On my way to work this morning, I was apalled by a story on the ABC.
Yes, that lefty ABC, which Andrew Bolt insists needs to be closed down because it keeps reporting things like the investigation into George Pell. I mean, it has to be a pretty terrible institution when one of the great supporters of free speech in the country objects to what it says.
But, even though it’s a left-wing media arm of the Trotskyite Mexicans who don’t understand that Donald Trump made sacrifices like becoming a billionaire. Sorry, but to disgress for a moment, did you see the exchange between that Muslim parent in the USA and Trump, where the father spoke at the Democratic Convention about his son who served and died for his country? Apparently – when Trump made a couple of quite reasonable comments about his wife not speaking because she wasn’t allowed to – the father suggested that Trump hadn’t made any sacrifices for his country. Trump pointed out in a interview that earning lots of money was a sacrifice and that creating jobs was a sacrifice because, under US law, he had to give some of his money to his workers. Fortunately, in his run at the presidency, there’s a lot of people prepared to work for him, for nothing.
I digress. The ABC reported about the terrible situation in South Africa:
“MICHAEL BRISSENDEN: Apartheid in South Africa ended 22 years ago, but South Africa is a country still healing a lot of wounds.
One of the policies aimed at helping to rectify past wrongs is called black economic empowerment.
It imposes quotas on government positions, ensuring black South Africans are appropriately represented in the public sector.
But there is an unintended by-product. More and more white South Africans are finding it tough to get a job and are living in poverty.
Africa correspondent Martin Cuddihy reports.
MARTIN CUDDIHY: In the middle of winter on the Highveld the temperature regularly drops below freezing.
A young man in a beanie and fleecy jumper is working to fit a bumper on an old car.
Around him white haired children play with cheap plastic toys in the dirt. They’re speaking what black South Africans call the language of the oppressor, Afrikaans.
About 300 white people have made a community at Munsieville. It is a slum. There is no electricity here, and to have a hot bath you have to light a fire under a 200 litre drum of water.
Nellie Maritz lives here with her three month old daughter. They share a two room corrugated iron shack with a dirt floor.”
Outrageous, isn’t it? I mean, if black people in South Africa were living like this then we’d have a story on the left wing ABC about it. But because it’s white people, we’re being asked to just accept it. That is the tone, isn’t it? That white people are living like this, so it serves them right for not doing more to ensure that nobody had to live like this.
Typical ABC. Don’t they know that if you don’t want to live in poverty then you have to go out and make some other bastard live in terrible conditions? Or else you can join Hillsong and the Liberals will look after you.
Then, driving this afternoon, I happened to hear Raph Epstein’s interview with the caretaker Prime Minister. I suppose that’s still his title, as he seems to be waiting to find out who’s actually going to be next Liberal leader before doing anything. Whatever, he was on the top of his game, defending his decision to appoint a Royal Commissioner who resigned quicker than the State’s raising their own income tax was taken off the table earlier this year. However, when he told us that “children are our future”, I think the ABC missed on opportunity to ask him to sing the longer version.
When he talked about the very high level of consensus, I wondered if one can be a little bit pregnant.
But it was when he moved on to Kevin Rudd that he was at his most compelling. As he said when asked about whether he had led Mr Rudd to believe he’d support him, “Mr Rudd has always understood…I’m not going to be getting into this…ah…ah… debating Mr Rudd about his…look, he and I have had discussions that have touched on this over a long period of time.”
Anyway, Turnbull told us that he’d informed Mr Rudd in May that he wouldn’t be get either Cabinet’s – or his – support. Which does raise the question: why did Turnbull then say that he needed to inform Mr Rudd before making the announcement just last week? He asserted today that he’d already told Kevin.
Curious.
Anyway, the PM finished off by telling us that it was important to have a strong economy and that their plan was to have jobs and that they’d get them by having growth and that jobs come from growth and that some people want to work part-time but they wanted an economy where everyone could work as much as they like.
Nup. Sadly, none of this is made up. It’s just what happened.
And curiouser!
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