I wonder if anyone thinks that it's a bit suss to have an Opposition Leader - who has no policies of his own but who is adamant that every policy of our actual Government is wrong.
Mr Abbott and his team have put zero effort into developing and discussing what they would actually do if they happened to find themselves running the place - but they use every opportunity to tell us that our Government is doing it wrong.
And I agree that our actual government's inability to set the record straight - just re-enforces his argument.
And his mentor - Uncle Rupert usually sets our daily political agenda with his "fact-filled" newspapers each morning, while the rest of our world-class media get their riding instructions from them and from his websites - after publication.
I mean if we are stupid enough to think that anything in our commercial media has any relationship to actual news then we "deserve" to have our pockets raided. And we frequently do.
I think there is even a segment on ABC morning radio called - "what the papers say" - as if Murdoch's 70% domination of our print media isn't bad enough we then have to talk about it on public radio.
It's all just spakfilla - designed to gap-fill and to obfuscate. And it does both particularly well.
Now it has been said that Australian's aren't very bright. Or that is what some of my New Zealand friends say - but I am here to defend the intellect of the Aussie battler ;-)
Ok, we might pay too much for houses and 4wd's and let big business and politicians screw us over, obsess about celebrity and sport and think we are the 51st state of the Union.
But we are just *so* determined to elect a screwball as our leader when next we get to vote. Ok.
Yeah - that'll teach youse elites to mess with us - won't it?
Mr Abbott and his team have put zero effort into developing and discussing what they would actually do if they happened to find themselves running the place - but they use every opportunity to tell us that our Government is doing it wrong.
And I agree that our actual government's inability to set the record straight - just re-enforces his argument.
And his mentor - Uncle Rupert usually sets our daily political agenda with his "fact-filled" newspapers each morning, while the rest of our world-class media get their riding instructions from them and from his websites - after publication.
I mean if we are stupid enough to think that anything in our commercial media has any relationship to actual news then we "deserve" to have our pockets raided. And we frequently do.
I think there is even a segment on ABC morning radio called - "what the papers say" - as if Murdoch's 70% domination of our print media isn't bad enough we then have to talk about it on public radio.
It's all just spakfilla - designed to gap-fill and to obfuscate. And it does both particularly well.
Now it has been said that Australian's aren't very bright. Or that is what some of my New Zealand friends say - but I am here to defend the intellect of the Aussie battler ;-)
Ok, we might pay too much for houses and 4wd's and let big business and politicians screw us over, obsess about celebrity and sport and think we are the 51st state of the Union.
But we are just *so* determined to elect a screwball as our leader when next we get to vote. Ok.
Yeah - that'll teach youse elites to mess with us - won't it?
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