yes, everyone advocating for passing of the current NEG is motivated by politics, strategy, ignorance or fatigue. i’m looking for anyone who’s looked under the hood who honestly reckons it’s good policy or that it’ll do what’s written on the tin.
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The media focus on gutter journalism with Emma Huser is another failure. They refuse to expose NEG in any detail as a political fix & another failed Turnbull policy. Crowe at Fairfax writes that politics beat the NEG
Newscorp are calling Frydenberg brave. Then there's Ullmann
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Most journos seem addicted to the notion that virtue lies somewhere in the middle of any disagreement. To say that one side of politics is just plainly wrong or ill-intentioned seems to be constitutionally beyond them.
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Thanks for illustrating my point.
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So the pendulum swings back and forth. At what point does it swing so far away from the centre that someone decides to take away people's right to vote?
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1) I’m talking about how the sides are reported, not about whether it’s good that they exist. 2) The sides aren’t equivalent. Take the USA. The extremists on the right include actual Nazis. The extremists on the left want universal healthcare and free education.
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On point 2, those "actual Nazis" are regular people in their real lives. They buy groceries, feed their pets, look after their children, pay their taxes. Just objectifying them is not very useful. The question is how to counter their ideas effectively so they stop being Nazis.
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Actual Nazis also bought groceries, etc. During the late 1930s and 1940s, it was found that the most effective way of addressing their “ideas” was by defeating Germany in WWII.
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Yes Bernard, you can tell what it’s about when you see Peabody Matt was there
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Spot on. Also fascinating & very sad to clearly see which senior journalists are prepared to lose all integrity in complete lockstep with this dreadful, cruel & broken Government
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The LNP are not a party that cares about creating policy that works - NBN is a prime example. They tell people government cannot work, do anything right, only the private sector can, so when in power they prove themselves right. The NEG was designed to be NBN Mark II
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Precisely. They care about selling things to private sector mates, and creating a poison chalice for the change of government
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One gets the feeling many pundits have forgotten the Finkel Review, which was supppsed to fix this mess.
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Yeh..exactly...too many journos exhibit pathetic compliance thus complicit in
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Their employer sets the tone of what's written - and no media owner inAustralia has actual journalism on their agenda. Only political manipulation to promote the side of polotics which hands out
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