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May 3 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
With a Labor win now looking more likely in #AusVotes22 one niggling question is why News Corp is still running daily & increasingly hysterical interference when we know the wily Murdoch rarely backs a loser. A couple of theories: 1/5
One is that Lachlan, not the nonagenarian Rupert, is now running the show. Unlike the pragmatic business savant father, Lachlan sincerely believes the neo-fascist culture wars schtick promoted daily by his Fox stable of far right opinionators & their Sky News tribute bands. 2/5
A second theory, and related to the first, is that the News Corp mastheads are in far worse shape financially than the official story suggests. All they have left is their ‘influence’. This election is their final chance to prove themselves, and the Murdoch heir, kingmakers. 3/5
The fact is Lachlan has a lousy record as a media titan, going back to the One Tel and Ten Network debacles. He has been given one last chance to show his dad that the ‘force’ is still with the Murdoch name. And the Australian election may well be the test. 4/5
If Labor win this election, after all the unapologetically distorted ‘coverage’ thrown at them in the News Corp ‘outlets’, everyone will see, finally, that the emperor has no clothes. And that, to quote Keating, really will be the sweetest victory of them all. 5/5

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Apr 27
Ouch! Australia just posted a 5.1% annual inflation rate - housing costs up 6.7%, education up 4.7%, food and alcohol up 4.3%, transport up 13.7%
Maybe one of the travelling journos wants to ask the PM how young people can just "go and buy a house" when rents are going up well ahead of overall inflation and far outpacing wages growth of 2.5% - rents rose 11.3% in Darwin in the last year, 9.7% in Perth, 5.9% in Hobart.
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The big issue in media coverage of the first week of the election campaign has been the media itself. Social media provides a behind-the-curtain view, allowing the public to see that journalists are not objective outsiders but are implicitly part of the machinery of politics. 1/5
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Apr 11
Journos say Albo’s ‘gaffe’ was unforgivable miss the point. Yes, within the ‘rules of the game’ as the media-political class plays it, Albo should have been able to recite the numbers, just as Morrison should have known the price of a loaf of bread. 1/6
In the game as it is played in Australia, a professional politician, properly briefed, should be able to recite these factoids. We get it. But journos arching up over this are missing the point. It is the game itself that is in question. 2/6
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Apr 11
To the media working itself up over Albo not knowing the cash rate, if you asked Biden what the fed funds target rate was he wouldn't know either. Neither would Boris Johnson know what the BoE bank rate was. This is not their job. They are politicians, not technocrats. 1/5
This 20-questions brain-dead media 'gotcha' game plays into the myth that the government "runs" the economy, with the PM sitting behind a big machine flipping dials like the Wizard of Oz. 2/5
If we wanted technocrats to 'run' the economy we would leave it to boffins in Treasury and the RBA. But democracy is a contest about moral choices, not about who knows the most economic variables off the top of their heads. 3/5
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What do those who plan to vote for the LNP on May 21 expect them to deliver? Climate action? Wages growth? A stronger economy? Improved governance? Better treatment of women? More reliable healthcare? Investment in education? More secure global relationships? 1/8
What is the LNP’s record on those issues? Climate action? They have actively sought to support the interests of the fossil fuel industry. Wages growth? We have had none for a decade. The economy? Business investment has collapsed, public debt has soared. 2/8
Improved governance? The LNP has pissed away billions with no oversight, stacked boards and pork barrelled marginal seats with bogus projects that had zero follow-through. 3/8
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May 19, 2019
As we brace for the predictable editorials sneering at ‘the inner city left’ and and how they don’t understand the grass roots interests of ‘rural and regional Australia’ and the ‘ordinary people’, here are a few thoughts. 1/8
The fact is that just as with Brexit and Trump, legitimate grievances about economic injustices against working people and those on the rural fringes are being conveniently redirected toward cultural issues and a resentment of ‘elites’. 2/8
How it is ‘elitist’ and ‘leftist’ to care about the planet? To end tax rorts that favour the old & well-heeled over the young & struggling? To argue against protecting banks at the expense of savers? To champion the separation of church & state? To argue for good governance? 3/8
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