The ABC tries to be unscrupulously "fair" with their coverage of this election, I can't comment on the commercial channels as I watch or read very little of their news. On the ABC when ScoMo gets a run, the announcer soon reminds viewer that Albo will be along shortly in the interest of "balance". Reporting seems to be basically a 50/50 split between the Coalition and Labor. Is this really fair, considering the big two parties only score around 80% of the popular vote between them, would it not be fairer is minor parties and independents were given 20% of the coverage, at least by the ABC.

Voters are not being given an opportunity to evaluate other policies and ideas from the 20% group. One example is the Palmer Party policy of claiming that they will peg home loan interests rates at 3% for 5 years, according to Big Clive under both Liberal and Labor, interest rates will soar and many will lose their homes. This may be true, but analysis of the policy might show government does, or does not, have the power to fix private interest rates. Its possible that minor parties and independents will hold the balance of power in the lower house, and certainly in the Senate, after this election, and they will trade their policy for a yes vote for government legislation.

Hi Paul,

I agree with you - the larger minor parties like
One Nation, and The United Australia Party, should
be given an opportunity to be heard.

I'm not sure why they're not,
perhaps it has something to do with
election rules and the number of supporters that each
party has to have.

I believe that the rules have now changed
and the requirement now is for larger numbers. It used
to be 500 was all that was needed to be able to register
as a political party but I think that has now been
increased to 1,500.

The public Service Union would never allow any of the smaller parties any say. They dictate (I know we're supposed to be a Democracy) how effective the incumbent Govt can be. That's why they cooperate somewhat more with a Coalition when economic management is needed to re-fill the coffers. However, when the coffers are stocked up, the unions will support Labor in their spending modes.
A third party could keep some sort of order but, as I said-the Unions !

Actually, Clive Palmer supposedly is going to be
spending over $80 million on his election campaign.
He can easily manage to obtain space in the media
market, the TV networks, the radio networks,
the newspaper networks and even online networks.
How can anybody compete with that?

He doesn't need the ABC.

The Green ABC has never, ever tried to be fair. Only a person who "can't comment on the commercial channels as I watch or read very little of their news" could be so thick and bigoted to think that they have, or ever will be, while they are being maintained by the Australian people they hold in contempt.

Green agent, Paul, shoots himself in the foot - again - by confirming that his ignorance all comes from the ABC.

That covers his first paragraph. What the second one has to do with the title of his post, gawd knows.

If he really wanted to see other coverage, he would look elsewhere - but he can't do that because he is always rubbishing such sources; which of course means that every time he rubbishes the Murdoch press, SkyNews, and commentators like Andrew Bolt and other conservatives, he is talking through his backside because he reads, hears and sees "very little of their news".

Paul has proved himself to be a fraud.

ABC has never, ever tried to be fair
ttbn,
Undeniable.