Still waiting for answers from the Green/Labor socialist left supporters on their opinion of their beloved biased ABC.
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Still waiting for answers from the Green/Labor socialist left supporters on their opinion of their beloved biased ABC.
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What's the point, you wouldn't take any notice anyway.
Of course the Nauru government would never lie, cover up or distort the truth would it ?
Not only does your beloved ABC lie but you can also include on your list the Senior Director of Amnesty International, Anna Neistat...She has been caught out and admitted to it.
It is a pity these do-gooders from the ABC and Amnesty International didn't divert some of their energy into woman and child abuse in other parts of the world instead of trying to discredit the Australian Government on Nauru.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nat...s/news-story/9b306ec44d4f581581a4e9d9866860a7
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The lead author of the Amnesty International report alleging widespread abuse and neglect of asylum-seekers in Australian-sponsored facilities on Nauru made misleading claims on child suicide and drownings at sea.
Amnesty senior researcher Anna Neistat admitted yesterday that, contrary to her claim on the ABC’s Lateline program this week, no child asylum-seeker on Nauru had committed suicide.
In an interview with The Australian, Ms Neistat also conceded that, contrary to the impression she gave in that interview, no asylum-seekers were known to have drowned trying to reach Australia or as a result of turnbacks since the Coalition introduced its stop-the-boats policy in late 2013.
Ms Neistat was one of the subjects interviewed by the ABC’s Four Corners program on asylum-seekers on Nauru entitled The Forgotten Children, which aired on Monday night, a program widely criticised by the government for alleged inaccuracies, misleading footage and imbalance.
The ABC issued a statement yesterday standing by the prog*ram and denying claims that Australian departmental officers had offered images or footage to Four Corners of current facilities on Nauru, as opposed to older material* run by the program.
The Australian has seen an email chain indicating a media spokesman in the office of Immigration and Border Protection Minister Peter Dutton had offered Four Corners recent footage of new school facilities on Nauru last Thursday.
An ABC spokeswoman said that was “clearly not within the timeframe of the report” and added no footage in the program had been provided by Amnesty.
The Amnesty report, Island of Despair, which claims to “reveal the full scale of Australia’s system of deliberate cruelty” on Nauru, covers much of the same territory as the Four Corners program, and Amnesty set a media embargo for its report of 8.30pm AEDT on Monday, as Four Corners aired.
Ms Neistat said while Amnesty and the ABC knew of each other’s activities, they were independent, and the timing of the embargo was due to international media considerations, not any request from Four Corners.
In the interview on Lateline, Ms Neistat said: “I spoke to many children, many of whom talked about wanting to commit suicide — some of them have.” But she conceded to The Australian *yesterday that no asylum-seeker children on Nauru had taken their own lives.
Ms Neistat said that during the several days she spent on Nauru, she had spoken to two boys, aged nine and 13, who said they had *attempted suicide, and to the sister of a 13-year-old girl who said she had also tried to take her own life.
“They attempted to commit suicide, they didn’t die,” Ms *Neistat said. In the Lateline interview, she had tried to counter the *assertion from the government that it had stopped the boats and drownings.
“Let’s not kid ourselves, the boats haven’t stopped coming, they just don’t sink at the Australian shores any more, they are pushed back at earlier stages and people do continue to die at sea.”
But she conceded that while one vessel from Vietnam had been stopped by Australian authorities in June and its 21 passengers flown back, “in this case they didn’t die”.
Please read the readers comments if the Australian allows you.
The Immigration Minister, Peter Dutton, offered the ABC updates of a new school and a modern updated hospital on Nauru and the ABC refused to use it preferring instead to use clips that were 2 years old......The ABC wanted to use maximum propaganda to discredit the government and it has all back fired on the ABC.
I say stop the ABC funding until they change their attitude.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nat...ebcd54563ff662b824fcbd7ff0bd2#U60880373850MwC
Activists ‘taken over’ the ABC: Dutton
Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has taken aim at the Four Corners program, saying he will write to ABC managing director Michelle Guthrie to formally complain about what he says is a political crusade being waged by the public broadcaster.
Peter Dutton. Picture: AAP
Peter Dutton. Picture: AAP
Mr Dutton today warned the ABC was being taken over by political operatives, accusing them of running stories without doing fact checks or providing a balanced perspective on the government’s border protection regimen.
He said that refugee activists had “completely taken over” and now “owned and operated the place.”
The Australian has revealed that Monday night’s episode about refugee children on Nauru was found to have included old photographs of facilities no longer in use and random footage of brawling adults, previously published on YouTube by a user known as “NoRulz.”
“The ABC has a lot to answer for here,” Mr Dutton told 2GB radio. “We had offered to provide information to Four Corners, to the ABC. They didn’t run it.
“We had offered to provide answers to questions, and to provide them with information that they could use as part of their program. They didn’t take up the offer.”
Mr Dutton also said his offer to do a live interview on the program was denied. “They decided that that wasn’t acceptable to them.
“It was so one-sided and slanted I think the managing director of the ABC has a lot to answer for here and I think it was shabby journalism to say the least.
Michelle Guthrie. Picture: AAP
Michelle Guthrie. Picture: AAP
“They’ve turned themselves into political operatives and it’s unacceptable for the national broadcaster.
“They should be factually based, these stories, and they shouldn’t be based on emotions and lies ... It’s an embarrassment that our national broadcaster would carry on the way that they have.
“I’m going to write to the managing director and detail our concerns ... but downloading stories off YouTube and running them as somehow factually based is just a nonsense.”
And on Triggs:
Mr Dutton told 2GB radio that Human Rights Commission president Gillian Triggs needed to address “very serious allegations” that she had misled the Senate legal and constitutional affairs committee.
“They are obviously issues that she would need to address very quickly,” Mr Dutton said. “They are very serious allegations …. It is an office with great prestige in the commonwealth. She would have to clear this up very quickly as it goes to her character.”
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I say stop the ABC funding until they change their attitude.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nat...ebcd54563ff662b824fcbd7ff0bd2#U60880373850MwC
Activists ‘taken over’ the ABC: Dutton
Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has taken aim at the Four Corners program, saying he will write to ABC managing director Michelle Guthrie to formally complain about what he says is a political crusade being waged by the public broadcaster.
Peter Dutton. Picture: AAP
Peter Dutton. Picture: AAP
Mr Dutton today warned the ABC was being taken over by political operatives, accusing them of running stories without doing fact checks or providing a balanced perspective on the government’s border protection regimen.
He said that refugee activists had “completely taken over” and now “owned and operated the place.”
The Australian has revealed that Monday night’s episode about refugee children on Nauru was found to have included old photographs of facilities no longer in use and random footage of brawling adults, previously published on YouTube by a user known as “NoRulz.”
“The ABC has a lot to answer for here,” Mr Dutton told 2GB radio. “We had offered to provide information to Four Corners, to the ABC. They didn’t run it.
“We had offered to provide answers to questions, and to provide them with information that they could use as part of their program. They didn’t take up the offer.”
Mr Dutton also said his offer to do a live interview on the program was denied. “They decided that that wasn’t acceptable to them.
“It was so one-sided and slanted I think the managing director of the ABC has a lot to answer for here and I think it was shabby journalism to say the least.
Michelle Guthrie. Picture: AAP
Michelle Guthrie. Picture: AAP
“They’ve turned themselves into political operatives and it’s unacceptable for the national broadcaster.
“They should be factually based, these stories, and they shouldn’t be based on emotions and lies ... It’s an embarrassment that our national broadcaster would carry on the way that they have.
“I’m going to write to the managing director and detail our concerns ... but downloading stories off YouTube and running them as somehow factually based is just a nonsense.”
And on Triggs:
Mr Dutton told 2GB radio that Human Rights Commission president Gillian Triggs needed to address “very serious allegations” that she had misled the Senate legal and constitutional affairs committee.
“They are obviously issues that she would need to address very quickly,” Mr Dutton said. “They are very serious allegations …. It is an office with great prestige in the commonwealth. She would have to clear this up very quickly as it goes to her character.”
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It is about time the ABC came under scrutiny on their bias.
Government Ministers including the Prime Minister should be knocking on the ABC door every time there is misinformation given......They are so blatant with their bias.....They stand out like the proverbial country out house.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/bus...t/news-story/805373a056fe068beb54c177112141ef
Communications Minister Mitch Fifield will complain to ABC managing director Michelle Guthrie about a Four Corners documentary on Nauru, saying he has concerns about the national broadcaster’s coverage.
Speaking on Sky News this morning, Senator Fifield said the ABC’s decision to turn down an interview offer from Immigration Minister Peter Dutton on last week’s Four Corners program on Nauru was “odd”.
He said he was “troubled” by the refusal to air a response from the Coalition, and would be contacting the ABC’s new managing director to share his concerns.
“I haven’t yet raised it (the issue) with Michelle Guthrie, but I certainly will be — absolutely,” he said.
Last week, Mr Dutton said the national broadcaster had been “drinking the Kool-Aid” and was campaigning against government policy, indicating he would also be writing to Ms Guthrie to raise his concerns.
“We had offered to provide answers to questions and provide them with information that they could use as part of their program, they didn’t take me up on the offer,” Mr Dutton said.
The ABC has defended the program that detailed complaints from some of the 755 asylum-seekers living on the island as “accurate, well-researched (and) well-produced”.
Government Ministers including the Prime Minister should be knocking on the ABC door every time there is misinformation given......They are so blatant with their bias.....They stand out like the proverbial country out house.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/bus...t/news-story/805373a056fe068beb54c177112141ef
Communications Minister Mitch Fifield will complain to ABC managing director Michelle Guthrie about a Four Corners documentary on Nauru, saying he has concerns about the national broadcaster’s coverage.
Speaking on Sky News this morning, Senator Fifield said the ABC’s decision to turn down an interview offer from Immigration Minister Peter Dutton on last week’s Four Corners program on Nauru was “odd”.
He said he was “troubled” by the refusal to air a response from the Coalition, and would be contacting the ABC’s new managing director to share his concerns.
“I haven’t yet raised it (the issue) with Michelle Guthrie, but I certainly will be — absolutely,” he said.
Last week, Mr Dutton said the national broadcaster had been “drinking the Kool-Aid” and was campaigning against government policy, indicating he would also be writing to Ms Guthrie to raise his concerns.
“We had offered to provide answers to questions and provide them with information that they could use as part of their program, they didn’t take me up on the offer,” Mr Dutton said.
The ABC has defended the program that detailed complaints from some of the 755 asylum-seekers living on the island as “accurate, well-researched (and) well-produced”.
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I seem to recall Richard Carlton was an ABC product, replete with his bucket of supercilious grins and right wing bias.
I still think back on him and Hawke
I still think back on him and Hawke
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Damn I missed that. Would have been funny stuff and probably true. (I am no fan of Virginia)
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BS ! Storm in a glass of water.
It was just some harmless female locker room talk
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I think it is time the ABC conceded, they are out of touch with mainstream.
Every prediction has been wrong, while they push their own agenda.
Every prediction has been wrong, while they push their own agenda.
The ABC is riddled with Fabians...It is about time JELLY MALLY brought them to heel....Bring the ABC back to the reality of their charter or alternatively cut their funding.
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La Trioli's male co-host would already be off air, if he'd said it
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And here we are at it again, being aboriginal should allow you to publish any crap on Apple otherwise Apple is a symbol of colonialism...Welcome to the world wo welfare and preferred treatment Lady.
Here comes the next bleeding heart battle..Pathetic but your ABC is here to save the day..
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-17/apple-drops-indigenous-app-creator-warns-of-digital-colonisation/8032904
Here comes the next bleeding heart battle..Pathetic but your ABC is here to save the day..
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-17/apple-drops-indigenous-app-creator-warns-of-digital-colonisation/8032904
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I agree that was a political story. The Prime Minister got a free plug he didn't deserve.
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I agree that was a political story. The Prime Minister got a free plug he didn't deserve.
Not political as ALP vs LNP; but Jesus, we live in the real world and news after news like that beamed into the brains of the people with no options in aboriginal communities or in our leftist create a class of people living in a surreal world, voting and deciding where my taxes go.
I have apps published in Apple/Android world, not games either and I can assure you that the whole complaint story is BS; moreover I would be keen to know the level of grants/assistance etc from my taxes that product got from the collonialists....
Anyway, I am white, not muslim, working and paying taxes, and not LGxxxxxxxx so why should anyone care until the next Trump/Brexit/Pauline....or worse to come
You would think a lesson would have been taught
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Not political as ALP vs LNP; but Jesus, we live in the real world and news after news like that beamed into the brains of the people with no options in aboriginal communities or in our leftist create a class of people living in a surreal world, voting and deciding where my taxes go.
I have apps published in Apple/Android world, not games either and I can assure you that the whole complaint story is BS; moreover I would be keen to know the level of grants/assistance etc from my taxes that product got from the collonialists....
Anyway, I am white, not muslim, working and paying taxes, and not LGxxxxxxxx so why should anyone care until the next Trump/Brexit/Pauline....or worse to come
You would think a lesson would have been taught
Calm down Froggy, there must be a beautiful day out there somewhere.
Actually I'm getting a bit sick of the ABC too. Whining aborigines, whining women moaning about the "glass ceiling", whining gays and lesbians, it does tend to fray the nerves.
I'd still trust their journalistic abilities over the commercial channels, but it's obvious that these are being dumbed down. TV reporters who look as though they are just out of school and seem picked for their ethniticity or photogenity. Dumbed down writing in online news stories too. But then I reckon that the Coalition cutbacks are aiming for this sort of effect, to devalue the ABC and then defund it totally. And that would be a bad thing imo.
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Calm down Froggy, there must be a beautiful day out there somewhere.
Actually I'm getting a bit sick of the ABC too. Whining aborigines, whining women moaning about the "glass ceiling", whining gays and lesbians, it does tend to fray the nerves.
I'd still trust their journalistic abilities over the commercial channels, but it's obvious that these are being dumbed down. TV reporters who look as though they are just out of school and seem picked for their ethniticity or photogenity. Dumbed down writing in online news stories too. But then I reckon that the Coalition cutbacks are aiming for this sort of effect, to devalue the ABC and then defund it totally. And that would be a bad thing imo.
Remember the problems we had on QANDA with what we could express?
I noticed the latest prime time viewing includes that gay idiot with a mangled Irish accent (he was born and raised around the corner from me in Oz) in a "comedy" complete with bed scenes of male homosexuals. That's our money being spent by executives on a voyerism of social engineering for mainstream acceptance.
I would love to be a fly on the wall in Virginia's house when her one and only puts out to the same sex crowd after being raised to be blind to his natural role.
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That's another thing that irks me. The ABC has now removed all reader comments from the online site, and they were the most informative (and occasionally funny) parts of the Drum online. It's as if the ABC doesn't give a damn about what we think any more, but I'm inclined to believe that financial cutbacks have resulted in the moderators being laid off.
I don't watch ABC drama these days, I find most of it puerile.
We need a Donald Trump here to rid the ABC of the 41% Greens and 32% Labor stooges and only then can we get some balance in honest reporting.
According to the Fabian ideology .......Control the media and you will control the people....