Australian (ASX) Stock Market Forum

ABC is Political

Jump to new
Wonder if the Australian Navy and the government will get an apology from the ABC ???

Unlikely!


Asylum-seekers' real stories revealed

TWO Somalis at the centre of grave allegations against the Australian navy in recent turn-back operations admit their burns were sustained during clashes with the sailors, who in one case had been forced to prevent asylum-seekers scuttling their boat.

The ABC last week reported claims by asylum-seekers that they were "beaten" by navy personnel "and told to hold on to parts of a hot engine on a boat being towed back to Indonesia".

The government and Defence have vehemently rejected claims the asylum-seekers were mistreated. And the new accounts of the incidents provided to The Australian yesterday, which suggest the injuries happened during scuffles, cast further doubt on the claims of deliberate abuse.

It has also emerged that the person who made the most serious claims to the ABC was not on board the boat where the alleged abuse took place.

(my bolds)

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nat...tories-revealed/story-fn9hm1gu-1226814426441#
 
The reds at GetUp are circulating a petition to maintain political bias at ABC.
 
Scott Morrison will appear today at a Senate inquiry in Canberra on the government's OSB policy. Below is how this is being reported by the three major media outlets.

The Australian,

In a surprise move - and an attempt to tackle head on charges of excessive secrecy - Mr Morrison will appear at a Labor/Greens-dominated Senate inquiry in Canberra today to defend the government's Operation Sovereign Borders policy.
Click to expand...

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nat...olicy-offensive/story-fn9hm1gu-1226814437544#

The SMH,

Immigration Minister Scott Morrison will appear before a Senate inquiry on Friday, as he continues to defend the federal government's approach towards asylum seeker boats.

In three interviews and a doorstop on Friday morning, Mr Morrison confirmed that he would attend the Senate hearing that will scrutinise the government's claim that it does not have to provide regular updates to the Senate about Operation Sovereign Borders.
Click to expand...

Mr Morrison is due to appear before the Senate committee after 1pm on Friday, along with top military officers and government officials.

He said he was appearing of his own initiative because he wanted to ''stand beside'' those implementing the government's border protection regime.
Click to expand...

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-polit...e-on-asylum-seeker-policy-20140131-31qho.html

The ABC,

Mr Morrison is set to face a grilling today from Labor and Greens senators when he fronts a Senate inquiry into the Federal Government's refusal to release key documents about border protection.

The committee requested to speak to government representatives along with officials from Defence, Immigration and Customs.
Click to expand...

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-01-...as-sprayed-in-eyes-by-australian-navy/5229362
 
sptrawler said:
You can call me cynical, however Ifind it strange that the ABC wait untill Labor are out of office before releasing stories on union corruption.
Click to expand...

(My bolds above) I asked how you knew the ABC had sat on the story, broadcast on "7.30" on two nights this week, whilst Labor were in power, because I've heard no suggestion anywhere that the ABC and Fairfax have not just completed this investigation.


Julia said:
I'm asking for any article, anywhere, by anyone at all which demonstrates that the ABC has sat on this union corruption stuff whilst Labor was in power.
Click to expand...

sptrawler said:
The article you were refering to in your post,duh.
Obviously this conversation is going nowhere.:xyxthumbs
Click to expand...

Hopefully the above will clarify what I was asking.
 
drsmith said:
The ABC,

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-01-...as-sprayed-in-eyes-by-australian-navy/5229362
Click to expand...

The ABC has changed the first paragraph in the above story from this (Google cache),

Somali asylum seeker claims he was sprayed in eyes by Australian ...
www.abc.net.au/news/2014-01-31/asylum-seeker/5229362 8 hours ago -‎

New details have emerged about asylum seeker claims that Australian sailors mistreated them during a boat interception operation earlier this month.
Click to expand...

https://www.google.com.au/#q="New+d...t+interception+operation+earlier+this+month."

to this (1h40min ago),

New details have emerged about a boat interception operation earlier this month, with one asylum seeker saying Navy personnel sprayed him in the eyes.
Click to expand...

A call from Malcolm Turnbull ?
 
Julia said:
(My bolds above) I asked how you knew the ABC had sat on the story, broadcast on "7.30" on two nights this week, whilst Labor were in power, because I've heard no suggestion anywhere that the ABC and Fairfax have not just completed this investigation.

Hopefully the above will clarify what I was asking.
Click to expand...

As I said i tried to look up the article to re read it but couldn't find it on the ABC, website, which in itself, I find strange. I stand corrected if there wasn't any date reference.
Upon looking at the second article, it makes mention that they had been trying to contact people for 5 months as I posted.
 
sptrawler said:
As I said i tried to look up the article to re read it but couldn't find it on the ABC, website, which in itself, I find strange.
Click to expand...
If you go back to your original post on the subject, on the previous page, which was what originally aroused my interest, you provided a link to the ABC. I've just tried this again and it works without any problem.
As far as I can tell, however, it's all about some cricketer: nothing at all to do with union corruption.

It's not my responsibility to defend the ABC and I'm not, but we need to be fair, and I cannot find, nor apparently can you, any justification for your suggestion that they had been sitting on the revelations about union corruption whilst the Labor government was in power.

I stand corrected if there wasn't any date reference.
Click to expand...
OK. Fine.
 
Nervous??



It's our ABC, so hands off, Tony Abbott and Malcolm Turnbull


The federal government has picked a fight with the national broadcaster.

It was September 2009 when Maurice Newman, then the ABC chairman, paid a courtesy visit to the national broadcaster's Tokyo bureau. Mark Willacy, the bureau's award-winning correspondent, and his three Japanese staff put on the kettle and sat down for a cuppa with Newman and Bruce Dover, chief executive of the Australia Network, the ABC's Asia-Pacific service.

Willacy refuses to comment on this episode in his distinguished career, but what happened next became hot news in the ABC. This version comes from several sources.

They say Newman proceeded to lecture the bureau about the number of negative stories it was running. He mentioned the focus on Japanese whaling stories. They weren't helping the Australia-Japan relationship. There were more positive stories to be told. There were good-news business stories.

The meeting left the staff gobsmacked. But they had already accepted the invitation to join Newman for dinner that night. When the bill came, however, Newman and Dover were in the bathroom, so the ABC's Tokyo office picked up the tab.

Many in the ABC were alarmed by Newman's intervention and saw it as an attack on the ABC's editorial independence.
Click to expand...

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/its-our-abc-so-hands-off-tony-abbott-and-malcolm-turnbull-20140131-31sa6.html#ixzz2s1pEGgv9
 
Some movement from within ?

As the ABC comes under government scrutiny, staff have been warned not to ''embellish'' or add ''any flourish'' to asylum seekers' claims they have been mistreated by border protection forces.

Head of ABC news content Gaven Morris sent the directive to the organisation's top brass on Friday morning, less than 24 hours after the government announced it would conduct an ''efficiency study'' into the ABC's operations.
Click to expand...

http://www.smh.com.au/national/dont...m-seekers-abc-warns-staff-20140201-31txl.html

The timing is interesting,

https://www.aussiestockforums.com/f...=23929&page=54&p=811708&viewfull=1#post811708

My bolds.
 
Solly said:
If you have any issue with the ABC and consider there is a breach of their code of conduct under Australian Broadcasting Corporation Act 1983, nothing will be resolved on this thread.

Go here, http://about.abc.net.au/talk-to-the-abc/feedback-and-enquiries/complaints-process/

If you are unhappy with the response, go here > http://www.acma.gov.au/Citizen/Take...st-complaints/complaints-about-the-abc-or-sbs

I look forward to your published responses.
Click to expand...

Thanks for sharing that, Solly :xyxthumbs
 
Solly said:
If you have any issue with the ABC and consider there is a breach of their code of conduct under Australian Broadcasting Corporation Act 1983, nothing will be resolved on this thread.

Go here, http://about.abc.net.au/talk-to-the-abc/feedback-and-enquiries/complaints-process/

If you are unhappy with the response, go here > http://www.acma.gov.au/Citizen/Take...st-complaints/complaints-about-the-abc-or-sbs

I look forward to your published responses.
Click to expand...

The ABC has been moving left and been infiltrated by leftists and Marxists since the 1970's. They just call themselves Greens now.

The links you give, have been used on numerous occasions to make complaints, without any meaningful result.

It is a complete waste of time to "Complain to Caesar, about what Caesar does"

Anyone who uses the complaint process either needs their head read, or has too little to do with too much time on their hands.

gg
 
Garpal Gumnut said:
The ABC has been moving left and been infiltrated by leftists and Marxists since the 1970's. They just call themselves Greens now.

The links you give, have been used on numerous occasions to make complaints, without any meaningful result.

It is a complete waste of time to "Complain to Caesar, about what Caesar does"

Anyone who uses the complaint process either needs their head read, or has too little to do with too much time on their hands.

gg
Click to expand...

+ 1 GG...I have given up in laying compliants to the ABC......you can never get any sense out of them......As you say, they (Labor) have been planting lefties into the ABC for many years.....time for some ethnic cleansing.
 
ABC TV Offsiders, a half hour sports program, this morning had as co-host that noted sports journalist Waleed Aly.

Darling of the luvvie Left, but what are his sports credentials? Unless he was there as Commissar. There were 4 other (bona fide) sports journalist co-hosts.

Waleed urged us not to even think about the little girl escorted from arena by security, in the full glare of national tv, and detained for 2 hours against her will. It was Adam Goodes who was the real victim, apparently.
 
Solly said:
If you have any issue with the ABC and consider there is a breach of their code of conduct under Australian Broadcasting Corporation Act 1983, nothing will be resolved on this thread.

Go here, http://about.abc.net.au/talk-to-the-abc/feedback-and-enquiries/complaints-process/

If you are unhappy with the response, go here > http://www.acma.gov.au/Citizen/Take...st-complaints/complaints-about-the-abc-or-sbs

I look forward to your published responses.
Click to expand...
Their complaints process is an absolute joke. You can send them verbatim examples of the most egregious bias and they will find a way to justify it.

Further, emails of specific complaints to the program concerned simply go unanswered.

I don't think in my entire life I've ever encountered any organisation which is such a law unto itself and which possesses such a sense of moral superiority over anyone who fails to subscribe to its philosophy.
Like most of the Left, they have developed sneering into an art form.
 
Top