I'm trying to read between the lines here here & it strikes me as though Alan Austin is one of those who don't like Abbott & Hockey because they're straight. Gays & asexuals can not manage, how much more proof do people like Alan Austin need ? I say try to make friends with heterosexuals & you'll get a vastly different viewpoint (no pun intended).

individual,

"(no pun intended)"

What you should have said is:

"(no sense intended)"

individual

I don't know that Alan Austins dislike for RAbbott / Hockey is necessarily 'because they are straight' My reasons for regarding RAbbott with the utmost include his involvement in the One Nation debacle, his support for the exorbitant salary rise & his questionable activities re the recent electoral funding affair, consequently Austin could well have similar thoughts or indeed something completely different. Certainly I'll degrade any politician significantly if they espouse pro-homosexual views, but thats by no means the only criteria I employ. Note that I have had mutually successful purely business relationships with queers in the past but the attitudes of homosexuals generally appears to have changed dramatically since Australia adopted politically correct protocols. As someone whose nick I forget suggested in another OLO discussion, infiltration of feminazis & educated idiot do-gooders appears to have been not exactly a good thing for homosexuals in general. Whilst there never has been a possibility of my support, I was quite happy to observe the 'consenting adults in private' principle. these days however I take a somewhat more jaundiced approach.

What you should have said is:

"(no sense intended)"
Poirot,
By the law of averages more people will get the gist although there'll always be a few Poirots who don't.

prax,

"...infiltration of feminazis & educated idiot do-gooders appears to have been not exactly a good thing..."

Infiltration of hackneyed phrases passed off as cogent argument has not exactly been a good thing either.

Dear Alan,

It is true that people’s perception is their own reality. Perception is created by the information we absorb which can be quite different to what is actually presented.

This because we create our own filters which are built on pragmatism, experience or ideology. Australians have been exposed to a great deal of spin from our current government which has sensitized the public to it. It is now wearing very thin as Australians become less inclined to believe it. Sadly for the spinners they can only respond with more spin and more often, which just makes thing worse.

Nine- MSM are currently running an on-line poll which asks the question “Does our government deserve to be reelected?” Respondents are logging 15,000 for YES and 45,000 for NO.

The same applies to the ABC, SBS, print media and the commercial channels. Whatever they present in their news and current affairs has to pass our filters. So when such as the ABC present N&CA’s we compare these against our filters and form our perceptions.

If we have a negative perception about a policy issue and our ABC aligns itself with the source of that negative perception, it too is tarred with the same brush.

Your article and subsequent responses are trying to tell us in excruciating detail, that our perceptions are incorrect, thus you have aligned yourself with what we have already rejected. Your explanations delve far too much into ideological detail when the majority of Australians are responding to pragmatism and experience. This is why you are so far off the mark.

In the last six years we have gone through one of the most intense periods of ideological PC, gender wars, divisive policy, socialization, elitism and intellectual bullying. Much of this platform has been driven, in the perception of many, by the ABC.

The ABC has created the public perception by its own actions. Its response when challenged is much the same at yours, more of that which got you into trouble in the first place.

Don’t argue against a public perception that you were party to creating