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There is of course another theory doing the rounds of the conspiracy arena.
Namely that it was all done on purpose to make sure it never got to trial.
That way everyone can assume the bloke was guilty, and the woke crowd can keep making another one of their own into a hero, keep talking about the women problems that the liberal party has, and all without having to provide any evidence.
Just like the crucifictions of Porter, Tudge and Andrew Laming.
All or none may be narcissistic punces, but that is not a reason for crucifiction.
Ya need hard evidence, not opinion, brave support ec etc.
Mick
 
Just saw this headline, someone has stuffed up and made a classic faux pas IMO.


 
The media up to its old tricks maybe? if you want a story make one, who cares about collateral damage, the pressure these reporters put athletes under is ridiculous especially when all the reporter wants is a story.

‘False news:’ Chalmers unloads on reports of rift with McKeon, Simpson

Kyle Chalmers unleashed an all-time press conference as he took the flamethrower to reports of team division and an icy relationship with Emma McKeon and Cody Simpson.
www.smh.com.au

An incandescent Kyle Chalmers has slammed suggestions of a rift with Emma McKeon, threatened to cut off all contact with the media and said his mental health remained in peril during a blistering press conference at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.
Chalmers had just anchored the Australian 4x100m freestyle relay to gold at the Sandwell Aquatics Centre but his post-swim interview quickly devolved into a shootout with reporters as he was forced to defend his conduct after the mixed freestyle relay triumph the previous evening.
 
I would have thought the newspaper could have chosen a better headline, to lead an article about an Australian athlete getting into the 100m final at the Commonwealth games.
Even though it was how the athlete described his run, I think the fact he actually made it to the final should have been the headline, not a sensational display of putting someone down. Just my thoughts.
But hey the media knows how to make people feel great, I wonder if Browning's Mum will be putting that newspaper clipping in the family scrap book?

https://www.smh.com.au/sport/athlet...r-browning-in-100m-final-20220804-p5b745.html

Rohan Browning thought it was ugly. And painful. Sixth is such an unsatisfying result even if you are the first Australian man in 12 years to make the sprint final at a Commonwealth Games.
Australia’s fastest man struggled to put his race together in the final on a cool night in Birmingham running 10.20s, slower than the more composed 10.17 in the semi-final that got him there.
 
I saw the interview. He did say it and was really disappointed. Really unhappy. He even bagged his own personality. I thought the interviewer could have said something to boost his feelings.
 
Knobby22 said:
I saw the interview. He did say it and was really disappointed. Really unhappy. He even bagged his own personality. I thought the interviewer could have said something to boost his feelings.
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Yes we are so quick to put down any failure, it is a sad media trait in Australia and the U.K is no better.
It all stems from the media's preoccupation with believing bad news sells, which it probably does, but it does zip for the Countries moral, the persons self esteem and in my opinion the reporters self worth.
I can understand why Leigh Sales retired after the election, spending the last 10 years with your whole life focused on negative politics, must have been terribly wearing for her and her family.
 
Ohh... tell me it's true please, please !! tell me it's true ... the skid mark of Talk Back has bleached himself from the air-waves... oh glorious day and blessed be the fruit...
spare me none of the details; I've only glanced the online thumb-nail of ' The CatholicBoy's Daily'... i can take it.

'Sadly but Gladly none did it as badly as Hadley'

and pray that be the end of it.
the sort of langauge the use out in 'the Hills'

The ineptiude of his Federal broMance
And now home patch in a death spiral.
Crawl into your own hole Raymond you'll feel comfortable there; It's eminations are all we've heard for years....
 
Grace Tame is giving the politicians another spray, I wonder if she is getting any traction in the public speaking circles.

Grace Tame blasts parliament's 'elitist toffs' over lack of inclusion

The former Australian of the Year has launched a scathing attack on the major parties in the wake of parliament's first sitting week. Find out what she said.
au.news.yahoo.com
On her Instagram account, Ms Tame joined those frustrated by politicians from the major parties last week not supporting moves to allow an Auslan interpreter into the Senate or enabling the only senator with a disability to chair a National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) committee.


“Must be such a slog for these poor old, elected ableist toffs to breathe in there, for all the privilege stifling the parliament,” she lashed out.

“What a crock of w**k.
“The general public apologises for making any attempt to try to increase engagement with your elitist circle jerking.

“We’ll happily go back to ignoring your echo chamber of whitewashed white noise, if that’s what you’d prefer.”
 

Leaked video of PM's wild party sparks national debate

"I resent that these became known to the public," the 36-year-old world leader said.
au.news.yahoo.com

"PM 'resents' video becoming public​

Her political opponents have seized on the footage to criticise the prime minister for spending too much time at music festivals and parties, rather than governing. But the backlash quickly generated its own backlash as debate kicked off on social media and in the Finnish media.

On Thursday (local time), Ms Marin said she was upset the videos were published online as they were only meant to be seen by friends. The clips were originally posted to a private Instagram account.

Ms Marin, who became the world's youngest serving government leader in December 2019, said she knew she was being filmed but never thought the videos would become publicly available.

"These videos are private and filmed in a private space. I resent that these became known to the public," Ms Marin told reporters. She said she did not know who leaked them."
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She really doesn't deserve to be PM if she's that naive.

She and Boris would make a good pair.
 
SirRumpole said:
She really doesn't deserve to be PM if she's that naive.

She and Boris would make a good pair.
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She would have got less airplay for invading France.
Plus by the look of her dancing, it would have taken less effort.?

Let's be honest she is in the mid 30's, at the peak knowledge time of her life, when she knows everything and she probably thinks old people should be seen and not heard.
 
Most of my life I can say that I've paid precisely zero attention to celebrities of any sort be they sports, music, acting or anything else indeed I tended to see anyone doing so as wasting their time.

More recently though well I've ended up knowing rather a lot about one in particular (not a boast, just saying) and yeah, there's nothing polite I could say about the media really. To say they kick people when they're down is an understatement and from what I've seen, I now have a lot more sympathy for those in the public spotlight.

One blunder, even something as simple as failing to effectively communicate a thought that's actually pretty worthwhile, and out come the knives straight in the back and a kick in the face to go with it. Now I can see why so many end up such a mess. The pressure applied is truly ridiculous and the media's a big part of it with their endless attempts to manufacture a story.

If an athlete makes it through to the final at the Commonwealth Games well that's an achievement in itself. Sure they'd like to win but they've still achieved far more than most already.

The media is simply toxic in my view and is at least part of the reason so many people, including ordinary people who are in no way famous for anything, are struggling mentally. Constant gaslighting of the population and the creation of unrealistic expectations isn't helping anyone.
 

Yes, well my dislike of the media is reinforced by the ordeal that Naomi Osaka was put through for deciding not to give interviews after tennis matches due to he lack of confidence in facing questions.

Surely the job of sports people is to entertain the public with their sporting skills, not to be cannon fodder for the media. If the sports people want to do interviews that's up to them, but forcing them to stand up and state the obvious for the gratification of the media jackals it not my idea of freedom of speech , which also includes freedom not to speak if individuals want to take that route.
 

My sentiments exactly and the main reason we avoid the media current affairs and news broadcasts, these athletes and their families have sacrificed more than most, to become the best they can be at what they do.
The media tear them down if they don't win and even if they do win, the media is on the sidelines salivating for the moment the person loses.
The media IMO are just a disgraceful display of how low humans can go, while trying to justify their own existence, at the expense of others.
It was a breath of fresh air when Ash Barty walked away from tennis while on top, before the media commenced their attack on her mental wellbeing, at her next loss.
Just my two cents worth and my personal opinion.
 
Grace gives Scomo the side eye, Hooray.

Grace Tame’s EPIC side-eye in ScoMo photoshoot

Australian of The Year and sexual assault survivor Grace Tame has met with Scott Morrison in Canberra and the pictures are EVERYTHING!
www.perthnow.com.au

Lady gives Megan Markle the same treatment, Booooo.

Megan Markle praised for reaction to mourner’s ‘ridiculous’ act

Meghan Markle has been applauded after an uncomfortable incident was caught on camera. Watch the footage here.
au.news.yahoo.com

Narrative at its best, rudeness is only acceptable, when it is directed at acceptable targets.
 
wayneL said:
That media agenda is so very apparent, even if you are only half awake
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Absolutely, not much action regarding the legislated 43% carbon reduction, not even a question from the media on how we are going to do it.
When the previous Government said, we expect to beat our Paris target commitments, the media were all over them.
Now we have someone say, we will reach 43%, not a peep.
Obviously the last Government should have just plucked a number and the media would have been happy.?

2nd August:

Government's 43 per cent emissions target set to become law, as Greens offer critical support

A bill to write the government's climate target into law is set to be passed, as the Greens decide to back the bill, giving the government enough votes to pass the legislation.
www.abc.net.au
Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen shut down any prospect of a coal and gas moratorium being introduced through the safeguard mechanism, saying the government would implement its election plan "without alteration".

5th August:

Australia’s climate change targets will become law. What happens now?

Here’s what we know the new bill means for climate action and what happens once we have legislated targets
www.theguardian.com
Labor’s climate plan, called Powering Australia, includes two main policies plus a few add-ons. Bowen says he commissioned modelling from consultants at RepuTex to estimate what cut in emissions the policies could deliver, and they came up with 43%.

But the details of the policies are still to be fleshed out. The first is to use the safeguard mechanism, which was introduced by the Abbott government to stop increases in pollution from major industrial sites, including fossil fuel mines.


12 September:
Anyone got anything newer in the media, that actually gives a time line for renewable projects above and beyond those that were already announced before the new Government took office?
 
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The Nine media group have finally apologised to Andrew Laming for incorrectly repeating a story about Laming supposedly upskirting some unfortunate girl. The apology turned up just prior to the case going to trial.
Every one else from the various pile ons had already issued their mea culpas.
From The Guardian
The guardian forgot to mention Lisa Wilkinson and Kristina Keneally were also on the apology listings.
I wonder if the journalists will have their awards taken away?
The Laming story, by Nine’s Peter Fegan and Rebeka Powell, won several awards for the network.

The Investigation of Andrew Laming won the 2021 Walkley award for television/video news reporting
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Fegan and Powell were awarded best TV news report and named joint journalist of the year at the Queensland Clarion awards.
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According to the Statement issued by Nine,
9News has now seen material which indicates that the photograph Dr Laming took was not lewd in nature.
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Given that all the other participants apologised and or deleted their tweets/stories months ago, would one be a cynic if one suggested that the "material" they saw was the size of the bill they would end up with if they went ahead with a losing case?
The journalists will all keep their awards and their jobs.
Laming got shafted by them and the then PM Scomo, and lost his job.
And before anyone jumps in with their character assessments of Laming, it matters little in the case when its been a fabrication.
Just cos the bloke may be an arrogant conservative punce, ya still need proof before you pile on.
Mick
 
Yea, but it was the PM who really shafted him and ended his career.

"Of course, I'm bitterly disappointed at two levels – [Scott Morrison] failed to give due process, failed to obtain details of these accusations, looked me in the eye and said that there wasn't a problem and within a day had done a press conference calling me disgraceful," he said.

Former MP Andrew Laming welcomes apology over 'lewd photo' story, criticises Morrison's handling

Former Bowman MP Andrew Laming welcomes an unreserved apology from Nine after he sued the broadcaster for defamation over an award-winning television report aired last year.
www.abc.net.au

Personally, if I took a picture of a girl bending over while stacking a fridge at work, I wouldn't be too popular.
 
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