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30 Dec 21, 4 tweets, 1 min read
John Menadue: "Many of our political, bureaucratic, business and media elites have been on an American drip feed for so long they find it hard to think of the world without American global hegemony" - johnmenadue.com/the-united-sta…
"A major voice in articulating American extremism and the American Imperium is Fox News and Rupert Murdoch who exert their influence not just in America but also in the UK and Australia. Fox News supported the invasion of Iraq and is mindless of the terrible consequences.
"Rupert Murdoch applauded the invasion of Iraq because it would reduce oil prices. Fox and News Corp are leading sceptics on climate change which threatens our planet.
"But it is not just the destructive role of News Corp in the US, UK and Australia. Our media, including the ABC
,are so derivative. It is so pervasive and extensive, we don’t recognise it for its very nature. We really do have a ‘white man’s media’. We see it most obviously today in the way legacy media spew out an endless daily conveyor belt of anti-China stories."

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29 Sep 20
40 ships missing off Sydney!
“I cannot have Australians who need what's on those ships being held on those ships, 40 of them out there. You can go down to Port Botany or down to Kurnell and have a look out there and you can see them lining up,” PM Morrison claimed today.
You know that line about if someone says it’s raining and someone says it’s not, it’s not journalism to report them both but to stick your head out the window to see if it’s raining? If anyone stuck their head out of the window in Botany they would not see ships lined up at all.
But let’s not let facts get in the way of a convenient Prime Ministerial spray. Militant unions, Labor, extortion, so on and so forth. It’s been a long time since a Liberal leader has had a union head to kick, so the opportunity is not to be missed.
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15 Sep 20
In the Zhenhua Drawing an Extremely Long Bow competition, we have a winner: come on down, @mcranston1 afr.com/policy/foreign…
"In the case of Dr Lowe and Dr Debelle, charting their patterns of behaviour, their public speeches and any inclusion of social media (neither have Twitter accounts) – can build profiles that have predictive powers."

(Gee, Phil and Guy would love to have predictive powers)
"Spoof accounts of Dr Debelle exist on Twitter, frequently fanning the flames of seemingly mundane debates about achieving inflation goals. That's the sort of discord it might like to see."

@god_debelle blown & confesses, handle has changed to CCP Agent Provocateur God Debelle
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18 Mar 20
Thus far, Treasury & RBA have shown a lack of imagination, the small scale of their actions indicating they didn't grasp the size of the crisis & were behind the game even as they announced their first steps. They've realised their mistake...
thenewdaily.com.au/finance/financ… ...but the
big question now is how far they are prepared to go tomorrow to correct it.
Do they have both the imagination and nerve to make the big leap to instill a some confidence by getting ahead?
Odds are RBA will be predictable and mimsy - 25 points and QE bond buying. That's not...
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Hard to know which is funnier/sadder about this story: that it shows if there's one thing more important to the LNP Gazette than the LNP, it's fossil fuel companies; or how loathe the government is to come to terms with the PRRT transfer price rort; or how anyone run a...
page one lead that is credibly 100% denied in the body copy, never mind all its content being seriously old, except for updating the gratuitous gas company lobbying.
There is the odd laugh along the way, e.g. trying to equate PRRT changes with Labor's resources rent tax, but...
perhaps funniest is: "Major LNG producers in Western Australia are alarmed at the prospect of an increase in their tax burden".
When you're paying SFA tax now, it's hardly a burden.
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16 Jan 20
As a tease for tomorrow morning's column & for those old enough to remember her Uncle Barry ( @PhillipAdams_1 ) -

The Adventures of Bridget McKenzie
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She's got a political thirst, you can do your worst...
When they tap McKenzie she'll be in there first
It's no use Barnyard you'll never win
She's a better man than you are Gunga Din

Bridget...Bridget...Bridget...

The adventures of Bridget McKenzie
Dinky di tales of Coalition
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