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Tuesday 23 October 2018
Prime Minister Scott Morrison and his Cabinet at the Wentworth By-election Debriefing
0:00.50-0:03.25
Every polling booth has
been wrapped in plastic
0:04.00-0:05.50
We took down their
posters everywhere
0:05.65-0:07.50
and put ours up, here
and here
0:08.00-0:12.00
The Blueshirts are out
in force on every street
0:12.10-0:15.50
It's been a show of
strength, we couldn't have done anything more.
0:17.50-0:19.00
The natural order has
been restored
0:19.00-0:21.50
Wentworth will remain a
blue ribbon Liberal seat.
0:24.75-0:26.50
Mein Morrison
0:27.50-0:28.50
There's been a swing...
0:31.00-0:33.50
...of more than 20% from
the LNP
0:34.00-0:36.00
Kerryn Phelps has won
0:53.00-0:58.50
All the leftards who
said we should run a female candidate in Wentworth, go outside with the women.
1:13.00-1:15.00
What is wrong with these
Eastern suburbs' bastards?
1:15.25-1:17.75
We are Wentworth's born
to rule party
1:18.75-1:23.25
This is a nightmare:
Independent, Jewish AND gay.
1:25.25-1:28.00
And to top it all off,
she's a woman!
1:29.25-1:31.00
It's like the
politically correct quadrella from Hell!
1:31.50 - 1:34.00
We have held this seat
since federation
1:34.751:37.75
That's 1901, long before
lesbians were even invented!
1:37.50-1:40.50
I thought she wasn't
running because she had HIV, why is she even here?!?
1:40.50-1:42.75
That was just a vicious rumour we
tried to start last week.
1:42.75-1:46.25
Well now we're as
popular as needles in strawberries... with chlamydia
1:46.50-1:48.80
We were trying to appeal
to the party's conservative base
1:48.80-1:52.00
Why not something clever
like, "Wentworth, where the bloody hell are you?"
1:53.00-1:54.50
We got our tax cuts
through, 5% unemployment,
1:56.00-1:57.75
we gave everyone a bagel
1:57.75-2:00.50
and every surf club a
pile of money, except for that schmuck at Tamarama.
2:00.50-2:03.50
No soup for you, Mr ALP
surf club president Tim Murray!
2:04.50-2:08.00
We risked WW3 moving the
Israeli embassy to Jerusalem
2:08.75- 2:13.50
and pissed off every
Muslim between here and the Arctic circle
2:14.00- 2:16.75
and despite ALL that,
they still didn't vote for us!
2:17.50- 2:21.75
We backed that ranga
clown Hanson that it's #oktobewhite
2:27.00-2:29.00
No-one told me Sharma
was Indian
2:30.50- 2:34.00
Tony and Potatohead
didn't think this one through
2:34.50- 2:36.50
Cash splash? It was like
a golden shower of cash!
2:41.00-2:42.50
20%? That's the biggest
swing
2:43.00-2:47.50
since they hung that wop
bastard Mussolini
2:48.50-2:53.00
I blame Halal Mal, his
traitor son and the Dickhead for Warringah
2:54.00-2:56.00
We're going to have to
lift our prayer game this Sunday
2:56.50-2:59.75
I grew up in bloody
Wentworth, my cop dad used to arrest lesbians
3:00.00-3:02.50
Why didn't they elect
us?
3:04.75-3:07.50
Don't give up Julie, you
might get Veterans' Affairs
3:14.25-3:16.25
It's all good fellas
3:19.25-3:23.25
Don't worry, keep your
chins up
3:25.55-3:26.75
We can reinstate Barnaby
as Deputy PM
3:31.50-3:33.75
We'll get the band back
together.
3:40.75-3:46.25
We exhumed John Howard
for this campaign, we could try Menzies next time
3:46.50-3:49.00
After all, I'm a
marketing genius, right?
3:53.75-3:56.00
It's not easy being a
white male.
Monday 22 October 2018
While I was away Australian Prime Minister and Liberal MP for Cook Scott Morrison........
....continued his Trumpification of the Liberal Party of Australia with predictable results.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison, aka Shouty McShoutface, October 2018
TIMELINE
1. Despite considerable public debate concerning the phrase "it's OK to be white", the Morrison Government supported this divisive white supremacist-inspired motion in the Senate on 15 October 2018:
Following strong community backlash Morrison and Co blamed their support of this motion on an "administrative error".
4. On the same day he announced a review of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) relating to Iran's nuclear program, in order to see if it remains the best vehicle to address the international community’s concerns. Signalling a possibility that before the year is out he will follow Donald Trump and withdraw support for the Plan.
5. On a bit of a roll, Morrison ended the day by throwing out the broad definition of science as the systematic study of the structure and behaviour of the physical and natural world through observation and experimentt - telling an audience peppered with published scientists that; the great magic of science, if you like. It starts with belief*.
7. He then went on to lose an unloseable by-election in the seat of Wentworth which had been held by Australian conservative MPs since its inception over 117 years ago in January1901. After campaigning for the Liberal Party candidate in this seat held by his immediate predecessor Morrison managed to produce a swing in Wentworth against his government of more than 19 per cent - possibly one of the largest loss margins in federal by-election history.
NOTES
* BELIEF 1. An acceptance that something exists or is true, especially one without proof. 1.1 Something one accepts as true or real; a firmly held opinion. 1.2 A religious conviction. 2. Trust, faith, or confidence in (someone or something)
Monday 15 October 2018
Australian Politics 2018: Liberal and Nationals hard right agenda revealed
It appears the rigid hard-right core of the Liberal and National parties, whose face for public consumption is Prime Minister Scott Morrison, thought that Australian voters would find it acceptable that the only people that religious institutions of any denomination would not be able to discriminate against will be heterosexual individuals and those born with absent or ambiguous secondary sexual characteristics.
Everyone else would apparently be fair game for every rabid bigot across the land.
Gay, lesbian, bi-sexual or transgender citizens and their children are not to be afforded the full protection of human rights and anti-discrimination law in this New World Order.
It doesn't get any clearer than the main thrust of the twenty recommendations set out below.
However, now the cat is out of the bag Morrison is backtracking slightly. Just hours after arguing schools should be run consistent with their religious principles and that no existing exemption should be repealed, Scott Morrison told Sky News that he was "not comfortable" with private schools expelling gay students on the basis of their sexuality.
Rejecting new enrolment applications by gay students was something he was careful not to directly address.
It should be noted that "not comfortable' leaves a lot of wiggle room to look the other way as state and federal legislation is either amended or new Commonwealth legislation created which would allow this blatant discrimination to lawfully occur.
Recommendations
found in the Religious
Freedom Review: Report of the Expert Panel:
Recommendation 1
Those jurisdictions that
retain exceptions or exemptions in their anti-discrimination laws for religious
bodies with respect to race, disability, pregnancy or intersex status should
review them, having regard to community expectations.
Recommendation 2
Commonwealth, state and
territory governments should have regard to the Siracusa
Principles on the Limitation and Derogation Provisions in the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights when drafting laws that would limit
the right to freedom of religion.
Recommendation 3
Commonwealth, state and
territory governments should consider the use of objects, purposes or other
interpretive clauses in anti-discrimination legislation to reflect the equal
status in international law of all human rights, including freedom of religion.
Recommendation 4
The Commonwealth should
amend section 11 of the Charities Act 2013 to clarify that advocacy of a
‘traditional’ view of marriage would not, of itself, amount to a ‘disqualifying
purpose’.
Recommendation 5
The Commonwealth should
amend the Sex Discrimination Act 1984 to provide that religious schools can
discriminate in relation to the employment of staff, and the engagement of
contractors, on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity or relationship
status provided that:
The
discrimination is founded in the precepts of the religion.
The
school has a publicly available policy outlining its position in relation to
the matter and explaining how the policy will be enforced.
The
school provides a copy of the policy in writing to employees and contractors
and prospective employees and contractors.
Recommendation 6
Jurisdictions should
abolish any exceptions to anti-discrimination laws that provide for
discrimination by religious schools in employment on the basis of race,
disability, pregnancy or intersex status. Further, jurisdictions should ensure
that any exceptions for religious schools do not permit discrimination against
an existing employee solely on the basis that the employee has entered into a
marriage.
Recommendation 7
The Commonwealth should
amend the Sex Discrimination Act to provide that religious schools may
discriminate in relation to students on the basis of sexual orientation, gender
identity or relationship status provided that:
The
discrimination is founded in the precepts of the religion.
The
school has a publicly available policy outlining its position in relation to
the matter.
The
school provides a copy of the policy in writing to prospective students and
their parents at the time of enrolment and to existing students and their
parents at any time the policy is updated.
The
school has regard to the best interests of the child as the primary
consideration in its conduct.
Recommendation 8
Jurisdictions should
abolish any exceptions to anti-discrimination laws that provide for
discrimination by religious schools with respect to students on the basis of
race, disability, pregnancy or intersex status.
Recommendation 9
State and territory
education departments should maintain clear policies as to when and how a
parent or guardian may request that a child be removed from a class that
contains instruction on religious or moral matters and ensure that these
policies are applied consistently. These policies should:
Include
a requirement to provide sufficient, relevant information about such classes to
enable parents or guardians to consider whether their content may be
inconsistent with the parents’ or guardians’ religious beliefs
Give
due consideration to the rights of the child, including to receive information
about sexual health, and their progressive capacity to make decisions for
themselves.
Recommendation 10
The Commonwealth
Attorney-General should consider the guidance material on the Attorney-General’s
Department’s website relating to authorised celebrants to ensure that it uses
plain English to explain clearly and precisely the operation of the Marriage
Act 1961. The updated guidance should include:
A
clear description of the religious protections available to different classes
of authorised celebrants, and
Advice
that the term ‘minister of religion’ is used to cover authorised celebrants
from religious bodies which would not ordinarily use the term ‘minister’,
including non-Christian religions.
Recommendation 11
The Commonwealth
Attorney-General should consider whether the Code of Practice set out in
Schedule 2 of the Marriage Regulations 2017 is appropriately adapted to the
needs of smaller and emerging religious bodies.
Recommendation 12
The Commonwealth should
progress legislative amendments to make it clear that religious schools are not
required to make available their facilities, or to provide goods or services,
for any marriage, provided that the refusal:
Conforms
to the doctrines, tenets or beliefs of the religion of the body
Is
necessary to avoid injury to the religious susceptibilities of adherents of
that religion.
Recommendation 13
Those jurisdictions that
have not abolished statutory or common law offences of blasphemy should do so.
Recommendation 14
References to blasphemy
in the Shipping Registration Regulations 1981, and in state and territory
primary and secondary legislation, should be repealed or replaced with terms
applicable not only to religion.
Recommendation 15
The Commonwealth should
amend the Racial Discrimination Act 1975, or enact a Religious Discrimination
Act, to render it unlawful to discriminate on the basis of a person’s
‘religious belief or activity’, including on the basis that a person does not
hold any religious belief. In doing so, consideration should be given to
providing for appropriate exceptions and exemptions, including for religious
bodies, religious schools and charities.
Recommendation 16
New South Wales and
South Australia should amend their anti-discrimination laws to render it
unlawful to discriminate on the basis of a person’s ‘religious belief or
activity’ including on the basis that a person does not hold any religious
belief. In doing so, consideration should be given to providing for the appropriate
exceptions and exemptions, including for religious bodies, religious schools
and charities.
Recommendation 17
The Commonwealth should
commission the collection and analysis of quantitative and qualitative
information on the experience of freedom of religion in Australia at the
community level, including:
Incidents
of physical violence, including threats of violence, linked to a person’s faith
Harassment,
intimidation or verbal abuse directed at those of faith
Forms
of discrimination based on religion and suffered by those of faith
Unreasonable
restrictions on the ability of people to express, manifest or change their
faith
Restrictions
on the ability of people to educate their children in a manner consistent with
their faith
The
experience of freedom of religion impacting on other human rights
The
extent to which religious diversity (as distinct from cultural diversity)
is accepted and promoted in Australian society
is accepted and promoted in Australian society
Recommendation 18
The Commonwealth should
support the development of a religious engagement and public education program
about human rights and religion in Australia, the importance of the right to
freedom of religion and belief, and the current protections for religious
freedom in Australian and international law. As a first step, the panel recommends
that the Attorney-General should ask the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human
Rights to inquire into and report on how best to enhance engagement, education
and awareness about these issues.
Recommendation 19
The Australian Human
Rights Commission should take a leading role in the protection of freedom of
religion, including through enhancing engagement, understanding and dialogue.
This should occur within the existing commissioner model and not necessarily through
the creation of a new position.
Recommendation 20
The Prime Minister and
the Commonwealth Attorney-General should take leadership of the issues
identified in this report with respect to the Commonwealth, and work with the
states and territories to ensure its implementation. While the panel hopes it
would not be necessary, consideration should be given to further Commonwealth
legislative solutions if required.
Because Scott Morrison made no secret of his dislike of same-sex marriage and his intention to make new laws protecting so-called religious 'freedoms'. he is now going to have a fight on his hands every single day until the next federal election - these recommendations have made that a certainty.
Thursday 11 October 2018
Religious Freedom Review Report: a curate's egg in the hands of an Australian prime minister who doesn't understand the definition of secular or why there is a separation between Church and State
"Australia
is not a secular country — it is a free country. This is a nation
where you have the freedom to follow any belief system you choose.” [Scott Morrison,
2007]
“Secular
[adj] of or pertaining to the world or things not religious, sacred or
spiritual; temporal, worldly.” [Patrick Hanks & Simeon Potter, Encyclopedic World Dictionary, 1971]
On 22
November 2017 then Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull announced the
appointment of an Expert Panel to examine whether Australian law adequately
protects the human right to freedom of religion.
The Panel’s Religious
Freedom Review Report was delivered on 18 May 2018, accompanied by a statement
that the report was now in the hands of the Prime Minister any government
response was a matter for him.
The
prime minister of the day is now the Liberal MP for Cook - a nakedly ambitious man
who uses his public profession of Christian Pentecostal faith as a political tool.
Until this
week the national electorate had no idea what the report might contain. It remained a closely guarded secret.
Which leads
one to wonder if the leak which came Fairfax Media’s way is in fact Morrison
preparing voters for what at best is highly likely to be proposed legislation which
attempts to extend the exemptions religious institutions enjoy when it come to obeying human rights and
anti-discrimination law and at worst an attempt to insert church into the heart of
state.
Religious schools would
be guaranteed the right to turn away gay students and teachers under changes to
federal anti-discrimination laws recommended by the government’s long-awaited
review into religious freedom.
However the report, which
is still being debated by cabinet despite being handed to the Coalition four
months ago, dismisses the notion religious freedom in Australia is in “imminent
peril”, and warns against any radical push to let businesses refuse goods and
services such as a wedding cake for a gay couple.
The review was
commissioned in the wake of last year’s same-sex marriage victory to appease
conservative MPs who feared the change would restrict people’s ability to
practise their religion freely.
The contents of the
report - seen by Fairfax Media - are unlikely to placate conservatives and
religious leaders, and will trigger concern within the LGBTI community about
the treatment of gay students and teachers.
The report calls for the
federal Sex Discrimination Act to be amended to allow religious schools to
discriminate against students on the basis of sexual orientation, gender
identity or relationship status - something some but not all states already
allow.
“There is a wide variety
of religious schools in Australia and ... to some school communities,
cultivating an environment and ethos which conforms to their religious beliefs
is of paramount importance,” the report noted.
“To the extent that this
can be done in the context of appropriate safeguards for the rights and mental
health of the child, the panel accepts their right to select, or preference,
students who uphold the religious convictions of that school community.”
Any change to the law
should only apply to new enrolments, the report said. The school would have to
have a publicly available policy outlining its position, and should regard the
best interests of the child as the “primary consideration of its conduct”.
The panel also agreed
that faith-based schools should have some discretion to discriminate in the
hiring of teachers on the basis of religious belief, sexual orientation, gender
identity or relationship status…..
The panel did not accept
that businesses should be allowed to refuse services on religious grounds,
warning this would “unnecessarily encroach on other human rights” and “may
cause significant harm to vulnerable groups”.
The review also found
civil celebrants should not be entitled to refuse to conduct same-sex wedding
ceremonies if they became celebrants after it was was legalised.
The review does not
recommend any changes to the Marriage Act. Nor does it recommend a dedicated
Religious Freedom Act - championed by several major Christian churches - which
would have enshrined religious organisations’ exemptions from
anti-discrimination laws.
“Specifically protecting
freedom of religion would be out of step with the treatment of other rights,”
the report found.
However it did recommend
the government amend the Racial Discrimination Act or create a new Religious
Discrimination Act, which would make it illegal to discriminate on the basis of
a person’s religious belief or lack thereof.
The panel said it had
heard a broad range of concerns about people’s ability to “manifest their faith
publicly without suffering discrimination”.
This included wearing
religious symbols and dress at school or work, communicating views based on
religious understandings, obtaining goods and services and engaging in public
life without fear of discrimination.
The report also
recommends federal legislation “to make it clear” that religious schools cannot
be forced to lease their facilities for a same-sex marriage, as long as the
refusal is made in the name of religious doctrine.
Prime Minister Scott
Morrison last month told
Fairfax Media new religious freedom laws were needed to safeguard
personal liberty in a changing society.
“Just because things
haven’t been a problem in the past doesn’t mean they won’t be a problem in the
future,” he said.
While the panel accepted
the right of religious school to discriminate against students on the basis of
gender identity or sexual orientation, it could see no justification for a
school to discriminate on the basis of race, disability, pregnancy or intersex
status.
“Schools should be places of learning, not breeding grounds of
prejudice. This looks and feels like a vindictive attempt to punish LGBTI
people for achieving marriage equality." [just.equal spokesperson Rodney Croome, 2018]
As is usual for this prime minister, Morrison fronted the media with half-truths and misdirection about the Religious Freedom Review Report, implying that the contentious matters within the report were already uniformly codified in law across all the states.
This is far from the truth.
As is usual for this prime minister, Morrison fronted the media with half-truths and misdirection about the Religious Freedom Review Report, implying that the contentious matters within the report were already uniformly codified in law across all the states.
This is far from the truth.
Sunday 7 October 2018
Scott Morrison presents his political agenda as prayer
Even in
public prayer Australian Prime Minister and Liberal MP for Cook Scott Morrison is
an overbearing specimen - at 1:09 mins into this video he interrupted Planetshakers' minister Russell Evans & took back the microphone in order to keep centre stage and complete what was obviously on his political agenda for the day - the re-election of himself and his government at the forthcoming federal election.
Saturday 6 October 2018
Quote of the Week
“Among
those things, he said, was a "fair go for those who have a go in this
country".
"I
think that's what fairness means in this country. It's not about everybody
getting the same thing," he said.
"If
you put in, you get to take out. And you get to keep more."
[Australian Prime Minister &
Liberal MP for Cook Scott Morrison
explaining why only affluent people matter in his version of Australian society,
9News,
6 September 2018]
Wednesday 3 October 2018
Next time a Liberal or Nationals minister ot backbencher starts to boast about how they are reducing national greenhouse gas emissions, look at this graph
It doesn't take a genuis level IQ to identify the point at which the Abbott and then Turnbull federal governments (with Scott Morrison as a cabinet minister in both) began to dismantle climate change policies.
Quarterly
Update of Australia’s National Greenhouse Gas Inventory: March 2018
Incorporating emissions from the NEM up to June 2018 - Australia’s National
Greenhouse Accounts,
released September 2018. excerpt:
1.
National emissions levels are inclusive of all sectors of the economy,
including Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF)…..
The year to
March 2018 annual change saw national greenhouse gas emissions rise by 1.3 per
cent.
Tuesday 2 October 2018
Labor calls for Australian Communications Minister Mitch Fifield's resignation and points the finger at the Institute for Public Affairs
Scott Morrison needs to
act and move Senator Mitch Fifield out of the role of Minister for
Communications, with Fifield’s fingerprints all over the political interference
scandal at the ABC. Senator Mitch Fifield’s role as minister responsible for
the ABC is untenable.
According to reports, Minister Fifield was present at the
meeting with Malcolm Turnbull and Justin Milne which prompted the former ABC
Chairman to ring former Managing Director Michelle Guthrie and demand the
sacking of an ABC journalist.
Minister Fifield has not denied he was present at the meeting, which reportedly left the ABC Chair with the impression a journalist needed to be sacked in order for the ABC to receive government funding.
While Minister Fifield has released a statement denying involvement in staffing matters, it is apparent that Justin Milne was influenced by his meeting with Turnbull and Fifield.
It is the role of the Minister for Communications to act as custodian of the ABC, not as a conduit for Liberal Government interference.
Minister Fifield’s attendance at the meeting that left the ABC Chairman with the impression that an ABC journalist needed to be sacked cannot possibly be consistent with his role as Minister for Communications.
Yesterday Justin Milne resigned his role as ABC Chairman over this political interference scandal, and it is incumbent upon Senator Fifield to now do the same.
Mitch Fifield has a long record of attacking and undermining the ABC:
Minister Fifield has not denied he was present at the meeting, which reportedly left the ABC Chair with the impression a journalist needed to be sacked in order for the ABC to receive government funding.
While Minister Fifield has released a statement denying involvement in staffing matters, it is apparent that Justin Milne was influenced by his meeting with Turnbull and Fifield.
It is the role of the Minister for Communications to act as custodian of the ABC, not as a conduit for Liberal Government interference.
Minister Fifield’s attendance at the meeting that left the ABC Chairman with the impression that an ABC journalist needed to be sacked cannot possibly be consistent with his role as Minister for Communications.
Yesterday Justin Milne resigned his role as ABC Chairman over this political interference scandal, and it is incumbent upon Senator Fifield to now do the same.
Mitch Fifield has a long record of attacking and undermining the ABC:
He
is a card-carrying member of the Institute for Public Affairs (IPA) which
advocates that the ABC be ‘broken up’ and privatised
He
has made a private donation to the IPA, as revealed by answers to Questions on
Notice
He
addressed the Australian Adam Smith Club in October 2008 stating:
“Conservatives have often floated the prospect of privatising the ABC and
Australia Post. There is merit in such proposals.”
He
was rebuked by former ABC Chairman Jim Spigelman in November 2016 for
attempting to influence ABC internal staffing policies
He
used the ABC as a bargaining chip in a deal with One Nation in August 2017
He
is a serial complainant to the ABC on everything from the date of the Hottest
100 to the content of comedy sketches
He
is behind the budget cuts, three bills and two inquiries that form part of the
Liberal Government’s latest rounds of attacks on the ABC.
The ABC doesn’t belong
to the Liberals and Mitch Fifield – it belongs to the Australian public.
Fifield must resign or be removed from the role of Minister for Communications before he does any more damage to Australia’s national treasure, the ABC. [my yellow highlighting]
Fifield must resign or be removed from the role of Minister for Communications before he does any more damage to Australia’s national treasure, the ABC. [my yellow highlighting]
Monday 24 September 2018
One old man to rule them all and in the darkness bind them?
Octogenarian U.S. citizen, international media mogul and papal knight since1998 Rupert Keith Murdoch is a living example of the perils of concentrated media ownership.
For many in America, the United Kingdom and Australia his name is filed under 'arrogant' 'avaricious' and 'ruthless'.
Media mogul Rupert Keith Murdoch : Google Images |
The Guardian, 20 September 2018:
In his farewell speech
as prime minister last month, Malcolm
Turnbull pointed to “an insurgency” in his own party and “outside forces in
the media” as the architects of his demise.
If there was any doubt
at all who the media forces Turnbull was referring to during those final
minutes in the prime mister’s courtyard in Canberra, there is, after the events
of the past 24 hours, none now.
Rupert Murdoch is
the name firmly in the frame along with his ubiquitous News Corp empire – an
organisation which is accused of playing a major role in orchestrating the
removal from office of not just Turnbull but also Labor’s Kevin Rudd.
In the case of Turnbull
he believed his Liberal colleagues had been gripped by “a form of madness” so
the only way they could see to end the unrelenting internal turmoil and
negative coverage in the media was to cave into it and replace him as leader…..
But the details
that have emerged over the past 48 hours of the role the US-based
Murdoch played during last month’s visit to his Australian assets raise serious
questions about how Australian politics can be swayed by a concentrated media
industry where News Corp dominates.
Turnbull certainly
believes he was the target of a News Corp campaign. When he narrowly fended off
Peter Dutton in a party
room spill on Tuesday 21 August, Turnbull phoned Murdoch to ask him
why he was trying to replace him with the home affairs minister.
Rupert Murdoch intends to transform Australia into a conservative
nation and he wants to put it on the Trump road
Associate Professor David McKnight
Turnbull had watched
horrified as shortly after Murdoch’s arrival in Australia, News Corp, the most
powerful media organisation in the land, turned on him. The Daily Telegraph
warned of “a toxic brawl” over energy policy and that Dutton was preparing to
challenge him. On Sky the night-time commentators Peta Credlin and
Andrew Bolt ramped up their negative coverage of the national energy guarantee
and Turnbull’s performance.
“There was no doubt there was a marked shift
in the tone and content of the News Corp publications once Rupert arrived,” one
of Turnbull’s former staff told Guardian Australia. “And there was no doubt in
our minds that News was backing Dutton.”
The prime minister had
another reason to believe the octogenarian media mogul was driving the negative
coverage – Turnbull had been warned by another media mogul that Rupert wanted
him replaced.
According
to both the Australian Financial Review and the
ABC, Murdoch had told fellow media billionaire Kerry Stokes, owner of
the Seven Network, a few days before that Turnbull should be replaced. Guardian
Australia also reported that Turnbull was warned in a phone call from Stokes
that Murdoch and his media company News Corp were intent on removing him from
power.
Stokes is said to have
replied that the likely result of such a campaign would be to deliver
government to Labor and Bill Shorten. But Murdoch is reported to have brushed
aside such concerns, saying it would only be for three years and he made money
under Labor in the past.
By that week’s end the
deed was done. Turnbull was out as prime minister, replaced
by Scott Morrison after Dutton’s much hyped candidacy failed to get
the numbers....
Read the full article here.
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