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Oops! Jim Chalmerts the soon to be treasurer, had a small blunder on his twitter feed.
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basilio said:
Next time I'll just have to rewrite it in my own words won't I ? Frankly there is nothing in that story that couldn't be also written, in a similar way, in a biting analysis of how the ScoMo government has been run.

After all that is the point of good satire - telling the truth with a sting and laugh.:)
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I guess the thing with politics is, truth can be subjective and is always presented in a one sided manner.
As can be shown by simply saying oh the Murdoch press, or oh the Guardian, or oh the SMH, the fox news, the ABC, the same article can be presented in several different ways.
The problem is the truth is the one that resonates with the readers or listeners personal beliefs, that doesn't mean it is the whole truth, only what that person wishes to believe is the truth according to their personal bias. ;)
 
sptrawler said:
I guess the thing with politics is, truth can be subjective and is always presented in a one sided manner.
As can be shown by simply saying oh the Murdoch press, or oh the Guardian, or oh the SMH, the fox news, the ABC, the same article can be presented in several different ways.
The problem is the truth is the one that resonates with the readers or listeners personal beliefs, that doesn't mean it is the whole truth, only what that person wishes to believe is the truth according to their personal bias. ;)
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Yes, well explained. The other thing is that what is told may be the truth but what is not told may also be the truth, but not convenient to the teller.
 
One can make very few inferences about the silence.

Glass houses?
 
sptrawler said:
I'm not on twitter, but it sounds like that is where all the hot gossip is.
reading the post though, not even the left wing papers are reporting it, could it be because they have spent enough money on defamation cases, printing gossip has cost a lot of money in the last coupe of years.
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Twitter is the gateway to the best macroeconomic and political information around, so long as careful not to create an Echo chamber.

At the same time it is the source of the most toxic and horrific trolling imaginable. You need a hide as thick as a rhino.

Managed properly it can be an absolutely tremendous resource, but it brings out the worst in people too.

yin and yang
 
SirRumpole said:
The other thing is that what is told may be the truth but what is not told may also be the truth, but not convenient to the teller.
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Yep. The biggest mistake anyone can make is to think that passing a "fact check" proves that media is unbiased.

Only a novice journalist or sub-editor would tell blatant lies. Rather, what they do is simply leave out the bits that don't suit their narrative and in doing so distort the whole thing.

Lobby groups do it too. Take something that isn't untrue but completely distort the meaning of it by leaving out selected details. Big business is often on the receiving end of that one - anyone claimed to be "the worst" at something has more often than not earned that title simply by being the largest.

If you're the largest supermarket chain well then yeah, you probably are selling the most junk food. If you're the largest airline then you're burning the most fuel and making the most noise. If you're the largest bank then you've probably got the most loan defaults. etc. Not because your business is bad but simply due to scale.

Looking only at things I know a lot about personally, my observation is that it's rare to see any media report that isn't at least somewhat distorted by means of omission. That being so, I assume the same applies to all other subjects and that effectively all media reporting is prone to bias by omission. :2twocents
 
PZ99 said:
I was totally against moving the pension age to 67 although it was done to fund to increase the pension itself by some $30 a week.

Moving it to 70 was far worse because it's another 3 years, there was no further increase and it also meant your super had to last another 3 years if you retired at 65 and it was that scenario that led the calls to increase the super preservation age as well which is what Hockey was looking at and that really pissed me off because it punishes the savers who had done the right thing by saving / avoiding welfare.

Despite all the above I would vote for anyone moving it down to 62 and restore the quality of life that once made Australia great :)
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It appears ASF's influence extends beyond these hallowed halls :)

www.canberratimes.com.au

Election-eve push to lower retirement age

More than 500,000 older Australians would get earlier access to the age pension under a Greens plan
www.canberratimes.com.au www.canberratimes.com.au

If it really does only cost $6b a year, it's money well spent :2twocents
 
The PM is looking for as many "good news" stories as he can manufacture to get some traction for the election. He has already released all the asylum seekers (after 9 years imprisonment) so that thorn has been pulled.

Probably the next big ticket item would be establishing the Anti-Corruption agency which was promised 4 years. The news I'm hearing is that the structure is in place but the Government now needs to find an appropriate organisation to run it and of course a CEO to give leadership and direction.

The whisper is Christian Porter is being touted as the Commissioner with his extensive legal experience while the body itself will be hosted through a large business organisation with an interest in good governance.:cautious:
 
So is the PM racist or not ? Would he have seriously made up total racist xhite about a political opponent in 2007 to enable pre selection in the seat that parachuted him into Parliament?

Of course no politician, particularly Liberal ones, are "Racist" insofar as they would never, ever acknowledge such behaviour or appear to overtly display such.

But that's why we have dog whistles isn't it ? Many of the critical supporters of the Liberal Party are people who see their jobs being stolen by brown people (or some other non white color) and clutch their pearls at the fear of marauding boat loads of so called asylum seekers from Iraq, Iran, Syria and so on. So it is important for the electorate to truly understand the PM is on their side. Because these are the votes that will tip the election.

Something to think about..;)
 
I believe it was extreme behaviour like this that caused "the quiet folk" to vote Liberal last time, now it is happening again.

The majority of people prefer an orderly polite society, they are turned off by this nastiness and I suspect that 100's of people in Wyong will now swing towards Liberal

<<A regional cake shop, more used to sharing in the joy of people’s special moments, has been brutally trolled after gifting the Prime Minister cupcakes.>>

 

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