tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post2038093861196949727..comments2023-12-06T00:23:28.790+11:00Comments on Press gallery reform: Commercial media, Pauline Hanson, and radical IslamAndrew Elderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04705844456819481896noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-72251443275338247042015-11-20T13:15:38.556+11:002015-11-20T13:15:38.556+11:00Spot On......
Then along comes Waleed Aly and he&...Spot On......<br /><br />Then along comes Waleed Aly and he's s game changer<br /><br />So proud that Melbourne can produce a show and a man like him in our media<br /><br />It's reflective of the city and it's people perfectly<br /><br />They have an outdated business model and sadly many older celebrities I've met are a little racist in their outlook<br /><br />Listening to 3aw its quite sad how Tom Elliott gets a gig because of his Dad<br /><br />Same with Sharri Markson and her p.r Dad<br /><br />There's a network of people who engage in greedy hypocrisy especially the m.s.m and allbof it's bells and whistlesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-26132291958360952572015-11-20T11:37:45.022+11:002015-11-20T11:37:45.022+11:00I do love that final paragraph, though.I do love that final paragraph, though.Helenhttp://castironbalcony.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-62980355212447003362015-11-20T10:03:11.145+11:002015-11-20T10:03:11.145+11:00I once thought that taking down Hanson was the onl...I once thought that taking down Hanson was the only good thing Abbott ever did, but it became clear in hindsight that he did it because he was moving into that same political ground and was just knifing a competitor.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-1590960550452626272015-11-19T18:43:09.954+11:002015-11-19T18:43:09.954+11:00That's irony, right?
Abbott's organising ...That's irony, right?<br /><br />Abbott's organising of, wait for it, "Australians for Honest Politics" was the key factor in Hanson going to jail.<br /><br />A nuanced view of politics in this (and any) country posits that there are no large homogeneous movements any more (if there ever were). Rather, there are alliances of electoral convenience and machiavellian trysts to achieve political outcomes. It's why sections of the CFMEU flirt with the Greens, why Joe de Bruyn is influential in the party of Penny Wong, why Dominic Perrotett appears on a ballot paper with Don Harwin, why Turnbull's cabinet includes Barnaby Joyce, why Phillip Ruddock wears an Amnesty badge, why Hunter Valley vignerons bankroll actions by anti-CSG blockaders, and so on and so forth, etc. etc. etc.<br /><br />The Right are no more a unitary monolith of thought than, say, the suburb of Maroubra. <br /><br />I remember One Nation, and I remember that much of its economic program could have been written by Whitlam's minister for Minerals and Energy, Rex Connor. It supported price fixing and other ideas anathema to anyone who has swallowed the TINA of market liberalism, just as the National Party of today would be unrecognisable to 'Blackjack" McKewen. Yup, things can change, even if the names stay similar, just ask George Crawford.<br /><br />That said, Summer's book is a good (or at least better than average) Australian history.<br /><br />And thanks for tweaking the layout Andrew, it took me back to the wild west days of HTML pre Dreamweaver (I'm looking at YOU! Takver!). <br /><br />Such, such were the joys.Lachlan Ridgenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-16995731960710033492015-11-19T10:52:09.862+11:002015-11-19T10:52:09.862+11:00Just one small quibble Andrew, your final paragrap...Just one small quibble Andrew, your final paragraph would be more accurate as,<br />(10 minutes of adds, cut to shot of Australian flag rippling in the breeze, 10 minutes of adds, then to shot of a southern-cross tattoo on a comely white female buttock, 10 minutes of adds). <br />Sorry to be pickyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-44125544310386593602015-11-18T20:31:35.031+11:002015-11-18T20:31:35.031+11:00It's been a long time since I read Anne Summer...It's been a long time since I read Anne Summers' <em>Damned Whores and God's Police</em> but I wonder whether - obviously with huge assistance from the msm - Ms Hanson has morphed into a God's Police figurehead. So obviously "one of us" - pale-skinned, blue-eyed, red-haired (Celtic or Scandinavian?) and so clearly agin everything the dinosaur RWNJs are agin that she just has to be the pinup gal.<br /><br />Despite everything abbott tried.<br /><br />It would be interesting to discover his opinion of the unflushable Hanson. I suspect he's all admiration of her ability to rort the electoral system.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16271403312041336358noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-48694214370513440542015-11-18T19:01:17.908+11:002015-11-18T19:01:17.908+11:00Thanks for switching from the white on black text ...Thanks for switching from the white on black text and orange headers. That was so noughties powerpoint that I was having disturbing flashbacks. BTW I agree with your premise regarding Hanson's disease.rhwombathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12965197378050915417noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-27194657062332386342015-11-18T18:30:48.177+11:002015-11-18T18:30:48.177+11:00It's all very quiet on the Western Front at th...It's all very quiet on the Western Front at the moment.<br />I wonder when the real squealing and screaming from the Right will start in earnest.Dave Chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08613111054135459691noreply@blogger.com