Scott Mitchell

Co-host and founder of Lamestream Podcast. || Former: Editor/EP of 7am, ABC news, Producer of #YouCantAskThat, Hungry Beast.

[Scott Mitchell @s_mitchell]

@AdelAGhafar @gregjamesbarton @ASPI_org Interesting week to write this and not mention this WSJ story.

Not relevant whether our partners are secretly participating in a war?

https://t.co/gxcFxHfWUZ

[Scott Mitchell @s_mitchell]

@purplepingers Related: killing me how many stories around at the moment are framed as “Even this small business owner is turning to One Nation! How surprising! Not the demographic you’d expect!”

Literally the exact demographic you’d expect.

[Scott Mitchell @s_mitchell]

‘A far right party based on race politics is now the most popular in the country.’

‘Labor has nailed it, don’t pivot, boys! Keep doing what ya doing! This is all the Liberal Party’s fault.’

[Scott Mitchell @s_mitchell]

One Nation is now leading Labor. Still Kos is saying the REAL story is the decline of the Coalition.

What number could One Nation reach for these ppl to start talking about them as an urgent, credible threat? And that the govt need to start making radical change to head it off?

[Kos Samaras @KosSamaras]

Our latest Australian Financial Review, RedBridge and Accent Research National Poll.

The two-party system most Australians grew up with is gone. The real contest, unless something changes by 2028, now runs between Labor and One Nation, and the Coalition is a spectator in the stands….eating donuts.

The primary vote tells the story plainly. One Nation 31. Labor 28. The Coalition a deep third on 20. Labor still winning on 2PP.

The favourability numbers explain how we got here. This is an electorate sorting itself into camps that barely speak to each other. Albanese is anchored in the Labor base and underwater almost everywhere else. Hanson is the mirror image, locked in with her own bloc and toxic with the other side. Two leaders, each loved and loathed in roughly equal measure, each unable to reach across the line.

But the damage is not symmetrical, and that is the part the major parties keep missing. Labor has bled support to the minor parties (others), voters drifting left and sideways. The Coalition has bled something heavier, straight into One Nation, even after the Budget!!!. Look at where Hanson is net positive: Liberal voters, LNP voters, the Coalition’s own right flank. She is not just nibbling at the edges of their base but having nice pizza slice bites at it.

More details below.

[Scott Mitchell @s_mitchell]

Mate, @KosSamaras, why is this one nothing to worry about, simply a realignment on the right, and still pointing to a thumping Labor majority government?

https://t.co/uA5YuOAgPC

[Scott Mitchell @s_mitchell]

@SenatorWong "ensure no ill treatment" -- they're being ill-treated in front of everyone's eyes.

I'm pretty sure the horse has bolted on that, Minister.

[Peter Cronau @PeterCronau]

Pass the source.

“The ABC published what audiences would believe was a very neutral, balanced explainer, titled: “What negative gearing and CGT changes will mean for rental prices”

“But the article firmly makes the case that negative gearing reform would increase rents.

“The first source cited for this is a report paid for by the HIA and the property council,””

Unmasking the Lobby That Fought to Block Real Solutions to the Housing Crisis https://t.co/4ZYcJX3FPj

[Scott Mitchell @s_mitchell]

@maximumwelfare @JeremyPoxon @abcnews Well, for my part — have DM’ed about sending it to you 🙏

[Tom Studans @maximumwelfare]

#BREAKING 🚨 Lamestream are reporting the author of the CALI study is now distancing themselves from the negligent reporting by @abcnews.

https://t.co/9t5j6e44Tu

[Scott Mitchell @s_mitchell]

@maximumwelfare @JeremyPoxon @abcnews Also:

[Scott Mitchell @s_mitchell]

@maximumwelfare @JeremyPoxon @abcnews Massive credit to you, Tom, for identifying this first!

[Scott Mitchell @s_mitchell]

@maximumwelfare @abcnews Gimme a follow back, so I can DM you some new screenshots and quotes? 😇

[Scott Mitchell @s_mitchell]

@LaraJBitar As an independent outlet all the way in Australia, we’ve been directing our audience to The Public Source since we started last year, and continue to.

Hope you’re seeing people come to you for real journalism that is really independent.

[Scott Mitchell @s_mitchell]

Os on the ABC’s Insiders today.

[Scott Mitchell @s_mitchell]

@TheWiseCrow1 @jamesmassola We obviously don’t know exactly, but the capabilities that have been revealed mean it has to be involved in gathering and relaying intelligence on the Middle East.

https://t.co/bhhywB0ha3

https://t.co/G7AKHe3JI4

[Fourth Estate @fourthestateau]

2,000+ ABC staff walked off the job last week, the first strike in two decades.

@TinaMQ reports from the picket line on what drove the dispute & what lies beneath.

@frankelly08 @QuentinDempster @s_mitchell @SaysEmmaField 🎙️

https://t.co/Uf1vsebZyL

[Its Time @pangolincovid]

‘Express Yourself’: Protest Bangers Fill ABC Airwaves as Strike Shuts Down Broadcaster https://t.co/DFaPpPNFHU

[Peter Cronau @PeterCronau]

Australia’s support for the US and its illegal war on Iran means no oil will be allowed by Iran to be shipped to Australia from the Gulf.

Did any federal government ever tell you there is a cost for our alliance? https://t.co/FvyM7mePVy

[Peter Cronau @PeterCronau]

We should have listened.

When John Blackburn approached Four Corners to do a story in 2013 he gave precisely this warning — and he warned that no one in government or media was listening.

Now we are seeing his warning playing out.

▪️After the government closure of most fuel refineries, 51% of Australia’s petroleum came from Singapore — and 40% of Singapore’s supply came from the Middle East. But not anymore.

Can you see the dimension of our fuel shortage problem?

Can you see the dimension of our government ineptitude?

Can you see them anywhere in the media this week addressing this mounting catastrophe honestly to the public?