Forget about Democracy, as of today the seeds for Anarchy have been sown !

Coffee and Panda Bears for breakfast Mommy, says young Tony.

Can we go down to the beach today Mommy? Tony cried.

Why my beautiful boy of my own creation. Quizzed his Mother.

(Miraculous conception was always suspected, but many had doubts, and were more inclined to believe the involvement of the third leg of Tony’s incestuous American Uncle, Joe).

Jumping for joy now, and sporting a new pair of black rimmed glasses to hide the eyes, which having begun to resemble the shape of almonds, Tony was finding himself more and more in a growing state of unease and self consciousness with.

Still in his exuberant mood, Tony shouted back to his mother, as he danced around the kitchen table, throwing his fluffy Panda bear high in the air in excited anticipation.

I wanna see those funny black people jumping off the funny boats mommy.

Relenting as she usually did, Mommy changed her plans to suit the occasion of the celebration of “all” of Tony’s birthdays, which had arrived at this one time in his life.
What a mystery this life is at times. Pondered his Mother, as they clambered aboard Noddy their neighbours car, but answers were hard to find.

Dan.

Our democracy is very healthy as the following link explains:

http://abc.net.au/news/2022-05-22/election-2022-anthony-albanese-wins-transformative-election/101087834

"For example, the Rupert Murdoch media empire owns two-thirds of the country's metropolitan print mastheads and some of Australia's most popular news websites."

Well that's just not true. It wasn't true when Rudd made the claim way back when, and it isn't true now. But its become part of the left's dogma and they say it now as though as true as the sun rising in the east.

eg

http://theconversation.com/factcheck-does-murdoch-own-70-of-newspapers-in-australia-16812

True or not, its bye-the-bye. Most people get the information these days from electronic media and/or social media. The legacy newspapers have very little influence today, and haven't really had any for a generation.

This was the quote GY pulled to exemplify the article! Its totally wrong and therefore does indeed give a good representation of the article.

I'm old enough to remember the days of Murdoch and The Daily Mirror newspaper and it's blatant lies plus the journalists going on strike.

I also recall Murdoch's personal vendetta against Whitlam when he was denied his demanded role of High Commissioner to London. Whitlam called him a "shonky slob" and Murdoch said he got Whitlam into power and could also get him out.

Now he has a media presence only in the UK, USA and Australia (and they ended up with Boris Johnson, Donald Trump and Scott Morrison) but somehow other global democracies seem to survive without the benefit of his guiding wisdom.

Now his mastheads are insisting the coalition lost because they weren't far enough to the right, despite all such parties losing ground. Keep it up.

Despite the corruption which has seen us so dramatically drop in the international corruption index (now 18th), and having Taiwan over take us in the democracy index and us falling from above 9 for the first time last year...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index

This election thankfully shows we are still doing all right and our decline may well be halted.