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Yes, as usual with the media it is a one way street, they can say, intimate, rudely interject whenever they feel like, because they are entitled.
The interviewee meanwhile has the right to say what the host wants them to say, anything else isn't acceptable. ?
While the hand picked gormless audience ogle on.
Just my opinion and the very reason I don't watch any of the current affairs/ news programmes.?
 
It just highlights how difficult 24/7 news is for reporters.
Here is someone just getting the last cheap shot into Phil Lowe. ?
I guess milking it, for all it's worth, is part of the job.
I just wish the the RBA could say "ok this month we are contacting all the mainstream media and are going to ask them to give their suggestion on the interest rate settings", the ones that are wrong get fined and the ones that are right get to pick again next month.?

Feeling lucky? Like Dirty Harry, Phil Lowe must wonder how many shots he has left

Just as Dirty Harry wasn’t sure he had any remaining bullets, Lowe can’t be sure how much more interest-rate pain the economy can take.
www.theage.com.au
 
SirRumpole said:
I never said ICAC was useless. It's concerned with corruption not propriety.
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I guess this doesn't qualify as corruption either? Blind Freddy could see this stank from the outset, I said at the time it will be a taxpayer funded single personnel camp for seasonal workers and guess what, it is. ?
Meanwhile the homeless look on in amazement.

The $220m taxpayer-funded hotel ‘we will never own’​

The state government will hand over keys to the Wellcamp facility this weekend, which will then turn into accommodation and entertainment precinct run by a wealthy family.

Wellcamp COVID quarantine facility contract will not be renewed by Queensland government

The 1000-bed quarantine facility cost taxpayers more than $220 million in set-up and running costs last year, but only about 730 people ever stayed there.
www.abc.net.au

Only about 730 people stayed at the facility when it was a designated quarantine site.

Wagner Corporation chairman John Wagner said the quarantine facility would now be used to house agriculture sector workers.

"We're dealing with a number of [agricultural] operators who are desperate for accommodation for … workers," Mr Wagner said.

"Some of these abattoirs just can't find accommodation for their workers that they bring into the country.
 
Unfortunately, knowing Blind Freddy quite well, I am aware that he is a rusted on labour voter, so don't expect any backup from him.
Mick
 
SirRumpole said:
$220 million and they never owned it ?

I'm speechless !
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From what I've read on it, the company was paid to build it, on their land and now they get to keep it. Nice. ?
Meanwhile the Federal Govt built a quarantine facility on the RAAF base near Brisbane airport.
I think Queensland has had an ICAC for quite a long time, lucky that the Libs aren't in, there would be hell to pay IMO.
 
So that's basically a $220 million donation to the Wagner's?

Nice as you say.
 
SirRumpole said:
So that's basically a $220 million donation to the Wagner's?

Nice as you say.
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The annoying part is, there is every effort to assist companies to bring in overseas workers, meanwhile there is minimum effort to encourage Australian participation.
The State Govt's need to get back into providing employment opportunities, as was done historically, through public works departments, State housing commissions, State electricity commissions and their maintenance divisions.
The privatisation of these services has been a disaster, the same as globalisation and now with the energy sector and housing sectors in chaos, it is the perfect time to re start those public service sectors IMO.
It's a shame the media is so focused on high profile politically motivated issues, rather than grass roots issues, that affects all Australians.
I just wish Laurie Oakes was still around, he would be highlighting the obvious.
 
You could add universities to that list. Totally free uni courses are going too far, but now our Unis are at the mercy of foreign students and their governments and local students are at the bottom of the ladder.
 
SirRumpole said:
So that's basically a $220 million donation to the Wagner's?

Nice as you say.
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Another article on the issue and not an ICAC investigation in sight, the auditor general is looking into it.

From the article:
The facility went largely unused during the pandemic after completing construction in February 2022 just as covid restrictions were easing nationwide.

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk announced prior to construction that Queensland would pay for the entire project after a political spat with then-Prime Minister Scott Morrison.

Now Josh Wagner and the Wagner Corporation will inherit the facility without cost when the government's lease expires.
Wagner, one of the state's wealthiest men, says the area will become part of a $175 million entertainment precinct.
The Wellcamp facility primarily took in unvaccinated tourists who needed to quarantine in accordance with Queensland's mandate international travel.

Now the project is being probed by the Queensland Auditor-General, who is working on a probe into the costs and decisions that led to the commissioning of the site.

This probe is expected to be completed within the next two months.
 
Here we go, the ABC seems to be getting itself in trouble again.


The TV report and two online articles included allegations from a US marine that he indirectly witnessed Australian soldiers execute a hogtied prisoner in Afghanistan in 2012.

The ABC and two journalists - Mark Willacy and Josh Robertson - filed defences denying that the stories were about Mr Russell, despite him being named and his image being used.

This is now the fourth attempt at defending itself that the ABC has been forced to abandon during the David and Goliath trial.

In an amended defence, filed in the Federal Court on Friday, the ABC deleted the defences of 'truth and contextual truth' - instead relying on a public interest defence, which has never been properly trialled in an Australian court.
The judge struck out the entirety of the ABC's truth and contextual truth defence but gave them a chance to file a fourth version.

On Monday, the ABC filed its fourth attempt at a defence in this matter - which completely abandoned the majority of the defence first filed in October 2022 .

A defamation specialist, who does not want to be identified, told Daily Mail Australia 'the court will be able to sell tickets to the cross examination of the journalists at the trial'.

'How can they seriously suggest that they had a reasonable belief about that the publication of these allegations about Mr Russell were in the public interest when they have already said that the allegations were never about him and they are not seeking to prove them to be true?' the expert said.

'There is an air of unreality about this defence.'
 

Journalistic standards are slipping at the ABC and have been for some time.

Ita needs to go, she's turned the ABC into a clone of Woman's Weekly.
 
SirRumpole said:
Journalistic standards are slipping at the ABC and have been for some time.

Ita needs to go, she's turned the ABC into a clone of Woman's Weekly.
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Most of the media is like the woman's weekly, the only difference with the ABC they don't have the social media reality T.V content, and what reality T.V content they do have like insiders is so rigged it is nauseous.
 
Narrative: The headline-

Pauline Hanson cashes in on pub for $1.1 million​

The Queensland senator took the opportunity to slam the government for cost of living pressures, even as her investment had doubled in value.

The story:

Pauline Hanson cashes in on Maitland pub for $1.1 million

The Queensland senator took the opportunity to slam the government for cost of living pressures, even as her investment had doubled in value.
www.brisbanetimes.com.au

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has cashed in her Hunter Valley investment property for $1.1 million, doubling her money in the decade she owned it.

Records show the Queensland senator purchased the former Exchange Hotel in the heart of Maitland for $449,000 in 2012 in partnership with local real estate agent Rhonda Nyquist.

The probable reality:

It sold for $1.1m, less $449,000 purchase cost and say $50k selling costs, so net $600k.

She was in partnership with a local real estate agent, so $300k each, less CGT say $50k minimum, so Pauline after 10 years made probably $250k.

Woopy doo, in Sydney/Melbourne, the reporters probably make that in 12 months flipping houses. ? ? ? ?
 
Interesting the way the media whips themselves into a frenzy when some drongo on social media makes a derogatory comment about a football player.

The ABC must have reported this at least 6 times today pushing what must be more relevant stories (like about the weather) into the background.

For the love of Mike, some people are always going to do this cr@p, we don't need it shoved down our throats and it just gives the idiots publicity.
 
It sounds to me, as though the right for the media to run a narrative. is going be tested.

ABC uses new public interest defence in Lehrmann defamation suit

The national broadcaster says it did not defame Bruce Lehrmann by broadcasting Brittany Higgins’ National Press Club address.
www.smh.com.au
From the article:
The ABC will seek to rely in part on a new public interest defence to fight a defamation suit brought against it by former federal Liberal political staffer Bruce Lehrmann over a National Press Club address by Brittany Higgins.

In a defence filed in court and released publicly on Friday, the ABC denies it defamed Lehrmann. In the event the court finds it did so, it will seek to rely on a series of defences, including public interest and innocent dissemination.

In the event the court finds Lehrmann was identified and the defamatory meaning was conveyed, the ABC seeks to rely on a series of defences including a defence available for fair reports of proceedings of public concern.

It also pleads innocent dissemination, a defence available to secondary publishers in some cases.
But it also seeks to rely on the new public interest defence which started in July 2021 in NSW, where the trial will be held, and is now law in most Australian states and territories. It has yet to be tested in the context of a full trial in Australia.

That defence relates to publications concerning “an issue of public interest” where the defendant “reasonably believed that the publication of the matter was in the public interest”.
It says in its defence that “the ABC reasonably believed that the National Press Club proceedings and hence the matters complained of concerned issues of public interest”.
 
I don't know why it's the ABC being sued.

They always broadcast the National Press Club live and therefore have no control over the content.

Lerhmann should be suing the people who made the comments not the ABC.
 
SirRumpole said:
I don't know why it's the ABC being sued.

They always broadcast the National Press Club live and therefore have no control over the content.

Lerhmann should be suing the people who made the comments not the ABC.
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its simple really.
Sue the one with the largest pockets.
The ABC has a larger pot of money to waste than Higgins, despite her 3mill govt bribe.
Mick
 
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