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By Bruce Haigh, published 28/6/2012The left in Australia is an endangered species. Its habit is scattered and its birth rate falling.
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Posted by Shadow Minister, Thursday, 28 June 2012 7:53:26 AM
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"The left in Australia is an endangered species. Its habit is scattered and its birth rate falling."
If only that were true. The Left have a stranglehold on the media and fight tooth and nail to prevent balance. We have one reasonably balanced mainstream newspaper, "The Australian". The Left want to get it under their control so it can propogate Labor-Green propoganda like the remainder of the MSM. They want parliament to pass lefgislation to ensure it stays under the constrol of the Left (the left are trained in the Left dominated factories for training and brainwashing journalists) Examples of the Left media outlets: ABC (Tony Jones, Jerry O'Brien, 7:30 reporters, Barry Cassidy and his "Insiders", and nearly all the rest of the staff and reporters). There is no attempt to achieve balance on the ABC (Australia's "Pravda"); Fairfax Media: Age, SMH, Financial Review (e.g. Laura Tingle) Crickey, Matilda. Then there are the many Left propogandsa web sites sites for fear-mongering and Catastrophes. The Conversation, Climate Spectator, The Drum, Crickey, (wrongly named) Skeptical Science, New Matilda Many of the Left web sites delete comments that do not support the Editor's and Moderators' beliefs: e.g. Climate Spectator. The statement: "The left in Australia is an endangered species. Its habit is scattered and its birth rate falling." is clearly false Posted by Peter Lang, Thursday, 28 June 2012 8:27:15 AM
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I see you got 6 likes already; Bruce you are not alone.
Poor article though. what about the rest of the story. Are you saying there are not elements of lefist influence in Australian society? if you are, that is ridiculous. Sure politics is a lot harder today, but commnetary should also reflect this reality. Posted by Chris Lewis, Thursday, 28 June 2012 8:31:58 AM
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The right need to read more (and understand what is written by really thoughtful people).
The neo-liberal/conservative policies in place since the mid- seventies led to the GFC. On his Australian tour in the late nineties John Ralston Saul pointed out the problems but no one took enough notice. Just today I received the article at the link below. The right needs to be scared. If inequality continues to increase the outcome can be horrible. The end of Dickens, "A Tale of Two Cities" is worth recalling. "Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Sow the same seeds of rapacious licence and oppression over again, and it will surely yield the same fruits according to its kind". Excess rewards to those at the top destroys markets for real goods and services. The Great Depression was not overcome until demand increased. Unfortunately much of that increase in demand was for war goods but who would want that cure now? A blog worth reading in Australia is written by Prof. Bill Mitchell at Billyblog. http://www.alternet.org/story/155918/exclusive_interview%3A_joseph_stiglitz_sees_terrifying_future_for_america_if_we_don%27t_reverse_inequality?akid=8990.1085576.HClF4O&rd=1&t=2 Posted by Foyle, Thursday, 28 June 2012 8:57:25 AM
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Interesting brief and rather grim summary of modern Australian political history, Bruce. I agree with you that Labor no longer presents a 'Left Wing' alternative, perhaps because a majority of us have become too affluent to need support as workers. The Greens are that alternative now and it remains to be seen if they can retain the viable 'third party' mantle they now have in Government. They have to fight much harder than the conservatives who have inertia and big money on their side.
Perhaps those of us who still believe in truth and justice need a wake-up call. Yes its about truth and justice vs lies and avarice not left vs right. Truth and justice will never die because there will always be people passionate about maintaining it. The websites which Peter Lang helpfully named are testimony to that (tut tut you omitted Getup, Peter. Is that name too satanic for you utter?). PS Peter and Shadow; Are there Reds under you beds? Better have a Tea Party to get rid of them Posted by Roses1, Thursday, 28 June 2012 9:17:19 AM
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I do agree with you Bruce that the truth and justice lovers in their 'scattered habitats' need to band together and do something. We are in real danger of losing this battle. At the moment the forces of big money are prevailing; they have bought too many media outlets and the spinners to staff them. With a bit of organization, those of us who want truth could band to together and set up a newspaper- something like the 'Guardian'. I think it would sell well. Part of the reason The News Ltd and Fairfax papers are declining is because they don't give the news / facts people need to hear. They censor the real facts and replace them with 'analysis' that is really just right wing opinion.
We should all think very carefully about what happened in Europe during WW2 when the greedy and powerful (fascists) took to direct plunder to take what they thought was their right to have. They did it by first taking over the media for propaganda purposes. Fascists only manage 7% in Greece now but Neoliberal rightist governments today still manage to wage their deadly oil wars in the name of 'national security'. Problem in Australia is that money (or love of it) is allowed to rule, both in our personal lives and in politics. We need to remind ourselves that it is only a tool,(not an end in itself)and can be used for good or bad. Posted by Roses1, Thursday, 28 June 2012 9:20:26 AM
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The electorate has become sick of the deceit, incompetence and hypocrisy of the left as demonstrated by Juliar, Blight, and Keneally.