The people of Australia have rejected the divisive ideas of the right to the point that the only jurisdiction that retains a right-wing government in Australia is the smallest state in the land – and even in Tas this grip on power is waning. Yet even though the right-wing political parties in our country have been rejected by the population, they still run the country. The outcome of the Voice referendum concretely demonstrates that our country is currently being run from overseas, as a wholly owned subsidiary of NewsCorp. It illustrates starkly that the mainstream press in Australia is the actual right-wing opposition, not the LNP.
Consider that only ten months ago we were on the verge of being in solid agreement regarding the Voice to parliament. Eighty per cent of Aussies were agreed that it was a necessary measure to assist in aiding Aboriginal empowerment. But then NewsCorp decided it was not in their interests, so they decided the referendum would fail. Bad luck, Aussies.
Foreign commentators often voice their amazement that in Australia we have decided to allow an American citizen to not just own a media organisation, but rather own more than half of the entire media landscape in the entire land. But these critics generally happen to live in countries where there is an actually free press. Whereas, in Australia, we only get told what Rupert wants us to know, so we only get angry about the things that Rupert wants us to be angry about. So, these are matters that are simply never canvassed in our mainstream press.
Which brings me to the nub of this missive. Perhaps the failure of the Voice may be a tipping point? Perhaps it will bring to the fore some discussion regarding our incredibly debased media environment. Maybe – just maybe – the right-wing corporate media has over-played its hand this time?
In my eyes, the only potential silver-lining to this sorry story is that Aussies do not like to be conned. And in the days and weeks ahead a great many of those who voted ‘no’ to the referendum question will certainly realise that they have been sold a pack of bullshit by the corporate media. And not just one or two lies. It will soon become blindingly obvious to even blind-Freddy that the mainstream press in Australia has been spewing forth a veritable blizzard of utter bullshit for months.
The whoppers we have been told include that:
- Yes campaigners are racists.
- the Aboriginal population are just like all other Aussies.
- the referendum was a plot to entrench Aboriginal privilege.
- the Voice was a purely political proposition.
- the Voice would create a two-tier system.
- the Voice was created by the Labor Party.
- the Voice was created by the PM.
- the Voice would cause an eternal legal nightmare where every action of the government would have to be debated in the High Court
- the Voice would allow our Aboriginal overlords to hold the country to ransom by blocking every proposed development (even the building of a backyard dunny).
- the Uluru Declaration is actually a 26-page communist/socialist/fascist plot to force a treaty upon us all (that would grant the Aboriginal portion of our population the right to rule over everyone else).
- Australia has always been good and kind to our first nations people.
- welcome to country ceremonies are actually a declaration of exclusive ownership.
- the Voice referendum was a declaration of war.
- the LNP were always against the idea.
- the Yes campaign was intent on dividing Australia by race.
- the first nations people in our land do not need assistance, and
- the assistance currently being provided is far too generous.
Etc etc etc etc etc etc.
So we were fed lie, after lie, after lie. The zone was ‘flooded with bullshit’.
But I suggest it is going to be very difficult for these same mainstream press agencies to maintain this heightened level of deceit for very long. I think the failure of the referendum will prompt an awful lot of Aussies to ask why we continue to allow a far right-wing, foreign-owned corporation, to run our entire political agenda.
Perhaps it is just an optimistic dream, but surely these events will illustrate for a large segment of our population that Rupert Murdoch simply does not have the best interests of Australia at heart. That NewsCorp has been knowingly and deliberately stirring up hatred and dissention for commercial gain. That NewsCorp has been steadily and relentlessly importing into Australia all the same bullshit that has so scarred the American political scene for more than twenty years.
Perhaps the failure of this referendum will cause a growing percentage of the population to ask out loud why it is that after NewsCorp has been demonstrated in a US court room to be a knowing progenitor of lies and deceit, this organisation is still considered by our federal authorities to be morally and ethically fit to own and run most of our commercial media?
Perhaps more people will begin to ask why NewsCorp continues to enjoy special dispensations (from the medial laws regarding monopolistic practices) that Aussie corporations do not enjoy?
I feel that it is way beyond time that the NewsCorp family and their divisive and quite repulsive ideas were expelled from our country. This large right-wing monopoly was allowed to develop because successive Aussie governments were sold the falsehood that in the developing digital environment the only way to avoid the complete shutting down of large parts of the media was to allow the big players to get bigger. So, what has been the result? The big players gobbled up all of the small ones and then shut them down. As a result, we have allowed two huge right wing corporate monoliths to grow and devour the entire media sector. So, Australia now has the most centralised media environment in the entire world. Even fascist states gaze upon our media environment with envy.
It is way past time that we collectively informed our right-wing press agencies that they cannot continue to blatantly lie and not be held to account. That they cannot dictate to everyone in Aus what can and cannot be debated, and the tone of the debate. But I am not holding my breath. Fr’chrissakes, our cowardly Federal Labor government has simply sold their collective souls to Rupert and act like a pack of lapdogs. It makes me ashamed to be an Aussie.
Alternatively, we can just give up on this charade. We can simply install Mr Murdoch as our fascist overlord. It would certainly save a lot of time and money currently being wasted on pretending we live in a democracy.
Most of the world now looks on us as being a country full of unreconstructed racists. It is hard to disagree with this assessment. Thanks, Rupert and NewsCorp. Thank you Channel Nine. Thank you, Sky News. I am sure that in these newsrooms they will be partying late into the night. It’s hard to blame them. After all, they have once again demonstrated exactly who is running the country. All Hail Our Glorious Leader: Rupert Murdoch.
(Poor fellow my country.)
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Thank you, Dr Moylan, for stating what needs to be said loud and clear and often.
It is obvious that Murdoch has too much space in Australia. All it does is feed off the various sources it has in its hands and quotes only from them. Everything is right-wing and is repeated again and again as if it is the only thing which can be said.
Here are some topics which are discussed frequently in Murdoch outlets by different writers and from different points of view, but alternative or not the usual opinion – even if it has actually been debunked over and over.
Misreading climate change Misreading China Misreading Covid pandemic
Misreading fossil fuels Misreading renewable energy Misreading economics
Misreading Donald Trump Misreading Nuclear power Misreading electric cars
Misreading the nature and power of the Indigenous Voice to Parlliament etc etc
What is truly amazing is that there are people who pick up on even the most unbelievable nonsense on social media, people deceived by scams. People who claim’ fake news all the time. How is it not called out?
Beyond the current fake call against the Voice to Parliament, I an currently obsessed with the recent “human errors” seen storming in the AFL.
One where a player lept in front of a player coming from the other direction, hit the player on the body and the head, knocking the player out on the ground for two minutes. The umpire reported the offending player for an illegal action. Expected 3-4 week suspension. Tribunal trial for 4 hours. Offending player set free with no charge.
Or a player is held from behind by the neck – not one of the 4 field umpires picked the offence.
A goal is kicked near the end of a game. The goal umpire claims he heard the ball hit the post, but a film indicates the ball did not hit the post. Point only. The scoring team loses the match when they thought they had won it. How come? Just a human error?
I agree whole-heartedly! Turnbull has wanted a royal commission into media ownership in Australia for years – I think its time. Maybe the idea of a “free press” is now or perhaps as always been a 2 edged sword. Maybe, just maybe the press/media needs to be held accountable for all their stories with proof and research available; there needs to be much stricter laws for reporting – lies and falsehoods should be criminal acts. I do not want Australia sinking down the American plughole any further, Let’s get rid of the Murdoch family and all of their American right-wing style sycophants and replace it with balanced commentary with proper investigative reporting in our news and media.
Cross posting, Murdoch and the think tanks against the Voice… totally missed by media….not just on this issue, but many others for decades including climate science denial, avoiding carbon pricing by dog whistling refugees, immigrants and population growth via eugenics Tanton Network outlet (in US same Tanton Network shares donors with Koch Network)
And the transnational links identified by Turner of UTS, in ‘Silencing the Voice: the fossil-fuelled Atlas Network’s campaign against constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australia’, and picked up by Dembicki in DeSmog:
‘A Secretive Network Is Fighting Indigenous Rights in Australia and Canada, Expert Says. It’s all part of a global playbook from the U.S.-based Atlas Network to protect the profits of fossil fuel and mining companies, argues a Sydney researcher.’
A campaign to deny Indigenous peoples a voice in Australia’s national Parliament is using tactics similar to an earlier conservative legal battle against First Nations communities in Canada, a new research paper argues.
That’s no coincidence, according to the paper’s author Jeremy Walker, because think tanks linked to these efforts in Canada and Australia belong to a secretive U.S. organization called the Atlas Network that’s received support from oil, gas and coal companies and operates in nearly 100 countries.’
https://www.desmog.com/2023/10/10/a-secretive-network-is-fighting-indigenous-rights-in-australia-and-canada-expert-says/
Of course Atlas is ‘Koch Network’ i.e. locally IPA, CIS, AIP and Taxpayers’ Alliance, joined at the hip with Murdoch and LNP.
Here, here!
And what about truth in MPs (and their officers and agents’) political promulgations? After all it is a sin for them to mislead parliament.
It remains a sick and duplicitous joke by them against the ordinary Oz populace.
Peter Duckwit-Futton is bleating away on radio from parliament as I stay reduced by world and national events. Australia, a large geographical blob on maps, is a petty little scattered “lucky country” of inhabitants, hardly deserving of praise for being forward thinking, modern progressively or even clear in aim and purpose, What have we done and why? Have we a future which we actually control and shape? Is the scraped, gouged, pocked and pitted nation merely an object of filthy sport mostly for rich foreigners in corporate coercion and control? Let’s ask Mad misfit Murdoch and then do approximately the opposite…as for Dutton the spokesman for jackboots, helmets, supremacy and righteous self adoration, you could carve a better public figure out of ooze.
Services Australia bombarded me with debt letters and got thousands of dollars out of my pocket as a result of the anonymous decision which was then reviewed by another anonymous person. The formal review was conducted by a “delegate or authorised officer” instead of an authorised review officer. Services Australia also demanded me to return the whole rent assistance I was receiving for over a year. I was fully eligible for the rent assistance, as I met both of the requirements – I was receiving Jobseeker allowance and paying a private rent. As a result of the review, they waived over $3600 due to “special circumstances” (they found out I was paying rent).. A few months later, Services Australia demanded me to pay back my rent assistance again. They are well aware that I was fully eligible for the rent assistance but they need my money.
I complained to a large number of government officials. None of them helped me or stopped the abuse. Someone please get a response from Australian Council of Social Services (ACOSS) why they allow this. I suffered a significant financial loss and it impacted my health. The most vulnerable people may lose their life as a result of the scheme..
The failure of MSM is quite apparent. We see it daily in the totally banal questions that their so called reporters ask people who hit the news as they are leaving courthouses, offices, getting out of cars, questions like ‘are yo sorry for what you did? Are you going to apologise to that person and other equally stupid, air-headed questions designed to ‘get the grab’ rather than get the nub of an issue. They think that’s journalism and all the while they are playing to the tune of the murdoch preferred style of sensationalism. I’m reminded of a story I read about a Journalism professor who, when lecturing to his Journalism students said, ‘when one person says it’s raining outside and another person says it’s not raining, your job isn’t to give them equal time, your job is to go to the fucking window and look outside!!’. Sadly, it seems clear, that is not what we get from our MSM and even the ABC who are so driven by the ‘equal time‘ mantra that they are prepared to give anyone a platform no matter how extreme, how outlandish or how mendacious their claims.