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🌏. “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” - C.S. Lewis

[Paul Bongiorno @PaulBongiorno]

@DHughesy What is taxed is the gain not the capital. This is a complete misunderstanding of the situation turbo charged by self interest.

[Rohan Connolly @rohan_connolly]

Pauline Hanson is Gina Rinehart’s puppet, Karl Stefanovic's jumped on the 'cash for fascism' bandwagon, & the destruction of formerly respectable mainstream media is now happening at warp speed. If you can't see the ramifications for our democracy, FFS open your friggin' eyes.

[Ronni🧂Salt-WhoWroteGunnawahYeahThatOne @RonniSalt]

Oh, yawn

A predictable, join-the-dots cooker strategy in 3 acts

Also, Nine had nothing to do with that Robinson podcast being taken down

It was taken down by Stefanovic himself and his offsider Keshnee Kemp

Media Manipulation 101

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[Walter Masterson @waltermasterson]

Name a better take than this on the Iran war, I’ll wait.

[Alan Kohler @AlanKohler]

Everybody wants housing to be more affordable as long as houses don’t get less expensive

[Dr Tracy Westerman AM @TracyWesterman]

You can’t have democracy without good journalism.
You get the leaders your journalism produces.

Pauline Hanson walked into the National Press Club — her first address in 30 years in parliament — and the press gallery proved the point in real time.

No costings. No detail on nuclear. No follow-up on who funds her energy policy or why it was announced at a gas industry conference. Just “coal is good, wind turbines bad” — unchallenged.

@GrogsGamut called it: “Congrats to the press gallery — you showed yourself utterly useless.”

This isn’t about Hanson. It’s about the vacuum that produces her.

One question. No follow-up. No accountability. That’s the journalism that’s enabled her for 30 yrs

[SBS Sport @SBSSportau]

"Sorry, you're David, right? From SBS. I grew up watching you!"

😍 A heartwarming moment as Awer Mabil paused his press conference to thank David Basheer and reflect on the impact that SBS had on his journey.

🏆 #FIFAWorldCup | June 12 - July 20 | Every Match on SBS 📺

[Ronni🧂Salt-WhoWroteGunnawahYeahThatOne @RonniSalt]

So, let's recap, shall we?

This week the @PressClubAust managed to:

* cancel at the last minute, the questions and subsequent presence of renowned journalist Margo Kingston, who’d travelled over 2 days to Canberra to ask her question of Pauline Hanson – and yes, they were questions initially requested and organised by the Press Club itself 9 days ago.

* cancel the press gallery membership of long-term journalist, Greg Jericho, allegedly because he works for the @TheAusInstitute. Although Greg has been employed by the Aust Institute for 4 years, his membership cancellation only came yesterday after he publicly called out the Canberra press gallery - which is of course a highly fortuitous coincidence and not at all connected to his criticism.

* somehow allowed a person or persons unknown to enter the Press Club premises and put up a 3 metre wide electronic banner, without anybody in the Press Club noticing them doing it. How several people enter a private club carrying something that large, then proceed to wire it up on an open stage and nobody at the premises noticed in any way, is yet another display of the NPC’s staggering incompetence.

* release an unnecessarily detailed, high-school level statement about said banner incident, a statement that reeks of defensiveness and hysteria, while also prejudicially naming an alleged culprit and arguably sinking to the bottom of the barrel in terms of the journalistic standards it supposedly represents. Read it below and remind yourself that people who work with words for a living wrote that.

* allowed the speaker, Pauline Hanson, to defame one of their own - a journalist from the Guardian who dared to ask a hard-hitting question - by calling her "trash". This was only weeks after calling the same journalist a "nasty bitch". Mirroring, Trump’s “Quiet piggy” incident, the journalist's alleged colleagues all sat mute, as did the moderator, Tom Connell from Sky News during the abuse. No rebuke, no blow-back, no support for their fellow journalist, standing alone under Hanson's hissing vitriol. Just pusillanimous silence.

The National Press Club outdid their already dubious reputation this week, spraying themselves in a spectacular shower of self-inflicted shit – wall to wall, dripping effluent.

Australians currently suffer some of the most timid, captured political journalism in the western world, and if the actions of the #NPC this week are the metric, then we can all see why.

What a national and international embarrassment of an organisation meant to serve as a vital democratic institution and a cultural conscience – and one that has offered us neither.

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[Ronni🧂Salt-WhoWroteGunnawahYeahThatOne @RonniSalt]

What a pity Sarah Martin's journalist colleagues who were there at the time, couldn't do the same

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[The Saturday Paper @SatPaper]

Exclusive: As scrutiny on One Nation's finances increases, new research shows the far-right party stands to receive up to $219 million in taxpayer funds. https://t.co/MZIU0bBuYl

[Ronni🧂Salt-WhoWroteGunnawahYeahThatOne @RonniSalt]

@PressClubAust My god - the high-school level writing and lack of professionalism here is cringe worthy.

Not only is it highly prejudicial to any potential legal proceedings and defamatory - it reads like a toxic 15 year old wrote it.

I seriously doubted this was real when I first saw it.

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[Rupert's Conscience @RupertsConscie1]

@PressClubAust Streisand effect....

[Cameron Davidson @Ruleslawyer01]

@PressClubAust The irony of reading this on your website after hearing about Greg Jericho and Margo Kingston is appalling. #auspol #hypocrites

[David Milner @DaveMilbo]

In summary:

- you blocked Margot from asking a real question to Hanson
- Masola instead asks if Australia is being 'Flooded with Muslims'
- sponsored by weapons and fossil fuel companies
- cancelled Hedges and invited Herzog to speak

You're the lamest group of complicit shills

[Ronni🧂Salt-WhoWroteGunnawahYeahThatOne @RonniSalt]

Trump came to power partly by a spineless, toe licking media that sane-washed his every utterance and treated him like a normal person - now look at him

Australia - we're in deep trouble

This is Australia's legacy media today, right down to the ABC

Sane washing a maniac

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[Ronni🧂Salt-WhoWroteGunnawahYeahThatOne @RonniSalt]

Ahead of Pauline Hanson taking the microphone at the National Press Club, Australians should know this

Journalist Margo Kingston was organised a few weeks back to ask the first Q - then was phoned yesterday and told she could no longer ask any Qs because they "had no time left"

[Angela Pippos @angelapippos]

No one gets to 38 weeks and changes their mind. Late term abortions happen because either the baby or the mother won’t survive. To politicise abortion is shameful. #Hanson #NPC

[Angela Pippos @angelapippos]

I couldn’t help but think of my grandparents during Hanson’s address. They came to Australia with no English and set up a cafe in Adelaide. They contributed so much to the fabric of society, as did all the Greeks who settled there. Shame on Hanson for demonising migrants. #NPC

[Sam Connor @criprights]

Kinda glad that people said PHON had no policies and forced them to produce them/make them up. The results are giving us a hell of a laugh.

#CookingWithPauline

[Peter FitzSimons @Peter_Fitz]

I think it was more "Hail Pauline Hanson", but yes - you have to figure that if you're supporting a party that attracts Neo-Nazis, you have taken a desperately wrong turn and are completely lost?
#Auspol