Trump's comments "generated hundreds of repetitious articles" indeed. I clicked on that link to see the repetitious articles. The AFR has to take the cake for its headline: "Indiscreet Rudd has only himself to blame for Trump outburst". I thought placating bullies only made their bullying behaviour worse?
No, Rudd will continue as US Ambassador until such time as his position becomes untenable. That may happen IF Trump wins in November, AND decides to freeze Rudd out of the Washington circuit. But we're mature adults, we can deal with it then.
The media approached this story in the same way they dealt with the 'conversation' Dutton says we have to have in this country about nuclear power. Make the statement the headline, give no background facts, frame it as a he-said-she-said debate (or, in the case of the Liberals, he-said-he-said) and focus on the political consequence for one or other major party, rather than the substance or merit of the argument.
Rudd tries to get a Royal Commission into Murdoch and a Murdoch stooge feeds a question to Farage to stir shit and the Murdoch media then blows it up, the Liberals scent blood in the water and go on the offensive and the rest of the legacy media, ABC included, follow suit as they always do in response to the confected outrage generated by the angertainment branches of the Murdoch empire.
Cracking article TD, very powerful & one that is fundamentally and absolutely foundational to any action to combat CC, inequality, biodiversity loss, housing shortage etc. Any efforts, studies, initiatives, policies are useless until people are free to see & choose. Is, perhaps the evolution of a Lib/Lab duopoly just the congealed product of vested interests from corporations, career politicians, media barons, foreign govts etc getting what they seek - a subdued and captured market who think they have no choice?
What you write about the Lib is intriguing: 'It’s a bit like what has happened to the Liberal Party. Having lost all those “teal” seats to community independents, you would think the party would be listening to the voters in those electorates trying to win them back.'
Are we witnessing the destruction of one half of the duopoly by vested interests with the intention of creating another which can recapture its supporters?
Or is it a chance to have a crack at 'real' democracy with a minor Labor with Teals/Greens/Indies govt driving policy debate?
Trump's comments "generated hundreds of repetitious articles" indeed. I clicked on that link to see the repetitious articles. The AFR has to take the cake for its headline: "Indiscreet Rudd has only himself to blame for Trump outburst". I thought placating bullies only made their bullying behaviour worse?
No, Rudd will continue as US Ambassador until such time as his position becomes untenable. That may happen IF Trump wins in November, AND decides to freeze Rudd out of the Washington circuit. But we're mature adults, we can deal with it then.
The media approached this story in the same way they dealt with the 'conversation' Dutton says we have to have in this country about nuclear power. Make the statement the headline, give no background facts, frame it as a he-said-she-said debate (or, in the case of the Liberals, he-said-he-said) and focus on the political consequence for one or other major party, rather than the substance or merit of the argument.
Rudd tries to get a Royal Commission into Murdoch and a Murdoch stooge feeds a question to Farage to stir shit and the Murdoch media then blows it up, the Liberals scent blood in the water and go on the offensive and the rest of the legacy media, ABC included, follow suit as they always do in response to the confected outrage generated by the angertainment branches of the Murdoch empire.
The funniest thing about it is that Trump obviously doesn't have a clue who Rudd is, and Farage isn't much better informed.
Cracking article TD, very powerful & one that is fundamentally and absolutely foundational to any action to combat CC, inequality, biodiversity loss, housing shortage etc. Any efforts, studies, initiatives, policies are useless until people are free to see & choose. Is, perhaps the evolution of a Lib/Lab duopoly just the congealed product of vested interests from corporations, career politicians, media barons, foreign govts etc getting what they seek - a subdued and captured market who think they have no choice?
What you write about the Lib is intriguing: 'It’s a bit like what has happened to the Liberal Party. Having lost all those “teal” seats to community independents, you would think the party would be listening to the voters in those electorates trying to win them back.'
Are we witnessing the destruction of one half of the duopoly by vested interests with the intention of creating another which can recapture its supporters?
Or is it a chance to have a crack at 'real' democracy with a minor Labor with Teals/Greens/Indies govt driving policy debate?