press Holdings] did anyway you didn’t want the crown directors to know) to lobby for me, for Crown. Your job was to get me closer to Michael O’Brien…'
14 June 2022 Australia’s mainstream media is stumbling from crisis to crisis
10 Aug 2022
Richard Denniss viaGu: It’s time to tax mining and energy giants properly. Struggling Australians should share in their record profits
5 Aug 2022

26 July 2022

24 July 2022
Shane Dowling: Nine accuse Ben Roberts-Smith of lying under oath, colluding with witnesses, intimidating witnesses and destroying evidence
26 Feb 2022:  Powerful prima facie case to charge billionaire Kerry Stokes, Ryan Stokes and Ben Roberts-Smith with attempting to pervert the course of justice
18 July 2022
14 June 2022
Bernard Keane viaCrikey: Australia’s mainstream media is stumbling from crisis to crisis
12 June 2022
5 & 7 June 2022
Shane Dowling: 
John Barilaro, who gave $100,000’s from taxpayers to a company associated with Angus Taylor and faces possible perjury charges at the NSW ICAC, gets a $715,000 payout

Peter Van Onselen, who has a history of stalking women online, has attempted to intimidate Tegan George before her court hearing against Channel 10 which is a criminal offence.
Crikey: Murdoch hack-a-thon: News Corp and the Murdochs could be exposed 
to new waves of cases from people who claim they were hacked by The Sun.

ABC media bias and propaganda exposed. David Gazard and Alexander Downer push Liberal Party propaganda while deceiving ABC viewers

3 June 2022
The many ‘mistakes’ of Costello’s Nine

15 May 2022
Shane Dowling viaKCort: Fugitive Australian journalist Shane Dowling talks about being on the run and Australia dropping to #39 on the world press freedom index

27 April 2022
Gu: Twitter takeover: EU and UK warn Elon Musk must comply or face sanctions
Chaotic and crass: a brief timeline of Elon Musk’s history with Twitter
26 April 2022
TND: The $14.8 billion in planned tax hikes the Liberal Party failed to mention

7 April 2022
Shane Dowlings: How much did Scott Morrison personally make from Australia’s failed submarine deal given he made sure his mates Peter Costello and David Gazard made $millions?

17 Mar 2022
Crikey:  Death By Media

The West Rpt via YouTube: Media paid to distract you 
14 March 2022
John Menadue:  ASPI’s Broadcasting Corporation?
MWM:  Scott Morrison’s bureaucracy bloat: cost of government soars to $100 billion

4 - 6 March 2022
Shane Dowling: Scott Morrison gets help, to cover up his corruption and dodgy past, from Amazon and its billionaire owner Jeff Bezos and CEO Andy Jassy

Shane Dowling: Peter Dutton handed over $82 million of taxpayer’s money to another dodgy company and his alleged cokehead friend made money selling cars to the same company
The Baddest MP: Dutton by friendlyjordies
     

26 Feb 2022
Shane Dowling viaKCrt: Powerful prima facie case to charge billionaire Kerry Stokes, Ryan Stokes and Ben Roberts-Smith with attempting to pervert the course of justice
24 Feb 2022
Gu: Coalition awards $520k for NBN upgrade to single business in Barnaby Joyce’s electorate

7 Nov 2021 MWM: Using water wisely, Barnaby
Barnaby Joyce has dipped into a water infrastructure fund to grant $5 million to a company well-connected with Tasmania’s Liberal Party elite so they can build a 7km pipeline under Hobart’s Derwent River to water a newly planned, privately owned golf course, reports Callum Foote.

8 Feb 2022
Sarah Martin viaGu: George Christensen claims $10,000 a month for ‘e-material’ as he ramps up anti-vaccine mandate Facebook ads
29 Jan 2022
ABC Radio: The media's coverage of elections

RESPECTED MELBOURNE MEDIA COMMENTATOR AND AUTHOR; WHOSE ESSAY ‘HERE WE GO AGAIN: THIS TIME THE ELECTION CAMPAIGN NEEDS TO BE REPORTED DIFFERENTLY’, IN ‘INSIDE STORY’, NOV 25.

Duration: 13min 52sec; Broadcast:

25 Jan 2022
Gu: Aged care minister Richard Colbeck went to Ashes Test on same day he declined to appear at Covid committee
Read more
20 Jan 2022
Josh Taylor via Gu: Craig Kelly rebukes Google and Facebook for removal of his content at social media inquiry
5 Feb 2022
Bernard Kean via Crikey:  
Media has to stop misleading us on Morrison’s obsession with increasing our taxes
Related reading: 

Gu: False election claims spark push for truth in political advertising laws


30 Nov 2021
The Klaxon: SCOOP: Nine-Fairfax "Independence Charter" a sham

10 Nov 2021
SMH  Keith Pitt suggested $250b loan facility without asking his department
5-6 Nov 2021
Shane Dowling: Christian Porter, Andrew Laming and Channel 10 political reporter Peter Van Onselen gang up to threaten and intimidate one woman
Thread 
YouTube: NSW Police finally exposed
Case settled: Legal fees and costs for Jordies to be paid by the other party.
28 Oct 2021
The Plan: Winking, blinding and eye-watering Coalition negligence
19-22 Oct 2021
Michael Pascoe: The opportunity cost of the Pork Party – ‘tens of billions’

13 Oct 2021
'The 2050 net zero target isn’t even a too-little-too-late ticket to get into Glasgow. 
It’s a distraction from the real agenda of more fossil fuels'.

YouTube: Nationals want $250B to subsidise China & tax dodging fossil fuel companies
Five of the Nationals' 21 MPs and Senators own shares in mining companies. 
4 Oct 2021
KCrt: The real reasons NSW Deputy Premier John Barilaro resigned: 
Fraud, theft and alleged affairs
16 Sep 2021
KCrt: Liberal and National Party MPs attack free speech and political communication with 4 defamation cases in the Federal Court

Gu: Christian Porter’s legal fees: what is a blind trust and what must MPs disclose?

2 Sep 2021
Crikey: The federal govt's JobKeeper cover-up: will it succeed?
KCrt: NSW is on target to reach 8928 new daily Covid cases by the 7th of October with hospitals overrun
Crikey: Michaelia Cash to Mark McGowan: open the border at 80% or I’ll see you in court

11 Aug 2021
Gu: Facebook removes George Christensen’s anti-lockdown speech for breaching Covid misinformation policy

1 Aug 2021
YouTube’s Murdoch ban over COVID lies
Denis Muller via Gu: Where was the broadcasting regulator 
when Sky News Australia was airing misinformation about Covid-19?
29 July 2021
IA: Date looming for James Ashby debt decision
26 July 2022
Luke Stacey viaMWM: Where there’s a bill there’s a way: 
Rex Patrick’s dogged fight against Coalition to repeal billionaires’ loophole
15 July 2021
Gu: Friendlyjordies raises $1m to defend John Barilaro defamation case
Thank you tweet

10 July 2021
KCrt: Christian Porter’s lies exposed in the Federal Court .. 

24 June 2021
Gu: Political commentator Niki Savva quits the Australian after Peta Credlin joins as columnist
Her first article in The Age on Scott Morrison: Damaged not destroyed
16 -18 June 2021
Kevin Rudd: Why I donated to friendlyjordies’ legal defence fund
youtube: Press F For Free Speech

SUPPORT FRIENDLYJORDIES' LEGAL BATTLE WITH JOHN BARILARO

Click bait and Ebay/GumTree hacking
 
How did it happen? Crooks on internet or Misuse of power for their own interest and/or political gain: 1/ Follow yr search on internet to find out yr interests  2/ Set up links and sites to lure you into buying. 3/To scam your accounts inc: passwords, banks ...

News of FriendlyJodies charged with stalking NSWdeputy premier
KCourt: Corrupt NSW Deputy Premier John Barilaro 
turns NSW Police into a Nazi goon squad to assault, harass and jail journalists
Mobile phone scam warning then ..

9 - 12 June 2021
MWM: Murdoch media, Nine Entertainment, mining lobby, busted for record bullartistry, go into hiding
 
Michael Bradley via Crikey: Can we sue the Morrison government? The calls are getting louder but the answer stays the same…

29 May 2021
Thanks to Crikey revealing that George Christensen had joined Amazon Affiliates, questions are now being asked about whether he breached parliamentary expenses rules.
17 May 2021
Crikey: Private contractors get $156m to vaccinate Australia’s most at-risk. Why can’t we know what they’re doing?
14 May 2021
Taxpayers are footing the bill for a $5b French company to fight, er, our own government
The Defence Department is stumping up the legal fees in an FOI fight over how much the disastrous submarine contract is really worth.
30 April 2021  
Cosy Media Club getting Coalition’s ‘drops’ expands to include Rupert’s tabloids
YouTube: How Scomo tames the media in his favour

MWM: Privacy Wars: Facebook, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple ramp up fight to keep access to users’ private data

22 April 2021
Crikey: The Chaser’s war on News Corp has cost the media giant hundreds of thousands of dollars

12 April 2021
Jenny Hocking: A culture of corruption is engulfing the Morrison government
'the million-dollar contracts to Liberal linked companies, the generously (mis)allocated ‘grants’ to coalition seats, the personal sinecures to retiring party faithful, the cruel illegality of Robodebt'
 
YouTube  The Linclon Project
Kevin Rudd to me as a supporter for a Murdoch Royal Commission.
Murdoch blasted at Senate Inquiry
'Today was a massive day at the Senate inquiry examining our petition for a Murdoch Royal Commission in Canberra.
 
The first witness was Malcolm Turnbull who urged the inquiry to back our call for a Murdoch Royal Commission. Turnbull explained how the Murdoch monopoly exerts undue influence inside his Liberal Party. Turnbull said Murdoch had the power to influence politicians' preselections and direct policy that suit his commercial interests (like the News Media Bargaining Code) or climate-denying agenda.  
Turnbull also addressed the new 'Who Controls our Media?' report by GetUp which confirms the scale of Murdoch's monopoly. Murdoch and Nine control a whopping 82% of metropolitan and national print circulation in Australia - and 71% of that figure is just Murdoch.

The Senate Inquiry also heard from Bruce Guthrie, Peter Fray and Andrew Jaspan — three of Australia's most experienced newspaper editors — who told the Inquiry about their experience of collapsing media standards. The Inquiry heard how Murdoch's journalists are leaned on to back Rupert's friends and undermine his enemies. Some of their anecdotes will make your skin crawl.

More witnesses included: ... '

5 Mar 2021
MWM: How the Top End of Town rorted Jobkeeper
2 Mar 2021
Shane Dowling/Kangaroo Court: Attorney-General Christian Porter alleged to have raped 16-yr-old Katharine Thornton in 1988
1 Mar 2021
Michael Bradley via Crikey: ‘The victim was my client and I know who the minister is.’ Here’s what should happen next

30 Jan 2021
Kim Wingerei @MWM gives an Update on Google & Facebook:  

Kevin Rudd: On the News Media Bargaining Code 
17 Aug 2020

Pay back time:  Newscorp helped the govt win the last fed election.  
The govt legislates to help out Rupert Murdoch. 
THE BIG MISTAKE: First law officer is a politician, who has delayed decent legislation ie anti-corruption, but wasted time on the indecent regulation, that will likely destroy the interest of Australians. FYI of another internet search engine is Duck Duck Go that..

28 Jan 2021
Christopher Knaus@Gu: Christopher Pyne's firm hired by defence contractor awarded $98m in government work while he was minister 

MWM:  Top 40 Tax dodgers 2021
MWM/Bushfire Rorts: Coalition targets bushfire recovery funds for Coalition seats

21 Jan 2021
Joe Biden delivers first remarks as president of the U.S.

Trump is gone early in the day and does not attend The Inauguration.  Former Vice President and few former Presidents come along.

12 Jan 2021
MichaelPascoe, Contributing Editor to TND: 
Government’s peak corruption scheme scores $400 million in 2020
21 Dec 2020
Crikey:  The Liberal Party is now little more than the political wing of News Corp

20 Dec 2020
The AIM Network:  Our PM is incompetent, insensitive and incapable of good judgment
   
11 Dec 2020
Crikey: Tax dodging News Corp continues — and is subsidised by taxpayers to do so
Crikey:  Kevin Rudd's latest attack on News Corp
4 Dec 2020
Chris Warren @Crikey:  
News Corp Australia incl the Herald Sun, The Daily Tele and The Courier-Mail for Sale
AIM:  The distortion of the Australian public sphere: Media ownership concentration in Australia
1 Dec 2020
Murdoch RC update:  
YouTube: On the Senate Inquiry into Media Diversity in Australia

MWM:  Inside Rupert’s Big Aussie Sale: 
Murdoch smuggles Foxtel – and its government grants – out of the country
27 Nov 2020
Bernard Keane & Glenn Dyer @Crikey/Media:  Mates looking after mates. 
Coalition has an impressive array of programs to fund News Corp
17 Aug 2020  Pay back time:  Newscorp helped the govt win the last fed election.  
The govt legislates to help out Rupert Murdoch. 
22 Nov 2020
YouTube:  MW has a close look at Rupert's Financial Statement  
16 Nov 2020
4C on Canberra Bubble with Alan Tudge and Christian Porter
Crikey:  Hugh Marks exits Nine
17 Oct 2020 
Two good news events tonight:  Labor wins in ACT and NZ
    

15 Oct 2020
Article and tweet with Michael Pascoe.  Real and good journalism.  Thinking of an official petition like Rudd vs Murdoch media dominance, it will be a huge challenge.
  
11 Oct 2020


Sign the petition to ban Kangaroo Wildlife Trade
5 Oct 2020
Matt Canavan is back..
  
2 Oct 2020
30 Sep 2020
Catoon from Wilcox:  A steep climb.
#AuspolSoCorrupt
Morrison and Murdoch media lying:  
  • ships: 4 not 40
  • fake news of medical supplies shortage.  Owner of Patrick, Qube received $19m from jobkeeper payments.  Executive bonuses got 10m, over half of it.

Gu: Trump heckled, bullied and lied through the debate. It won't help him beat Biden 
29 Sep 2020
Announcement of reannouncements
1 Sep 2020
JobKeeper and taxpayer money 
GU:  Labor's Andrew Leigh accuses companies of misusing jobkeeper to pay executive bonuses 
 
30 Aug 2020
 
24 Aug 2020
Parliament resumes: ScoMo turned his back when the opposition leader Albo reading out failures by
Morrison and his govt.
 
Labor says:  PM must sack Michael Sukkar over branch stacking allegations
23 Aug 2020  #60Minutes: Lib party branch stacking.
23 Aug 2020 
TheAge:  Liberal Party branch stacking scandal
 
 PMO says: 'It's an organisational matter for the Vic Div of the party'
Tim Wilson on #60Minutes Labor branch stacking 
  
Labor: A minister was sacked and he was expelled from the Party. 
22 Aug 2020
Parliament sitttings will be from Monday, 24 Aug 2020 to Thursday, 3 Sep.
Labor has won NT 2020 Election
 
 FYI
 
18 Aug 2020
 #ScottFromMarketing:  No vaccine, just a distraction from #RubyPrincess and #AgedCareCrisis.
  
17 Aug 2020
Murray-Darling Basin: Barnaby Joyce and Watergate: the water buybacks scandal explained 
by Maryanne Slattery@The Guardian.  This article is more than 1 year old 
#q&a #watergate  Emma Alberici on Twitter
MW thread: Question for Barnaby and Angus re: shares in the Caymans
Barnaby Joyce, Angus Taylor, Australia and the Caribbean 
The water buybacks continued and the story just keeps on giving  
 
LNP fail aged care
11 Aug 2020
Its OK for room lip service; but not ok for parliament sittings.
9 Aug 2020
Centre Alliance senator Rex Patrick will quit the party and go it alone at the next election.  
Read here 
Gates's compulsory vaccines?  No, thanks.
  
8 Aug 2020
Twitter police out fishing.  Based on my observation, the Russell is a good guy.  
7 Aug 2020
Nat Cabinet teleconference
   
Ruby Princess inquiry
4 Aug 2020
 
31 July 2020
Robodebt qt in the Senate 
One of Rupert Murdoch's sons has resigned from the Board of Directors of News Corp (US). 

 NCCC
 
One of #Skysiders panellists
 .. same payroll from smh.  Talk by using picture.
28 July 2020
Why is the aged care in crisis?  
24 Apr 2019 #insiders
 LNP govt: $40 billion in cuts of services (hospital, age care, school, NDIS)
will be given to the high income earnings.  Each single household will lose $4,800.
27 July 2020
NCCC
  
Mid May 2020  Head of Aust.CoVid-19 commission paid $500,000 for a 6-month work  
Related:  Govt stacks Covid Commission with oil and gas mates by Sandi Keane @MW
Jul 27, 2020 Updated:
The biggest threat to Australia: What Trump is prepared to do for re-election

 26 July 2020
 No words.
23-24 July 2020  Watched the videos:  One and Two last night 
  
Murdoch being grilled at Selected Senate Committee in the UK re: phone hacking inquiry
Tweet on  The Rise of The Murdoch Dynasty, Series 1

No suprise.  My inbox/es has been flooded with Chinese messages.  It's also happened to the inboxes of a self-funded and retired engineer I have gone out with for years.
 
Tweet on Rort of the Day
 
 #darwingate
20-21 July 2020
Shadow minister for government services on hidden cost of CovidApp
 
Changes to jobkeeper
From Sep 28:  20+ hrs a week = $1200 / fornight; Less than 20 hrs = $750 / fornight 
From Jan 2021:  $1,000 full rate;  $650 lower rate.
Program will end on 28 Mar 2021 
Grumpy Geezer:  Sooty unveils RortKeeper
Bridget McKenzie  

25 to 27 Jan 2020
 
PM missing in action
 
 People have spoken  35,324 have signed the petition.
19 July 2020 
MW thread: Question for Barnaby and Angus re: shares in the Caymans
Barnaby Joyce, Angus Taylor, Australia and the Caribbean 
The water buybacks continued and the story just keeps on giving  
18 July 2020
Media & politics: A big worry for the next federal election
A fortnight of federal parliament sitting scheduled for August is cancelled.  The next sitting is on the 24th of August. 

16 July 2020
#ScottyFromMarketing's a new slogan, jobtrainer
15 July 2020
Twitter
This article is more than 1 year old
  
For the sake of trust in politics Tim Wilson must go – the problem is he can't see that
 
IA/politics with Wren's week: 'Corruption rife within the Liberal Party' published early 2019
14 July 2020
Twitter;  more here 
11 Oct 2018  Compare the pair
 
  
13 July 2020 
MrKRudd on The NewsCorp 
 
Related thread  #auspol #AuspolSoCorrupt
11 July 2020
An update on the government's illegal Robodebt via YouTube the full interview

10 July 2020
Attn taxpayers: Morrison Govt poised to give your money to Kerry Stokes billionaire proprietor of Seven network for mining project. AFR cheerleaders doing pirouettes.  Thread 
6 July 2020
Democracy’s Watchdogs: Michael West Media turns four
4 July 2020
 It's a worry for the next fed election, isn't it? 
 
A thread on the-four-asshats from School of Murdoch 
2 July 2020
 Elias Visontay @GAu:  Some businesses are told to repay jobkeepers' grants.

28 June 2020
It's Time!
Rupert Murdoch's received $882m tax rebate from Australia.  Fed govt gave $30m to Foxtel, and 
Recent $50m grants for regional media from taxpayers' funds. Keep the money,
then sacked journos, the decent ones
27 June 2020
Democracy health.  You're urged to protect it or lose it.
 Congrats on your Robodebt work,  
Shadow minister for Government services & ndis
26 June 2020
 Remember 730 Malcolm Turnbull interview about his new book.
20 Apr 2020 7.30 Malcolm Turnbull on the liberal party (terrorist organisations).
 
 
A failure of reforming Intel & Home Affairs due to character & quality of 
those placed in the key leadership positions.
25 June 2020
 Mike Carlton:  'Only Shorten had the balls'.
Near-PM Shorten: Bill Tells Murdoch To Walk The Plank (by Dr Tim Jones @AIM)
22 June 2020
Juice Media rejects deals with marketing groups.  Click here to read thread 
19 June 2020
Not surprised at the 'look over there' strategy of cyber security news.  Click here to read
 
About 4 month old article: dodgy regulation by Karen Middleton of TSP   
'delegated legislation' used by govt to spend 'unlawful' billions..
Russell, you speak my mind.
 
#springst #auslaw  
Josh Taylor @Gu Vic police distances itself from controversial facial recognition firm Clearview AI
Bernard Keane@CrikeyInq Apr2019: Is Peter Dutton a risk to nat security?
Alan Austin@IA Sep2017 Corruption under M.Turnbull: Going for the all-time world record
18 June 2020
Real journalism with Bernard Keane@CrikeyInq
'Political parties have also given themselves exemptions from privacy laws, allowing them to accumulate huge databases of Australian voters (all controlled by political staffers and party executives) with no accountability for the use and abuse of that information. 

They’re exempt from other laws like the Do Not Call Register, and laws dealing with false and misleading advertising they apply to everyone else engaging in advertising. And under parliamentary rules, politicians are prevented from using fora such as question time to inquire about party administrative and operational matters'.
17 June 2020
A lesson we have learned from the last federal election.  
Petition:  We need Truth in Political Advertising Laws
16 June 2020
MW:  A Government in bed with its Fat Cats 
Michael Pascoe on Twitter:  Morrison/McCormack govt can't be trusted with money
Tweets with MW regarding more evidence of the Election buying, and 
.. more stressed to think about the 2022 and the next.
3 May 2020 It is true that we are paying the price for an incompetent and untrustworthy govt  
 A short history of LNP corruption from New Politics, and 
the federal Government's scandals in one thread plus 
a thread on the-four-asshats from School of Murdoch #auspol #AuspolSoCorrupt

TSP on the 31st of Mar 2018 has revealed:
"Much of the mainstream media are on the same bandwagon, 
chiefly at Murdoch’s News Corpse, where vendetta journalism has become an art form".
 Still in doubt?
 
 21 Oct 2019  Nine Entertainment hosts $10,000 a head fundraiser for Liberal party
  
This article is about 7 years old and comes up again today on #auspol
Cancer on democracy - twitt with Kevin Rudd
  
25 Apr 2019  Taxpayers' bill for advertising hits $136 million this year.
  
 
15 June 2020
A quick look at Twitter.  I have not watched the 60 mins for years and just look at The Age from time to time.  Here's Statement from The Premier of Victoria
 
 
13 June 2020
Independent Australia:  Dave Donovan will be stepping down as managing editor after 10 years
Click here to read thread
 
8 June 2020
4 June 2020 
A recession is officially announced and this is the first one we have faced in 29 years. 
Scomo marketing and the govt renovation grants:  Has to be a very expensive reno of at least $150k to be eligible for $25k.  Hence, you would have to have at least $125k #RenoRorts
  
Latest news: 8,000 applicants means $200M 
26 May 2020 Government debt deepening rapidly – well before COVID-19
Josh has refused to front Senate Covid Com.
Queens Honour BS.  What a joke!
  
#Auspol #Corruption #QueensHonour #AuspolSoCorrupt #ChopperGate
 
2 June 2020
Tweets:  ALP voters/supporters - Have your say
Corporate media delegated?  Lite IPA.  Use your iq to work out: who and who and why, What has been happening.
 
1 June 2020
The Rigs are Getting Bigger:
Michael Pascoe on Community Development Grants rorts.  Tweets
Tweets with MW regarding more evidence of the Election buying, and 
.. more stressed to think about the 2022 and the next.
31 May 2020 
 WhiteWash not working
   
It's pity that there's no audio clip on Bill Short interview.  It does take a bit of time to have it done on an old computer.  I'm glad that Bill is articulate. 
29 May 2020
$6 billion jobkeeper bungle last Friday and today about three quarter of billion mismanaged.  The end of the robodebt was also quietly announced in the late afternoon on Friday.
 
Tweets with Bill Shorten, Shadow Minister for Government Services.  It was a good fight for those affected.  Sadly, over 2000 people died after receiving robodebt notices.  Congrats to Bill, Crikey, and Gordon Legal, and those concerned.

Feel for decent journos; but as a whole, it's great news for democracy in Australia.  
News Corp to cut 'up to a third of workforce' in move towards digital-only publishing
The weekly beast with Amanda Meade
What about $50 million grant recently handed out by the Morrison govt?  Thread reading
  
 More tweets
Blake Foden @The Canberra Time  
'Sad times':  Bernard Collaery laments 'now fragile democracy' as pre-trial hearing takes place in secret.
  
11 Apr 2020  Richard Ackland @guardian: Misuse of powers and a closed court:  
how national security is being used to bully citizens.  Click here to read. Bernard Keane@Crikey: Porter denies delaying Collaery trial, while delaying Collaery trial

15 May 2020
Corey's Digs:  PIH, Bobby Rush, and The Truth Behind Contact Tracing Surveillance
 
3-6 May 2020
It is true that we are paying the price for an incompetent and untrustworthy government as discussed by Michael Pascoe in The New Daily.  The legal outcome of the Biloela case last week, a class action against Optus, Home Affairs data breach in The Guardian today, A short history of LNP corruption from New Politics, and the federal Government's scandals in one thread plus a thread on the-four-asshats from School of Murdoch by Carrick Ryan, tell all.
 
8 Oct 2019 Update on Peter's trip to the US #spygate
 
 #mategate
Re: covidsafe app.  PM misleading dangerously!
"We worry that contact tracing apps will serve as vehicles for abuse and disinformation, while providing a false sense of security to justify reopening local and national economies well before it is safe to do so.".  Digital rights, legal and privacy experts warn.  There are also a lot of calls for #FuckTheApp
 
Latest: Govt concedes the app not compatible with old phones. Neither with iphones, I heard of.  
Legal advice of US access to data: unreleased.
 
1-2 May 2020
Parliamentary disclosure is a joke. The Register of Members’ Interests is routinely gamed and ignored by politicians. This is where MPs are supposed to declare their financial interests. Yet even when they do so, in accordance with the rules, key financial conflicts can be concealed....
Jommy Tee reports on Taylor’s other Cayman Islands company, AML.
Relevant findings by Shane Dowling @KangarooCrtOfAust on 26 feb 2020
New?

#Ruby Princess #pecuniary interest #metadata laws breaches, etc.
Trust debate, part from my ABC post 
"The department says it has 82 communications staff, 
22 of whom are dedicated to its "24/7 media operations", including social media."
Fed govt services
 

Re: Herald Sun .. available at Chemist Warehouse: Such a bad news! 
 
TSP on the 31st of Mar 2018 has revealed:
"Much of the mainstream media are on the same bandwagon, 
chiefly at Murdoch’s News Corpse, where vendetta journalism has become an art form".

Unclinical/proven CovidVaxxx deals with Clive Palmer and Andrew Forrest.
 28-29 Apr 2020
Angus Taylor refused to be interviewed by police and has referred all Qs to his lawyers.  Oh no, not again: taxpayer footing $614,000 legal fees for Michael Cash.
16 Jan 2020 Kangaroo Crt: 
  
27 Apr 2020  Covidsafe Tracking App was released late last night.  Then, Murdoch's newspoll was out late yesterday, too.  This article 'News Corp: Democracy's greatest threat' from the monthly was published in May 2019 and it's worth reading.
 
#auspol:  we know who run Australia.
Click to find out: Great resources of Murdoch + IPA  by Ellie  
IPA's Register of Members Interests and a conflict of interest with duties as a MP pointed out 
 7 Apr 2016 smh: IPA, the think tank with arms everywhere  
2 April 2016 IA: The Liberal Party & the IPA: Who is whose?
 
Surely, I won't download the app, because I don't trust the fed government.  I'm very disappointed with those on the CoVid nat cabinet (fed politicians mps/positions appointed mainly for more political power grasping), who ignore the warning of digital rights, legal and privacy experts.
... continue with Google, BigW/ww award card/s, and/or with Qantas point (Turnbull's new book and the interview on ABC7.30), and more of the same ie: privately-owned financial companies, AusPost/online.  Be aware. I urge you not to...based on my previous jobs in public sector and personal experience.  Save a little, but it can and/or will cost you much more than that.
Spot on: Optus being hit with class action over data breach

Update on CoVid19:  About 97% of kids stay home learning remotely (distance learning or online learning). Thanks to parents, teachers, and health workers for their commitment.  Our focuss is on the protection of the health system and saving lives.
 
The government don't want anybody leaving home except for essential shopping, work, education, medical, assistance or exercise. While they are not fining people for sitting on park benches any more, they are checking whether you have a valid and essential reason for leaving home 

The Guardian/AUnews
Daniel Andrews: Victoria won’t move to relax the restrictions and plans on testing 100,000 people over the next two weeks.  One new case was recorded in the last 24 hours.  Total number of cases stays at 1,349. There are 23 people in hospital, with 11 patients in ICU.  Click here to read thread.

23 Apr 2020  Here you are.  One rule for the billionaire and another rule for the rest.  
'After returning to WA from near Aspen on private jet, media mogul and his wife were given an exemption on the medical ground to spend 14 days in their Perth mansion ' by

19 Apr 2020  CoVid Disease (CoVid-19)  
18 Apr 2020  CoVid tracking app (admin by fed gov)
  
Relevant reading from ABC Investigations  By Linton Besser and Dylan Welch
Australia's coronavirus tracing app's data storage contract goes offshore to Amazon
Related Info: Peter's trip to the US #spygate  
10 Dec 2019 Tasmanian privacy:  410,000 licence photos sent from Tas Lib Govt to Peter Dutton

23 Nov18 Metadata (laws passed on 27 Mar15) continued. 
Karen Middleton follows the work of Jonathan Holmes 
 A chilling step closer to Australian secret police
 
Read article
  Click here to read: how national security is being used to bully citizens 
 
Again, a big No from me.  Remember #censusfail, #NBNfail, #robodebt, and the list goes on ..proved incompetent IT
23 & 24 Jan 2020 Democracy and trust in politics.  My page on the fed election 2019
  
24 May 2019 
MW: Not surprised. 'They have already had their meeting. BCA sent out email to members: ...
Tax cuts for big business while pensioners can't afford a dentist.
16 & 17 May 2018 IA: Business Council to flood election with corporate cash
 "The Business Council has a war chest of $26 million to help the Government win 
the next election and get an $80 billion pay-off for its 130 members"

TSP on the 31st of Mar 2018 has revealed:
"Much of the mainstream media are on the same bandwagon, 
chiefly at Murdoch’s News Corpse, where vendetta journalism has become an art form".  
#auspol  #AuspolSoCorrupt.  More at my page on Metadata  
17 Apr 2020
Michelle Rowland @TND/Opinion: We need the media more than ever now – but the government's inaction isn't helping, Labor says.

15 Apr 2020
Very disappointed.  Rather different leadership style from the Victorian Govt.  Daniel Andrew has been doing reasonably well for the state, IMO.  Watched the press conference today regarding the first day of a new school term in Victoria (A summary of what Dan said: it's up to parents, who are making the call for kids to stay home learning remotely or to be sent to school.  Each family has different circumstances) and a rescue package to support tenants and landlords through CoVid.  ..  Thanks for sharing the message, Denise.
 
Jon Faine @theage/opinion on 7 Apr pointing out: 
'Now, with Pell’s case, we can all see what can happen when you do have the money, the backing to chase every possible angle '.  A clear message and this is not only the case.  There have been...
 
14 Apr 2020 
Opinion on taxpayer funding to Virgin, Qantas and Adani
  
Good news!  the guardian doubles audience.  Hope's still out there.
CoVid19 app
 
More at my page showing why I support JKato's twitt. 
11 Apr 2020
Richard Ackland @guardian: Misuse of powers and a closed court:  
how national security is being used to bully citizens.  Click here to read.
8 Apr 2020
Update on Ruby Princess.  Read more
Crikey (2 Apr) :  The lack of accountability at Home Affairs is costing Australian lives
Same same: What we have learned from the Ruby Princess

7 Apr 2020
Sarah Ferguson @FergusonNews: ABC iview updating Revelation/EP3, one of the documentary series on the criminal priests... 
Based on Amanda Meade @guardian/AusMedia (9 Apr), ABC was forced to do so by the attack of NewsCorp. 
 
#auspol:  we know who run Australia.

Opinion @TheAge by Jon Faine 7 Apr at 5.57pm

Pell acquittal puts Victorian courts on trial, and shows they need a reality check


The High Court decision to allow the appeal of Cardinal George Pell will send shivers through the entire Australian criminal justice system. Their Honours have given hope to anyone who has been convicted by a jury. They have effectively said that doubt can be entertained even when the principal witness in court is unshaken in their testimony.
Cardinal Pell travelled in a four-car convoy upon being released from Barwon Prison on Tuesday.  Pic by Credit:Jason South

The scales of justice are being re-calibrated. The balance has shifted. Trials will be different and appeals as well. It has never before been the role of an Appeal Court to substitute their view for the jurors. Now it is.
No one in Australia has ever spent so much money trying to undo the sworn evidence of a single witness. Millions of dollars were invested – no stone left unturned. Legions of lawyers, researchers and investigators trawled through every possible source to discredit one man telling what he alleges happened all those years ago. But in the end, none of that investigatory effort into the complainant was what made the difference. Instead, it was the evidence of witnesses on the periphery that swung the case.
The overwhelming majority of criminal trials before our courts are funded by legal aid. In every trial, pragmatic corners are cut, compromises are made. Not every point can be pursued, not every possible doubt explored. Now, with Pell’s case, we can all see what can happen when you do have the money, the backing to chase every possible angle (text colored by reader me).
The police relied upon one witness who was stress-tested multiple times even before charges were laid. Then his version was checked again by multiple prosecutors. Then he was cross-examined at committal by the best in the business, Robert Richter QC, and emerged unshaken. That gruelling process was repeated at trial. His evidence was still unshaken. The jury believed him.
But now the High Court judges say that is not enough. Other witnesses who gave evidence that they thought the Cardinal would not have had the opportunity to commit the lewd acts ought to have been taken into account, even though they could not give a first hand or personal evidence of what happened to those boys on that day.
Bizarre. One witness swears on oath: this is what happened to me at this place on this day. Other witnesses say: I do not know what happened on that day but that is not what usually happens – and that creates a doubt and voids the conviction. Compounding improbabilities become “reasonable doubt”.
It has taken decades to get the legal system to address how deeply it was failing victims of historical sex abuse. Profound changes have been engineered, taking great care to maintain the rights of an accused but also to confront the shocking scourge of clergy abuse and the silence and cover-ups that go with it.
The lawyerly response will now be to counsel clients to go down the compensation path and avoid the trauma and emotional turmoil involved in a criminal trial, especially one that is less likely to secure a conviction.

Like it or not, it was not just the Cardinal who was on trial. The jury system and the Victorian courts have been on trial as well. They have not emerged well. The High Court has raised its eyebrows at Victoria. The Lawyer X/Nicola Gobbo scandal has brought the Victorian legal system into disrepute – mostly because of the actions of Victoria Police but it has reflected also upon the Director of Public Prosecutions and the courts. Reputations have been shredded. The clubby and cliquey world of the criminal bar has been left scandalised. Their Honours in Canberra think the Victorians need a reality check.
While George Pell can sleep in a different bed tonight – and presumably in COVID-19 self-isolation for two weeks – he will never recover his standing or reputation. His imperious combative manner and arrogant display at the Victorian State Parliamentary Inquiry that predated the Gillard Royal Commission came to embody the Church’s sense of entitlement and privilege. His undisciplined annoyance and quick temper at being held to account made it imperative he not give sworn evidence at trial.
The trial Judge, Peter Kidd, in sentencing Pell reminded us all that the Cardinal was not on trial for the collective sins of the Church, but only for those specific matters that were presented in evidence. That is true for a court of law. It is not at all true in the court of public opinion.
As the dust settles, the until-now secret sections of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse that were withheld until Pell had exhausted his appeal rights can and must be made public. The Attorney-General, Christian Porter, can now let us read material that has not seen the light of day.
This throws into question how future criminal trials relating to accusations of historical sexual abuse will be conducted.
And Malka Leifer's lawyers will be watching with great interest.
Jon Faine is a former presenter on ABC Radio Melbourne.

12 Mar 2019 Corruption, The Cardinal And The Fine Art Of Lying. New Politics Podcasts 
This is an article from the guardian and it is more than 3 years old.

5 April 2020 8:01 pm  CoVid coverage from a commercial media source.
Also spot on:  
 
$20 million spent on the pink Batts. investigation.  Thread

 
 Rpic from internet collected some years ago.

4 Apr 2020  CoronaVirus infections on Ruby Princess
Over 600 confirmed cases and 7 deaths.   
Crikey (2 Apr) :  The lack of accountability at Home Affairs is costing Australian lives
Twitter:  Calls for Peter Dutton to resign.  

8 Feb 2020
  I am with you Katharine.  Please keep it up.
What do we want?  Federal ICAC with legislative teeth ASAP

 MW  /Conflict Of Interest:  

 This week’s column with Laura:  the US Senate actually voted not to hear what Donald Trump had done. Will our Parliament actually use its powers to investigate our government?
  
A predicted outcome (2/3 of Republicans in the senate)
Illegal-bullying robodebt
Updated:  

6 Feb 2020
Special Investigation.  
 
Relevant reading  
5 Feb 2020
ScoMo:  'Always to listen, always show-up and to put Australians first'
First sitting in year 2020
 
3 Oct 2019  QT Survey
4 Feb 2020
 #NatSpill  BJ failed to challenge McComack.  BJ + BM + MC are on the back bench.  Canavan is out of cabinet.  Thread with Antony Green.  Canavan also faces an inquiry over a conflict of interest over a loan to #nthqldcowboys.  
How serious is it?
 
AdifferentviewAu: 'this is why our political syst is bullshit' 
31 Jan 2020
 MW:  Submarines will end up costing taxpayers $225B. Great for France, bad for Australia says former public service chief Jon Stanford #auspol
 
TenNews:  Instruction email from PMO to BM

29 Jan 2020
PressClub:  Journalist of the day - LAURA!
 People have spoken  About 38,500 have signed the petition.
Essential poll: 51% of voters think PM should have sacked Bridget McKenzie over sports rorts
Following the sports grant revelations, support grows for an independent federal anti-corruption body

TND:  Taxpayers slugged $40,000 for Bridget McKenzie’s VIP flight to WA shooters’expo

28 & 1 Dec 2018 
Mark Dickenson pointing out that Dutton has a pecuniary interest
 
25 to 27 Jan 2020
 
PM missing in action
 
Now, it is time for a change and the one who has a valid case to take over is...

  People have spoken  35,324 have signed the petition.
 
 #darwingate
Re:  McKenzie failing to declare her $2m investment property
 
23 & 24 Jan 2020
Democracy and trust in politics
 
#auspol  #AuspolSoCorrupt
21 Jan 2020
AFP: law enforcement agency or an ad..?
 
16 & 17 May 2018 IA: Business Council to flood election with corporate cash
 "The Business Council has a war chest of $26 million to help the Government win 
the next election and get an $80 billion pay-off for its 130 members" 
Pics (incl 'Murdoch Media: where the truth goes to die') from elhoelho, #auspol
fyi re: Cancel yr News Corp subscription online
Good catch and call it out
  
TSP on the 31st of Mar 2018 has revealed:
"Much of the mainstream media are on the same bandwagon, 
chiefly at Murdoch’s News Corpse, where vendetta journalism has become an art form".
 MSM incl. SkyNews, 3AW News Talk, 2GB, News Ltd, 
Ten, 7, 9, FoxNews, News Corp, The Australian, Fairfax, The SMH

20 Jan 2020
Misuse of public funds by our politicians on the rise.  What can you do to stop?  Sign the petition Bridget McKenzie to be stood down for breach of guidelines.
According to Crikey, The government took down its own grants website to hide sports rorting

Unbelievable.  AG to review sport rorts.  Am I correct?  There was an article from sbs (found later the next day.  Follow thread) over $500,000 grant to his electorate and the federal election campaign. 
 Related reading:
Michael Pascoe: Look who helped sports grant corruption get the go-ahead
smh: Your government does not want corruption to be investigated
 
A reminder of my active life in sports.  I have not played tennis for a while.  Have not gone for a walk since September last year.  I have been feeling rather low.

The ones in governing are the ones who are responsible.  
 
NDIS update
 
19 Jan 2020
Just good intention.  No string attached to Bill Shorten and/or Labor
 
18 Jan 2020
T. is out to distract and stir.  $4 B could be well spent on fire-fighting helicopters and planes.
 
 
17 Jan 2020  
ABCnews:  ScoMo is facing a grants crisis and a perfect storm of political hopelessness 
Here you are:  A quick follow-up  Pro bono legal advice to see if you have a case to challenge the minister's decision.  Slater and Gordon Legal Services are also investigating the possibility of a class action... and here's the link

Gu:  Christian Porter admits Coalition missed own deadline on integrity commission legislation
Not suprised why they have been slow at drafting the integrity legislation.  Not suprised that there are legislations, which were quietly passed just before the festive seasons.  What else happened?  The cases of electoral breaches during the federal election in May by the libs were also heard in court.


 
16 Jan 2020
Democracy is broken.  Politicians are bribed by private donations. 
Voters are bribed by Politicians donating taxpayer money.

13 Dec 2020 
Latest warnings from BoM.  
 
 Let's hope..
   
5 Dec 2019 Spot on the difference
 
 According to Mark Dickenson, Fed Govt allocates 12.5 billion litres of water a year, about 34 million litres a day for 50 years to a profit shifting, environment vandalising corp, and
$29 billion a year given away in fossil fuel subsidies to private enterprise.
 
Aussies urged to boycott Siemens products
Dirty Power Big Coal's network of influence over the coalition government 
Michael West Media, Ind Journalists pointing out the connection.
Check this out, the case of Sophie Mirabella, who has been working for Gina...
Pyne and the submarine contract for his seat.
I have to agree
IA:  The decade of News Corp's demise

New Year, new figures on franking credits

Volunteer Grants 
 
and $50m for Wildlife Rescue & Recovery. 
A bit late, mates.  The fires have been burning since August.

 
Doug Cameron on PH re her statement on RC and CC: 'she is dangerous and opportunistic.  She cares about self promotion.  She cares nothing for the country'
 
12 Jan 2020
A quick response from Victoria.  Victorian Premier said bushfire review is already underway.
#auspol
 
 
 
A long list of Qs from Mark Dickenson to Speers for the interview..

Message from Sydney Council
 
11 Jan 2020
Another brave one I know of is John Wren, one of the columnists @IA, who writes: 'the Coalition must bear responsibility for our bushfire catastrophy because they continued to ignore warnings about the results of Climate Change'.  
 
'Fed Govt buried climate risk plan'
 
A video music for 'Beds are Burning' by Midnight Oil is out today.  Why? and 
Bye Rupert Mat Carpenter shows you how to.. 
10 Jan 2020
Climate Protest in Melbourne
  
It's hard to find someone like Emily.  Best wishes for year 2020.
 
Today catoons
6 Dec 2019 TSP:  Hydrogen strategy backs dirty coal
About Twiggy and $70m 
Act now:  1 #TaxTwiggy, Gina, Clive Palmer and the like,
2  Less spending on war jets and subs, 
3  A generous funding for water-bombing helicopters and planes to put down the fires.

More findings..
 
Restaurants, cafes, waiting rooms.. urged to boycott News Corp papers
 8 Jan 2020 
Van Badham columnist @The Guardian points out the intense disinformation campaign online about the causes of the bushfires
10 Dec 2019
 Tasmanian privacy:  410,000 licence photos sent from Tas Govt to Peter Dutton

8 Dec 2019
Andrew Wilkie makes my day.  News has been on and off in me since the unbelievable result of the federal election in May.  My interest in audio-recording practice is also gone.
 
5 Dec 2019
7.30 Interview:  No show of Taylor to answer Qs.  He was invited every night this week.
It is not a good look for Taylor.  Thread by Clover Moore

2 Dec 2019
First Xmas wish from #auspol 
26 & 28 Nov 2019 Ministerial Standards 
More of AG controversy from Fiona McLeod SC  
NSW Police Commissioner should disqualify himself too! IMO ScoMo should not contact Commissioner at all.
 
Angus Taylor should stand aside.
 

19 Nov 2019  Robodebt dumped
Gu:  The department of human services says it will review all existing alleged debts and freeze current debt.
 
Well done!  Now all we have to do is get them to ditch their 'illegal' cashless welfare card plans too.

 29 - 31 Oct 2019 
#RightToKnow:  BS docs and NSW Crime Act s316(i)
Stronger parliamentary..? I don't think so.  Read twitt by Mark Dickson's view point of the house.
 
  
and have a quick tour of Australia with theJuice + thread.
Suspected whistleblowers targeted by police in Helloworld travel scandal 
Media bias
 
#Insiders
 
David Marr on newscorpaus and Laura Tingle on Angus Taylor.
26 Oct 2019
TSP:  Facial recognition bill is dumped due to the lack of detail.  It is recommended to be fully redrafted.
30 Sep 2019 Read the article by J.Taylor and thread started by the author. 
24 Oct 2019
Big Brother and Twitter suspension
 
 
 
 21 Oct 2019
#AusMedia #pressfreedom #YourRightToKnow #mategame
 A $10,000-a-head corporate fundraiser for the Liberal party
 
Gu: More Australians follow politicians on social media due to mainstream dissatisfaction - rpt
Aussies united against #MSMFail
 
  
#Estimates
  
A reminder from Joel: the secret COALition agreement.
 
‘Wall of secrecy’: Former ACCC tsar says transparency vanishing
 Aussies concerned increased secrecy threatens freedom
15 & 16 Oct 2019
A refresh by
8 Oct 2019 Update on Peter's trip to the US #spygate

4 August 2019 
 
Pic from MW news with features of fed govt politics + business
14 Oct 2019 
MW:  True Lies - Mathias Cormann caught by his own department for economic fairy tales
MPs back to work and coalition federal govt's agenda sent out.
 
Who are on the e/mailing list? Press Gallery journos, IPA sponsors/supporters in Murdoch..
 
MW: Not surprised. 'They have already had their meeting. BCA sent out email to members: ...
Tax cuts for big business while pensioners can't afford a dentist.
16 & 17 May 2018 IA: Business Council to flood election with corporate cash
 "The Business Council has a war chest of $26 million to help the Government win 
the next election and get an $80 billion pay-off for its 130 members" 
Pics (incl 'Murdoch Media: where the truth goes to die') from elhoelho, #auspol
 28 May 2017 

27 July 2017
 
10 Oct 2019
Info from Mark Jacka re: Scott Cam
A $10,000-a-head corporate fundraiser for the Liberal party
My note:
25 Apr 2019  Taxpayers' bill for advertising hits $136 million this year.
  


TSP on the 31st of Mar 2018 has revealed:
"Much of the mainstream media are on the same bandwagon, 
chiefly at Murdoch’s News Corpse, where vendetta journalism has become an art form".
 MSM incl. SkyNews, 3AW News Talk, 2GB, News Ltd, 
Ten, 7, 9, FoxNews, News Corp, The Australian, Fairfax, The SMH
8 Oct 2019
Update on Peter's trip to the US #spygate
 #mategate
Paul Bongiorno: "The powerful cabinet minister, who has extensive control of Australia’s domestic security apparatus and who has been the major driver in the production of an increasing number of draconian bills invading personal privacy and liberties and criminalising journalism, now has climate change protesters in the gun"  

7 Oct 2019
Twitts linked to @MsVeruca having a break.  Watch out trolls + unrelated ads.
Update from Ronni Salt re: Richard Taylor, Angus Taylor's brother,
who manages billionaire Michael Hintze's 20 Australian farming properties

Useful link from MW:  Have you been legally threatened ?

What's going on now in the wake of Peter Dutton and Michael Cash's comments threatening democracy - right to protest and right to welfare (Social Security Act?).  Another MP's role is in question. 
6 Oct 2019
Peter Dutton's trip to the US to seek 'lawfull access' to encryption..
#auspol: Looks like that it is a game of mates.  See enclosed
29 April 2017 
Have not read all news and a quick look around including #Metadata finds:

'WARRANT Requirement' for silence. 
They had a 'presser'? on Friday at 4.00pm?.
FYI from ind investigative journalist MW:  Have you been legally threatened ?
This is what happened to him:  8 June 2018  Michael West:  The billionaire threatening to sue me
 A reminder of:
 
I feel much much better .. (additional data of me: a retired public services vet, a cancer survivor.  I am childless and have been living with chronic pain).  Update of me@11Oct: just do justice, neither for money nor publicity.  Updated 19 Oct:  I have not owned a flat/house and have been renting.

3 & 5 Oct 2019
Have your say
  
Read the article by J.Taylor and thread started by the author.
According to a latest twitt on #auspol reminding us, Murdoch owns 70% Australian media.

TSP on the 31st of Mar 2018 has revealed:
"Much of the mainstream media are on the same bandwagon, 
chiefly at Murdoch’s News Corpse, where vendetta journalism has become an art form". 
 MSM incl. SkyNews, 3AW News Talk, 2GB, News Ltd, 
Ten, 7, 9, FoxNews, News Corp, The Australian, Fairfax, The SMH
2 Oct 2019
There have been complaints of Twitter not delivering.
Cartoon
Keep it up everyone
 
Misuse of power ?
Re: Trump Impeachment. ScoMo agreed with Trump to help gather info against the inquiry by Robert Muller, a former FBI chief.  There was also an official letter of support (dated 28 May 2019) from Joe Hockey to AG of theUS.
 
Twitter, Jim Pembroke wrote: Morrison is trying to destroy Superannuation syst.
1 Oct 2019
In my case (me - just do good - have not been a political party member - have never been married), minor issues have been of:
online car insurance and
internet banking password recovery/reset.  Credit card + mobile phone are needed.
(Turned up in person on 4Oct at about 11.30am? and fixed it. Sorry, I was grumble. I had been confused with bank's unclear automated info provided).

MW (21 Sep):  Govt + private business + changed laws to hide financial disclosures.
Few tweets related to ScoMo's recent visit to US
30 Sep 2019
Good point.
 
Read the article by J.Taylor and thread started by the author. 
Cartoon by First Dog on The Moon
27 Sep 2019
From fake MP to fake treasurer and now fake PM
 

Pics (incl 'Murdoch Media: where the truth goes to die') from elhoelho, #auspol
 24 Sep 2019
 Paul Bongiorno: The New Daily, The Guardian Australia and The Saturday Paper are none main stream, none owned by Murdoch or the government.
fyi
 
Crikey inq
Supreme Court v Boris Johnson:  Unlawful suspension of Parliament
 
Good journalism fixed by MW
21 Sep 2019
Lenore Taylor: 'I was stunned by Trump's press conference'
 
20 Sep 2019
Update on the plane:  It was loaded with donor billionaires (many in the mining sector) and media. 

19 Sep 2019
A political actor by Harvey Mushman 
See how PM's office deal with a journo
13 Sep 2019
I was away.  Travelled to Northern Territory and North Queensland.

11 May 2019
CFW strikes again. Thread from Harry   
 
9 May 2019 
afr out attacking Labor's franking credits policy
Gu Ex senior News Corp staff: Now all I see is shameful bias 
Media: Denise vs Frank
8 May 2019
The third leaders' debate
 
Fake Surplus: take money from NDIS in order to claim surplus. 
  
Economy under the Liberal party
 Are the Liberals great economic managers?  No, they are not...
Almost triple the nation's debt since taking office in 2013
 Josh couldn't confirm $77 billion ( as of 9 May is $88-89B) in high income tax cuts, 
nor explain where $40 billion in spending cuts will come from

24 Apr 2019 #insiders
 LNP govt: $40 billion in cuts of services (hospital, age care, school, NDIS) will be given to the high income earnings.  Each single household will lose $4,800.

16 & 17 May 2018 IA: Business Council to flood election with corporate cash
 "The Business Council has a war chest of $26 million to help the Turnbull Government win 
the next election and get an $80 billion pay-off for its 130 members"

The cost of franking credits, negative gearing and capital gain tax concessions
RMIT ABC Fact Check: Josh Frydenberg repeats misleading claim on franking credits 

4 Mar 2019 Chris Bowen (+ Paul Savi) vs JoshFrydenberg for misleading Labor's  
policies on negative gearing, capital gains and franking credits.
Read thread
 

17 Apr 2019 Fake death/inheritance tax.  
It's a possible tactic 'look over here' to cover up the Murray Darling water buybacks
 
7 May 2019 
Q&A comments continued and catoon of the day
 
1 May 2019 730 Bill Shorten interview: Labor's election promises
Labor: build Medicare and expand social services
Closing tax 'loopholes' to pay for social spending 
 
  
RMIT ABC Fact Check: Josh Frydenberg repeats misleading claim on franking credits
  

Misuse of AFP logo
 
 22 & 24 November 2017
Gu:  Data breach hits Department of Social Services credit card system
 
10 July 2017  The politics of personal data
'Under national security laws, phone and internet records of all Australians are held for two years. How much trust do you have in the following organisations to store your personal data safely and in a way that would prevent abuse?'

Total lot/some trustTotal little/no trustA lot of trustSome trustLittle trust No trustDon't know
Security agencies such as the Australian federal police, local police and ASIO64%32%21%43%20%12%5%
The government43%52%9%34%31%21%5%
Telecommunications companies and internet service providers 29%67%4%25%36%31%4%
Other private companies24%69%2%22%35%34%7%

Labor eyes foreign takeover re: tax haven   
 

MW blocked from entering public hearing. Remember AAT appointments announced in the late afternoon on Friday.
 
Why?
   
Mark Dreyfus, shadow AG told Paul Karp in TheGuardian 'Full of Liberal mates'
16 & 17 May 2018 IA: Business Council to flood election with corporate cash
 "The Business Council has a war chest of $26 million to help the Turnbull Government win 
the next election and get an $80 billion pay-off for its 130 members"

6 May 2019
#auspol: both leaders will have a third debate at NPC on Wednesday. 
Q&A
According to Q&A host Tony Jones, Scott Morrison has refused to go on the show.
5 May 2019
Bill's volunteer on Murdoch
  
 
Newspoll, smh, and couriermail are out and about..
 

Labor's official election campaign launch in Brisbane. YouTube
  
Part of Bill Shorten's speech: 'I will not bring lumps of coal to parliament' 
A reminder of Scott Morrison's stunt in 2017 

The choices between Labor and the LNP
 

3 May 2019 
smh out attacking Bill Shorten with article: Shorten's AWU 'sold out' workers ..
Taxpayers' bill for advertising hits $136 million this year.

ScoMo has refused to appear on #Insiders. On the contrarary, Bill Short has agreed to be on Q&A next week.  
6.30pm Sky News - People's Forum:  Despite questions made up by Sky News, Shorten still had the number 43 - 41.
 
1 May 2019
Hear hear: Chris Kenny's leaving Twitter. 
 
The Monthly: News Corp - Democracy's greatest threat
30 Apr 2019
The Monthly: Shorten Keeps on winning 
 
Dave Donovan on Nine News Australia re: last night's debate
Morrison's media
 
Also watch out Ch9 Entertainment
Taxpayers' bill for advertising hits $136 million this year.
  
MW: Foxtel, 3 years total income $6.0Billion, 3 years tax payable $0
Rupert Murdoch's US empire siphons $4.5b from Au business tax-free
29 Apr 2019
Q&A: Bowen was direct (we can't afford..) and clear in explanation of franking credits.
There's no death tax.  Added to many more of lies since the election campaign, IMO, the Liberal license as a political party would be cancelled by the AEC.
7TWO, 7pm EAST Leaders debate
 
Questions:
1.  Who should voters trust?
2  Who is better placed to look after the environment?
3.  The Economy - Franking Credits
4.  Party Politics & Preference Deals
Be scared: Australia would face the most 'extreme right-wing' govt 
Australia can't afford another three years.. This is an election about HOPE v FEAR
A vote for Morrison is a vote for Palmer, Hanson
Vote Palmer, One Nation will get the LNP (self-serving pollies)

5.  Boat, Religion, National Security..
6.  What did you admire your opponent for?
'Murdoch Media: Where The Truth Goes To Die' + 'sketchy' Newspoll, and
Kevin Rudd 'Kick This Mob Out' article: Cancer eating the heart of Australian democracy
 
  my NBN post
The studio audience chose Shorten as the winner  (by 25 to 12 with 11 undecided). No thing to see from Morrison. Just don't vote for Shorten (Katherine Murphy, theGuardian)
28 Apr 2019
Worth a read. This is not about cancer in Bill Shorten's Budget Reply on Thursday.
It is about the cancer in the Australian democracy, Kevin Rudd wrote some months ago.
 
TSP on the 31st of Mar 2018 has revealed:
"Much of the mainstream media are on the same bandwagon, 
chiefly at Murdoch’s News Corpse, where vendetta journalism has become an art form". 
 MSM incl. SkyNews, 3AW News Talk, 2GB, News Ltd, 
Ten, 7, 9, FoxNews, News Corp, The Australian, Fairfax, The SMH
26 Apr 2019
Activist on media
Two leaders debates will be hold next week:
Monday at 7pm AEST on the lower-rating 7TWO of Seven Network in Perth jointly hosted with The West Australian newspaper, and Friday at 6.30pm, May 3, at a Sky News forum in Brisbane.
25 Apr 2019
Be together for a good course
 
Gu: Ruper Murdoch's empire receives $882m tax rebate from Australia
No doubt why Sky news and News Corp running a campaign for the LNP 

Taxpayers' bill for advertising hits $136 million this year.
  
MW: Foxtel, 3 years total income $6.0Billion, 3 years tax payable $0
Rupert Murdoch's US empire siphons $4.5b from Au business tax-free

 My friend and I had been camping in SA and been requested to pack and go.
We had been asked to leave the park as soon as possible.
On our return trip, we witnessed the damage caused by the storms.

Twitters v ABCnews + MSM biased  
 
7 Dec 2018 Your call, voters. An interesting thread started with Margo Kingston
 AIM Au Ind Media:  Bill tells Murdoch to walk the plank
23 Mar 2019
Rachel Baker:  Alice Workman has joined the Australian.

22 Mar 2019
Is Alice Workman with the Australian?
 
my note on Emma Husar case, 31 July 2018
 
20 Mar 2019
NSW election on Saturday
19 Mar 2019 nsw election campaign
NSW Libs lying about NSW Labor preferences
11 Mar 2019 14.03 AEDT  nsw election campaign
TheGuardian: Alan Jones donates $10,000 to PHON.
Denise on the interview of Latham #60mins
  
5 Mar 2019
The journo / newspaper (under the Liberal Party ex-Treasurer Peter Costello's watch
 
The journo shifted from the Australian to theSMH

Petition: Sack Alan Jones and the SCG Trust
1 Mar 2019  
Gone away and I am back.

8 Dec 2018  Federal Politics
 
 
 
Yes, a reminder of (1) the Winter break then (2) Pose for camera shot with the 'backdoors' folders
 
8 Dec 2018 Gu Australia 's war on encryption: the sweeping new powers rushed into law
 
Rallies across Australia against Adani coal mine in Qld
 
6 Dec 2018
ABCiview: Just watched Bill Shorten's interview on abc7.30pm and it is quite relief that the encryption backdoor bill has not been passed. The govt shut down the House of Reps because they didn't have the numbers to win divisions. Parliament resume to be in 2019 February
Same here.
 
 
Message today?
 
5 Dec 2018  Federal Politics
Rec 3 (2.4) of the encryption backdoor bill. 
The exclusion of ICACs from access to encryption data 
A reminder of (1) the photograph of Peter Dutton posed with the two folders with names of CB and TB, (2) the recent case of the former NSW opposition leader, and (3) Emma Husar MP with all the allegations against her by media. Here's the story
Many of us are suffering. The Libs, the Greens and Murdoch MSM inc.ABCnews? are trying to tear ALP apart. Still not too late..  
 
Unbelievable with what is going on in parliament. The #aabill debate is on, but there is no docs  tabled. 
 
 
Its greatful to have F Onthemoon on #auspol. Great work and a big thank you
Thread with F Onthemoon
 

Listen to the tech sector

4 Nov 2018 
 'The devil is in the detail of govt bill to enable access to communication data'. Murdoch rags interfering. In the best interest of the nation, in the best interest of all ordinary Australians, those MPs concerning security should not support the #aabill. Please do the right thing to stop the coaltion's chance to pass it. A reminder: NSW state election and the federal election are just weeks away from now.
 
L pix from MW investigation journalism
R pix from Media Reform debate in 2017 (Murdoch rags interfering..)
  
 
3 Dec 2018  
Who to believe? Mark seems a reasonably decent guy, I know via #auspol
  
SMH: Benefits from big data at risk from untrustworthy, bungling politicians
 
Who watches the 'watchers'?
 
Looks like this #aabill still being debated if it to be passed or not in the final week of parliament sitting of the year. Its a rather complex bill and I have no doubt why the govt is in rush. Soon there will be two major elections: NSW state election in March and the federal election in mid May 2019. Based on all the info I have gathered and my close watch on this issue, I'd say that the govt has been of lying and continuing to spread all the bullshit of fear stuffs. 
22 Nov 2018
It was the time before the winter break. Why rush it now before the festive season?
31 Oct 2018
IA  Liberal Party harnesses i360 big data in time for 2019 Federal Election
 
Also, check this out too!
 
 my #AABill post and my Metadata post
 Leadership spill.  
The Liberal party wants to follow the Labor's 2/3 leadership rule
A leadership (an elected PM) change can only be taken place with the support of 2/3 of the party room.
1 Dec 2018
ABCnews: Labor knocks back new encryption bill
Labor gets my support on this to protect encryption. Any backdoors breaking is at risk
 
smh 'Obviously dangerous': Labor doubles down on encryption bill with freedom warning

30 Nov 2018
... so depressing with what took place in the HoR yesterday (the 66 - 68 motion of the status of the untrustworthy + incompetent + chaos govt. Sadly supported by Murdoch MSM), 
 

get back on track (after a show of rights to protest) and don't forget the two big bills: the #AABill (defend our civil liberties) and a federal ICAC (to stop corruption in order to build trust in politics). Be aware
 
  
Read article  Quite likely, senior (gallery) journos (how many?) have been on the list and/or the social media - monitoring list. Wondering who watches the watchers?
Also, check out my #AABill post and my Metadata post
23 Nov 2018
Metadata (laws passed on 27 Mar 2015) continued. Karen Middleton follows the work of  
Jonathan Holmes  A chilling step closer to Australian secret police 
29 Nov 2018  
'confidence and supply' motion: 66 - 68. A test for the expanded crossbench
in return for his confidence and vote when required. 
 
 
  
 
 
 
fyi, Bill Shorten's speech. Honestly, I have not been a fb user 
 
 
(L) Pic from #auspol some months ago. Still strong support, I think..
 
Thread: A water license and an Aboriginal land agreement required.
 
 
21 Sep 2018
The Age:  Rinehart's $2.7 billion court case against Victoria rejected
Its great to hear that The Supreme Court in Melbourne rejected claims by oil and gas company part-owned by mining magnate Gina Rinehart.  Go Victoria.
 
 6 Apr15 MW: Rupert Murdoch's US empire siphons $4.5b from Au business tax-free
Gu: ATO has released tax and income details for 1904 entities operating in Aus
NEWSabc: ATO names large companies that paid zero tax in 2014-15

fyi 
28 Nov 2018  
Federal politics
 
New minority parliament
The maths lesson for Christopher Pyne 
  
 
27 Nov 2018 
2019 sitting days schedule: Only 13 days between now and May 19.
Listen to the expert (when speaking truth - do their jobs ethically). The following was commented on the Victorian Polling Night, when Daniel Andrew made a historic win!
 
'Protection racket'
Murdoch MSM out throwing strawberries 
 
 
Sleeping Giants Oz V News Corp. Thread
The link to the above thread removed on 1 Dec 2018 due to an inappropriate app ad.
What's going on in the HoR?

Julia Banks quits the Liberals and immediately joins the crossbench
New MP's maiden speech. The winning of Wentworth byelection turns the govt into a minority one.
 
(L) Dr Kerryn Phelphs -  (R) Julia Banks
  
 
Spot on:
 

There have been calls for Dutton to be referred to the High Court
  
26 Nov 2018
 A FEDERAL Integrity Commission with teeth model preferred
 
 
#auspol news on nswICAC
23 Nov 2018
Seconded. Can recall what Shorten said. Will be finding my collection of his statement/s.
 
 Morrison Govt released Financial Statements
 
22 Nov 2018
Gu: Bill Shorten unveils $15bn energy plan to help tackle climate 'disaster'
  French submarine boss summoned to Canberra for crisis talks
 
Talks on 'L' and 'R'. How about win-win = L + less R 
 Opinion on policies
 
21 Nov 2018  
What is happening in federal politics right now?
 
People are really fed up with the lib government (3PMs +3Deputies +3 treasurers + failed budgets from 2013-2018). No trust at all in this government the government that backs their donor mates, the big end of town and attacks the poor, the disavantaged, the age... With the recent byelection results, the government is facing a hung parliament. Hence, there have been forces to get rid of untrusworthy politicians. This is what we are seeing:
Another politician is Dutton, who has been in charge of Home Affairs ...
#auspol re: powers over encryption
 
 
18 Nov 2018
Dirty politics going on re: Joyce preselected as a candidate for the next fed election
States (Vic 24 Nov) and Fed elections coming. Use your iq to assess...
 
 
13 Nov 2018
Katharine Viner: 'The Guardian's reader funding model is working ...
3 Nov 2018
MSM - 'The truth goes to die'
 
2 Nov 2018
Former Race Commissioner Tim Soutphommasane Vs Sky News Outsiders
2 Oct 2018
smh The Australian fined $155,000 for contempt in Setka case
 CFMEU secretary John Setka outside court in May after the charges against him and deputy Shaun Reardon were dropped.
19 Sep 2018
FR:  Rupert Murdoch to Kerry Stokes (in August): 'Malcolm has to go'
"I can make money under Shorten and the CFMEU," Rupert Murdoch told Kerry Stokes in August. 
ScoMo does not want to talk about Murdoch/Kerry Stokes politics.
Has Murdoch broken this law by interfering in a political process as a foreigner? Show thread
4 Sep 2018
NewsCorp v Rudd re: RC into Oz media ownership...

 31 Aug 2018
Gu:  GetUp's Carla McGrath ousted from press council after pressure from News Corp
GetUp! deputy chair Carla McGrath
27 Aug 2018
 smh: Rudd savages Abbott and Murdoch for wrecking Australian democracy
 Mr Murdoch does not run a news organisation, but instead, "operates as a political party, acting in pursuit of clearly defined commercial interests..."
"In Australia, as in America, Murdoch has campaigned for decades in support of tax cuts for the wealthy, killing action on climate change ..."
Chris Uhlmann said 'Jones, Hadley, and "Sky after dark" presenters such as Peta Credlin, were "players in the game" to depose Mr Turnbull'.  Rudd calls for a Royal Commission into ...

26 August 2018
The Liberal Party and The IPA
 
 
 
25 Aug 2018
Rupert Murdoch, The Libs and Our Lives
 
 The new PM's day one: to invite Trump to Australia
Gu: Tony Abbott faces calls to quit after Liberal leadership carnage  
 
 10 Aug 2018  Ugly trial
Cartoonist, MDavid
 
Gu 14.23:  Emma Husar sexual harassment allegations 'not supported' investigation finds
9 Aug 2018 MT #shameless talk again today  re: AWU raids. Turn on youtube to watch & listen ...
 #auspol:  #Shameless Turnbull talks... Show thread
 8 Aug 2018
Emma Husar can't take it any more, all the allegations against her from media.  
She would not re-contest the next federal election.
Labor supporters + twitters react: why Husar? why not Michael Cash? or
Barnaby Joyce? Good luck with your book release.
6 August 2018  New Politics:  The political assassinaiton of Emma Husar
SMH: Emma Husar has spoken out about the allegations against her and
 
5 Aug 2018 FYI:  Labor Code of Conduct 5. Confidentiality and Privacy 
Labor - Important Documents such as Party Docs, Reportable Donations ... can be found here.

3 August 2018 IA  Media Ethics breached: How BuzzFeed killed natural justice

Info collected from #auspol after By-elections
Support for Emma Husar in the wake of media bias
  
 
  
31 July 2018
Allegation - What does it mean?
and Parts of why & how news were started
  


 
Murdoch Press behind? 
Un-seat Emma Husar to get Lindsay back for Fiona Scott
 
 
  

 

Reform needed.  Emma Husar speaks out
 
 
  
  
 
 

  

 9 Aug 2018
Support the move
Skynewsaustralia screens around Melbourne CBD stations to be removed. Click on to see who and who and why..
6 August 2018
Craig Emerson   
Additional info 
 
26 July 2018
Inside Story with Margaret Simons: The end of Fairfax as we knew it
Nine’s takeover is the logical outcome of bad media policy, and we’ll all live with the consequences
 
The combined Nine–Fairfax business will be run by Nine CEO Hugh Marks (right) and 
current Nine chair Peter Costello (left), shown here after the company’s 2016 AGM. Dan Himbrechts/AAP Image

Gu:  Nine's Fairfax takeover: what is the deal and what will it mean? 
25 July 2018
IA:  By-election bias - how Rupert Murdoch runs all of Australia's mainstream media
 
24 July 2018
MW Mainstream media has swallowed the government's latest PR stunt on tax...
  
  

Media Release from Labor 
Re: S&P Issues Scathing assessment of Turnbull's Multi-Technology NBN Mess
 
  
 
 
Cheryl Kernot has a question for Dutton, 
who flies to Adelaide on ministerial travel allowance to help Downer.  
In the case of Husar,
Denise Allen reminds us of ..

and Kailani Mana adds on ... and the list goes on ...

Fake news from AFR front page re: NEG will save household $550 per year. Show thread
 Here's real news from energy transition specialist, simon holmes a court via ABC The Drum
also fyi 
 
Based on recent experience living in a small van, I support solar energy storage. 

13 June 2018
 
 
 
8 June 2018
 Michael West:  The billionaire threatening to sue me

16 May 2018
 
Sources I have collected 
   
 
 
 
15 May 2018
 David Marler:  Ch7 Brisbane was fooled by Qld LNP 
 
27 Apr 2018 The Age:  Channel Nine faces $50k fine for use of 'Anzac' in cash giveaway

25 Apr 2018
The front page of The WA
  
Ethics of the LNP media 
 
16 Apr 2018 
Interested in real investigative journalism and news free of personal or commercial agendas?
Donate to IA and/or 
8 December 2017
The Age: Big firms including News Corp, Exxon and Chevron paid no tax in 2016, Tax Office says
NewsCorp Income $2.9 bn, Exxon Mobil $6.7 bn and Chervon $2.1 bn 
7 Dec 2017
 
16 Nov 2017 
auspol is not...
 
13 Nov 2017
MW:  Paradise Papers: media ignores the real tax culprits
 Paradise Papers: media ignores the real tax culprits
11 Nov 2017
5 Nov 2017 
Who watch/es the watcher/s?
 
 
3 November 2017
Qld votes, Northcote by-election, Manus all happening. Why??
 
Labor Statement re: citizenship crisis and government cover-up
 
Bill Shorten:  The citizenship crisis must end
Julia Gillard: News Corp Australia reporters wasting their time asking me
about my citizenship
 
 
30 Oct 2017  
fyi:  "In Search of Good Government" book by Laura Tingle
  
Its time by Peter Martin, the smh 1 Nov 2017 
20 Oct 2017
20 June 2017  Penalty Rates
The vote on the amendment from double rate down to one and a half rate was lost 72-73. George Christensen crossed the floor to vote with Labor to save penalty rates cuts from Fair Work Commission last night.

13 Oct 2017
Gu:  Coalition demands ABC publish list of staff earning more than $200,000

12 Oct 2017
 
 
Agree. Have pics and note from the 2016 federal election night
 
  
Mals show was late. He fired up blaming Labor for 'mediscare'
 
18 September 2017 
Victoria To Have Nation’s Strictest Donation Laws
  
Victoria's leading the way to fight corruption.  It's time.
Keep doing good job, Premier.  

IA:  Corruption under Malcolm Turnbull: Going for the all-time world record
   
Here is the link to Investigative journalism that needs your support. 
Good news to hear that ten creditors vote in favor of CBS bid

17 September 2017  Insiders 
 
 
16 September 2017

 
 
fr:  Rupert Murdoch's News Corp is ATO's top tax risk
Understand why the opposition leader, Bill Shorten has been aimed at by media monguls. 
Clearly recent twitters from Rupert Murdoch and Mark Riley prove it

 

Gu: The new media ownership law doesn't address the real crisis journalism is facing
Read more
  
 
 
 
 
 
13 September 2017   Media Reform
 
 
 Read more
 
#BoycottMurdoch, 
 
 
 
 
Cross bencher NickX has let people of Australia down again.  One of his previous hand shakes with Turnbull government was to support the re-establishment of the ABCC, whose boss Nigel Hadgkiss resigns due to breaking workplace law 
 
  
 
11 September 2017  
 GetUp!
 








"The department says it has 82 communications staff, 
22 of whom are dedicated to its "24/7 media operations", including social media."
23 July 2017  Insiders program 
Investigative journalism - Turnbull $30 million 'payment' to Murdoch
 
19 July 2017  Media reform deal
ABCnews: Fox Sports' 30m budget funding brought into question
Gu: Government declines to explain 30 million handout for Foxtel's sports broadcasting
 
 
 
 
Gu: Rupert Murdoch empire's receives $882 million rebate from Australia

17 July 2017  Cyberbullying
Gu: Let's treat online abuse as a public health hazard

12 July 2017 
 
Gu: More Australians follow politicians on social media due to mainstream dissatisfaction - rpt
5 July 2017 
 
What is behind - the two-out-of-three? Good luck to you, Bill.
4 July 2017   
Media reform/deals reducing license fees
 
1 July 2017 
 
30 June 2017
7.18 AEST gu: Australian politics live podcast

28 June 2017
17.25 AEST gu: News Corp is a 'disgrace' and should not get hands on Ten, former manager says

 22 June 2017  Politicians on social media live podcast
Gu: More Australians follow politicians on social media due to mainstream dissatisfaction - report
21 June 2017
APC appoinment
19.30 AEST gu: Press council chair quits after personal attacks over GetUp appoinment
The Age: Media organisations stand by GetUp appoinment, a seat on the national press watch dog 

15 June 2017
1.00pm IA: Media reform and the Murdoch's mafia Chanel 10 con

8 June 2017
#auspol: Murdoch newspapers+UKvotes, sport betting ads, and Aus media ownership law

 
31 May 2017 20.19 AEST
gu: Communications minister refuses to rule out splitting media ownership reform bill
  
19 May 2017 the NBN, the ABC and Au politics 
 
From me the phone was hacked? a tech contractor was arranged? and
in the wake of budget 'drug test' and 'the bug in the air', the politics post has been blocked.

13 May 2017 Media Reform
 
 
 
Part of Article in The Conversation 12 May 2017
'Why media reform in Australia has been so hard to achieve' by Tim Dwyer, Syd Uni 

6 May 2017  Media reform package announced by the government. 

 Trump and Turnbull invited to a party in NY hosted by Murdoch yesterday 5 May

29 May 2017 13.32 AESTgu: Trump, fake news, and shrinking newsrooms:
 does journalism still matter in 2017  by Margaret Simons
14 May 2017  Federal Budget
Pollies, Media Reform/Package and 'Drug Tests' on trial
Interesting findings via Insiders. Pollies and reporters inc. the presenter Barrie should be tested? Here are a few I saw and heard on the program:
 
 'Do nothing budget' Treasurer!
and in relation to the political reporter and author guy. Sorry can't remember the name. I could not stop laughing with his comment on 'single parent' benefits based on an article on Sunday Mail.
Was this on trial?
 
"Who will test the drug testers"?

19 May 2017 5.12am The Conversation: How Trump could be removed from office
16 May 2017 Case of Rod Culleton in The high court
29 April 2017 
Have not read all news and a quick look around including #Metadata finds:

'WARRANT Requirement' for silence. 
They had a 'presser'? on Friday at 4.00pm?.
 Go Anna Johnston. Her article on 2016 census
 
 
I support independent and quality news

 
The list of more than 60 agencies is found late today 1 May 2017
(the link to the list on the ABC was open yesterday and is blocked this evening)

15 April 2017 
gu/journalism  Almost anyone can use the www to be a media outlet, so 
how will we differentiate between truth, myth & lies? 
by Margaret Simons, the director for Advanced Journalism.
13 Dec 2016    
Fake news as a distraction + bully + unethical standard
 
29 August 2016  
gu/media ownership
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18 May 2017 Reforming Victoria's Fire Services
Fire Sevices in Victoria are restructured. Learn more about the reforms
22 August 2016  #auspol    
Media ethics re: cfa

Media Entertainment & Art Alliance/Code of Ethics
Fact Sheet: The MEAA Journalist Code of Ethics 
Workplace Enterprise Bargain Agreement
 
 
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