Allo Poirot,

I agree with you Poirot. It is enlightening to glean others perspectives of ourselves. However Austin merely reports on articles in the French Media that have obviously gleaned their views from media articles in Australia.

It might surprise you to find out that the Australian media is utterly biased towards Labor and anti Liberal. An analysis of the French articles cited by Austin merely reflects this bias.

That Poirot is an analysis of our media opinion by mosly French Opinionators. Is that a perspective that is worthy of consideration?

You know not once in any of those articles did it say that only 37% of Australians voted for Labor or that Labor's representation was cut by 25% at this election to a mere 72 seats. Not once was there any reference to The Greens with 10% electrol support ... and one seat. Not once did it say that almost 50% of Australians Australians voted for the Liberal National coalition and that the independents would probably support them in Government. Not once was there any reference to Liberal?National Policy on Debt, waste Taxes or Boats.

Hell Piorot that's exactly what our media do here in Australia ... Whyever would I want to take notice of a French Media that carps on about the same shallow biased bullpoo.

I might also tell you one of my mates daughter's is married to an English media foreign corrospondent. They actually visited Australia to report on the election. We had his ear for an afternoon and he left us with a totally different view to that with which he had arrived. His opinion wasn't dissimmilar to that expressed in those French media ... and of course his opinion had been formed from a persual of our media.

bon jour.

keith: << It might surprise you to find out that the Australian media is utterly biased towards Labor and anti Liberal >>

It certainly surprises me. Certainly, anything associated with the name Murdoch (which is most of the MSM in Oz) was blatantly and unashamedly cheerleading for Abbott for the duration of the recent election campaign. Indeed, it still is if this weekend's 'Courier Mail' and 'Australian' are anything to go by.

Fortunately, we have the ABC for something that resembles reportage and analysis of all sides of Oz politics with a minimum of bias.

C.J.

Very true about the Murdoch stable.

Bonjour M. keith,

Is it really so difficult to fathom the French media's bewilderment that Australian's have rejected a government that assisted us to ride out the financial crisis in a reasonably healthy state? The Australian media have made a meal out of all the money spent, but ignored the fact that we still have a healthy rate of growth and a manageable unemployment figure.
The media in this country have been happy to run with the "overwhelming debt" angle and ignored an economic imperative that dictates that going into debt in hard times is as acceptable - especially as a stimulus - as putting away and saving is in good times.
I believe the French media distilled the information they gleaned from Australian sources and reported in a more balanced way, without the myopic sentiments and slavering point scoring (and revenue inducing) coverage so evident during this campaign.

Dear CJ and Poirot

It is clear the Australian public aren't fooled by the media slant's on anything.

They have magnificiently ignored all favourable ALP propaganda from the ABC, other TV outlets and most Murdoch papers. They ignored the unbiased and balanced Australian and delived an obvious decision. They've rejected Labor and Gillard, are tentative of Abbott and the Liberals, totally re-inforced Browns irrelevance. We have left, as an unintended consequence, three anti-(any)-party oddballs, who basically want the one third Australians still living in the dying bush to still be better looked after, to determine who is to govern us.

Well done Australia.

And I'd bet you'd never read that view in any French provincial rag let alone any of their alleged national media.

Keith, you obviously don't like the bush. Why?

Now that we manufacturer almost nothing our cities are merely a drone on the bush. All they do is filter off as much of the income generated in the bush, as they can pinch, to keep themselves going.

As I said elsewhere, if we started a new country, north of the tropic of Capricorn, it would be extremely wealthy. The balance of Oz, including my bit of it, would quite rapidly fall into third world status, & be begging for aid in no time.

keith: << They ignored the unbiased and balanced Australian and delived an obvious decision. >>

They ignored the biased and unbalanced Australian and delived an obvious decision.

There, fixed that for you. Once upon a time I used to subscribe to 'The Australian' as a journal of record. That ceased sometime in the 1990s.