For years, Michael West has been one of Australia's most insightful and far-sighted investigative journalists.
In this 14 minute piece of geopolitical commentary, he again confirms why independent investigative media is so crucial in age where corporate media continues to serve a dying genocidal order.
The #ABC's Justin Stevens:
"Laura Tingle's remarks... lacked the context, BALANCE and supporting information of her work for the ABC and would not have met the ABC's editorial standards"
I've got 100s of examples of ABC right-wing bias that go unpunished.
Our supermarkets have been caught price gouging again. It's impossible to export top-grade locally-produced food all the way to Japan and for it to end-up far cheaper. The government needs to step-in to stop this price gouging.
The government also needs to give back power to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. After years of undermining and by the successive RWNJ governments and nepotistic placements of their own pro-big-business colleagues high-up in the ACCC, the ACCC has been rendered toothless. We need the ACCC to be an independent umpire again.
Someone just asked me the technical difference between a Bureau and an Agency in Australia and, help, I've been a public servant for 20 years and I do not know. #auspol
Yes, it'd be much clearer to expand the question to a simple “Does the person have a religion?” before asking which one.
“[Michael Dove, chair of the Census21 Group, told Crikey that] the current question on the [#AustralianCensus, “What is the person's religion?”] leads many people to talk about their cultural background rather than what religion they align with.
“It was in the interests of bishops and the church that the “cultural Catholics get counted so the Catholic Church can overstate its relevance, and continue to enjoy the privileged funding, policy, and media access benefits”, he said.
““There’s an awful lot of religious privilege that flows from the census stage and that needs to be changed.””
"There’s an awful lot of religious privilege that flows from the census stage and that needs to be changed." -- Mike Dove, chair of the Census21 group.
The Census21 group, of which the NSL is a part, is responding to a new pushback from religious leaders on the census question change.
Read the latest coverage in Crikey today on the debate around the #census question on religion.
David Littleproud wants city people to understand the burden on regional people by following the current renewables policy. The livelihoods ripped up as their land is taken away. Families & communities torn apart. The Qld LNP nuclear energy plan will take away the pain. #auspol
If you wanted to write today about vested interests, about the groups (and their networks) that are preventing governments from pursuing the reforms needed for Australia's economy to flourish, you'd have different targets.