Squeers seems you and at least one other have skipped the bit about ABC being my media, and biased in my view.
This Saturday morning, early news broadcast on commercial radio.
Young lady said Australian government was protecting its self from allegations it had bared and Indonesian official, ex politician, and man of influence from coming here.
Now tell me, in both the national news paper and the Sydney Herald, can ANY ONE find ANY reason to say the government is defending its self.
The story has been brutally asulted twisted and used to say some thing it never did.
Sorry hasbeen,truly,tried very hard today to help you out of a hole.
But your self promoting post here is not your first,not charming mate, uninteresting too.
I never saw you as an opinion maker, maybe you see your self as one?

Yeah, yeah, Squeers if you say so.
Even if they were not biased your reasoning is just silly.

It smacks of the typical green condescension, ie we are green so we
must be right on everything

Well said, Squeers.

Just noticed a brief statement on a sidebar on the ABC News Online Site which states:

"The ABC News Online Investigative Unit encourages whistleblowers, and others with access to information they believe should be revealed for the public good, to contact us,...."

Sounds promising.

Belly,
you're dead right. I have to admit it irritates me the way the ABC cuts through the crap and instead of delivering verbatim, they translate the political bullsh!t---as if I didn't know. But you have to remember that most of the news is drip-fed by PR and other controlled dispensations. Do you prefer the adulterated "truth"? It's a damn shame that the ABC feels it's necessary to be "cynical" about the "news", but what you're going to get otherwise, in fact what you do get from the commercial outlets, is pure, unadulterated bullsh!t--that is, conservative, Panglossian spin.
Bazz:
<Yeah, yeah, Squeers if you say so.
Even if they were not biased your reasoning is just silly.

It smacks of the typical green condescension, ie we are green so we
must be right on everything>

Bazz,
Green's not really my agenda; I tend to be "dark" green, which excludes most puerile, or garden variety, Greens.
But on conservatism, I defy you to provide (perhaps on another thread) one conservative intellectual position that's defensible, in fact that's even half thoughtful.. Conservatism stands for stasis--no?

Sorry Poirot,
missed that till now. Thanks for the support.

I should add too that I'm not saying the ABC is perfect. They actually miss most of the spin, and they're at the very least quasi-commercial.
But compared with the masses and what passes for political opinion in this country, they're deep!

Squeers; I was not implying you were a green, I used it to illustrate
a state of mind.

However you demonstrate the same attitude again in your last post.
You are destined to crash on your assumption.