8chan/8kun QResearch AUSTRALIA Posts (3)
#20405625 at 2024-02-13 08:45:39 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #34: UNITED AGAINST THE INVISIBLE ENEMY OF ALL HUMANITY Edition
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ABC Indigenous Affairs editor Bridget Brennan is under investigation after controversial comments on Australia Day
SOPHIE ELSWORTH - FEBRUARY 13, 2024
The ABC ombudsman is investigating controversial comments made by Indigenous Affairs editor Bridget Brennan in an Australia Day news report where she declared to viewers the country "always was and always will be Aboriginal land."
Managing director David Anderson said on Tuesday the taxpayer-funded broadcaster had received numerous complaints about Brennan's comments but he stood by her on-air remarks that she made to ABC News Breakfast host Michael Rowland in a news segment.
"Bridget is a journalist ...'always was always will be' is a common term that's been used by companies and been used by many people to reflect that we have the oldest living continuous culture in this country," Mr Anderson told Senate Estimates.
"It is not a statement of intent, rather it is a statement that is commonly used.
"I think that when that cross happened to Bridget, that Bridget was reflecting the perspective that she was encountering while she was there (at the Wugulora Ceremony at Barangaroo in Sydney)."
Senator Hollie Hughes quizzed Mr Anderson about the comments made by Brennan, a Dja Dja Wurrung and Yorta Yorta woman, and said they did not reflect the views of all Aboriginal people.
"It's her view, so I'm trying to understand at what point does the editorial standard of journalistic behaviour kick in," Senator Hughes said.
"If they want to be commentators, great, let's just say commentators, they are not journalists, they are not reporting the news ... they are reflecting their own opinions."
In another cross later in the day Brennan said to Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council spokesman Nathan Moran: "It's been a pretty rough year for our mob hasn't it."
Under the ABC's editorial guidelines it states that independence must apply in the gathering and presentation of news and information to ensure it is impartial.
Brennan was contacted for comment.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/media/abc-indigenous-affairs-editor-bridget-brennan-is-under-investigation-after-controversial-comments-on-australia-day/news-story/94c6ba5c24b9f881bf73f560b15d4d76
#20300007 at 2024-01-25 11:29:50 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #34: UNITED AGAINST THE INVISIBLE ENEMY OF ALL HUMANITY Edition
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Stunning revolt back against political, corporate garbage
ROBERT GOTTLIEBSEN - JANUARY 25, 2024
Something very different is happening in Australia, and it has caught many political and corporate leaders on the wrong foot. Two of the leaders caught by this change, Anthony Albanese and Woolworths chief executive Brad Banducci, may have woken up that they had missed the change.
This week we saw remarkable events emerging to underline the drama taking place below the surface as leaders grapple with the 2024 Australia which different to what they had expected.
In my arena I decided to collect 12 key policies of Donald Trump simply to explain to readers, including myself, what was happening below the public Trump bluster and court battles. I made a minimum of comments on those Trump polices which cover issues like migration, crime, gender, buying a house, tax cuts, tariffs, local manufacturing and of course lower energy costs as the carbon debate is turned on its head.
To my astonishment, it sparked a reader frenzy. While the drawbacks of Trump were clearly expressed, the majority of readers embraced his policies with enthusiasm and urged Peter Dutton to copy them. And, of course, none of the Trump policies involved Indigenous Australians or Australia Day. Some invited Trump to come to Australia. They wanted clear policies and leadership.
A special Roy Morgan opinion Poll, shows a majority of Australians (68.5 per cent) now say we should keep celebrating Australia Day - up 4.5 per cent from a year ago - and the date should remain at January 26 (58.5 per cent)
As the largest supermarket retailer, the Morgan poll conclusions represented Woolworths' customers at a time when a large number of those customers are angry at supermarket prices. Clearly, Woolworths executives had lost touch with their customer base.
Wisely, Banducci took out full page advertisements that in my view represented: a "correction" and of course used all the other media channels to convey the same message.
It was classic damage control.
Then, in a most surprising decision, the Prime Minister announced that Kim Williams would be the new chair of the ABC.
Like Woolworths, the ABC had not realised the fundamental change taking place in its customer base.
I know and respect many ABC journalists, and I am not into ABC bashing. But rightly or wrongly, a big segment of its audience took the view that it was biased and they turned away. (The danger Woolworth faced).
Williams is one of the most forceful media executives in the land and when he says that he wants to restore the ABC reputation for unbiased credibility, and then he will do it. And if necessary, he will do it forcibly.
Albanese must have realised that appointing Williams as the ABC chair will mean that he and his ministers will face a lot more encounters, like the clash between the ABC's Michael Rowland and the Prime Minister over the tax cut "promise".
It is just possible the ABC will point out to its audience that the industrial relations bill before the Senate provides a smokescreen for an attack on mortgage and rent stressed people which, if passed, will offset the benefits they will receive via the tax cuts.
It's not an issue Albanese wants highlighted.
As my readers know Albanese by making employing casuals too complex with big fines for mistakes, he effectively stops casual employment which, if legislated, would deliver a 25 per cent cut in take home cash for those who desperately need it. And the smokescreen also extends to an unprecedented attack on the main employer of those under rent and mortgage stress, family business and greatly damages the gig economy which those under stress use to find second jobs to cover their payments.
Williams will demand that both sides of all events - not just the tax cuts and Aborigines - be fairly set out for the ABC customer base which, like the Woolworths customer base, represents the entire nation.
Commercial media needs to watch out because under Williams they face a very different ABC. But we must acknowledge that the Albanese made a decision to "rescue" the ABC in the full knowledge, but it could adversely impact portrayal of the government's policy stances and will create unhappiness in some sectors of the ABC staff.
For Dutton issues like Australia Day and tax cuts are relatively straightforward but in watching my readers embrace Trump's wider policy spectrum it became clear that the silent majority that turned their back on the ABC and expressed their views so clearly in the referendum and the Morgan poll have a much wider set of views which differ markedly from the views of sections of the government and large corporations.
Albanese has limited flexibility, and Dutton needs to decide how far to go.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/stunning-revolt-back-against-political-corporate-garbage/news-story/e5a6de05eb31e99c47f5a16c41cc9472
#13805067 at 2021-06-01 08:03:27 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #16 - INFILTRATION NOT INVASION Edition
NT News praised for Covid-19 vaccine front page
An Australian newspaper known for its witty front pages has pulled no punches with this simple message to unsure Aussies.
Natalie Brown - JUNE 1, 2021
The NT News has been praised for "doing the job for the Fed Gov" with its front page today, which calls on Territorians to "just get the damn jab".
As Victoria battles its latest Covid-19 outbreak, a harsh spotlight has been thrown on Australia's lagging vaccine rollout, and who's to blame for the hesitancy that a huge portion of people are feeling about getting vaccinated - with a third of the population saying they don't intend to.
"Firstly, I think we have been complacent," Defence Minister Peter Dutton told the Today show last Friday, when challenged over the fact that only a million Australians have received the jab.
"If you're living in London or New York at the moment and you've seen your 70-year-old next-door neighbour contract Covid and become very sick or die, if you've seen the devastation of thousands of people a week dying, then you've rushed out to get the vaccination, as a 60-or 70-year-old.
"Here in Australia, I think there is a level of complacency because people have said to themselves, 'Well you know, it's not here, we're not at risk, we're not going to get it, we'll wait.'"
Mr Dutton said the outbreak in Victoria "is really a wake-up call to the general community that we need to get the complacency out of the way, have the vaccination, the risk is very low, the capacity for the health system to deal with any adverse reaction is quite remarkable".
On its front page today, the NT News* echoed a similar sentiment, declaring: "The Covid-19 vaccines are safe. The health professionals say so. It's time to end the scare campaigns. The outbreak happening down south is a reminder how quickly this virus can spread. Your family, friends, the Northern Territory and the rest of Australia needs you. So, if you're eligible it's time to ... just get the damn jab."
Under an image of the front page shared by ABC journalist Michael Rowland on Twitter, there was the typical anti-vax rhetoric - but also a significant level of praise for the publication's blunt and efficient message.
"I think every paper in the country should run a version of the NT News on their front page," one user wrote.
"NT News has really nailed the front page! Go get jabbed if you're eligible!" wrote Labor MP Peter Khalil.
Others quipped that they're "doing the job for the Fed Gov", writing that "this is what we need, not [Greg] Hunt saying we can wait till the end of the year & maybe pick our vaccine of choice".
"Underlying this is the big question. Why is there no federal campaign? Why the total silence from them?" another social media user said.
Others said they would get the vaccine if it were actually available - which has been another argument levelled at the Federal Government almost since Australia's rollout began.
"Maybe it should read ... Government fails to procure enough vaccines to immunise Australians. AstraZeneca isn't suitable or recommend (sic) for everyone either, not enough Pfizer is the big issue," one user wrote.
Labor MP Ed Husic said on last week's Q+A that "there's no sense of urgency" from the federal government to get Australians vaccinated".
"We don't have a mass information campaign urging people to go out and get the vaccination. Because our belief is that with the borders being closed, 'She'll be right'," he said.
"That's not a good public health strategy. We need to have a firm commitment out of the government to encourage people to get the vaccine.
"We need to get quarantine sorted out. We need to get the vaccine production and manufacturing here done. We need to get our act together."
*NT News is owned by News Corp, the publisher of news.com.au
https://www.news.com.au/world/coronavirus/australia/nt-news-praised-for-covid19-vaccine-front-page/news-story/df45bc1608fbda54f45ae185ea8461d7
https://twitter.com/PeterKhalilMP/status/1399475557792837633