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One more week and New South Wales will be voting in a state election. The Greens are one of the most far out liberal minded parties in the state. This time ‘The NSW Greens are advocating for “reproductive healthcare” and abortions to be available without political interference at all public hospitals in the state.’https://www.rebelnews.com/nsw_greens_push_for_abortion_access_in_all_public_hospitals?
‘Not even Kangaroo meat has been spared from the cost of living crisis currently gripping the nation.
The price of roo meat has soared from around $10 a kilo to almost $40 a kilo as a combination of wet weather, government regulation and a declining number of shooters puts pressure on supply.
A meat expert quoted in the Daily Mail said increased rainfall meant paddocks had become inaccessible to kangaroo shooters.
“This makes it extremely difficult to shoot and retrieve kangaroos without getting bogged,” he said.
He added that the difficulty in obtaining a government license to shoot kangaroos had put many shooters off the industry.
“To be a shooter you need to have a ute capable of carrying and processing carcasses,” he said.
“This means you need a tray and rack build made of stainless steel with wash-down facilities and all the other bits you’ll need to pass certifications.
“These can cost upwards of $25,000 to have built in some areas. Add in the cost of diesel at $2 per litre and you’ve significantly eaten into profit margins.”
Even the cost of bullets had increased exponentially, he said.
“It’s certainly not cheap to shoot. Throw in cost of licensing and the cost of kangaroo tags and it really becomes difficult to financially justify continuing as a kangaroo shooter.”
He said less shooters meant less kangaroo meat on supermarket shelves and higher prices.’https://www.rebelnews.com/kangaroo_meat_prices_soar_amid_cost_of_living_crisis?
Do you really think followers of Islam or the climate change warriors known as the Greens really care about the Australian aboriginals?
‘In his victory speech David Shoebridge, Greens NSW Senator-elect said: “Australia voted for change and a parliament that does things fundamentally differently. Thank you so much to everyone here tonight and to all our campaigners, supporters, lower house candidates and especially voters. This has been a huge collective effort.” The cheers were overwhelming! “We now have the biggest ever Greens team in Canberra. One of the things I am most proud of is that our party has the strongest grassroots links of any political party. Together we are going to make politics work for people and the planet.”
The huge crowd then applauded Lee Rhiannon, Former Greens NSW Senator, to the stage: “The Greens NSW have made history at this election” she said. “For the first time we gained more than 550,000 votes. Our record vote of 11.4 percent topped our 2019 result by 2.7 percent.”’https://www.amust.com.au/2022/07/change-of-government-a-time-to-celebrate/
The Australian Greens Party is a far left Marxist party as most if not all Green Parties are. The sad part of all this is that most of the major Australian political parties are going along with many of the Greens’ issues. The non-use of Ivermectin is just one of those issues!
‘The fight for press freedom continues with Sky News Australia subjected to hours of questioning regarding its editorial choices.
Sky News Australia Chief Executive Paul Whittaker opened the Senate Inquiry into Media Diversity by rubbishing accusations that the network deliberately peddled Covid conspiracy theories. Whittaker called the assertion, ‘frankly ridiculous!’
The inquiry was put together by a Greens MP from the far-left minor party that routinely criticises Sky New Australia’s centre-right position. Senator Sarah Hanson-Young chaired the inquiry accompanied by Labor Senator Kim Carr.
Senator Hanson-Young’s topic of the day was ‘Covid-Lies’, an idea that she repeatedly used interchangeably with unresolved political subjects that remain the topic of global debate.
The inquiry unfolded in a politicised atmosphere set up by Sarah Hanson-Young, whose personal website features a ‘take action’ talking point devoted to attacking Murdoch media.
‘In an embarrassing move, Senator Hanson-Young blocked Rebel News journalists Alexandra Marshall and Avi Yemini from covering the inquiry online – apparently violating her devotion to media diversity.
Senator Hanson-Young’s specific complaint about Sky News Australia revolved around it being ‘allowed’ to discuss Ivermectin on-air as a potential treatment for Covid.
After failing to correctly pronounce Ivermectin repeatedly throughout her questions, the Senator eventually resorted to calling it ‘horse wormer’.
“Do you accept that Sky News has created and published content that is either directly or indirectly promoted disinformation about Covid and Covid-Lies in relation to restrictions, health measures, cures?” asked Hanson-Young.
Sky News Australia replied to the entire day’s questioning with an official statement.
“We operate within the same legal framework as all media and are subject to both the Commercial Television Industry Code of Practice and the Subscription Broadcast Television Codes of Practice.
“There is no evidence that Sky News breaches existing regulations or that the current regulatory framework is failing, or that further regulatory intervention is required.
“Indeed, it should be noted we have not been found in breach of the Codes of Practice for more than ten years.”
As a major news network, Sky News Australia maintains that it involves a wide range of discussion involving scientists, epidemiologists, GPs, pharmacists, researchers, chief health officers, politicians, doctors, and bureaucrats.
“But it now appears commonplace to discredit any debate on contentious issues as ‘misinformation’.
“So, the question becomes, why does a tech giant, YouTube, and faceless, nameless individuals backed by an algorithm, based in California, get to decide that holding governments and decision makers to account is ‘misinformation’? Why do they get to decide what is and isn’t allowed to be news?” added the official statement.
Despite insisting that Sky News Australia must only publish Covid information approved by the prime minister, state premiers, and the World Health Organisation – Senator Hanson-Young’s comments about Ivermectin proved inaccurate against the facts.
Ivermectin was discovered in 1975 and won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2015. Its discovery led to the creation of an entirely new class of drugs for human use treating diseases and parasites. The potential for Ivermectin to assist with treating Covid was discovered because hundreds of millions of people around the world were using it safely under full FDA approval.
Its entry into the Covid conversation was heavily politicised by the American election. Ivermectin remains the subject of peer-reviewed studies, ongoing trials, and experimental use around the world – none of which involve horse paste.
Australia’s own Monash University in alliance with the Peter Doherty Institute of Infection and Immunity proved that Ivermectin could kill Covid within 48 hours under laboratory conditions.
Globally speaking, the discussion on Ivermectin is far from over, with its off-label use against Covid widespread in Africa and South America. Public health experts, medical scientists, and South African health practitioners have banded together in a campaign to achieve formal approval for its use. There are similar stories in the Philippines and Latin America.
The World Health Organisation officially added Ivermectin to accepted clinical trials in March of 2021.
Senator Young’s main reasoning for wanting all discussion of Ivermectin banned was because it conflicted with official advice from the Therapeutic Goods Administration. It is difficult to find an example of this method being used to censor discussion on a media broadcaster.
Hospital admissions and injures associated with Ivermectin come from people consuming non-human approved animal treatments not the Ivermectin discussed in the studies. One could argue that governments banning the distribution of Ivermectin are the real cause behind these accidents.
Considering the ‘Ivermectin topic’ is central to both YouTube’s strikes and the Senator’s desire for stricter government regulation over the content of media broadcasters, it’s essential that this narrative is examined.
Ivermectin was not the only glaring inaccuracy brandished by those accusing Sky News Australia of misleading the public.
Labor Senator Kim Carr questioned Whittaker over a petition asking for a Royal Commission into media diversity.
This turned out to be ex-Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s e-petition of ‘over half a million signatures’. The petition was earlier revealed to be riddled with computer-generated signatures and fake names, accounting to Sky News host Sharri Markson’s earlier investigation.
“Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young has used this petition to launch a media inquiry into two ASX-listed companies; News Corp Australia and Nine Entertainment, to have a whole Senate inquiry into the media industry, so this petition is being used as the basis for policy formation,” explained Sharri Markson.
The fake names on Rudd’s petition included ‘this sucks’, ‘Nacho cheese’, and ‘Jesus Christ’ which were generated by off-shore bot accounts.
The inaccuracy of the petition and its subsequent failure to trigger a Royal Commission was not mentioned at the inquiry.
The Inquiry into Media Diversity played out like a witch trial against Sky News Australia specifically.
Several Sky News Australia hosts declined to partake.
“There’s only one reason why I didn’t appear at today’s Senate hearing. I will not be party to a witch hunt, nor waste my time in the services of satisfying the paranoid fantasies of a failed former PM. The Senate Committee on Media Diversity came about as a result of a petition organised by former PM Kevin Rudd,” said Rita Panahi on Alan Jones.
Anti-Murdoch voices have waged campaigns to cancel the network for many years – including the use of anonymous online trolls to harass advertisers.
The situation did not become serious until YouTube issued a strike against the digital arm of the media empire in July of 2021.
YouTube is a commercial earner for Sky News Australia with almost two million subscribers. Three strikes in 90 days results in an immediate and permanent suspension of the account, regardless of size.
Sky News Australia was forced to remove twenty-three videos that allegedly violated YouTube’s policy on Covid misinformation. The videos included content up to a year old.
“Specifically, we don’t allow content that denies the existence of COVID-19 or that encourages people to use Hydroxychloroquine or Ivermectin to treat or prevent the virus. We do allow for videos that have sufficient countervailing context, which the violative videos did not provide,” said a statement from YouTube.
The majority of the content in question fell under the banner of ‘opinion’ rather than news, but YouTube did not provide any further clarity for their strike.
To be clear, YouTube’s policies are not a statement of absolute fact, but a compliance order to keep the material on their platform consistent with the health guidance from various authorities – even if this information is contested or later shown to be false. Strikes are not removed if health information changes.
Sky News Australia Chief Executive Paul Whittaker pointed this inconsistency out to the inquiry. Whittaker also strongly rejected the claim that Sky News Australia promoted an anti-vaccination narrative.
“Sky News Australia strongly supports vaccination. Any claims to the contrary are false and a blatant attempt to discredit and harm our news service,” said Whittaker.
When Lucinda Longcroft, Director of Public Policy, Google Australia and New Zealand was asked to provide examples of left-wing content removed by YouTube, she took the question on notice.
“Our Covid-19 misinformation policies are applied equally to all YouTube content and channel owners,” said Longcroft, but did not offer any data to prove the point.
It is a widely held opinion that YouTube applies its community standards unequally to users, with many conservative accounts taken down while fringe accounts – such as domestic terror group Antifa – remain up.
“YouTube’s actions make clear that it is not a neutral platform, but a publisher selectively broadcasting content and censoring certain views, while allowing videos that are patently false, misogynistic, and racist to proliferate. […] With no transparency provided, Sky News took the proactive approach of removing a batch of videos, all published during 2020, from online platforms to ensure ongoing compliance with YouTube’s arbitrary editorial guidelines,” Mr Whittaker added.
Social Media platforms such as YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram have become significant tools for political parties during election campaigns. As such, there is growing concern of foreign interference in Australian politics by these entities, especially when they brazenly remove elected members of parliament like Craig Kelly.
Platforms exist in a special legal limbo, where they are immune from prosecution regarding the third-party content they host on the proviso they refrain from engaging in publishing privileges. Under American Law, they are distinct from publishers and yet in the last few years they have made headlines for selective political censorship.
Whittaker insisted that the videos taken down by YouTube had no public complaints – which begs the question why they were flagged in the first place. He wrote to Google’s CEO in the hope of clarification, but received nothing in return, not even an acknowledgement of the query.
Australia’s media landscape has taken a bizarre path to this inquiry.
Chief among those leading the anti-Murdoch charge are full-time campaigner ex-Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and occasional contributor ex-Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. While the men come from opposing sides of politics, they share a history of unkind headlines enjoyed by readers at their expense.
The inquiry soon expanded to criticism regarding Sky News Australia allowing alternative discussion on Climate Change before accusing some of its hosts of racism.
This was swiftly followed by Hanson-Young asking Whittaker how many of his staff were female before elaborating that they were ‘rather young’. Her point was to suggest a power imbalance between young female producers and the more experienced network hosts.
Implying that young women are not capable of doing their jobs because of their age and gender is considered a sexist remark by most people. Whittaker was similarly bewildered by Hanson-Young’s line of questioning, pointing out that there is plenty of support for producers to do their jobs.
Inquiries are normally launched from an impartial basis so that the search for truth can be conducted without prejudice.
Sky News Australia has little hope of being treated fairly when several key people involved in the process have made it very public that they have a bone to pick with broadcaster.
When a political party calls itself the ‘Conservative Party’ such as the one in the UK says they are doesn’t mean they really are. This is the same thing we in Australia are facing, fake conservatives. Now, personally, I wouldn’t do what this councillor did but he got his point across! The Greens and Labour in the UK are simply puppets of the Left and the CCP to which the so-called Conservative Party seems to be seeking to join as soon as possible. I say this for otherwise they would not have suspended Mr. Deacon for his Facebook post.
‘Mark Deacon, a conservative councillor in the UK, has been suspended from his role for posting an image of him wearing a dress in protest of the idea of a 6PM curfew on men following the murder of Sarah Everard. The councillor faced backlash for being “insensitive” to violence against women.
On Sunday, Deacon posted a picture of himself in a long black wig and floral pink dress. He said he would dress like that if a 6PM curfew against men was imposed.
“If the Green Party and some Labour party politicians get their way and impose this ridiculous 6pm curfew on men, then I’m going to wear my dress more often,” Deacon posted on Facebook alongside a photo of himself dressed as a woman.
He later deleted the post, caved, and offered an apology. However, Twitter user @Miss-Eastgate had already shared a screenshot, writing, “Plymouth City Council, really?”
The Conservative Party suspended Deacon, with the Conservative Group leader Nick Kelly confirming that an investigation will start “as soon as possible.”’https://reclaimthenet.org/conservative-councillor-suspended-for-post-dressed-as-a-woman/
Yes, he doesn’t look good in the dress but I get the point don’t you?
The Australian Left hate Australia Day which occurs every January 26, along with any other occasion that might show that the English settling here was good! These Leftist goons have time on their hands so eventually changing days of celebration will come to pass.
‘Even the most loyal Australian could be forgiven for having a sense of foreboding at the approach of Australia Day. The national holiday has become a platform to denounce anything intended to inspire love of country and pride in its achievements.
Bunnings, the quintessential home a improvement store, provides a sorry example. It has done a roaring trade during the pandemic, yet far from feeling inspired to celebrate the great Australian values of home renovation, its Townsville store banned staff from wearing the national flag on their uniform, only reversing the decision when it sparked an uproar.
The National Australia Day Council’s ‘Reflect. Respect. Celebrate’ campaign advertisement bent over backwards to be inclusive with Australians of every hue, gender and religion declaring that ‘we are all part of the story’. Yet this well-intentioned and expensive effort to inspire national unity by adhering to woke pieties managed to offend the very people it was seeking appease. ‘Hey @cinemanova,’ tweeted ‘unaustralian native’, ‘we were made uncomfortable by the Australia Day ads that you are screening. This is highly inappropriate for mob to have to pay to sit through. I hope you reconsider.’ The trendy cinema caved in, in less than an hour, announcing that it would remove the ‘propaganda’.
Saputo Dairy made the same mistake. It thought it could placate an Aboriginal activist by changing the name of Coon Cheese, which he claimed was racist. The cheese is named after its inventor, Edward William Coon but Saputo announced last week that the product will henceforth be known as CHEER, hoping that the cheery name would bring that extra little bit of happiness into its consumers’ lives. No such luck. Anti-Coon campaigner Stephen Hagan wanted ‘something a bit more inclusive of First Nations people,’ and was grumpy that he hadn’t even been consulted. The idea that Aboriginal activists should be consulted on the naming of cheese might seem far-fetched but who can doubt that if an Aboriginal ‘Voice to Parliament’ is achieved it would quickly lead to calls for a ‘Voice to Business’? After veto-ing ads and cheese, what next? Baby names?
When Australia Day honours are handed out, those, such as Professor Thomas Borody, who have shown inspirational courage, intelligence and persistence in standing up to the medical establishment and championing a safe, affordable treatment for Covid, which is saving hundreds of thousands around the world, are passed over. Instead, Shane Fitzsimmons, the state’s former Rural Fire Service Commissioner was named NSW Australian of the Year after he burnished his green credentials during the bushfires by claiming that it was climate change that prevented hazard reduction rather than the war waged on the timber industry by environmentalists. Fitzsimmons used the platform to further enhance his woke credentials by calling for an Indigenous translation of the national anthem to be added on. It’s a nice idea but like his thoughts on climate change, it is factually challenged. According to The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies there are more than 250 Indigenous languages, including and under within them 800 dialects. How could anyone choose between them? There are two versions just in Dharug, the language of the Dharawal people in Sydney. The English rendition of one version begins, ‘We Australian mob are going to have a good dance, We good young fellows, Good earth and speared a lot of wallabies…’ You don’t have to be clairvoyant to see that it wouldn’t be long before the Green woke vegan feminists were sharpening their pencils to make editorial changes. Those who presume to speak on behalf of Indigenous Australia always act as if everyone shares their radical left-wing views. In fact, almost three- quarters of all Aboriginal people identify as Christians. Given that more than 60 per cent of non-indigenous Australians also identify as Christians, faith might provide an easier path to reconciliation than politics if it weren’t for the inconvenient truth that Christianity is abhorred by the ruling elite.
In 2011, 50 Christian schools of different denominations horrified the Green Left secular establishment when they sang a version of the anthem penned by a Sri Lankan immigrant who wrote a second verse that commenced, ‘With Christ our head and cornerstone, we’ll build our nation’s might’. Peter Garrett, who was then the federal Labor Minister for Education, and Warren Pearson, chief executive of the National Australia Day Council admonished the schools for changing the lyrics and the Australian Parents Council and Federation of Parents and Citizens’ Association of NSW called for the version to be banned.
The prime minister’s decision to change the words of the national anthem from ‘young and free’ to ‘one and free’ was meant to acknowledge Australia’s ancient indigenous history and yet nothing makes a nation seem more teenage than the perpetual embarrassment that the elite manifest at any mention of the motherland. The federal member for Warringah independent Zali Steggall has called for a minute’s silence to be held on Australia Day to acknowledge its sombre meaning for Indigenous Australians. But why stop at a minute? Couldn’t Ms Steggall be silent for the rest of her parliamentary term?’ https://www.spectator.com.au/2021/01/spare-us-the-australia-day-antics/
The Greens in whatever country they are lean way into the Communist/Marxist side! Therefore, ‘Why do the Queensland Greens and the Brisbane branch of Socialist Alliance share the same office?
It has become increasingly clear as the years go by that the distance between the Greens and their comrades on the openly revolutionary Marxist left has gotten smaller and smaller.
In NSW Senator Mehreen Faruqi as well as state MPs David Shoebridge and Jamie Parker seem not able to get out of bed without running into a Trotskyist. Not to mention the fact that Australia’s most influential “ex”-Stalinist Lee Rhiannon is still hanging around the party fringes.
In Victoria recently selected Senator Lidia Thorpe has made no secret of her extremist friends, Victorian leader Samantha Ratnam has spoken at multiple Marxist rallies and recently appointed party leader Adam Bandt has a surprisingly lengthy list of links to all variety of communists going back to his university days.
Even in South Australia Senator and whale watching enthusiast Sarah Hanson Young has spoken at events organised by extremist activists (although in her defence I’m not sure she quite realised what was going on).
Queensland has been no exception. As the party has consolidated its hold on the inner city suburbs of Brisbane elected party officials such as Jonathan Sri, Larissa Waters and Michael Berkman keep finding themselves speaking at events organised by left wing extremists or extremist front organisations (completely by coincidence I’m sure).
And now it seems that for the last three years the Greens have been running their official state office out of the same address as the Brisbane branch of the revolutionary Marxists of the Socialist Alliance.
Do you think they noticed?
And the office certainly isn’t just a letterbox. The Socialist Alliance holds meetings, conferences and strategy sessions at the venue on a regular basis, usually chaired by Socialist Alliance national convenor and repeated failed Senate candidate Alex Bainbridge.
The totally normal, not at all insane topics for these meetings have included: Can we make a revolution in Australia?, an open forum with the delightfully named Coral Wynter (recently returned from the revolutionary paradise of Venezuela), a film screening of why abortion is good and ‘All power to the Soviets’: Commemorating the Russian Revolution.
Alex Bainbridge of course seems very happy with his office mates, publishing a powder-puff interview with the Greens Amy MacMahon and endorsing her ultimately successful campaign in the recent QLD election.
t this point it has to be asked, with Socialist Alliance sharing an office with the Greens, endorsing the candidates of the Greens, publishing propaganda in their newspapers calling for a vote for the Greens, and attending the same rallies as the Greens (although to be fair those rallies are usually organised by different extremist groups) are the Queensland Greens and the Brisbane Socialist alliance just the same group with two different names?
I hate to give leftie nutcases good advice, but at this point maybe they should probably just merge.’https://www.theunshackled.net/rundown/why-do-the-queensland-greens-and-the-socialist-alliance-share-the-same-office/?fbclid=IwAR0kYOF8-kh-pGbzmFCuAKeuLm3lglstcyd1IJirEjpaKTGNEmDp6IPhblw
When you have friends like this who needs enemies?
‘As a member of the Australian Parliament, we have a solemn duty to do everything we can to assist Australian exporters – because creates wealth and jobs, and revenue for the Treasury to enable our nation to pay for; our hospitals, listing life-saving drugs on the PBS, helping kids with disabilities, or defence, etc, etc. For a member of Parliament to travel to a foreign nation and encourage that nation not to buy Australian exports is nothing other than high treason. But that’s exactly what the leader of The Greens Party just did.https://www.smh.com.au/…/greens-accused-of-treachery…And who wins, if the South Korean’s did want Adam Bandt wanted, a new tax on Australian Coal exports ? The Russians ! https://www.smh.com.au/…/the-russians-are-coming-for…The Russians are already coming after our coal export markets – the Australian Greens are trying to help them.’https://www.facebook.com/CraigKellyMP
The Leftist Green Marxist harp on about closing the gap between the aboriginal population and the non-aboriginal but do they really mean it?
‘The original Australians have plenty of challenges, but right now it’s the human hating, anti-progress Greens that present their greatest threat.
The success of Australia’s mining, oil and gas industries is synonymous with the success of many remote, rural and, often predominantly Aboriginal, communities. In terms of employment growth amongst indigenous communities over the last 20 years, the mining industry wins hands down.
Miners and drillers have thrown millions at the education and training of Aboriginal workers right across the Country; most major miners have a deliberate policy of encouraging and, ultimately employing, Aboriginal workers.
Western Australia’s iron mines and oil and gas industries have benefited from having newly skilled and enthusiastic locals join them. The same is true in Queensland’s coal mines and gas fields, as well.
But, the turnaround in opportunities and employment for Aboriginal Australians comes despite the dogged efforts of green-voting, inner-city elites to kill off Australia’s resources sector – coal, oil and gas, in particular.
Which brings us to the Top End.
Australia’s Northern Territory has the highest proportion of Aboriginals in its population, with many of its remote communities decrepit and dysfunctional. Which means that the prospect of an onshore gas exploration and exploitation boom in the Beetaloo Basin 600km south of Darwin offers hope for a great number of people who reside at the margins of Australian society.
However, Australia’s Greens and their propaganda wing, GetUp! couldn’t care less about the prospect of meaningful employment and the chance for Aboriginal people to drag their communities out of abject poverty. No, instead, these characters would deny and deprive Aboriginal Australians of any chance of improving their lot. Wicked doesn’t cover it.’https://stopthesethings.com/2020/11/01/greens-anti-mining-stance-depriving-australian-aboriginals-of-real-jobs-opportunities-for-progress/
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