Thread by @KerynR_Artist

@MargaretSimons @theage Margaret you make very good points and your reporting on the tower lockdowns was truthful and unbiased.
But why many of are mad as hell is because we have seen the destruction and bullying of pollies and former PM Gillard who faced years of relentless smear campaigns etc

@MargaretSimons @theage Yet when Abbott got in he was allowed to get away with numerous scandals, rorts and incompetence without scrutiny. Credlin the mastermind behind the Great Big Tax admitted later that it was propaganda. This is why mining/oil vested interests are wrecking our farms and environment

@MargaretSimons @theage Turnbull wrecked Australia’s NBN leaving us a third world country with slow speeds and hobbled our IT and tech sector. They wrecked Labor’s good NBN policy because of partisan politics. Almost no media scrutiny, no hard questions of LNP. A huge opportunity for Aus squandered

@MargaretSimons @theage Then we got the evangelist ex marketing man who is a puppet of the lobbyists and LNP factions. All he can do is deliver press releases and make LNP advertisements. A couple of tame journos ask Dixers then he rushes off. If he doesn’t like the Q he rejects the premise and is NOT

@MargaretSimons @theage EVER HELD TO ACCOUNT even by smart ABC tv presenters! There’s no equal treatment. Lies are not called out or reported.
Angus Taylor and Barnaby have not been held up account for their lies, rorts and vested interests. Taylor and fam are millionaires bc of water stolen from Murray

@MargaretSimons @theage Darling. Farmers have lost their livelihood while Big Ag cos are damning and stealing water to grow RICE in a drought prone country where water is precious! Rice grows in paddies or swamps e.g. in Asia, our close neighbours with high rainfall. This causes drought and exacerbates

@MargaretSimons @theage Climate change, which despite all the “debate” and our powerful cabal is CC deniers, is a FACT.

Media frequently trot out the “renewables can’t power industry” “wind farms cause blackouts” propaganda. Since 2013 our govt continues to try and kill renewable energy and subsidises

@MargaretSimons @theage Coal and gas so a few rich ppl get richer. Adani will not provide anywhere near the jobs the GBR and tourism would provide. Money goes offshore to Cayman Is accounts not to our economy!

Media get bored and move on. No one is held accountable

I’m getting tired of typing but

@MargaretSimons @theage Let me just mention 2 more points:
#RubyPrincess quarantine bungle. What’s the point of Dutton having a billion $ home security mega dept if they can’t protect us from a deadly virus that has decimated other countries since early 2020? We knew about it but fake news denying

@MargaretSimons @theage It was any more than a “flu” was widespread by media. Dutton and Scotty passed the buck and scapegoated nsw and Gladys. Again NO JOURNOS holding those responsible to account.

Compare the hour long grilling of Andrews for the past 40? days. Relentless headlines: Dan’s disaster

@MargaretSimons @theage Quarantine “bungle”
LNP MP Tim Smith (and many others) jumped on the Dictator Dan “we need to open for the economy” BS in March then pivoted to “ankle bracelets for covid + citizens” “Dan should call in the army” a couple of weeks ago
Repeated ad nauseum on Sunrise and their ilk

@MargaretSimons @theage (Don’t forget Sunrise is responsible for bringing Hanson back into our parliament, stirring up racism and the white supremacists in a multicultural country with immigrants from everywhere)

Are you tired of reading yet? I’m so sad for my country as I see the rich and their

@MargaretSimons @theage Tame pollies, aided by our mainstream media destroying our communities and encouraging hate (Cronulla)

I’m tired of seeing racist cartoons in the Oz then defended by the free speech warriors
Who dox and bully anyone whose views they disagree with, beating their chests about

@MargaretSimons @theage their rights are being infringed upon by “bleeding heart virtue signallers” and Chardonnay socialists from their megaphones and sky “news”

Yet again, Margaret, no mainstream media calls out this dangerous bullshit or grills Hanson or Jones or Bolt about their racism or lies

@MargaretSimons @theage Where is the balance?
Where is the truth?
Who is exposing the lies, deceit, and callous disregard of our public servants to the people of Australia?
Anyone who raises these hard questions gets hounded and bullied by the pack (eg Yasmin)
#thisisnotjournalism /end rant #auspol

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