debbrich.bsky.social
Australian journalist. Twitter refugee. Love ideas and civil debate.
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You misread the humour. This is about deep grovelling.
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Hes in election mode. Be real.
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Well, yes. But what would you do if you want to get elected Bede? On this sort of stuff he has little choice really IMO
(I also declare having fought for space at the beach this summer among the enormous gazebos I think it is of national importance đ)
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He responded to a question.
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Who wrote this? Straight from US Heritage Foundation playbook.
Love the use of âinalienable citizen rightsâ - đ¤Śââď¸
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It bought him a government, that he is shaping, which has policies on space exploration and IT sectors, and whose contracts are worth $$zillions.
Massive investment payoff
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Who holds this rapacious man to account?
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I think they are purposeful, mad and dangerous. Not âfull of shitâ, in the sense of being hopeless.
And the disruption will result in chaos, abd as you say, collapse
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But is this true of the people heâs nominating, and perhaps more importantly the 2ICs?
Stand by for massive disruption IMO.
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Or just deftly manipulated by zionist pressure.
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Flack is a distraction.
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This used to be true. Now they bothe represent powerful corporate interests.
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Menzies used to pay a visit to the Old Dart every year. It coincided nicely with cricket at Lords.
The ship took 6 weeks to get there.
The PM was at sea almost 2 years all up! (I read his diaries for a doco I produced) The intense scrutiny of every action now and the criticism is so unreasonable
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In my regional area south of Sydney they are deliberately destroying our separate towns by developing a âconnurbationâ.
Filling gaps betweennwith housing. Centralising facilities into large characterless centres and closing local. âEconomically efficientâ apparently. A disaster for communities.
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It is the bad values. Our priority should be helping people with housing and a leg up into finaciak security. BtR is exploitative.
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Thats a separate question. You asked what is better than build to rent. Almost anything is better - except for the developer
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Well, main one would be publicly funded social housing. Available to people to rent/buy at low interest rates.
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Build-to-rent is such a dreadful concept. Keep people perpetually as tennants. Dreamed up by Triguboff I believe. He needs more $$
Whose interests does it benefit. I wonder đ¤
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Scribble. What happened was a deliberate âlightening and brighteningâ of news and weakening of current affairs.
24 hour news churn, fewer resources to cover in-depth, and young cheap hires.
Its a hollowing of skill abd purpose rather than bias
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Who do you think is setting organisation-wide rules in âwhat you can talk aboutâ exactly?
And how does it work?
Who communicates to the producers and presenters what thry can say do you think?
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Agree re RN đ
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Bias isnât the problem Vern. There are many
insitutional weaknesses after 24 years of poor leadership - bad decisions key among them.
There are also good people in there battling to turn things around.
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Mmm. No
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Yes. Another reasin fur goncern. Among many
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I know. I do the same. Such a different experience!
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ABC has an MD - Position is paid double what it should be IMO
But we are in a neo-liberal world and thatâs what happens
ABCs MD has resigned. So that was reasonably fast.
Radio national has been saved - and revalued as core content
So things are happening.
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Just the result of bad decisions made some time ago becoming more obvious I think.
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No. Serious
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Who would have thought?
Public health = primary aim is patientsâ health and well-being
Private health= primary aim?patients are âconsumersâ you make $$ from. As much as you can
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Indeedily doodily - delivering the Northern Beaches Hospital disaster from day 1. The Public/Private partnership that sucks out services for profits that became the ânever do it this way again everâ model.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
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Respect your view.
Often things are more nuanced than they appear.
Abc has had restructure on restructure, a liberal gov appâtd board, an MD out of depth (I dont mean DA) and digital disruption. All at once. Many good people fighting against a
lot of incoherence and difficulty
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2/. Complaints of rabid left-wing or right-wing bias were frequently made about the same interview! I used to send excerpt of one to the other and vice versa. đ