Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Consistent double standards

"The Australian" is deep into two major campaigns at the moment.

They are in denial about climate change and use every opportunity to *explain* how Penny's carbon pollution reduction scheme will disadvantage Australia. It's just crap. But the interesting thing is how their nonsense is impacting Malcolm's Liberals - who are all over the place because they seem to believe the view that Chris Mitchell is pushing. It amazes me how these elected conservatives can't undertake any real analysis of their own and end up parroting the view of the ultra right.

But this is not about that - "The Australian's" second campaign is around industrial relations. As we all know, it was the Murdoch press who was chief cheerleader for little Johnny in his failed attempt to impose "WorkChoices" on the nation. Johnny was deposed but Mitchell hasn't given up.

Today there is another BS story about those poor young electical apprentices who apparently will be disadvantaged as a result of Julia's new workplace laws. I don't know if that is true - or not. My initial reaction is to treat anything "The Australian" says about industrial relations with a grain of salt. Actually - I simply don't trust them to promote a "fair and balanced" point of view - they are just incapable.

Especially when during the previous conservative government, the IT industry in Australia lost over 72% of it's head count between 2000 and 2005 - with not even a little peep out of the Murdoch press.

So here we have them lamenting the fact that structural changes might end up impacting electrical apprentices and yet they couldn't be bothered to report the massive collapse in technology jobs under the previous conservative regime.

Double standards - absolutely. Consistency - no way.

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