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Hitting Uncle Rupert where it hurts

Kevin Rudd is my favourite living former prime minister of Australia. I quite liked him as actual PM, and was sorry when he was smashed out of office by a coalition of big mining companies and the powerful trade unions that didn’t like his plan to make Labor a more broad-based party (my opinion, that). I was always dubious about those alleged internal ALP polls that claimed his popularity had plummeted and which formed the basis of the coup that replaced him with Julia Gillard. As journalist Alan Ramsay wrote back then, Labor destroyed two prime…

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Not ashamed of much. Australian PM Scott Morrison (photo by Kristy Robinson) and NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian

Shame about democracy . . .

Somebody wrote a few weeks ago how shocked many Americans had been to realise that shame was the only thing that had been protecting them from political tyranny. The writer meant that the only reason, until now, that no US president or political party had pulled the stunt of stacking the Supreme Court with a last-minute appointment, as Donald Trump has done, was that they feared the shame it would bring on them. Same with all the voter-suppression dodges the Republican Party pulled out of the hat this year. While voter-suppression isn’t new in the USA,…

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Giving somebody else’s money to your best friend.

The best gift you can give, apparently, is the one you don’t own. That seems to be the Australian Government’s attitude to the Murdoch media empire, which could gain about $1billion a year under the government’s proposed scheme to force Google and Facebook to pay media corporations for sharing their content. The government claims it is pushing this law on the basis on fairness and equity, but who could honestly believe that, coming from the same schmucks who engineered Robodebt, and who put the scam-meisters of the gas industry in charge of Australia’s alleged Covid-19 response?…

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