What power always does is reveal. (more…)
Most political colonies have come to an end. But a colonial mind set continues in the media. (more…)
John Menadue
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Gough, Rupert and the London job.
“The prime minister was spotted at the media empire’s Holt Street offices on Wednesday, when, we’re told, Albo, Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles and Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong met News Corp cochairman Lachlan Murdoch and senior editors of the media empire’s Australian mastheads”.(SMH 26 August 2022) (more…)
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The truth about Gough Whitlam, Murdoch and China
With more than 90,000 views, this interview that Jordan from the Friendly Jordies conducted with John Menadue in 2020 was received with much praise from viewers. “This dude is like 70 and he gets the current landscape more than people half his age”, writes one, “This man is a primary source, if I ever have to write a history essay on Aussie politics in the 70’s I have this interview right here I can quote”, writes another”. (more…)
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Northern Australia is becoming a US military colony
Julia Gillard delivered a gushing speech to the American Congress in March 2011. Then eight months later she agreed to US Marines in Darwin. (more…)
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Barilaro-State government overseas offices are waste of money
The States should stick to their knitting and stop deluding themselves about their overseas role. (more…)
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John Menadue: The Ukrainian / Zelensky propaganda war
Amnesty International has just released a report that drew attention to Ukrainian violations of International Law in its war with Russia. It quickly became a footnote in the propaganda war. (more…)
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Is the Liberal Party abandoning war talk on China?
Is Dutton also preparing to shift ground? (more…)
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US military colonisation continues —- To be updated—JM
The UK is preparing to transfer the sovereignty of Diego Garcia to the US and we are preparing Cocus Keeling for US military use.
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Our dangerous ally could drag us into war with China.
The most likely way we could get into a war with China is if we continue to act as a proxy or deputy sheriff for the US in the region. Nancy Pelosi is doing her best to provoke China. (more…)
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NATO has an overriding institutional commitment to its permanent existence, if not expansion
This is a comprehensive, sobering review by Jonathan Cook who concludes that Washington’s greatest fear is that, as its economic muscle atrophies, Europe’s vital trading links with China and Russia will see its economic interests – and eventually its ideological loyalties – shift eastwards, rather than stay firmly in the western camp. (more…)
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It’s time for a Human Rights Act for Australia. We have waited too long
Our record in protecting our human rights is being seriously eroded in many areas -the right to silence, the right to a fair trial, the presumption of innocence, freedom from cruel and inhuman treatment and freedom from arbitrary detention. (more…)
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The scourge of lobbyists and a role for the Greens and Teal. A revised post from Jan. 3 2022
Regulation of the way we manage lobbying in Australia is an even more important issue than a National Integrity Commission. The lobbying of governments around the world by the fossil fuel industry is a major reason for the Climate Emergency we now face.. (more…)
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A memory jogger that China and Australia once were allies. ( A slightly amended post update from September 7, 2014)
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sought to draw Australia into his enmity towards China and he did so in the Australian parliament recently. Unfortunately Tony Abbott allowed himself and Australia to be drawn into Shinzo Abe’s agenda of hostility to China which is not in Australia’s interest. (more…)
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Will the Greens be smarter this time
The Greens will have more seats in both houses of Parliament. That is welcome. But in the past they have not used their power wisely. The perfect became the enemy of the good. (more…)
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Media Watch and the Election 2022
After what has been described as a turbulent campaign, often devoid of vision, ABC’s Media Watch dissected the coverage and behaviour, and whether it swayed the final result. (more…)
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How Anthony Albanese as Prime Minister could rewrite the script
Below is a repost of articles which we posted earlier on guidance for a new government on important policies. (more…)
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If I were the Minister for Health
I would progressively wind back and eliminate the $14b pa taxpayer subsidy for Private Health Insurance and use that very large sum to fund the inclusion of dental care within Medicare and increase the funding to the states for expanded specialist services in outpatient clinics at public hospitals. (more…)
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The Murdoch media has gone rogue again in the 2022 election (Updated repost from 27 Oct, 2017)
Denis Muller puts it this way in The Conversation (more…)
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The repeated lie that Morrison stopped the boats. An updated repost from March 11, 2021
Our corporate media will not acknowledge that Tony Abbott and Scott Morrison did not stop the boats. Despite clear evidence, the Canberra Press Gallery fell for the spin. With a tame media and cooperation by the military, the big lie was repeated time and time again and became accepted as fact. This was all before Donald Trump and his big lies. (more…)
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Privatisation and the hollowing out of Medicare by the Morrison Government
The Coalition has for years been undermining Medicare. Bob Hawke was correct at the last election when he said that the Coalition was aiming to privatise Medicare. It was not a scare tactic as some unthinking journalists keep saying. The Coalition has been privatising by stealth for years our universal health care system. (more…)
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Brett Wilkins: Jimmy Carter says that the US is the ‘Most warlike nation in the history of the world’
The only US president to complete his term without war, military attack or occupation has called the United States “the most warlike nation in the history of the world.” (more…)
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Our democracy is decaying from within. A repost from 16 September 2021
We need a summit of community leaders to help chart democratic renewal. (more…)
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The Saudi involvement in 9/11
The FBI has quietly revealed further evidence of Saudi government complicity in the September 11 attacks. But the full story is yet to be told. (more…)
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A tale of two hospitals in Iraq and Ukraine
Until lions have their own historians, their history will be that of the hunters (more…)
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Changes at Pearls & Irritations
From Tuesday 15 February Michael West Media and Pearls & Irritations will be going separate ways. (more…)
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Russian Congress of Intellectuals..An Open Letter to the Russian Leadership.February 4, 2022
Our position is simple: Russia does not need a war with Ukraine and the West. Such a war is devoid of legitimacy and has no moral basis. (more…) -
Society has to create the framework in which business works — not the other way around
Business leaders — and the politicians that enable them — must be put on notice that they must serve society, not the other way around.
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Big Media’s diet of deceit and diversions
A small group of elites determines what ordinary people do not see or hear. (more…)
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What a shambles: a tangled net for Scott Morrison and Novak Djokovic
The debacle surrounding the tennis ace is good media fodder. Chiefly, it shows that Morrison’s right hand does not know what the left hand is doing.
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