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Noting this by @sophieelsworth - as one of the 2 or 3 non Bolsheviks who occasionally goes on the ABC [@parnellpalme is largely sound vs @TerryBarnes5 who is a Whig...], you do actually get a fair run, it is just that the ABC's focus is (well) to your Left
theaustralian.com.au/business/media…
To be fair to the ABC: it feels it is under a perpetual siege from the sort of libertarian meth-addict/crack-head wing that thinks the ABC wil be privatised (it is the mirror of the Greens thinking Australia will go off fossil fuels & exporting resources). Then there is Hendo.
One worries that the ABC will now massively over-correct in a weird way - it will go from 'lunatics running the asylum' to trying to rebalance by having some Coalition MP on to discuss hanging employees who want to work from home or miracle new cures they read about on Facebook.
Sir Robert Menzies described the ABC as "our enemies talking to our friends". Menzies was alive to the problems of the ABC leaning Left but at the same time he would have been worldly wise enough to see the obvious value of the national broadcaster in a country like ours.
The ABC does great journalistic work - its recent expose series on the 1979 Luna Park fire was superb - and its actual news channel is pretty straight. Some of its shows need to go - people only watch Insiders as penance - and some inhouse talent needs rapid advancement.
I have criticised the ABC on its handling of the Christian Porter matter (or more accurately its staff) but the management at the ABC would, I think, regret this happening
Will finish this thread by saying that the ABC does need some tinkering but, as I have said before, the Right really does, too. In office, Menzies, Fraser, Howard, were very conservative men. But they were never yahoos or foaming crazies. They turned up & fought the good fight.

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31 May
Seeing a lot of very bad Vietnam War takes: the Vietnam War was an allied military assistance mission to the Republic of South Vietnam & in a place that did matter, strategically. There are many arguments for the Vietnam War that cannot be made for the Iraq & Afghanistan wars.
There was always a legitimate Augustinian case for the military effort in Vietnam as it was assisting an already free government in South Vietnam to resist a foreign communist insurgency (the subsequent 2+m refugees bear this out). This was not Iraq or Afghanistan (at all).
The more affluent Baby Boomers concocted the hippy/protest culture to evade conscription for Vietnam. As soon as conscription for Vietnam ended, so, too, ended Boomers protesting that war & so did most of that Hippy culture. The Vietnamese's war still went on. Never be fooled.
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So what exactly was the ABC doing, then? 'We intended to higlight inequities in late 1980s school debating?' How absolutely bonkers this all is now.
The ABC says that no damages are being paid. This statement does not mean that the ABC has not agreed to pay Christian Porter’s legal costs - in addition to the costs of the Mediation that the ABC is already paying. Can anyone clarify?
The ABC says here it is only paying the "mediation costs" - but are these only the cost of the Mediator? The ABC's own mediation costs? Or the costs of the mediation, ie including Christian Porter's mediation costs?

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30 May
FTR: no one who is Catholic understands how Boris was married Catholic. But all of you who are asking, mostly pruriently, have your own various messes to work out in fear and trembling as well, trusting, as we all do, in the mercy of a gracious God etc.
“I cannot believe Boris Johnson was married Catholic to the mother of his child” says nominal Protestants who voted for gay marriage ....
“Repent” etc etc ad infinitum, should be the order of the day.....in a parallel universe St Thomas More may have issues but suspect he would be happier that Boris has married the mother of their child. Hopefully Boris grows up now ....
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30 May
Good morning all & OTD in 1916, the Battle of Jutland commenced in the North Sea between the Royal Navy's Grand Fleet & the Imperial German Navy's High Seas Fleet. It would end indecisively albeit the German fleet would not challenge the Royal Navy's command of the sea again. ImageImageImage
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The hammering of the puffer jacket demo is due to the media making out in 2018-2019 that the Coalition losing the birkenstock Bolshevik/Buddhist currency trader demo had any electoral significance. Which it did not. In fact you probably want to lose that demo realistically
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As this month of May ends, sounder people reflect on its upheavals, including that ultimate "Ingrate Boomer" moment, May 1968, when feral students etal protested & rioted in, of all places, France, and against all people, the greatest French President, General Charles de Gaulle.
One of many reasons why General & then President Charles de Gaulle is so crucial a figure in French history is that he understood his role, as the leader of WW2's Free French, was to, 'Reconcile the Right with the French Republic and the Left with the French nation.' #MyPresident
As so often happens, it seems, in the 1960s, esp France, the generation that went through WW2, often raised in or around the carnage of WW1, had a massive cultural gap with some in what are now Boomers, who would scoff at their elders' culture and morals personified by de Gaulle
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