tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62893609522681001512024-03-15T05:48:46.602+11:00traverselifeSharing thoughts on ethics, integrity, values, motivation, career development & educationSuehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09715879775216108688noreply@blogger.comBlogger298125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6289360952268100151.post-69483293360367560652023-10-16T13:17:00.001+11:002023-10-16T13:17:39.226+11:00#SaveDavidTennant Comic Con NY 2023<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">This fabulous thread regarding the ongoing illnesses associated with #Covid, shared on X (aka Twitter) by Charles Waltz @waltz_tales / @Fans_MASKUP</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">for people attending Comic Con is </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Informed</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Informative</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">and</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Engaging!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Charles has allowed me to share the thread here in the hope that people well beyond Comic Con in New York 2023 can be informed of the ongoing necessity for</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Vaccination</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Ventilation</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Filtration</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Hi-tech masks</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">and </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">care for others</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Our Health departments, governments and media should be ashamed that it's taken an individual to do what they should have YEARS ago as the covid pandemic took hold</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Public service announcements would go a long way to promoting an attitude of care for others including our authors, artists and those who share their time at, and enjoy events where #LongCovid and other serious illnesses could be the outcome</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><span style="font-family: arial;">@waltz_tales on X</span></span></div></div></div></div>Suehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09715879775216108688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6289360952268100151.post-51726612005422246272023-08-16T12:26:00.000+10:002023-08-16T12:26:36.120+10:00Racism has real life consequences<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><i>This open letter to Annabel Crabb was written by Su Dharmapala in response to an episode of Kitchen Cabinet. </i></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><i>Su said "I would really appreciate it if you amplify this message so that I can have some kind of dialogue with Annabel" </i></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><i>I asked Su if I could share her letter here so that it might reach people who don't use X (formerly Twitter) or Facebook.</i></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><i>Su kindly agreed. </i></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">...</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Dear Annabel,
I know you probably get thousands of emails on any given day. Some, full of hate and abuse, and probably others that are nice and complimentary.
This will be neither.
You need to know that this is the first time I have ever been tempted to reach out to a journalist to express my deep horror about anything.
And your commentary that Peter Dutton has 'muscular' politics that is affronting to people has truly driven me to a state of despair- both as a woman of colour and as a mother of son who has been on the receiving end of racism in this country.
Just for clarity - my name is Su Dharmapala and I am both an author and a start-up founder. I came to Australia on 21 November in 1989 at the age of 15 with my family from Singapore. I am ethnic Singahalese but was born and raised between Singapore and Sri Lanka before I immigrated to Australia.
I was in Sri Lanka during the 1983 Black July riots and I have seen first hand what inter racial violence can lead to.</span></p><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">There is nothing 'muscular' about racism. It does not just cause affront - it kills people. The violence is both psychological and physical. In many ways I would prefer physical violence to the hatred that drips in your mind and makes you hate the skin you were born in - because there is really nothing you can do about it.
My experience of racism in this country is long. From my first day of high school to the day I was a young graduate working at Coles Myer and was accused of 'coming in and speaking better English and 'stealing' jobs'.
FYI - I was racially abused in my work place a day after Pauline Hanson's maiden speech.
Then there is subtle racism - when people who have trained and mentored at work get promotions ahead of you when you are three times as capable. The not so subtle daily microaggressions and need to hide yourself to fit in.
There have been two times, Annabel, when I have seriously questioned my citizenship in this country.
The first was when I was about 5 months pregnant with my son and I had gone out for my daily walk around Vermont - a suburb I have lived in for nearly 30 years. It was a coolish evening in late spring and I had a beanie on that was stripped and colourful. I felt safe to amble gently through the streets - my belly making all to clear that I was about to become a mother.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Only two blokes in a ute decided to follow me - up and down Mitcham road. On the first pass - they made eye contact and jeered - calling me a black bitch. I ignored them. On the second pass they threw apple cores at me. I was terrified now. I could not run. I was pregnant.
On the third pass - they screamed at me to go back to where I came from.
I was genuinely terrified for my life and that of my unborn child. I peed in my pants.
I went home and sobbed in the shower. I wanted to leave Australia. What kind of country was I about to bring my child into? Would he be safe?
Just for your information - that incident happened on 8 October 2007. A day after Kevin Andrews said that African Immigrants did not integrate into Australia.
The second instance was in 2021 - and the trauma is still too brutal to talk about. It was a workplace incident.
Annabel - racism is neither brutal nor affronting. It has real lived consequences. It impacts kids in the school ground and it impacts people.
I would love to schedule some time with you to help you understand what it means to immigrants like myself who have to live with the nastiness that Peter Dutton enables every day. You have my email address.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">...</span></div><p><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, system-ui, Segoe UI, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><i>Su's original post and the responses can be accessed:</i></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, system-ui, Segoe UI, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><i>https://twitter.com/SuDharmapala/status/1691240888541097985</i></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, system-ui, Segoe UI, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><i>...</i></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, system-ui, Segoe UI, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><i>A couple of personal comments:</i></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, system-ui, Segoe UI, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><i>We need to call out racism everywhere, and particularly when it's gifted a platform on the national broadcaster.</i></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, system-ui, Segoe UI, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><i>Our families, friends and communities are endangered when intolerance and "muscular" brutality is amplified, normalised and sanitised.</i></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, system-ui, Segoe UI, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><i>As a result, racists feel empowered, </i></span></span><i style="color: #0f1419; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">especially when the damage and danger it encourages and unleashes is minimised or ignored, in the name of balance.</i></p><p><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, system-ui, Segoe UI, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><i>...</i></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, system-ui, Segoe UI, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><i><b>Democracy In Colour</b> offers a range of </i></span></span><em style="background-color: white; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: transparent none;">bespoke workshops for organisations and as interventions in key moments in society – such as bystander intervention trainings, anti racism at work and more.</em></p><p><em style="background-color: white; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: transparent none;"><i style="color: #0f1419; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">https://democracyincolour.org/</i></em></p><p><span style="background-color: white; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 17px; outline: transparent none; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, system-ui, Segoe UI, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><i>https://twitter.com/democracycolour?lang=en</i></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: transparent none; padding: 0px;"><br /></p>Suehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09715879775216108688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6289360952268100151.post-23988800419803836862022-04-18T14:58:00.001+10:002022-04-18T15:04:14.357+10:00The Bin fire of Vanities: A gaffe? No A GAFFE<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz9ckGYBiLmqCIbFYBLFHbVpzyMH2Yhmk-1pZGMQzn3pmQI7gfnI2eLuPUwZqjK1oXM3jX5uPDQNdkVo90ipH4Fwd3nZWpgvqnyjEmLku_s3HLWeX29bTEzMnoMlbY6fEu79fA4tSPApMM5GMCrR8Hz7n3SeAMlp1-e3eNk9FwmzGwa3xcEdw9ftMy/s659/Screen%20Shot%202022-04-18%20at%202.22.09%20pm.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="635" data-original-width="659" height="524" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz9ckGYBiLmqCIbFYBLFHbVpzyMH2Yhmk-1pZGMQzn3pmQI7gfnI2eLuPUwZqjK1oXM3jX5uPDQNdkVo90ipH4Fwd3nZWpgvqnyjEmLku_s3HLWeX29bTEzMnoMlbY6fEu79fA4tSPApMM5GMCrR8Hz7n3SeAMlp1-e3eNk9FwmzGwa3xcEdw9ftMy/w545-h524/Screen%20Shot%202022-04-18%20at%202.22.09%20pm.png" width="545" /></a></div><br /> <a href="https://twitter.com/RonniSalt/status/1515861054328168448">https://twitter.com/RonniSalt/status/1515861054328168448</a> <span style="font-family: arial;">with thanks.</span><p></p><div><br /></div><div><span face=""Open Sans", sans-serif" style="font-size: 1.125rem;"><br /></span></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><span face=""Open Sans", sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;"><b>The Corruption Perceptions Index</b> (CPI) is the most widely-used global corruption ranking in the world. It measures how corrupt each country’s public sector is perceived to be, according to experts and businesspeople.</span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="border: 0px solid rgb(226, 232, 240); box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif;"><div class="copy text-lg wysiwyg mb-8 ltr:text-left rtl:text-right" style="border: 0px solid rgb(226, 232, 240); box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 2; margin-bottom: 2rem;"><p style="border: 0px solid rgb(226, 232, 240); box-sizing: inherit; break-inside: avoid; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;">A country’s <span style="border: 0px solid rgb(226, 232, 240); box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">score</span> is the perceived level of public sector corruption on a scale of 0-100, where 0 means highly corrupt and 100 means very clean.</p></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="border: 0px solid rgb(226, 232, 240); box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif;"><div class="copy text-lg wysiwyg mb-8 ltr:text-left rtl:text-right" style="border: 0px solid rgb(226, 232, 240); box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 2; margin-bottom: 2rem;"><p style="border: 0px solid rgb(226, 232, 240); box-sizing: inherit; break-inside: avoid; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;">progress against corruption cannot be taken for granted – especially not when human rights and democracy are under attack. In the last year alone, high-level corruption scandals, fresh allegations of misused COVID-19 funds, and deliberate efforts to weaken institutional and societal checks on power show that vigilance is needed across the board.</p></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="border: 0px solid rgb(226, 232, 240); box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif;"><div class="copy text-lg wysiwyg mb-8 ltr:text-left rtl:text-right" style="border: 0px solid rgb(226, 232, 240); box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 2; margin-bottom: 2rem;"><p style="border: 0px solid rgb(226, 232, 240); box-sizing: inherit; break-inside: avoid; margin: 0px;">Transparency International’s analysis reveals that in 2022 our societies will need to be on particularly high alert in nine countries.</p></div></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="border: 0px solid rgb(226, 232, 240); box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif;"><div class="copy text-lg wysiwyg mb-8 ltr:text-left rtl:text-right" style="border: 0px solid rgb(226, 232, 240); box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 2; margin-bottom: 2rem;"><p style="border: 0px solid rgb(226, 232, 240); box-sizing: inherit; break-inside: avoid; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face="Oswald, Impact, "Franklin Gothic Bold", HelveticaNeue-CondensedBold, sans-serif-condensed, sans-serif" style="text-transform: uppercase;">1. AUSTRALIA</span> </b></span></p></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="border: 0px solid rgb(226, 232, 240); box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif;"><div class="copy text-lg wysiwyg mb-8 ltr:text-left rtl:text-right" style="border: 0px solid rgb(226, 232, 240); box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 2; margin-bottom: 2rem;"><p style="border: 0px solid rgb(226, 232, 240); box-sizing: inherit; break-inside: avoid; margin: 0px;">Australia (CPI score: 73) is one of the world’s most significant decliners, having dropped 12 points since 2012 to hit a record low this year. Its deteriorating score indicates <a href="https://transparency.org.au/worst-ever-corruption-score/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="border: 0px solid rgb(226, 232, 240); box-sizing: inherit; color: #0060a6;" target="_blank">systemic failings</a> in tackling public sector corruption. Despite public calls and previous promises, last year Australia missed a <a href="https://transparency.org.au/submission-commonwealth-integrity-commission/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="border: 0px solid rgb(226, 232, 240); box-sizing: inherit; color: #0060a6;" target="_blank">landmark opportunity</a> to establish a <a href="https://transparency.org.au/national-integrity-commission/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="border: 0px solid rgb(226, 232, 240); box-sizing: inherit; color: #0060a6;" target="_blank">national anti-corruption agency</a> with broad powers to investigate corruption.</p></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="border: 0px solid rgb(226, 232, 240); box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif;"><div class="copy text-lg wysiwyg mb-8 ltr:text-left rtl:text-right" style="border: 0px solid rgb(226, 232, 240); box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 2; margin-bottom: 2rem;"><div style="border: 0px solid rgb(226, 232, 240); box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="copy text-lg wysiwyg mb-8 ltr:text-left rtl:text-right" style="border: 0px solid rgb(226, 232, 240); box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 2; margin-bottom: 2rem;"><p style="border: 0px solid rgb(226, 232, 240); box-sizing: inherit; break-inside: avoid; margin: 0px;">As Australia heads into a federal election, anti-corruption commitments – and a firm resolution to follow through on them – will <a href="https://theconversation.com/australia-and-norway-were-once-tied-in-global-anti-corruption-rankings-now-were-heading-in-opposite-directions-174966" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="border: 0px solid rgb(226, 232, 240); box-sizing: inherit; color: #0060a6;" target="_blank">matter more than ever</a>. The establishment of a strong anti-corruption commission, which is long overdue, should be a top priority. <a href="https://www.transparency.org/en/blog/cpi-2021-corruption-watch-list-australia-austria-el-salvador-kazakhstan" target="_blank">link</a></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote></blockquote><div style="border: 0px solid rgb(226, 232, 240); box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="copy text-lg wysiwyg mb-8 ltr:text-left rtl:text-right" style="border: 0px solid rgb(226, 232, 240); box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 2; margin-bottom: 2rem;"><p style="border: 0px solid rgb(226, 232, 240); box-sizing: inherit; break-inside: avoid; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;">Interest shown by the bulk of Australian media about this worrying information<span style="font-size: 1.125rem;">? 🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗</span></p><p style="border: 0px solid rgb(226, 232, 240); box-sizing: inherit; break-inside: avoid; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Open Sans", sans-serif" style="font-size: 1.125rem;">For some of our excellent Independent media see: </span><span face="Open Sans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://traverselife.blogspot.com/2020/01/list-of-australian-independent-media.html">https://traverselife.blogspot.com/2020/01/list-of-australian-independent-media.html</a></span></span></span></p></div></div><div style="border: 0px solid rgb(226, 232, 240); 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font-size: 2.25rem; margin: 4rem 0px 2rem;"><br /></h2></div><div style="border: 0px solid rgb(226, 232, 240); box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif;"><div class="mt-8 mb-16 md:mb-32" style="border: 0px solid rgb(226, 232, 240); box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 8rem; margin-top: 2rem;"><div class="overflow-hidden max-h-0 transition" style="border: 0px solid rgb(226, 232, 240); box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 0px; overflow: hidden; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;"><div style="border: 0px solid rgb(226, 232, 240); box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="copy text-lg wysiwyg mb-8 ltr:text-left rtl:text-right" style="border: 0px solid rgb(226, 232, 240); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 2; margin-bottom: 2rem;"><p style="border: 0px solid rgb(226, 232, 240); box-sizing: inherit; break-inside: avoid; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;"><em style="border: 0px solid rgb(226, 232, 240); box-sizing: inherit;"><a href="https://www.transparency.org/en/gcb" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="border: 0px solid rgb(226, 232, 240); 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margin-bottom: 4rem; margin-top: 4rem;"><div class="p-8 pb-16 bg-light-grey-300 border-b-8 border-blue" style="background-color: #f9f9fa; border-color: rgb(54, 149, 216); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 8px; box-sizing: inherit; padding: 2rem 2rem 4rem;"><div class="flex" style="border: 0px solid rgb(226, 232, 240); box-sizing: inherit; display: flex;"><div style="border: 0px solid rgb(226, 232, 240); box-sizing: inherit;"><svg class="flex-shrink-0 ltr:mr-8 rtl:ml-8" fill="none" height="44" viewbox="0 0 44 44" width="44" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><circle cx="22" cy="22" fill="#3695D8" r="22"></circle><path d="M25.5768 9L22.7574 11.8177L31.4171 20.472H6.84766V24.4972H31.4171L22.7574 33.1516L25.5768 35.9692L39.0699 22.4846L25.5768 9Z" fill="white"></path></svg></div><div style="border: 0px solid rgb(226, 232, 240); box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="copy text-lg" style="border: 0px solid rgb(226, 232, 240); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.125rem; 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box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif;"></div>Suehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09715879775216108688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6289360952268100151.post-86223293729080318972022-01-07T17:38:00.001+11:002022-01-07T17:38:34.163+11:0015 minutes and six lifetimes.<p>This thread was compiled by Sam Connor (Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/criprights">https://twitter.com/criprights</a>) and is reproduced here with permission. </p><p>It's an ordinary thread, about ordinary people, chatting in an ordinary waiting room after managing to receive their booster injections during these extra-ordinary times.</p><p>Sam's writing is exquisite. </p><p><br /></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); color: #0f1419; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Yesterday I received a booster shot. I was at the doctors and he said if I came back in the afternoon about an hour after they started jabs, I’d almost certainly score a cancelled appointment.
I was with five others, all elderly. We spent the next fifteen minutes together.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fifteen minutes with a stranger is a long time. After the nurse gave us our boosters, we waited in chairs, lined up in the clinic.
Three older women, two older men. As you do when thrust together, we began talking.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); color: #0f1419; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The woman with the walking frame was Deaf and her companion was mad because she kept having to shout. Finally in exasperation she said, don’t you have your hearing aid on, Sylvia? ‘What?’ Sylvia bellowed at her. Eventually she understood. ‘I can’t hear through these masks!’</span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); color: #0f1419; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">My mother was Deaf. I said there were masks with clear panels - she was clearly a lip reader. Her companion pointed to her own ear. ‘I have a cochlear implant,’ she told me. ‘When they turned it on for the first time…’
She must have been at least 70.
Her grin was dazzling.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); color: #0f1419; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">One of the men was impatient. ‘Do you have a watch?’ he asked me. ‘I have a phone.’ He looked unimpressed, because he didn’t ask for a phone. I told him I would tell him when time was up.
Small talk, they used to call it.
Nothing important, nothing deep. Just talk.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); color: #0f1419; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sylvia’s companion told me that Sylvia had a cousin who lives in Toodyay. Sheila, her name is.
She likes horses, she told me. ‘Do you know her?’ she asked.
Perhaps by face, I told her. Mostly a lie. I don’t recognise people by their face.
I don’t know if I know Sheila.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); color: #0f1419; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sheila was my mother’s name.
I wondered how many children and grandchildren these people had between them - how many jobs they had held, how many houses they had built, beds they’d laid in and loved in.
I wondered what that hole in the world would look like if they left it.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); color: #0f1419; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Small talk. I remember all the words, but nothing really was said. A cousin called Sheila who liked horses, masks with clear windows.
A minute to go, I told the impatient man. He got up immediately. ‘Not yet, not yet!’ said Sylvia gaily. He smiled at her, left.</span></p><p><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Just a small group of people, faces I’ll never recognise again. I wondered if Scott Morrison</span></p><div class="css-1dbjc4n r-xoduu5" style="-webkit-box-align: stretch; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; align-items: stretch; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline-flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 0; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap; z-index: 0;"><span class="r-18u37iz" style="-webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; flex-direction: row;">thought about we people who are considered disposable, expendable. If they’d gone to war for their country or brought up someone else’s children or volunteered their whole life long.</span><span class="r-18u37iz" style="-webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; flex-direction: row;"><br /></span><span class="r-18u37iz" style="-webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; flex-direction: row;">Small talk, but an enormous loss to the world if taken before their time.
And yes, they were old, and yes, many have lived their lives - but preventable deaths are NOT ‘God’s will’.
If you believe in a God, you also believe He gave you the ability to make others safe.</span><span class="r-18u37iz" style="-webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; flex-direction: row;"><br /></span><span class="r-18u37iz" style="-webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; flex-direction: row;">Not make others rich. I wonder what Sylvia would have thought of our PM, with his Humpty Doo barramundi from a fish farm who had more than thirty million in grant funding. I wondered if she’d know him if she saw him in the street. If she knew he sees her as collateral damage.</span><span class="r-18u37iz" style="-webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; flex-direction: row;"><br /></span><span class="r-18u37iz" style="-webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; flex-direction: row;">Small talk but a gaping hole in the world when any one of us leaves, regardless of age, fitness, disability or race.
Those people, combined, have paid more taxes in their lives than Scott Morrison ever earned, I’ll bet.
And now, apparently, they are regarded as less than.</span><span class="r-18u37iz" style="-webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; flex-direction: row;"><br /></span><span class="r-18u37iz" style="-webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; flex-direction: row;">I am tired of us being regarded as Minus People. We are worth as much as any other Australian. And I reject the idea we should not be treated as human.
We have the right to be treated fairly and equitably BECAUSE we are human.
That’s why they call them human rights.</span><span class="r-18u37iz" style="-webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; flex-direction: row;"><br /></span><span class="r-18u37iz" style="-webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; flex-direction: row;">This tweet doesn’t say anything much.
It’s like small talk.
But I wish I could carve out those few minutes and stitch them together like a quilt, as a reminder of the worth of humans, humanity.
I wish I could wear it like a priceless cape that nobody would ever want to buy.</span><span class="r-18u37iz" style="-webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; flex-direction: row;"><br /></span><span class="r-18u37iz" style="-webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; flex-direction: row;"><br /></span><span class="r-18u37iz" style="-webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; flex-direction: row;">Thankyou Sam </span><span class="r-18u37iz" style="-webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; flex-direction: row;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjoeGJt9Sd11p7PlZMBmFnv90bQV-GD3nsZ7bDJ0bFHzkVg4FLckHQw3cf0O0yE7q6NUYLg-M5H6d7FyaaFGs6GMceNuTp3sPs25g0EsfGkKlNpY9rFbWee5gDSj6sG-9YjcrzHYCTLfwuGcMxbq6jA54h_OI3fBrLIF5ujVNZ8zMh72YW8ZN78lcm6=s632" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="607" data-original-width="632" height="192" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjoeGJt9Sd11p7PlZMBmFnv90bQV-GD3nsZ7bDJ0bFHzkVg4FLckHQw3cf0O0yE7q6NUYLg-M5H6d7FyaaFGs6GMceNuTp3sPs25g0EsfGkKlNpY9rFbWee5gDSj6sG-9YjcrzHYCTLfwuGcMxbq6jA54h_OI3fBrLIF5ujVNZ8zMh72YW8ZN78lcm6=w200-h192" width="200" /></a></div><br /><span class="r-18u37iz" style="-webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; flex-direction: row;"><br /></span></div><p><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); color: #0f1419; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p>Suehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09715879775216108688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6289360952268100151.post-2814524790021078802021-10-23T15:31:00.006+11:002021-10-30T12:03:00.961+11:00Eight hefty rorts not covered by Australia's mainstream media. Why the silence?<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Graphs & information shared with permission of Vince O'Grady Oct 16 2021<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial;">Twitter: @vogrady2132<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial;">https://twitter.com/vogrady2132/status/1449179721946701826</span></div><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">...</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I have wanted to express this for the last three days. Here goes. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; white-space: pre-wrap;">I am disgusted at the lack of Integrity and the dishonesty of the Main-Stream Media in Australia. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; white-space: pre-wrap;">Because they have been nobbled by the Coalition generally. This week they have been discussing Labor Branch stacking </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ad infinitum in Victoria. Branch Stacking is NOT an offence. It is a manipulation of the Internal Labor Party rules. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; white-space: pre-wrap;">What might be an offence is the fools of MP's who used employees on the public payroll to do this manipulation. I agree that that needs to be addressed. If those </span> <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #0f1419;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">MP's have committed offenses against State or Federal laws, then they should rightly suffer the consequences. </span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #0f1419;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The press have been spending an inordinate amount of time discussing this this week, YET they have <b>totally ignored</b> another outrage perpetrated by the sitting <b>Federal </b></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Coalition Government</b>. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; white-space: pre-wrap;">The reporting of the rorting of the <i>latest round </i>of the BUILDING THE BETTER REGIONS FUND ROUND 5. This was reported in the Guardian and The New Daily within days of it being released. I was one of the people who analysed it. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>One:</b> Here is a graph of the uneven </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; white-space: pre-wrap;">distribution of the funds:</span></span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQCLerX5fxdxIZ0IEdvA_phO466fRg1RDOikt3V3ozjwSziJbwnHsOMK0kqNRswhgTu2vkVdGvHkHwq0yR7mkdNO3ouaemRlxLfcJOEzTZiEDUpc3xpHRFAoPwdv5mkHVna5iVs8kbkdM/s1125/building+better+regions.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1036" data-original-width="1125" height="295" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQCLerX5fxdxIZ0IEdvA_phO466fRg1RDOikt3V3ozjwSziJbwnHsOMK0kqNRswhgTu2vkVdGvHkHwq0yR7mkdNO3ouaemRlxLfcJOEzTZiEDUpc3xpHRFAoPwdv5mkHVna5iVs8kbkdM/w320-h295/building+better+regions.jpeg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">I cannot understand how this is not Newsworthy, especially in light of the following other analyses done and hardly reported by the press. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Two:</b> <i>Sports Rorts</i>. <b>Value $100 Million</b></span></p><p><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-size: 23px; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-size: 23px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirLoy78NC60QgmKdryPwNPDlwBzpvb-_Uxn8Qa0713jlTG7LKUiqYyQvDNjQGGYEO-Pvmrwn9fNA7xy0QNTgE8MThs5gUHLpUt3V_OBz3ry4U7_MN7L_yWlQ4jVNiWqxmAHK_NH7wZydw/s1125/Sports+grants.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="815" data-original-width="1125" height="232" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirLoy78NC60QgmKdryPwNPDlwBzpvb-_Uxn8Qa0713jlTG7LKUiqYyQvDNjQGGYEO-Pvmrwn9fNA7xy0QNTgE8MThs5gUHLpUt3V_OBz3ry4U7_MN7L_yWlQ4jVNiWqxmAHK_NH7wZydw/s320/Sports+grants.jpeg" width="320" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-size: 23px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Three:</b> <i>Community Development Grants</i> 2013 - 2019 <b>Value $1.1 Billion.</b></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTQe2AvF4yUMvweehyphenhyphenLZeltzcKVpckkgBuCwT6QcYlcYel_OGxpMOEEJSXg941UCY4jAeEC1EdhCCbGOAH15GUTc4t7hT8M4hbJ9v3oah-6L0DuTWBGcgjmUpubkyuEhD6gyg48CUPjAw/s1125/community+development+grants.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="855" data-original-width="1125" height="243" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTQe2AvF4yUMvweehyphenhyphenLZeltzcKVpckkgBuCwT6QcYlcYel_OGxpMOEEJSXg941UCY4jAeEC1EdhCCbGOAH15GUTc4t7hT8M4hbJ9v3oah-6L0DuTWBGcgjmUpubkyuEhD6gyg48CUPjAw/s320/community+development+grants.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Four:</b> <i>Regional Development Programs</i> 2013 to 2019 to the value of <b>$714.5 million</b></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVig4hdS3pH8FrgR0rysZ0pAZM2QXzcnY6JSA3DArleg8q55B2fvUicLH6JsDZMIUbTo7o8acOEgVd5pWCr4CWTl8XtFpAAzpjxhD8PCAsPKmkKuuHNW88IT_zy5EubcVH7mOvRurzx3A/s1125/regional+grants+2013-9.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="838" data-original-width="1125" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVig4hdS3pH8FrgR0rysZ0pAZM2QXzcnY6JSA3DArleg8q55B2fvUicLH6JsDZMIUbTo7o8acOEgVd5pWCr4CWTl8XtFpAAzpjxhD8PCAsPKmkKuuHNW88IT_zy5EubcVH7mOvRurzx3A/s320/regional+grants+2013-9.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Five:</b> <i>Community Development Grants</i> in 2020 for a value of <b>$392.3 Million</b></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIEECITf-nevAEIUkqs_5LOFIuqWwyB_I44aNRsWXBmBdte5j_c9hyphenhyphen3K1KiVfE5CrXOdvWsEEMX3phOknW1VQKNZyjvEfEe98V09skeLaIoeqzZrcs7xRYhUh8NkVsch0lJHiHl2B4ZN0/s1125/2020+analysis.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="848" data-original-width="1125" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIEECITf-nevAEIUkqs_5LOFIuqWwyB_I44aNRsWXBmBdte5j_c9hyphenhyphen3K1KiVfE5CrXOdvWsEEMX3phOknW1VQKNZyjvEfEe98V09skeLaIoeqzZrcs7xRYhUh8NkVsch0lJHiHl2B4ZN0/s320/2020+analysis.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Six:</b> <i>Building the Better Regions</i> fund in 2020 for a value of <b>$158.4 Million</b></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhobWPQx9QjhRjWhra-9Ms34_byAgmbygt0RVWMh9yw3vm2a4X-Tjv4Q6WVH0VmlMH2x0wFAXK_sfEGKw5gTTFM-J2c_1geUEGeF_CIpbO17NPOZevXctbYi-XT9fUIc9sXPT9fu58oLic/s1125/build+better+regions+2020.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="855" data-original-width="1125" height="243" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhobWPQx9QjhRjWhra-9Ms34_byAgmbygt0RVWMh9yw3vm2a4X-Tjv4Q6WVH0VmlMH2x0wFAXK_sfEGKw5gTTFM-J2c_1geUEGeF_CIpbO17NPOZevXctbYi-XT9fUIc9sXPT9fu58oLic/s320/build+better+regions+2020.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Seven:</b> <i>Female facilities and Water Safety Stream Grants</i> worth <b>$135.75 Million</b></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigoKWAvy_sEN8qtXrCcq3hzMDLv9SnI1gd4rUyBT8d9AzWKrcPgWe1lpg_r95Y2X9V0T1LKmgykE-b5GtK16yH2YYMxyg2WN0Zqy00hQC8pMk2NS6c-tSOAyoRBQi_vwMCD8tmHmvfaNU/s1125/female+facilities.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="829" data-original-width="1125" height="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigoKWAvy_sEN8qtXrCcq3hzMDLv9SnI1gd4rUyBT8d9AzWKrcPgWe1lpg_r95Y2X9V0T1LKmgykE-b5GtK16yH2YYMxyg2WN0Zqy00hQC8pMk2NS6c-tSOAyoRBQi_vwMCD8tmHmvfaNU/s320/female+facilities.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Eight:</b> The <i>Commuter Car Park Fund</i>. Worth <b>$704.39 Million</b></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpNyn_Bnbsl4Qv7iNlqL46uUwUP6A1U8gyxkFsRi-Ms8BsbFYVM_4Wtxx4LDQOW8T6gdiGqqQuAiBqJbIOwRCLWqg-PDswGOhOS2p1SKTUo1vwPzm9dihoyRaREAt4JKyymfrliORRwbI/s1125/commuter+car+park.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="825" data-original-width="1125" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpNyn_Bnbsl4Qv7iNlqL46uUwUP6A1U8gyxkFsRi-Ms8BsbFYVM_4Wtxx4LDQOW8T6gdiGqqQuAiBqJbIOwRCLWqg-PDswGOhOS2p1SKTUo1vwPzm9dihoyRaREAt4JKyymfrliORRwbI/s320/commuter+car+park.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">Newsworthy?</span><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">You'd expect so, but not covered by the bulk of Australia's media.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">Why is that?</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">Who benefits from the lack of analysis and coverage?</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">Who loses?</span></p><p><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;">Is the above pattern of funding in the spirit of the Australian "Fair Go"?</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;">How can we make informed decisions about who to vote for if we don't have relevant information? </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Get involved! </b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Murdoch Royal Commission</b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b> <i><a href="https://murdochroyalcommission.org.au/">https://murdochroyalcommission.org.au/</a></i></b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;">Read and subscribe to some of our excellent Independent Media! </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: arial;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://traverselife.blogspot.com/2020/01/list-of-australian-independent-media.html">https://traverselife.blogspot.com/2020/01/list-of-australian-independent-media.html</a></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>More information:</b></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">Does your political rep vote the way they say they do? Or is what's presented in gushing enthusiasm a ruse to get your vote? How do they vote on: Vaccines, Aged Care, Education, Financial support during covid, water & food security, foreign ownership to name a few? </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">Is your vote being used as YOU want it to be? <a href="https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/">https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/</a></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.thevogfiles.com/in-the-news.html">https://www.thevogfiles.com/in-the-news.html</a></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-size: 23px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-size: 23px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p>Suehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09715879775216108688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6289360952268100151.post-26575137500063196742021-10-06T11:01:00.001+11:002021-10-30T12:04:42.934+11:00Media Manipulation & gaslighting. Why would a media org run articles with opposing views on the same day?<p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Twitter thread by:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_0mO87TEM8Y-zLa5FqVvIZopCz-WbnfICXzx58n87jInVto7ACaCdMLesP8JTY9P0PowXDkiGO4iEwcK0Vj35W9nGBRGS2i_njrNpNl4RDqIFJ4tivfQypoEAYN3YPzrYI2bJS0nQcVI/s1188/blogheadermfw.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1188" data-original-width="1125" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_0mO87TEM8Y-zLa5FqVvIZopCz-WbnfICXzx58n87jInVto7ACaCdMLesP8JTY9P0PowXDkiGO4iEwcK0Vj35W9nGBRGS2i_njrNpNl4RDqIFJ4tivfQypoEAYN3YPzrYI2bJS0nQcVI/s320/blogheadermfw.jpeg" width="303" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /> </span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-family: arial; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">A. Based on a tweet this morning (September 10, 2021) about why a media organisation</span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-family: arial; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> would run 2 pieces today with completely opposite points of view on lockdowns, here’s a thread about why they do this.</span><p></p><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">It’s absolutely crucial to understand this if we want to demand (and get) better media in AUS.</span></span><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrfSSp_rl9UNK3gvUsrDyqp_st7D9GAe7YfHbeEkV-fRnz2INdZoaE5HVc-1pMkxGMr1OPu8zrCn9DAO03NmHe_GXRgKUdnOIYRbZyiIR_0SEeA_xHepUsg0cj62KkNxlE_CD4RzbwsII/s1070/pic1mfwblog.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1070" data-original-width="1068" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrfSSp_rl9UNK3gvUsrDyqp_st7D9GAe7YfHbeEkV-fRnz2INdZoaE5HVc-1pMkxGMr1OPu8zrCn9DAO03NmHe_GXRgKUdnOIYRbZyiIR_0SEeA_xHepUsg0cj62KkNxlE_CD4RzbwsII/s320/pic1mfwblog.jpeg" width="319" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">B. Firstly, it’s really helpful to watch the movie “Gaslight”, as it’s hard to understand the gaslighting concept otherwise.</span></div><div><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
We can briefly explain it but that’s not a replacement for watching the movie or reading deeply about gaslighting.
Gaslighting is when a person is …</span></span></div><div><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">C. … taught to doubt the evidence of their own senses.
It is NOT simply lying, although many confuse gaslighting with lying, which is unhelpful as it means people have NFI what it really means.
Lying is far more simple than gaslighting, since if a person continually ..</span></span></div><div><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">D. … lies, they’ll be found out and nobody will longer believe anything they say.
Gaslighting is far more complex.
In the movie, a woman is married to a man who wants her committed to a mental asylum so he can use her money without obstruction. So he makes things happen …</span></span></div><div><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">E. … so he can tell her they didn’t happen.
The most obvious example is he finds a way to (spoiler alert) make the gas lights flicker/dim in their home, but tells her they aren’t dimming.
After a while, she believes his assertion she’s going mad (parlance of that time).</span></span></div><div><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">F. The crucial thing is his gaslighting of her is INTERMITTENT.
Sometimes he lies, other times he doesn’t.
You can’t understand gaslighting unless you fully understand that it doesn’t work unless it isn’t constant. In fact, it’s crucial a gaslighter keeps trust with a victim.</span></span></div><div><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">G. Unless there is a relationship and trust, a victim will wake up to what’s happening to them.
Once a gaslighter has trust, they can THEN lie (but not too much or all the time) and the victim will think THEY are the problem.
Even worse, the gaslighter will make the victim …</span></span></div><div><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">H. … feel really bad and guilty if they accuse the gaslighter of lying.
This is the manipulation and abuse part.
Eventually, a gaslighted person gives up and believes they are stupid or even have serious mental health problems.
In the movie it gets very close to this.</span></span></div><div><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I. What happens when an entire nation is gaslighted by its media?
See, bad leaders & their business mates can’t damage a country without willing accomplices: THE MEDIA.
Be aware we aren’t talking about ALL media here, nor are we saying all journos are abusers, gaslighters ..</span></span></div><div><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">J. … or anything but good people.
But we do believe most media orgs in AUS right now practice regular gaslighting behaviours, and some are deliberate and outrageous masters at it.
Sometimes they call it “balance” or “seeing both sides”, and some journos actually seem to …</span></span></div><div><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">K. … believe this is reasonable.
However, gaslighting is NOT THE SAME as balance.
Because balance is when both views are presented AT THE SAME TIME, which is not generally what the media are doing now when they present news and current affairs.
What the commercial media …</span></span></div><div><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">L. … do in AUS is to flood their publishing/shows with poor info, then throw in an occasional factual piece.
Then when people criticise them for lies, they can point to the good pieces to show they’re not liars.
This keeps consumers in a constant state of not knowing ..</span></span></div><div><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">M. … if they’re good or bad, and keeps people tuned in to see what they do next.
THAT’S THE CRUCIAL PART: all this is just about retaining consumers.
Commercial media orgs can’t operate without advertising dollars. Yet the needs/wants of their advertisers are diametrically ..</span></span></div><div><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">N. … opposed to what most consumers want (esp. since </span><span class="r-18u37iz" style="-webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; flex-direction: row;"><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/COVID19?src=hashtag_click" role="link" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1d9bf0; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: inherit;">#COVID19</a></span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">, which is why all this seems worse since early 2020).
The only way a commercial media org can balance those 2 competing interests is to repeatedly gaslight consumers of their media.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">O. Essentially, media really only care about companies (advertisers) but are required to keep consumers on a string by publishing truth from time to time.
This is as bad (or worse) as those who gaslight in personal relationships, and is done for exactly the same reason.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">P. It keeps people off balance. It keeps true motives hidden. It makes people doubt what they think they see and hear. It creates outrage, which is link clicks. It gives plausible deniability.
And it keeps both dollars flowing in PLUS keeps the populace consuming that media.</span></span></span></div><div><span color="inherit" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit; white-space: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span color="inherit" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit; white-space: inherit;">Q. We are ALL being manipulated constantly by the media for power and money. </span></div><div><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><div class="css-1dbjc4n" style="-webkit-box-align: stretch; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; align-items: stretch; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 0; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><div class="css-1dbjc4n r-1s2bzr4" style="-webkit-box-align: stretch; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; align-items: stretch; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 0; margin: 12px 0px 0px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-1blvdjr r-16dba41 r-vrz42v r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" dir="auto" id="id__ypb61oy6js" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><span style="font-family: arial;">As we said: we believe most individual journos don’t even understand the machine they’re part of. Most are decent people so this isn’t about most of them (some are just evil, but that’s another story).</span></span></div><div style="color: black; white-space: normal;"><br /></div><div style="color: black; white-space: normal;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><span style="color: #0f1419; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">R. The ABC and other media not heavily reliant on advertising dollars are different, but we’ll leave that to another day (if people are interested).
The guts of what we’re saying is this: it’s more or less impossible to reform commercial media. Their needs and interests are ..</span></span></span></div><div style="color: black; white-space: normal;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><span style="color: #0f1419; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="color: black; white-space: normal;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><span style="color: #0f1419; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">S. … in COMPLETE CONTRAST to the needs and interests of the public they claim to serve. Those contrasts cannot be reconciled at any level.
That’s why they need to gaslight us constantly, because there’s no solution and no way to keep both groups happy.</span></span></span></div><div style="color: black; white-space: normal;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><span style="color: #0f1419; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="color: black; white-space: normal;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><span style="color: #0f1419; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">T. Once people get this, they can start to get why complaining about bad media is pretty much useless.
NOTHING will reform them except
(a): strong media law reform and/or
(b): forcing them to change or go out of business via consumer boycotts.
The second path is what MFW do.</span></span></span></div><div style="color: black; white-space: normal;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><span style="color: #0f1419; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="color: black; white-space: normal;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><span style="color: #0f1419; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">U. We must force media orgs to see that they’ll get more revenue/profit from doing what consumers demand than what they will from doing what their advertisers demand.
It’s that simple.
The only reason it’s NOT simple is that people don’t understand their collective power.</span></span></span></div><div style="color: black; white-space: normal;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><span style="color: #0f1419; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="color: black; white-space: normal;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><span style="color: #0f1419; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">V. We CAN refuse to be gaslit.
We CAN force them to be better, by refusing to give any money to their advertisers while they refuse to change.
If tens of thousands of Aussies did this, we would change the media landscape overnight. Literally.
NO MORE GASLIGHTING.</span></span></span></div><div style="color: black; white-space: normal;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><span style="color: #0f1419; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="color: black; white-space: normal;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><span style="color: #0f1419; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">W. With the App we’re designing, we can take AUS back from media orgs who install the leaders big business want in power, and then gaslight us into believing we have the govts we deserve.
It’s actually not that difficult.
And it’s the ONLY thing that’ll work short/medium term.</span></span></span></div><div style="color: black; white-space: normal;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><span style="color: #0f1419; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="color: black; white-space: normal;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><span style="color: #0f1419; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">X. If this tweet thread has given you any insight, please chuck us five bucks (or more if you can afford it).
We’ll use this money to create and staff a website and App which will fuck up Murdoch, and then the others who are all gaslighting us into future death and oblivion.</span></span></span></div><div style="color: black; white-space: normal;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><span style="color: #0f1419; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="color: black; white-space: normal;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><span style="color: #0f1419; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Y. Don’t doubt this is one of the most important things we can collectively do for the future of a country which is at a dangerous crossroads.
Thanks for reading:</span></span></span></div><div style="color: black; white-space: normal;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><span style="color: #0f1419; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.murdochfreeworld.com.au/">https://www.murdochfreeworld.com.au/</a></span></span></div><div><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; 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So what is? Do All The Things!<span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thread as follows was shared Aug 28 2021 on Twitter by </span><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, system-ui, Segoe UI, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://twitter.com/YouAreLobbyLud">https://twitter.com/YouAreLobbyLud</a> and is reproduced with permission.</span></span><div><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, system-ui, Segoe UI, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, system-ui, Segoe UI, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Read on, it's important! Really important.<br /></span></span><div><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, system-ui, Segoe UI, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhanmPODFSPJM4OFrJu0ZZgvipon4QGZKuBdlDSr2S9jTfesqu2RZj4TJxiOLRUPkZsJAHXZL45k8Abq4AmuJc0zLVK-tMwFUALey70ODZJEJVbelFp1IF799eYT2Tda2st-NdZ7jp2sf8/s1178/dr+berger+pic.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1178" data-original-width="1125" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhanmPODFSPJM4OFrJu0ZZgvipon4QGZKuBdlDSr2S9jTfesqu2RZj4TJxiOLRUPkZsJAHXZL45k8Abq4AmuJc0zLVK-tMwFUALey70ODZJEJVbelFp1IF799eYT2Tda2st-NdZ7jp2sf8/w191-h200/dr+berger+pic.jpeg" width="191" /></a></div></span><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">1/ HOW TO LIVE WITHOUT COVID-19: A PRIMER
The maddening thing about our (the world's) situation is that the tools to live without COVID are all readily available and technologically simple to implement. Read on to see how we can (and must) LIVE WITHOUT COVID...</span><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">2/ <b>VACCINES</b>
These are incredibly effective at preventing the most severe illness and death, much less so at preventing infection and transmission. But look, we haven't even had them for a year. They are an extraordinary scientific and technological achievement.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">3/ They will be refined and developed in years to come and there is no reason to believe we will not eventually develop sterilising vaccines that will reduce transmission and have the potential to lead to herd immunity.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">4/ But we are not there yet and that means <i>vaccines are not yet the "silver bullet"</i> we all hoped for and which many are (dishonestly) spruiking (sorry non-Aussies, there is no substitute for this excellent word).</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">5/ <b>WHY IS "VACCINES AS A SILVER BULLET" SO DANGEROUS TODAY?</b>
1. Large numbers remain unvaccinated, especially kids, for whom infection is very non-trivial.
2. Infection, even when vaccinated, carries consequences, especially the unknown, long-term effects of long covid.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">6/ 3. Allowing rampant transmission of the virus within a vaccinated population selects for VACCINE-RESISTANT VARIANTS, potentially putting us back to square one. EVOLUTION. Charles Darwin, Huxley, Wallace et al: all the rage amongst the scientifically literate, don't you know?</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">7/ We need to face reality: Westerners vaccinated with the current vaccines will not walk amongst the virus like superbeings, immune to the ravages it inflicts on the lesser mortals in their own and other countries, with life going back to 2019 "normal".
AIN'T. GONNA. HAPPEN.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 23px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">8/ Luckily, there are quite a few other things we can do, IF WE ONLY DECIDE WE WISH TO. We need to simplify the strategic aim to this concept: <b>"DO ANY AND ALL THE THINGS - VACCINES PLUS - TO KEEP R BELOW 1".</b></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">9/ If R, the (effective) Reproductive Number, is kept below 1, then the virus is in exponential decline and will eventually reach a state of zero transmission: </span><span class="r-18u37iz" style="-webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; background-color: white; color: #0f1419; flex-direction: row; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1n1174f r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ZeroCovid?src=hashtag_click" role="link" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1b95e0; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: inherit;">#ZeroCovid</a></span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">. If R is greater than 1, the virus will continue to grow exponentially.</span></div><div><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">10/ The vaccines help to bring R down, but the current generation of vaccines does not do so nearly enough, so we need to do other things as well. What kinds of other things? Well, you know cholera? And how it's a really nasty, diarrhoeal illness which can kill within hours?</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit; white-space: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; white-space: inherit;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-weight: inherit;">11/ This is what cholera vaccines look like and they are good(ish) , but not good enough. </span><b>Cholera</b><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> was not eliminated as a public health threat in most of the world through vaccination, but through improving water quality and sewage treatment.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; 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box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">12/ </span><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1n1174f r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" href="https://t.co/MMwWa9HMzn?amp=1" rel="noopener noreferrer" role="link" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1b95e0; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 0px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;">https://</span>historyofvaccines.org/content/articl<span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 0px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;">es/cholera</span><span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-lrvibr r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: none; white-space: inherit;">…</span></a><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">\...\See where it says "Water-related spread of cholera bacterium has been eliminated in the United States due to modern water and sewage treatment systems"? We need to do the same kind of thing for COVID, and we can.</span></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-1blvdjr r-16dba41 r-vrz42v r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" dir="auto" id="id__p4afqfbuxjs" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-1blvdjr r-16dba41 r-vrz42v r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" dir="auto" id="id__p4afqfbuxjs" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">13/ Where we treated water for cholera, we now need to treat air for COVID. It is in the air, it is highly infectious, it floats long distances. I'm not even going to bother linking to articles about this. IT IS NOW SETTLED SCIENCE.</span></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-1blvdjr r-16dba41 r-vrz42v r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" dir="auto" id="id__p4afqfbuxjs" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-1blvdjr r-16dba41 r-vrz42v r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" dir="auto" id="id__p4afqfbuxjs" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-style: inherit;">14/ So as we wait for even more magical vaccines to be developed - and while we humans may have a vicious evil streak, we are also very, very smart and cunning and so they will arrive eventually - we need to turn all our attention to </span><i>purifying the air we all share</i><span style="font-style: inherit;">.</span></span></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-1blvdjr r-16dba41 r-vrz42v r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" dir="auto" id="id__p4afqfbuxjs" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; display: inline; font: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-1blvdjr r-16dba41 r-vrz42v r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" dir="auto" id="id__p4afqfbuxjs" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">15/ Because it turns out </span><i><b>the air we breathe</b><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> is the equivalent of the water we used to drink in Europe in the first half of the nineteenth century. In other words, </span></i><b style="font-style: italic;">it's FULL OF SHIT</b><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit;">.</span><span style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"> But we know what to do to get rid of the shit and it turns out it is very, very simple:</span></span></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-1blvdjr r-16dba41 r-vrz42v r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" dir="auto" id="id__p4afqfbuxjs" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-1blvdjr r-16dba41 r-vrz42v r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" dir="auto" id="id__p4afqfbuxjs" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">16/ </span><b style="font-style: inherit;">IMPROVE VENTILATION</b><span style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">. And, where we can't improve ventilation, </span><b style="font-style: inherit;">FILTER </b><span style="font-weight: inherit;"><span style="font-style: inherit;">the viral (and other) aerosols out of the indoor air with mechanical filters and N95 or greater masks. 😷</span><i>Purifying the air we share is no less important to our health than purifying the water we drink.</i></span></span></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-1blvdjr r-16dba41 r-vrz42v r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" dir="auto" id="id__p4afqfbuxjs" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-1blvdjr r-16dba41 r-vrz42v r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" dir="auto" id="id__p4afqfbuxjs" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">17/ The only difference is that we do not understand the importance to our health of clean air in the way we do of clean water. This is simply ignorance and it must change quickly.</span></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-1blvdjr r-16dba41 r-vrz42v r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" dir="auto" id="id__p4afqfbuxjs" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; display: inline; font: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-1blvdjr r-16dba41 r-vrz42v r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" dir="auto" id="id__p4afqfbuxjs" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-style: inherit;">18/ </span><b style="font-style: inherit;">EDUCATION</b><span style="font-style: inherit;">
We must educate the world's population about the importance of clean air and the many simple measures - </span><i>avoiding crowding, opening windows</i><span style="font-style: inherit;"> - which can get us a large part of the way to breathing and sharing clean air.</span></span></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-1blvdjr r-16dba41 r-vrz42v r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" dir="auto" id="id__p4afqfbuxjs" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-1blvdjr r-16dba41 r-vrz42v r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" dir="auto" id="id__p4afqfbuxjs" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">19/ <b>VENTILATION</b>
We need to set global indoor CO2 standards and we need to invest massively in infrastructure and technology to reach those standards.</span></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-1blvdjr r-16dba41 r-vrz42v r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" dir="auto" id="id__p4afqfbuxjs" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-1blvdjr r-16dba41 r-vrz42v r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" dir="auto" id="id__p4afqfbuxjs" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">20/ <b>FILTRATION</b>
Mechanical filtration of the air we share is going to be a critical part of our future, especially in high risk environments such as hospitals. And then the other kind of filtration: masks.</span></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-1blvdjr r-16dba41 r-vrz42v r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" dir="auto" id="id__p4afqfbuxjs" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; display: inline; font: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-1blvdjr r-16dba41 r-vrz42v r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" dir="auto" id="id__p4afqfbuxjs" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">21/ We are now 18 months on and N95 or above masking needs to be standard in the community. We need to get over the inhibitions we have and recognise that, for the moment at least, masking is here to stay.</span></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-1blvdjr r-16dba41 r-vrz42v r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" dir="auto" id="id__p4afqfbuxjs" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-1blvdjr r-16dba41 r-vrz42v r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" dir="auto" id="id__p4afqfbuxjs" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: inherit;">22/ </span><b>MOVEMENT RESTRICTIONS</b><span style="font-weight: inherit;">
aka "Lockdowns". These are a necessary part of the arsenal to get R below 1 when necessary, but it is critical to realise that they are only needed as an emergency if the above measures fail.</span></span></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-1blvdjr r-16dba41 r-vrz42v r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" dir="auto" id="id__p4afqfbuxjs" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-1blvdjr r-16dba41 r-vrz42v r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" dir="auto" id="id__p4afqfbuxjs" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">23/ They are a sign that we have not been doing enough to ensure we are sharing clean air.</span></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-1blvdjr r-16dba41 r-vrz42v r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" dir="auto" id="id__p4afqfbuxjs" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-1blvdjr r-16dba41 r-vrz42v r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" dir="auto" id="id__p4afqfbuxjs" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">24/ By doing all of these things, "ANY AND ALL THE THINGS - VACCINES PLUS - TO KEEP R BELOW 1", then we will be able to "LIVE WITHOUT COVID". We will be able to eliminate COVID, get to </span><span class="r-18u37iz" style="-webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; flex-direction: row;"><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1n1174f r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ZeroCovid?src=hashtag_click" role="link" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1b95e0; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: inherit;">#ZeroCovid</a></span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">. That doesn't mean COVID won't exist.</span></span></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-1blvdjr r-16dba41 r-vrz42v r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" dir="auto" id="id__p4afqfbuxjs" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; display: inline; font: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-1blvdjr r-16dba41 r-vrz42v r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" dir="auto" id="id__p4afqfbuxjs" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-style: inherit;">25/ It will just mean that we keep it under control, which, like cholera, means stamping on it when it breaks out to get it back to zero. And </span><i>stamping on it using measures over and above vaccination.</i></span></span></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-1blvdjr r-16dba41 r-vrz42v r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" dir="auto" id="id__p4afqfbuxjs" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-1blvdjr r-16dba41 r-vrz42v r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" dir="auto" id="id__p4afqfbuxjs" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">26/ But isn't all this so terribly expensive and, frankly, a major hassle? Yes, it is, but the alternative of "living WITH COVID" is far, far worse. And come on people, look what we have done already.</span></span></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-1blvdjr r-16dba41 r-vrz42v r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" dir="auto" id="id__p4afqfbuxjs" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-1blvdjr r-16dba41 r-vrz42v r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" dir="auto" id="id__p4afqfbuxjs" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">27/ We are an incredible species that has transformed the face of the planet (for better or worse - we're not going there right now, luvvies). We SENT PEOPLE TO THE MOON IN THE 1960s. We carried out the D-DAY landings, the greatest, most mind-bending logistical feat in history.</span></span></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-1blvdjr r-16dba41 r-vrz42v r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" dir="auto" id="id__p4afqfbuxjs" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-1blvdjr r-16dba41 r-vrz42v r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" dir="auto" id="id__p4afqfbuxjs" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">28/ </span><b style="font-style: inherit;">CLEANING THE AIR WE SHARE</b><span style="font-weight: inherit;"><span style="font-style: inherit;">, </span><i>like we cleaned the water we drink, is small fry compared to almost everything else we have ever achieved.</i></span></span></span></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-1blvdjr r-16dba41 r-vrz42v r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" dir="auto" id="id__p4afqfbuxjs" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; display: inline; font: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-1blvdjr r-16dba41 r-vrz42v r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" dir="auto" id="id__p4afqfbuxjs" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">29/ </span><i><b>So why aren't we doing it?</b></i></span></span></span></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-1blvdjr r-16dba41 r-vrz42v r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" dir="auto" id="id__p4afqfbuxjs" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; display: inline; font: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-1blvdjr r-16dba41 r-vrz42v r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" dir="auto" id="id__p4afqfbuxjs" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">30/ Why are there so many voices trying to argue for a future of "LIVING WITH COVID" when all around the world we can see what a catastrophe it already is and when we know that will be nothing compared to the catastrophe of creating vaccine-resistant variants through allowing </span></span></span>rampant transmission? </div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-1blvdjr r-16dba41 r-vrz42v r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" dir="auto" id="id__p4afqfbuxjs" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-1blvdjr r-16dba41 r-vrz42v r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" dir="auto" id="id__p4afqfbuxjs" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">31/ </span></span></span><span style="color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit; white-space: inherit;">Well, there are a few reasons, including:</span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-1blvdjr r-16dba41 r-vrz42v r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" dir="auto" id="id__p4afqfbuxjs" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">Poverty of aspiration
Poor reasoning ability
Ultra short-term thinking
Malign neo-liberal economic interests
Failure to understand basic scientific concepts
Active disinformation</span></span></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-1blvdjr r-16dba41 r-vrz42v r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" dir="auto" id="id__p4afqfbuxjs" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; display: inline; font: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-1blvdjr r-16dba41 r-vrz42v r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" dir="auto" id="id__p4afqfbuxjs" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: inherit;">32/ We simply cannot sacrifice all our futures to these kinds of nihilistic, and frankly psychopathic, influences. We need to understand the nature of the threat we face and put all our energies into the conceptually simple process of </span><b>CLEANING THE SHIT </b></span></span></span><b style="display: inline !important;">💩 </b><b style="color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; white-space: inherit;">OUT OF THE AIR WE BREATHE </b></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-1blvdjr r-16dba41 r-vrz42v r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" dir="auto" id="id__p4afqfbuxjs" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-1blvdjr r-16dba41 r-vrz42v r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" dir="auto" id="id__p4afqfbuxjs" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">33/ ...as we once had to clean the shit out of the water we drink. And as we deal with this threat to humanity we must also deal with that other, much larger threat: climate change.</span></span></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-1blvdjr r-16dba41 r-vrz42v r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" dir="auto" id="id__p4afqfbuxjs" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-1blvdjr r-16dba41 r-vrz42v r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" dir="auto" id="id__p4afqfbuxjs" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">34/ All of the thinking which applies to the threat from COVID applies to the threat from climate change. So maybe, in the end, the COVID-19 pandemic will turn out to be the thing which awakens us from our slumber and gets us to work together rationally to save all our futures.</span></span></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-1blvdjr r-16dba41 r-vrz42v r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" dir="auto" id="id__p4afqfbuxjs" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; display: inline; font: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXc-AC62dG9QvyH2X3u97kxiOdBQbwllT3khk1DfgJaYUcacBldkGYGepOBr7am22tQvVbA0x5l7OGtkg_GGXzkRabytPMQHpB-5QsMLyGxPPYZVGsvMx-tDwesZT4P_2DXsgOCUxd-8g/s1280/rupert.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="1101" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXc-AC62dG9QvyH2X3u97kxiOdBQbwllT3khk1DfgJaYUcacBldkGYGepOBr7am22tQvVbA0x5l7OGtkg_GGXzkRabytPMQHpB-5QsMLyGxPPYZVGsvMx-tDwesZT4P_2DXsgOCUxd-8g/s320/rupert.jpeg" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><a href="https://www.michaelwest.com.au/numbers-can-lie-the-science-behind-opinion-polls/" target="_blank">Michael West</a> discusses the role of the media: </span><span face="Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #343434; font-size: 16px;">"positive coverage increases electoral support for a political party. Media endorsements of a candidate is </span><a href="https://academic.oup.com/restud/article-abstract/78/3/795/1571052" style="background: rgb(250, 250, 250); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3f62e6; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">particularly effective</a><span face="Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #343434; font-size: 16px;"> on moderate voters – those most likely to enter an election campaign undecided. The discrepancy between polling and outcomes in the 2019 election can be explained by the influence of the media."</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The bulk of the Australian media loudly & assertively supports the LNP (Liberal National Coalition) no matter which skeletons should be exposed, and ignores or undermines Labor, the Greens & independents, no matter how beneficial it would be for us.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuvNBmfP9lpZ3AD5jp91f6rBFmzPmjnPvCM8m5eSGXothRAOqwgLcPX7nPGgybQDJJhBCmmU2T-jKuFMXCSITtrznufCGvUt4_3qLdgHAWPaTF4zmVdmSpr9C5IykiY9yKIR_32MqkPgI/s1125/skeletons+in+closet.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="808" data-original-width="1125" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuvNBmfP9lpZ3AD5jp91f6rBFmzPmjnPvCM8m5eSGXothRAOqwgLcPX7nPGgybQDJJhBCmmU2T-jKuFMXCSITtrznufCGvUt4_3qLdgHAWPaTF4zmVdmSpr9C5IykiY9yKIR_32MqkPgI/s320/skeletons+in+closet.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>How do we find out about policies which have a NEGATIVE IMPACT?</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Who holds the government to account when the bulk of the media doesn't?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Our <b><a href="https://traverselife.blogspot.com/2020/01/list-of-australian-independent-media.html" target="_blank">Independent Media</a></b> and satirists (yes, really, including <span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #2c2c2c; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700;">A complete list of the Liberal Party’s corruption over the last 7 years</span> from <a href="Thanks to the Facebook news ban we’re now somehow the only news site in Australia, so here’s some serious journalism listing all the questionable decisions that ScoMo and co made">The Chaser</a>) have consistently done a great job exposing many less than desirable choices made by politicians.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Politicians' actions matter more than words!</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Gotham-Light, Arial, sans-serif"><u>Shadow Minister for Government Accountability</u>, Kristina Keneally</span><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f9f9f9; white-space: pre-wrap;"> suggests we "look at [politicians] actions and ask who they stand for". (<i>National Press Club</i> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pb1oP9TQkXM&ab_channel=NationalPressClubofAustralia" target="_blank">youtube</a> & <a href="https://kristinakeneally.com.au/news/speeches/address-to-the-national-press-club-2021-canberra/" target="_blank">transcript</a> )</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f9f9f9; white-space: pre-wrap;">"Boring" I hear you say, or "I haven't got time for that."</span></span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="color: #660000; font-family: arial;"><i>In that case, take as little as 1 1/2 minutes to find out whether the federal politician in your seat is using your vote to support things you want - or just SAYING the right words.</i></span></p><p><span style="color: #660000; font-family: arial;">How?</span></p><p><span style="color: #660000; font-family: arial;"><b><i>THEY VOTE FOR YOU</i></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #660000; font-family: arial;"><a href="theyvoteforyou.org.au ">theyvoteforyou.org.au<span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f9f9f9; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></a></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #660000; font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">Do politicians' actions support the positive, vote catching words on their marketing and websites <i>or not</i>?</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #660000; font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">For example, does the Minister for the Environment vote FOR policies that help or hinder endangered species, the Great Barrier Reef, water security for us AND our environment?</span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Now, back to Kristina Keneally's <a href="https://kristinakeneally.com.au/news/speeches/address-to-the-national-press-club-2021-canberra/" target="_blank">address</a>.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #030303; font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Federal government and media didn’t stand up for aged care residents, they didn’t stand up for Robodebt victims, and they aren’t standing up for workers who need secure jobs and a wage rise.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">She says it's her <span style="color: #444444;">"job to call-out every government rort and racket, every broken promise, every instance of the Liberals and the Nationals putting their donors and their cronies ahead of the national interest." </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Subscribe to some of our Independent media, because LNP politicians' wrongdoing won't make headlines in the Murdoch media because:</span></p><p><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: arial;">"proper scrutiny and real accountability depends on issues being carried / </span><i style="font-family: arial;">into the homes and minds of your readers, listeners and viewers</i><span style="font-family: arial;">." And this is something the Murdock media wants to avoid as much as possible. Our ignorance is to their benefit.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 16px;"><b>When faith and respect in democracy is undermined, democracy is weakened too.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 16px;"><b>Integrity in politics matters</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 16px;">It matters to the health and strength of our democracy.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 16px;">It matters to the state of our economy and the quality of Australians’ lives. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 16px;"><b>Corruption in politics matters </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Gotham-Light, Arial, sans-serif">Keneally states that <u>exposing</u> acts of corruption doesn’t damage the standing of politics.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px;" /><span face="Gotham-Light, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px;"> </span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="color: #444444;"><span face="Gotham-Light, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px;">Corruption itself does that. Even more so when corrupt acts go unpunished. When they’re ignored, or worse, rewarded. </span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px;" /><span face="Gotham-Light, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px;"> </span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px;" /><span face="Gotham-Light, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px;">When there are seemingly no consequences for gross incompetence and no penalties for scandalous negligence – that’s what undermines belief in the system and respect for the institution. </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">In her address, she discusses the escapades of some ministers and the lack of accountability either from the Prime Minister or the mainstream media.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">It doesn't inspire confidence or trust in the system, <span style="color: #444444;">a<span style="font-size: 16px;">nd when independent bodies like the Audit Office find problems – as they have with the airport dodgy land deal in Sydney and Sports Rorts – Morrison responded by cutting their funding. </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 16px;"><b>Conventions and Institutions eroded </b></span><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #343a40; font-family: Gotham-Light, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;">The erosion of conventions and institutions that uphold democratic freedoms combined with social media, disinformation and foreign interference to sway voters, is a wakeup call that we must preserve and uphold the bedrocks of Australian democracy, including:</p><p><span face="Gotham-Light, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #343a40; font-size: 16px;"></span></p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #343a40; font-family: Gotham-Light, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">An independent Australian Electoral Commission</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Compulsory Voting</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">The rule of law, an independent judiciary and independent law enforcement and national security agencies – with appropriate oversight, especially on intrusive powers</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Freedom of the press and public interest journalism</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Freedoms of religion, association, and speech, and</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Oversight and accountability mechanisms, provided by bodies like the Australian National Audit Office, Senate estimates, and state-based Integrity Commissions.</li></ul><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 16px;"><b><i>Satisfaction with Australian democracy has more than halved in the last decade, down from 86% to 41%</i>.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 16px;"><b>Australians have low expectations and cynical views of our Government </b></span></p><p><span style="color: #343a40; font-family: arial; font-size: 16px;">Distrust and disengagement allow failure to go unaddressed, and self-interest to be served.</span></p><p><span style="color: #343a40; font-family: arial; font-size: 16px;">When voters’ cynicism grows, politicians who</span><span style="color: #343a40; font-family: arial; font-size: 16px;"> serve their own political purposes flourish, </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 16px;">and we're caught in a vicious, self fulfilling cycle of disengagement and despair.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 16px;"> <i>"It <u>does</u> matter who you vote for, they're <u>not </u>all the same."</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 16px;">Annoyed people take the easy option and donkey vote, or follow the loudest voices on the bandwagon to be on the "winning side".</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 16px;">So when there's significant coverage FOR one group and AGAINST others, the alternatives will have difficulty finding any traction </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 16px;">no matter how good their policies</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 16px;">.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 16px;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">To help prevent <i>further</i> erosion of democratic norms and expectations, we can encourage people we know to take an interest in our collective future and DON'T OUTSOURCE DECISION MAKING TO VESTED INTERESTS INCLUDING FOREIGN MEDIA MAGNATES.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">A final word from KK:</span></p><p><span style="color: #343a40; font-family: arial; font-size: 16px;">The most important duty of elected representatives is to deliver support quickly and provide confidence to the Australian people that the parliament is on their side & solutions will be found.</span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; 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Where has it gone?<p><span style="font-family: arial;">Australia's prime minister recently spoke at the Australian Christian Churches convention on the Gold Coast. The content of his sermon is unlikely to be what most people remember from even a vague knowledge of Christianity and definitely NOT what we expect from the Prime Minister of Australia.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">It was, in short, a call to the faithful pentecostals to proselytise & convert Australians to their religion while referring to those who use social media as working for the devil.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">The video is available on <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=aziBueAsv6U&t=2s&ab_channel=RationalistsAustralia" target="_blank">YouTube</a>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://twitter.com/BelindaJones68">Belinda Jones</a> has transcribed the address <a href="threadreaderapp.com/thread/1386545291428384768.html ">here</a>. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The PM used a </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Royal Australian Air Force jet, flying to the Gold Coast in the afternoon and flying back to Sydney in the evening, so it's assumed he was there in his official capacity.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Why does it matter? Aren't all Christian faiths similar?</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Kevin Rudd mentioned in an interview on 7:30, there's a vast difference between mainstream Christian beliefs in Social Justice and Environmental Stewardship and the Pentecostal belief in dominionism and that their god rewards his followers with wealth.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">-The Prime Minister also talks about his god using Jenny in the political sphere.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">-There's a strong Old Testament focus rather than on the New Testament or the Gospels.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">-Encourages followers to think that FaceBook is evil, despite using it extensively himself.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Along with some of our Independent Media who have commented on both the content and the lack of, it's also raised the ire of atheists and Christians.</span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Chrys Stevenson analysed parts of it here on her blog <a href="http://chrysstevenson.com/2021/04/27/climb-every-mountain-scott-morrisons-speech-to-the-acc/" target="_blank">GLADLY, THE CROSS-EYED BEAR </a></span></span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">and here for those on <a href="http://facebook.com/KristyVensson/posts/10161144663527846" target="_blank">Facebook</a> </span></span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Chrys discusses 3 main points made by the PM:</span></span></p><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial;"><i>1. That protection (i.e. social assistance and welfare) should come from ‘community’ not the state, and that those who expect protection from the state are immoral.</i></span></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial;"><i>2. That groups which coalesce in order to obtain protection from the state are evil and strip their members of their individuality and humanity.</i></span></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial;"><i>3. That it is not his job to save the world - it is God’s, working through his community of believers.</i></span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">As you can see these points have the potential to have a huge influence on political focus FROM the Commonwealth supporting citizens in need TO refusing support. </span></span></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Morrison is in favour of churches providing the role we traditionally expect our government to invest in. <i>"</i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><span style="color: #444444;">For Morrison, the solution to social problems is to outsource them to God. It’s a typical Morrison “it’s-not-my-job” response. It’s not my job to hold a hose. It’s not my job to fix social problems. It’s not the </span><span style="border: 0px; color: #444444; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">government’s</span><span style="color: #444444;"> job to fix social problems."</span></i></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><br /></i></span></span></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> "</span></span><span style="color: #444444;">for Morrison, people who work in co-operation outside the church to lobby the government to address social inequity are involved in the work of the devil."</span></i></span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Last year as the pandemic unfolded, international students, the arts, child care and other 'outside' groups were denied financial support despite having no employment as a direct result of the pandemic. We can well ask what role his fundamentalist beliefs played in denying assistance to specific groups of citizens in need.</span></div></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Chrys Stevenson also reminds us that </span><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #444444;"><i>“The ‘prosperity gospel’ reduces religion to a magical technique to advance one’s individual self-interest, ignoring that the Gospel is meant to be ‘good news for the poor’, the Bible’s code for all in distress. The prosperity gospel instead focuses on individual wellbeing, rather than promoting wider concepts of solidarity and social justice in an effort to promote the common good of everyone, but especially of the most disadvantaged or marginalised.”</i></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;">We see this in the obscene profits and increased wealth of some business (eg Harvey Norman <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/feb/26/harvey-norman-to-keep-22m-in-jobkeeper-despite-profits-doubling-to-462m-in-pandemic">here</a>) who've profited throughout the pandemic. There's NO expectation that funds supplied by the Federal G</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">overnment </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">will be repaid. This is in contrast to the poorest in society who were hounded by Robodebt, sometimes to death.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPnYb1037UrYT8pJwhiLtlaWgKMV_7O__-LtvOukU8fRyGKCvOzkL-SX6QpQaIN0si_4bGNlIefqSc06PVGFjhnvn0W_WepGCjCFyO76fGdSlxMN-b78bWE5c5U7cj4rJecuHt7LNyccw/s1280/2.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="765" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPnYb1037UrYT8pJwhiLtlaWgKMV_7O__-LtvOukU8fRyGKCvOzkL-SX6QpQaIN0si_4bGNlIefqSc06PVGFjhnvn0W_WepGCjCFyO76fGdSlxMN-b78bWE5c5U7cj4rJecuHt7LNyccw/s320/2.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">It's worth noting how the fundamentalist churches benefit from providing 'services' to citizens when the government channels $$$ to them. <span style="color: #444444;"><i>"</i></span></span><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #444444;"><i>when the poor and disadvantaged become dependent on the church, the church gets the big government grants and the power that goes with that. "</i></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;">From <a href="http://www.crikey.com.au/2021/04/27/morrison-religious-pm-nation-non-believers/" target="_blank">Crikey</a>: </span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1rem;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial;"><i>He then outlined engaging in the Pentecostal practice of “laying on of hands” by praying for people at disaster centres by touching them.</i></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1rem;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial;"><i>“I’ve been in evacuation centres where people <b>thought I was just giving someone a hug</b>, and I was praying, and putting my hands on people … laying hands on them and praying in various situations,” he said.</i></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1rem;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Father Rod Bower's response: </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA5kA8FEf2n-7bIe2GMQ_tLT76XHqu5b6nxje5trlzGg-3bkESrrvvIrlouTK47hy-uUL-YJ_TGbHngaKlMzlLsal3d-vupll6QpemqqUrBohwLfXM7QQMcNQGBLiRxPvrmURWOdFT4PY/s1280/Fr+Rod+Bower.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="1037" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA5kA8FEf2n-7bIe2GMQ_tLT76XHqu5b6nxje5trlzGg-3bkESrrvvIrlouTK47hy-uUL-YJ_TGbHngaKlMzlLsal3d-vupll6QpemqqUrBohwLfXM7QQMcNQGBLiRxPvrmURWOdFT4PY/s320/Fr+Rod+Bower.jpeg" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: "national narrow", sans-serif; text-align: left;">I wonder how the people who declined to shake hands with him at Cobargo during the bushfires feel about him forcing himself on them now they know his intent?</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKP8HXLvXmFzVL-OQeUh6LRCBhzh3BatN_2gFv6Qtwzc48-Cz4Zcgf7ceZ1kp3it6mGpY4Q4i6jvgyiXpR2Hh6hAoekkqtxtIE3GG_ca7zlyN48_b3AJkV_7CqYaT-H9J-8eqrkOM8is0/s901/handshakes.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="color: #444444; font-family: "national narrow", sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="528" data-original-width="901" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKP8HXLvXmFzVL-OQeUh6LRCBhzh3BatN_2gFv6Qtwzc48-Cz4Zcgf7ceZ1kp3it6mGpY4Q4i6jvgyiXpR2Hh6hAoekkqtxtIE3GG_ca7zlyN48_b3AJkV_7CqYaT-H9J-8eqrkOM8is0/s320/handshakes.jpeg" width="320" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "national narrow", sans-serif;"><i>Clinical social worker and former evangelical insider Josie McSkimming says the speech was absolutely “talking to the in crowd”</i></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1rem;"><span style="font-family: "national narrow", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;"><i>for those outside the church, the speech gives us a kind of guide to Morrison’s real worldview, the beliefs he deeply holds about life, morality and faith when he isn’t performing for the cameras.</i></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1rem;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial;"><i>“He’s saying, unless you’re a Christian and have your faith in Christ, you’re being used by the evil one. That’s his worldview,” McSkimming said.</i></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1rem;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial;"><i>“This worldview is: we’re going to heaven, and you’re not.”</i></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1rem;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Whose ideology?</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1rem;"><span style="font-family: arial;">These are the PM's beliefs. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Are they Australia's?</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1rem;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Further commentary fails to settle the discomfort of having a prime minister preaching divisive ideology:</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1rem;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Excerpts of <a href="http://twitter.com/Sarah_Alice_X" target="_blank">Sarah Alice</a> comments unpacking the PM's Pentecostalism. </span><a href="https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1386544047540424707.html" style="font-family: arial;" target="">here </a></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1rem;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Part 1</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1rem;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial;"><i><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); white-space: pre-wrap;">Christianity has this funny polarity where looking outward is almost always an outpouring of the gospel message. It's selfless. It's compassionate. It's gracious and humble. Conservatism in Christianity is a very inward-looking...</span><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); white-space: pre-wrap;">phenomenon that relies on boundaries of exclusion to keep the unclean or uninitiated out.</span></i></span></p><div class="css-1dbjc4n" style="-webkit-box-align: stretch; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; align-items: stretch; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 0; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-1qd0xha r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" dir="auto" id="tweet-text" lang="en" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial;"><i><span style="background-color: white;">...Pentecostals rely on the Old Testament more than the New Testament for their approach to Christianity so much so that I don't think they have actually *read* the </span>gospels. Morrison's reliance on a hardline conservative author to put his points forward? </i></span></div><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial;"><i>
His whole point for the next ten minutes is about pushing his fellow Christians toward building communities based on morality... the same rigid morality and...adherence to it that the temple priests imposed on the community, the same rigid morality that... funnily enough... Jesus was fucking livid over.</i></span></span><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #0f1419;">
</span><i><span style="color: #444444;">8 min: "we can't let what we're entitled to be more important than what we're responsible for"
This gives a hint to his moral justifications for things like asylum seekers and robodebt: for Morrison, [his version of] morality overrides rights. Morality overrides human rights. </span></i></span></span><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); color: #0f1419; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-1qd0xha r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" dir="auto" id="tweet-text" lang="en" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Continued here: <a href="https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1386553281573392390.html">Part 2</a>:</span></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-1qd0xha r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" dir="auto" id="tweet-text" lang="en" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-1qd0xha r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" dir="auto" id="tweet-text" lang="en" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Groups of people such as #March4Justice, working towards a common goal, and outside those deemed moral by the ACC, and are considered a threat to their conservative ideology. </span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-1qd0xha r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" dir="auto" id="tweet-text" lang="en" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-1qd0xha r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" dir="auto" id="tweet-text" lang="en" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-family: arial;">He WANTS Australians to be dragged into a more religious, conservative morality with him as the Chosen One, and implores attendees to assist. To underline the religious message, the Murdoch Media presented this headline and visual as reinforcement. Discussed <a href="https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1388816028335968259.html">here:</a> </span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-1qd0xha r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" dir="auto" id="tweet-text" lang="en" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-1qd0xha r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" dir="auto" id="tweet-text" lang="en" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM3hyphenhypheneIcRjJqKcz93o-BZZ7oba_um-2NKzDr4uNeb__fbSa7-5vkodKbcYc3e2MdOlFugW3pokxBx2wWLNEYC0QElLqTz-TPXpYXoZB8r73_HM_PPjnQROsW2idmbngfIz1FGoWx87pJM/s931/pente.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="931" data-original-width="666" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM3hyphenhypheneIcRjJqKcz93o-BZZ7oba_um-2NKzDr4uNeb__fbSa7-5vkodKbcYc3e2MdOlFugW3pokxBx2wWLNEYC0QElLqTz-TPXpYXoZB8r73_HM_PPjnQROsW2idmbngfIz1FGoWx87pJM/s320/pente.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">What steals young people's hope?</span></b></span><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: arial;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/2021/04/26/scott-morrison-church-pentecostal/">The New Daily</a> discusses the PM's attitude to social media, and refers to the weapons used there by "the evil one" (aka the devil).</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span><span style="color: #3c3c3c; font-family: Lato, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f1f1f1;"><i>“It’s going to take our young people. It’s going to take their courage. It’s going to take their hope. It’s going to steal their hope. We’ve got to pray about that.”</i></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: #f1f1f1; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: Lato, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: #f1f1f1; font-family: Lato, sans-serif;">Curiously the PM is enthusiastic for people to join his religious pack, but sees other groups as evil.</span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: #f1f1f1; font-family: Lato, sans-serif;">What really steals hope? Lack of action on climate change, lack of investment in education (primary, secondary & tertiary), lack of support when they're job hunting. Lack of Federal investment in services & community housing. ALL eroded since the LNP came to power.</span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: #f1f1f1; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Which faith?</b></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: #fef9f5; font-size: 17px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial;"><i>understanding Morrison’s faith is most definitely in the public interest, because faith burns at the core of the man, and fellow believers also assign considerable value and significance to his prime ministership.</i></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: #fef9f5; font-size: 17px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial;"><i><br /></i></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial;"><i><span style="background-color: #fef9f5; font-size: 17px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures;">When Morrison became Liberal leader, some pastors told congregations his elevation to power was divinely inspired. Ahead of the 2019 election, some Pentecostal leaders warned </span><a data-link-name="in body link" href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/sep/07/darkness-coming-if-scott-morrison-not-re-elected-pentecostal-leader-claims" style="background-color: #fef9f5; border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“darkness” would spread across Australia</a><span style="background-color: #fef9f5; font-size: 17px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures;"> and Christians would be persecuted if Morrison lost. At his final speech at the National Press Club before the election, Morrison told voters he would </span><a data-link-name="in body link" href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/may/28/morrison-says-his-government-will-burn-for-the-australian-people-every-single-day" style="background-color: #fef9f5; border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“burn for you every day”</a><span style="background-color: #fef9f5; font-size: 17px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures;"> if he won. After the victory, he told voters he had </span><a data-link-name="in body link" href="https://www.theguardian.com/global/video/2019/may/19/ive-always-believed-in-miracles-scott-morrison-claims-victory-for-the-coalition-video" style="background-color: #fef9f5; border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">always believed in miracles</a><span style="background-color: #fef9f5; font-size: 17px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures;">. </span><span style="background-color: #fef9f5; font-size: 17px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/may/01/scott-morrison-wants-australians-to-know-hes-a-pentecostal-christian-but-questions-about-it-make-him-uneasy">Link</a></span></i></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: #fef9f5; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><p class="css-e0yuwt" style="background-color: #fef9f5; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #121212; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: 1.0625rem;">And the final words from Tim Dunlop </span><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/god-only-knows-50558190?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=postshare" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: 1.0625rem;">here</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: 1.0625rem;"> </span></p><p class="css-e0yuwt" style="background-color: #fef9f5; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #121212; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><span style="background-color: #f5f8fa; letter-spacing: -0.057px;">They are doing this stuff on purpose.</span><span style="background-color: #f5f8fa; letter-spacing: -0.057px;">The agenda is not a 'better country for all' but a country rebuilt in their own image, which is increasingly right wing, evangelical, white, ungenerous in a Randian individualist way, bland, and, of course, patriarchal. </span></i></span></p><p class="css-e0yuwt" style="background-color: #fef9f5; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #121212; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><span style="background-color: #f5f8fa; letter-spacing: -0.057px;"><br /></span></i></span></p></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: #f1f1f1; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Further reading:</b></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://kevinrudd.com/2006/10/01/faith-in-politics/">Kevin Rudd </a></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>7 Mountains mandate</b> <a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/seven-mountain-mandate.html">here</a> & <a href="https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1387229184007630851.html">here</a></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Influence on Government </b><a href="https://churchwatchcentral.com/2018/08/26/has-hillsong-conquered-the-australian-government-law-mountain-scott-morrison-becomes-prime-minister/">here</a> & <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/apr/26/scott-morrison-tells-christian-conference-he-was-called-to-do-gods-work-as-prime-minister">here</a></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #111111; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">"those in the New Apostolic Reformation pride themselves in not being bound by rule or regulation. Their message is about freedom from man’s rules, expectations and opinions. Nevertheless, Apostolic Centres (as they are also called) like Hillsong, see it as their mandate to ‘infiltrate’ and take over governments to influence culture. "</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);"><b>Social Media & the devil</b> <a href="https://www.news.com.au/finance/work/leaders/scott-morrison-calls-social-media-the-work-of-the-devil-during-christian-convention-on-gold-coast/news-story/be601983500f49d97917ac598134969c">here</a> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/apr/26/scott-morrison-tells-christian-conference-he-was-called-to-do-gods-work-as-prime-minister">here</a> & <a href="https://www.smh.com.au/national/pm-gives-rare-insight-into-pentecostal-faith-says-social-media-being-used-by-evil-one-20210426-p57mkb.html">here</a></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Indigenous beliefs seen as the work of the devil</b> <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-09-20/the-christian-converts-who-are-setting-fire-to-sacred-aboriginal/11527402">here</a></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Conservative Christian values and sex</b> <a href="conservative religious values are strongly linked to feelings of sex addiction">here</a> & <a href="https://religiondispatches.org/is-sex-outside-marriage-dehumanizing-the-problem-with-tim-kellers-biblical-sex-ethic/">here</a></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: arial;">And there's more:</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://theconversation.com/explainer-what-is-pentecostalism-and-how-might-it-influence-scott-morrisons-politics-103530&source=gmail&ust=1620096458878000&usg=AFQjCNHNyRjRIZe-s9WUV-Ms_5JfvgCgcg" href="https://theconversation.com/explainer-what-is-pentecostalism-and-how-might-it-influence-scott-morrisons-politics-103530" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://theconversation.com/<wbr></wbr>explainer-what-is-<wbr></wbr>pentecostalism-and-how-might-<wbr></wbr>it-influence-scott-morrisons-<wbr></wbr>politics-103530</a><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://theconversation.com/five-aspects-of-pentecostalism-that-shed-light-on-scott-morrisons-politics-117511&source=gmail&ust=1620096458878000&usg=AFQjCNHFy9b9Qs_BGMwMnkmg_CwFKJqFmQ" href="https://theconversation.com/five-aspects-of-pentecostalism-that-shed-light-on-scott-morrisons-politics-117511" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://theconversation.com/<wbr></wbr>five-aspects-of-<wbr></wbr>pentecostalism-that-shed-<wbr></wbr>light-on-scott-morrisons-<wbr></wbr>politics-117511</a><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.sbs.com.au/news/scott-morrison-opens-up-about-his-faith-says-we-should-pray-more&source=gmail&ust=1620096458878000&usg=AFQjCNGDvX0WrEfQDsEbyEbqu94VEoGIhw" href="https://www.sbs.com.au/news/scott-morrison-opens-up-about-his-faith-says-we-should-pray-more" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.sbs.com.au/news/<wbr></wbr>scott-morrison-opens-up-about-<wbr></wbr>his-faith-says-we-should-pray-<wbr></wbr>more</a><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://overland.org.au/2019/06/why-i-fear-scott-morrisons-pentecostalism/&source=gmail&ust=1620096458878000&usg=AFQjCNHw2KxA4ecmBvjjhdp9v2EMV_y3VA" href="https://overland.org.au/2019/06/why-i-fear-scott-morrisons-pentecostalism/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://overland.org.au/2019/<wbr></wbr>06/why-i-fear-scott-morrisons-<wbr></wbr>pentecostalism/</a><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; 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Real Stories.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Whether it's covid minsiformation, conspiracy theories, the normalisation & acceptance of lies, denigration of the unemployed, religious and ethnic diversity, First Nations people, science, or climate denial, we've seen the negative impact of News Corp here and overseas.</span></p><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh73TbtBUDbkFFU2kFmUh4r350YhAuUc5s1lMkEoxkic880dWwC1HXfrckNu-HjOhX2tOCnoUwNW53PCnNzRszvouRbeSjXE5KsBytdAsGxTlMrdtbJIhd0u7Ny7NHEySSh7fZ87P_Azmc/s1280/afmrc.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="895" data-original-width="1280" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh73TbtBUDbkFFU2kFmUh4r350YhAuUc5s1lMkEoxkic880dWwC1HXfrckNu-HjOhX2tOCnoUwNW53PCnNzRszvouRbeSjXE5KsBytdAsGxTlMrdtbJIhd0u7Ny7NHEySSh7fZ87P_Azmc/s320/afmrc.jpeg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #003057; font-family: AVN-Regular, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 700;">If you have a personal story of being impacted by bullying, vilification and disinformation in the Murdoch media, please tell us:</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #003057; font-family: AVN-Regular, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 700;"> </span><span style="color: #0000ee; font-family: arial; font-size: large; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline;">https://murdochroyalcommission.org.au/</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">It's similar to collating evidence to present to HR in instances of workplace bullying. However this is much broader, inviting those targeted and affected throughout Australia, to document and submit via the above website, the personal impact of articles, cartoons and photos.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">There's also a</span> <span style="background-color: white; color: #003057; font-family: AVN-Regular, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 700;">tool to help you to streamline making a complaint to News Corp and the media watchdog.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: AVN-Regular, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">"AFMRC supporters reporting what they read and hear through the regulatory processes will mean that this evidence will have official records and independent authority."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;">It's easy to feel defeated in the face of the murdoch juggernaut, yet attending the launch felt empowering. The comments from Malcolm Turnbull including his statement that he was "awestruck" by the campaign, and reading the positive, enthusiastic comments from attendees was extremely </span><span style="background-color: white;">encouraging!</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;">In my years of career counselling and working with unemployed people and unhappy employees, it's always struck me that most say they're keen to be part of something bigger, they want to be involved and work towards a healthier society. </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;">No matter where or who you are, here's a way to work together for positive change! </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">.....</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Why sign the <a href="https://www.aph.gov.au/petition_list?id=EN1938" target="_blank">Murdoch Royal Commission Petition </a>when it's unlikely any action will be taken by the current Liberal National Coalition Government?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">We know the government won't act in good faith on this petition despite it gaining over 360,000 thousand signatures in just over 2 weeks and not closing till 4th November.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">It's pointless, right?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Not really:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>International reports</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">What the Murdoch Royal Commission petition has already done is create news in and of itself. Some from the mainstream media in Australia, <a href="https://www.smh.com.au/national/murdoch-s-sway-on-politics-warrants-royal-commission-20201016-p565wc.html">Murdoch's Sway on Politics warrants a Royal Commission</a> - and also internationally (<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/13/world/australia/petition-murdoch-australia-rudd.html" target="_blank">New York Times</a> & <a href="https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/australian-ex-pm-kevin-rudd-calls-for-inquiry-into-murdoch-media-dominance" target="_blank">Straits Times)</a> and amongst many of our Independent Media outlets including articles by highly regarded former NewsCorp journalists</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">According to former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, the Murdoch media empire has become "... a protection racket" (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4E6Ssvrocw&t=61s&ab_channel=KevinRudd">2 min video here)</a></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDc19LeYlE3E4m5F54CjxHzL5YH18gWqYAF-7HXz3d60FWdRc4HGs9Bbms0FX4rqMIEge6Bym1xguDTwvGwJjjO-ID2-E2XYK7JbP5rEVaCgfU_qaJ1E02O4jXLAmYAH9yH-LDWFXiI-g/s1125/Rudd+james.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="625" data-original-width="1125" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDc19LeYlE3E4m5F54CjxHzL5YH18gWqYAF-7HXz3d60FWdRc4HGs9Bbms0FX4rqMIEge6Bym1xguDTwvGwJjjO-ID2-E2XYK7JbP5rEVaCgfU_qaJ1E02O4jXLAmYAH9yH-LDWFXiI-g/s320/Rudd+james.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><p></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1rem;"><span style="font-family: arial;">You know that News Corp is no longer interested in reporting facts. It operates like a mafia syndicate with a well-funded protection racket for politicians who back its commercial interests and espouse hard-right ideology on issues like climate change.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1rem;"><span style="font-family: arial;">You also know that many of Murdoch’s critics, while roaring in private, have been bullied into public silence. They live in fear of joining the mounting number in business, politics and media who have been subjected to an onslaught of lies, innuendo and personal smear.</span><span face=""Fira Sans Condensed", sans-serif"> <a href="https://www.crikey.com.au/2020/10/21/kevin-rudd-news-corp-royal-commission-petition/" target="_blank">Crikey</a> & <a href="https://www.crikey.com.au/2020/10/13/news-corp-inquiry/" target="_blank">here</a></span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> </span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1rem;"><span style="font-family: arial;">has NewsCorp evolved into something new, something we don’t have a name for yet, more like a propaganda outlet camouflaged .... </span><span style="font-family: arial;">weaponising freedom of the press to defend the corporation.</span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The <i>Murdoch Royal Commission </i>Petition has promoted discussion amongst diverse groups from across the political spectrum from the disinterested to the passionate. Many may not have been aware of News Corp's reach across Australia and the impact this ONE media empire has by owning the bulk of the print media in Australia.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">It's created a sense of togetherness against a common adversary. One who's hell bent on undermining not just our society by creating doubt, insecurity & division, but that erodes trust in science, and supports increasingly right wing views:</span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span face="Roboto, -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"" style="background-color: white; color: #212529;">Rupert and his minions get to reshape the narrative with relentless far-right monotony, drowning out climate science, crushing progress and stomping on compassion</span><span face="Roboto, -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"" style="background-color: white; color: #212529; font-size: 19.2px;">. </span><span face="Roboto, -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"" style="background-color: white; color: #212529;"><a href="https://independentaustralia.net/business/business-display/rudd-calls-time-on-murdoch-dominance,14412" target="_blank">Independent Australia</a></span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Is News Corp </b></span><b style="font-family: arial;">really </b><b style="font-family: arial;">that bad?</b></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Eric Beecher </span><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">a former editor of </span><span style="background-color: white;">The Sydney Morning Herald</span><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"> and editor-in-chief of Herald and Weekly Times (owned by News Corp) has this to say:</span></span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Fira Sans Condensed", sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1rem; text-align: left;">When I once asked a senior cabinet minister in a recent federal government to explain how media power in Australia operates in the world of politics, this is how he answered: “A cabinet colleague of mine recently told me he’d had a call from [the head of a large media company] who said that one of his editors had put together all this personal information on him, but he was calling the minister just to let him know that he had instructed the editor under no circumstances was the personal information ever to be published.”</p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span face=""Fira Sans Condensed", sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">That’s how freedom of the press works in Australia, the politician explained, without a hint of joy.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"><b> </b></span></p></blockquote><p> ...</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span face=""Fira Sans Condensed", sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">Media power lurks like a prowler in the dark. You can sense its danger, feel its presence, identify its victims. But rarely if ever does it show its full face in the light.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span face=""Fira Sans Condensed", sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">That’s because media power is a weapon built primarily on fear.</span> </p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><i><a href="https://www.aph.gov.au/petition_list?id=EN1938" target="_blank">The petition </a>helps shine a light on the power, and on the danger it presents to those who stand against it, and how it debases our country.</i></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">One voice may seem weak, but banded together, our voices join together and reach others via new media like <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@beetle.drink/video/6884739532961451266?lang=en&sender_device=pc&sender_web_id=6816878851941402113&is_from_webapp=1">TikTok</a></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMlhhoKNWt742fRD7RU1vyJEb8dLV3wYxApxoaxOAZKS0uRvubQCStrE8yokABzNkxiQ0lzU3DG7dYCAyAmjZLrJaNELqJ6IXyFPY5Og6BPhrN4m28fu57fKlXxOYAVLR26RGKXEk3oP8/s1548/tiktok1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1548" data-original-width="1125" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMlhhoKNWt742fRD7RU1vyJEb8dLV3wYxApxoaxOAZKS0uRvubQCStrE8yokABzNkxiQ0lzU3DG7dYCAyAmjZLrJaNELqJ6IXyFPY5Og6BPhrN4m28fu57fKlXxOYAVLR26RGKXEk3oP8/s320/tiktok1.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOYKEfbmGRcxv4wwgaAF_oCp6M4HZWsLdH3ny0alTvZ0VaNEGbA2aai_ar-yZC6_z3MIX1g1-Qr0A0DNmd6J_ItitAqF2Zm07HZYR0DZ3VS5ROSZf-jqCsE94i0QilG-d416pxBqFHBJ4/s1777/tiktok2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1777" data-original-width="1125" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOYKEfbmGRcxv4wwgaAF_oCp6M4HZWsLdH3ny0alTvZ0VaNEGbA2aai_ar-yZC6_z3MIX1g1-Qr0A0DNmd6J_ItitAqF2Zm07HZYR0DZ3VS5ROSZf-jqCsE94i0QilG-d416pxBqFHBJ4/s320/tiktok2.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOYKEfbmGRcxv4wwgaAF_oCp6M4HZWsLdH3ny0alTvZ0VaNEGbA2aai_ar-yZC6_z3MIX1g1-Qr0A0DNmd6J_ItitAqF2Zm07HZYR0DZ3VS5ROSZf-jqCsE94i0QilG-d416pxBqFHBJ4/s1777/tiktok2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; text-align: left;">Signing petitions such as the Murdoch Royal Commission - and seeing that others have too helps us feel we are part of something bigger, a group </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; text-align: left;">working together to shape and improve our world.</span></a></div><p></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1rem;"><span style="font-family: arial;">News Corp’s other major markets — the US and the UK — have long moved on. Early last year, <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Washington Post’</em>s Margaret Sullivan, speaking of News’ sister organisation Fox, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/its-time--high-time--to-take-fox-newss-destructive-role-in-america-seriously/2019/03/07/aeb83282-40cc-11e9-922c-64d6b7840b82_story.html" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0c6291; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; transition: all 0.25s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">spelled out what has since become the orthodoxy</a>:</span></p><blockquote class="wp-block-quote" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.5rem auto; outline: 0px; padding: 0.5rem 3rem 0px; position: relative; quotes: "“" "”" "‘" "’"; word-break: break-word;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1rem;"><span style="font-family: arial;">… everyone ought to see [Fox] for what it is: not a normal news organisation with inevitable screw-ups, flaws and commercial interests, which sometimes fail to serve the public interest. Instead, it’s a shameless propaganda outfit, which makes billions of dollars a year as it chips away at the core democratic values we ought to hold dear: truth, accountability and the rule of law.</span></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1rem;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Earlier this year, <i><b>James Murdoch</b> <b>resigned from the News Corp board</b> </i>citing “disagreements over certain editorial content.” This past weekend, in an interview with <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/10/style/james-murdoch-maureen-dowd.html" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0c6291; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; transition: all 0.25s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank"><em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">The New York Times</em></a>, he went further talking of hidden agendas and disinformation.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1rem;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Not surprisingly, News Corp hasn't mentioned that James Murdoch left the board, leaving those who rely on NC in the dark.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1rem;"><span style="font-family: arial;">This is especially relevant given the reach of News Corp in Australia. Even if you don't purchase any of their media, it's sending <a href="https://upine.medium.com/the-vast-reach-of-right-wing-disinformation-fbcee2715db7" target="_blank">messages of disinformation</a> & framing events in favour of their chosen narrative. This is seen at news-stands, servos, supermarket checkouts & cafes. It's next to impossible to avoid.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1rem;"><span style="font-family: arial;">So, apart from Kevin Rudd, and a few hundred thousand Australians, who else has signed the petition?</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1rem;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIjTjxNwOQlmovo16z2u2J9OzN1qjmAAJAjFx4MAFBaahdEjHlIp3yqLVH6LptpCMSkTSM00zOwYJ8lUM7MHTDq-Cr-BkPTsIfY2IPGf4SEaYjdkEePVot7467lFEbgtZ85lTZ33UiC00/s1280/rudd.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="735" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIjTjxNwOQlmovo16z2u2J9OzN1qjmAAJAjFx4MAFBaahdEjHlIp3yqLVH6LptpCMSkTSM00zOwYJ8lUM7MHTDq-Cr-BkPTsIfY2IPGf4SEaYjdkEePVot7467lFEbgtZ85lTZ33UiC00/s320/rudd.jpg" /></a></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqt6MSk_iF-H9GggtirGWcWoyDkDWqMgSvyPPER2V-mRqv943zPSTrbfWdqHynQMKD4kdoG0Rv533W2aJiSpDYepfkSJBag69hBvPbKAi2U3J5nJzp6-QtfVnQbmqzBxVC-_5KVx5Twe4/s1280/turnbull+rudd.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="686" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqt6MSk_iF-H9GggtirGWcWoyDkDWqMgSvyPPER2V-mRqv943zPSTrbfWdqHynQMKD4kdoG0Rv533W2aJiSpDYepfkSJBag69hBvPbKAi2U3J5nJzp6-QtfVnQbmqzBxVC-_5KVx5Twe4/s320/turnbull+rudd.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1rem;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>What next?</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1rem;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><i>Remember to confirm the link in the email you receive after signing!</i></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1rem;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Support <a href="https://traverselife.blogspot.com/2020/01/list-of-australian-independent-media.html" target="_blank">Independent media </a>(we've got a great variety!) learn about <a href="https://traverselife.blogspot.com/2020/09/how-does-media-manipulate-our-views.html" target="_blank">Media Manipulation Tactics</a> and share both the petition and independent media alternatives with community groups.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1rem;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><a href="https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/House_of_Representatives/Powers_practice_and_procedure/Practice7/HTML/Chapter17/Petitions" target="_blank">Petitioning Parliament House</a></b></span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1rem;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;">In Australia the right of petitioning Parliament remains a fundamental right of the citizen. <i>It is the only means by which the individual can directly place grievances before the Parliament.</i></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;"><i> </i></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #222222;">An important effect of the petitioning process is that </span><i style="color: #222222;">Members and the Government are informed, in a formal and public way, of the views of sections of the community on public issues</i><span style="color: #222222;">. Even if no action is immediately taken on a petition, it and others like </span><i><span style="color: #222222;">it may assist in the creation of a climate of opinion which can influence or result in action. (my italics)</span></i></span></span></p></blockquote><p><a href="https://www.sydneytimes.net.au/official-launch-of-australians-for-a-murdoch-royal-commission/" style="font-family: arial;">https://www.sydneytimes.net.au/official-launch-of-australians-for-a-murdoch-royal-commission/</a></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Interesting articles:</span></p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/oct/18/covid-herd-immunity-funding-bad-science-anti-lockdown" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: arial;">Who's funding Bad Science?</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.crikey.com.au/2020/10/13/news-corp-inquiry/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: arial;">Is News Corp a news company?</span></a></p><h1 data-testid="headline" itemprop="headline" style="background-color: #f4f5f7; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0a1633; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.16667; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://www.smh.com.au/national/murdoch-s-sway-on-politics-warrants-royal-commission-20201016-p565wc.html" target="_blank">Murdoch's sway on politics warrants royal commission</a></span></h1><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Info from <a href="https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)32153-X/fulltext" target="_blank">The Lancet about Covid_19.</a></span></div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Suehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09715879775216108688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6289360952268100151.post-82013103468574000362020-10-18T14:07:00.036+11:002020-10-18T17:24:19.265+11:00Melbourne Lockdown, ocean exploration & mutineers<p><span style="font-family: arial;">What's it like to be a marine technician?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">This isn't a question you'd expect to be relevant to being in lockdown in Melbourne during the global covid pandemic.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Or is it?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Bear with me.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Colleen Peters is a Marine Technician on the </span><i style="font-family: arial;">RV Ocean Explorer. </i><span style="font-family: arial;">She recently spoke with</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> *Amelia, not only about pathways to become a Marine Technician but also about the role of the captain, morale of crew & passengers, the importance of collaboration, working together, skills, dealing with people's needs and wants, as well as many fascinating aspects of her varied role.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">She also spoke about the vital role the captain of a ship plays, where the crew rely on their skills as far more than a navigator to bring everyone home safely.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">You can listen to Avid Research STEM interviews <a href="https://www.avidresearch.com.au/?episodeId=009" target="_blank">here</a> & on </span><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/avid-research/id1527745431" style="font-family: arial;" target="_blank">Apple</a><span style="font-family: arial;"> & </span><a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/333usLV7ZebJ51OAcQUxqe" style="font-family: arial;" target="_blank">Spotify</a><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Listening to this episode made me realise there are similarities between being at sea during a massive storm, and Melbourne Lockdown during </span><span style="font-family: arial;">a GLOBAL PANDEMIC.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXjgCDtZCBknLQ6eeaahCbhy3ZeSPCfmdlYU0g54uVxDXDQRFIYcUEozhBIBeJdX91ZW_iJtKHhaQXgnF_7LJkBzwArnyECjx-dYbzN_5sK1_-zPzpHwd82t6wxq-c4lOxkGW7z1Q2i9U/s2048/ship.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1757" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXjgCDtZCBknLQ6eeaahCbhy3ZeSPCfmdlYU0g54uVxDXDQRFIYcUEozhBIBeJdX91ZW_iJtKHhaQXgnF_7LJkBzwArnyECjx-dYbzN_5sK1_-zPzpHwd82t6wxq-c4lOxkGW7z1Q2i9U/s320/ship.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>"the responsibility that the captain has in not just to get the job done, but it's to bring everybody home safe, it's a much different responsibility and it's to be very well respected"</b></span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Being in lockdown feels a bit like it sounds like after being too long at sea. You tend to go a bit stir crazy. We're confined to a limited radius from home, and while we can definitely venture further than our 'cabin' - we can walk, shop, post letters and go out for coffee and order take-away foods - many of us are missing family and friends who live further away. Others are antsy, frustrated and bored.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Our captain (Victoria's Premier, Daniel Andrews) is in some ways similar to the captain of a ship in a violently raging sea, and along with other countries around the globe, our ship has been blown off course.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Waaaaay off course.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">There are no charts for this expedition and we rely on the skill of the captain, navigator, and crew to find the safest course to a new and different harbour to what was anticipated in 2019. This takes resolve and courage in the face of dissenting voices far away. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">There are rocks ahead.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">We see other ships, far larger than ours foundering on jagged rocks during this frightening storm. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Bodies pile up on a rocky island, while others swirl in the maelstrom, decomposing as we watch, helpless to assist. Desperate crew and passengers struggle to keep ships afloat while some captains shout indistinct or conflicting commands.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">One captain & crew are carousing in his goldleaf cabin, denying there's anything amis while we watch in horror at the imminent wreckage. Will some of it create hazards for others at sea?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Meanwhile the violent storm rages on.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Focused on the job at hand, our captain commands "Heave to" to reduce the potential to join the devastation he sees around.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">To weather a storm of such global magnitude takes nerves of steel, a calm demeanour, clear directions and responsible crew <i>and passengers</i>. It's incumbent on all to pull together in our response to this global covid crisis.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>"We don't see the complexity of what's going on out of our sight."</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Finding a relatively safe course through this uncharted territory is like deciphering a massive puzzle that's written in a different language, where unknowns are slowly revealed over MONTHS. Mistakes are made before new, more accurate information comes to hand.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The storm rages on with increased violence.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Over many weeks of Melbourne Lockdown, the encouraging result of the decision to <i>heave to</i> become clear. We <i>appear</i> to be safe!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">However, while the captain has been focused on our collective safety, and found a relatively safe place to drop anchor while the storm increases with violence overhead, a dangerous plot has been hatched.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">A mutiny is planned.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Poisonous letters are distributed</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> to tired & vulnerable passengers. The easily led, the confused, the overly trusting, are encouraged to defy the captain's orders.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Far from making these saboteurs walk the plank, the captain treats them with civility and patience. Questions: repetitive, distracting questions which are unhelpful to fellow passengers, and increase their fear and distress, are fired at the captain daily & for MONTHS.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Draining questions. Pointless questions. Gotcha Questions. Questions that distract, deflect, obstruct, undermine & confuse the messages of safety which bring security & the sense of "We're in this together, We can do it!"</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The storm rages on.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Thousands upon thousands of deaths. Untold numbers of young and previously healthy young people with life changing health problems due to #LongCovid . Overwhelmed medical facilities. Bodies piled on decks waiting for burial. Families, watching, waiting, grief-struck.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Passengers on other ships look to our captain & the difficult decisions he's made with envy. Other captains look here for direction.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The storm increases with ferocity.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Far from making sure everyone is doing their bit to ensure survival & encouraging passengers to doing do their part <i>for everyone's benefit</i>, the mutineers continue to undermine with destructive glee.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">They DEMAND that the captain resigns.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Our mutineers have no chart. No idea how to read the language of the storm. No experience with GLOBAL storms of this magnitude, which come with terrifying gusts, then <i>appear </i>to abate. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">(No experience either with landlubber Australian </span><a href="https://traverselife.blogspot.com/2020/01/why-was-australia-so-underprepared-for.html" style="font-family: arial;" target="_blank">bushfires</a> <span style="font-family: arial;">which this captain prepared for and steered us through, saving countless lives, stock & property</span><span style="font-family: arial;">) </span><span style="font-family: arial;">These hints of abating are presented with supreme confidence as "The threat is over! </span><i style="font-family: arial;">Heaving to</i><span style="font-family: arial;"> and </span><i style="font-family: arial;">dropping anchor</i><span style="font-family: arial;"> were an overreaction by an incompetent, wimpy captain."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">'Weigh anchor NOW' the mutineers command. 'We've had enough. We want our old life back. Take us back to the past!' little realising, or not prepared to acknowledge, that the whole world has changed. The dusty old charts, preserving the structure & order of their privileged past are redundant.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Missives are printed, funded by a foreign media mogul who's been involved with the foundering of other notable ships & resulting in the installation of his preferred captain.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Yet reputable people are expressing increased concern about the impact such power & influence has on our countries, our communities, families and environment; about what we're encouraged to believe & what's ignored or dismissed:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="smh.com.au/business/companies/hidden-agendas-james-murdoch-speaks-on-news-corp-exit-20201011-p5641y.html" target="_blank">Here</a>, <a href="https://www.doubledown.news/watch/2019/22/december/why-labour-lost-oligarchs-are-gaming-democracy-george-monbiot" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/program/the-listening-post/2020/8/8/murdochs-misinformation-covid-19-china-and-climate-change/" target="_blank">here</a> and an excellent article from <a href="https://independentaustralia.net/business/business-display/rudd-calls-time-on-murdoch-dominance,14412#.X4dpZFthgJM" target="_blank">Independent Australia</a> as well as James Murdoch speaking out against News Corp which former Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd discusses in this 2 minute video here:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4E6Ssvrocw&t=61s&ab_channel=KevinRudd" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4E6Ssvrocw&t=61s&ab_channel=KevinRudd</a></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVuzJIlr8U9xJ58JETo-NF5BCqNuRBRjmm6S6P0erOjAP8zUhen_w7glkwG5gVnaUqRuBXr0Ngy4AFKj38erwVAclpnkviQ6DVOH9JAIXZVdT60DxOjVseGOE3zWz3TloB6OveQ_Hnbqw/s1125/Rudd+james.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="625" data-original-width="1125" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVuzJIlr8U9xJ58JETo-NF5BCqNuRBRjmm6S6P0erOjAP8zUhen_w7glkwG5gVnaUqRuBXr0Ngy4AFKj38erwVAclpnkviQ6DVOH9JAIXZVdT60DxOjVseGOE3zWz3TloB6OveQ_Hnbqw/s320/Rudd+james.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;">Yet midst the fear of the still frighteningly raging storm, our sorrow for what's been lost and fear of an unpredictable future, as well as anger at the mutineers, a tiny glimmer of light shines across the turbulent waters, t</span></span><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;">here's something we CAN do. Former Prime Minister, Kevin </span><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;">Rudd explains some of the issues and why we need a #MurdochRoyalCommission </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh2jODKrPUDETE3HjortM3frBxwu1lfEG4OhxSK8lgactsgAlWwPQmdJyQ44UwG5ExbdGKLLfbBdhqSqlG5hGhxPHSU5BLVSF9GFs00YgKfKIWKAk3QBfku2-KihFrGMm6Da-Lztp4r9g/s1125/signature.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="620" data-original-width="1125" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh2jODKrPUDETE3HjortM3frBxwu1lfEG4OhxSK8lgactsgAlWwPQmdJyQ44UwG5ExbdGKLLfbBdhqSqlG5hGhxPHSU5BLVSF9GFs00YgKfKIWKAk3QBfku2-KihFrGMm6Da-Lztp4r9g/s320/signature.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BPLBIgKjN8&ab_channel=KevinRudd">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BPLBIgKjN8&ab_channel=KevinRudd</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Murdoch Royal Commission link: <a href="https://www.aph.gov.au/petition_sign?id=EN1938">https://www.aph.gov.au/petition_sign?id=EN1938</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Remember to look at the list of <a href="https://traverselife.blogspot.com/2020/01/list-of-australian-independent-media.html" target="_blank">Independent Media</a> and perhaps choose a couple to subscribe to and become familiar with <a href="traverselife.blogspot.com/2020/09/how-does-media-manipulate-our-views.html" target="_blank">Media Manipulation Tactics</a> to cut through the bs.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The storm rages on, and o</span><span style="font-family: arial;">ur safety looks promising ...</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">.....</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">(*disclaimer - Amelia is my daughter. I spent 10 years as a secondary school Career Counsellor and much of the rest of my working life in tertiary education and as a private career counsellor. I'm incredibly proud of her interviews & podcasts, not only from the professional aspect, but for the wealth of valuable career & life information they contain.) </span></p><p><br /></p>Suehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09715879775216108688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6289360952268100151.post-40581401999403230602020-09-16T12:15:00.001+10:002020-09-23T16:34:43.414+10:00How does the media manipulate our views?<div class="kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><i><b>Media Manipulation Tactics.</b></i></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Politicians and the media are trained to influence the way we think. This thread looks at how they do that.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Keep an eye out for when politicians, commentators and journalists use these manipulative tactics. We encourage you to post the relevant meme in the comments of the media post using a particular tactic. </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Discussing media framing with your friends, family & community groups is a great way of refining your ability to identify when a politician or media outlet is pushing a particular narrative.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">These tiles can be particularly useful to help our trusting friends, the gullible and easily influenced to be aware of tactics used to influence us all.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Our media is supposed to hold our politicians to account. But who holds the media to account? </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">We do. </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div></div></div><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Media Manipulation</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><i>Manufactured outrage</i></span></b><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJartalxP3FcwmImMmDJ8pI3HJrorvIvrcAPZUBCD3W_GNuNa6kEiTKjATvMdAi1BSsZ-N9NWGA6At46Y1py0wFvu5oK54lWcQ3cktGq8GOmwrI30QU9PPVPlIL5E85SXRjRtIVo0Kz2I/s889/Screen+Shot+2020-09-14+at+3.53.12+pm.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="745" data-original-width="889" height="419" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJartalxP3FcwmImMmDJ8pI3HJrorvIvrcAPZUBCD3W_GNuNa6kEiTKjATvMdAi1BSsZ-N9NWGA6At46Y1py0wFvu5oK54lWcQ3cktGq8GOmwrI30QU9PPVPlIL5E85SXRjRtIVo0Kz2I/w500-h419/Screen+Shot+2020-09-14+at+3.53.12+pm.png" width="500" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Media Manipulation</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><i>Tactical Framing</i></span></b></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4u-b0sq5WIjmsOP-H9jN1tnsTECLxgeudfoLn7exd8UicBXmAcN1v2ySorP6fDjMUVgCyetYUwaxJ515WULBFBk_23jpTuZJBbIAf7Mt0mf4vdjudqVK0wNOP62kczsE6n3MP2v7meMo/s890/Screen+Shot+2020-09-14+at+4.25.27+pm.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="742" data-original-width="890" height="418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4u-b0sq5WIjmsOP-H9jN1tnsTECLxgeudfoLn7exd8UicBXmAcN1v2ySorP6fDjMUVgCyetYUwaxJ515WULBFBk_23jpTuZJBbIAf7Mt0mf4vdjudqVK0wNOP62kczsE6n3MP2v7meMo/w500-h418/Screen+Shot+2020-09-14+at+4.25.27+pm.png" width="500" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> How will a bill affect us? <span style="text-align: left;"></span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span><span style="text-align: left;"></span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span><span style="text-align: left;"></span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span><span style="text-align: left;"></span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span><span style="text-align: left;"></span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span><span style="text-align: left;"></span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span><span style="text-align: left;"></span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span><span style="text-align: left;"></span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span><span style="text-align: left;"></span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span><span style="text-align: left;"></span><span style="text-align: left;"> <br /></span><span style="text-align: left;">Who will be impacted? </span><br /><span style="text-align: left;">What are the consequences?</span><br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"> </span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span><span style="text-align: left;"> <b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Media Manipulation</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><i>Scapegoating </i></b></span></span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><i> </i> </b></span> </span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTU8QS5B9sCIpzJFMvh4ST7TpegR6-yQO1ZpCnAb33QTaHS-vBIC047_pS8LnCHkM0CLF5W5l8cTgWFfFzu0ZKsazvYDKrqfmSU7HPSAkSqeesolhi8lVHKpGohyphenhyphenwi9U26cmOib5VzS8s/s889/Screen+Shot+2020-09-14+at+4.08.29+pm.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="743" data-original-width="889" height="418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTU8QS5B9sCIpzJFMvh4ST7TpegR6-yQO1ZpCnAb33QTaHS-vBIC047_pS8LnCHkM0CLF5W5l8cTgWFfFzu0ZKsazvYDKrqfmSU7HPSAkSqeesolhi8lVHKpGohyphenhyphenwi9U26cmOib5VzS8s/w500-h418/Screen+Shot+2020-09-14+at+4.08.29+pm.png" width="500" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Is one group ALWAYS right and another ALWAYS wrong?</span><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /> <b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Media Manipulation </span></b><div><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><i>Slippery Slope</i></span></b></div><div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUBkNTOHimJvV3Yc1nF25XCGoXebGdCKlkJR7SgwvGzJnLMpXOQMjvypbxawM35qFPV2Vaa00bNtV1L0Q8SOFF_jjqdjmStbgvPweG2Sv_dsfdrJyor2ggLUs_R9ap-69A22OMcG4a4xo/s879/Screen+Shot+2020-09-14+at+4.08.57+pm.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="742" data-original-width="879" height="423" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUBkNTOHimJvV3Yc1nF25XCGoXebGdCKlkJR7SgwvGzJnLMpXOQMjvypbxawM35qFPV2Vaa00bNtV1L0Q8SOFF_jjqdjmStbgvPweG2Sv_dsfdrJyor2ggLUs_R9ap-69A22OMcG4a4xo/w500-h423/Screen+Shot+2020-09-14+at+4.08.57+pm.png" width="500" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Who obstructs change? Why?<br />What's in it for them?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><br />Media Manipulation<br /><i>Fear Mongering<br /></i></b></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM27-0ZEcIxQvwpL97plfSRIPreaacyj-RNDhlABPo2ULf3mOiHJGDMc0LwNXhjf8AOL1pLBmH_AWkNxv8VEWhUOrxykrlLRCSxq0u3iyM2FuZO1pJmJQTJBdZvY9XyQRLoy0x1OgM-sI/s886/Screen+Shot+2020-09-14+at+4.09.13+pm.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="741" data-original-width="886" height="419" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM27-0ZEcIxQvwpL97plfSRIPreaacyj-RNDhlABPo2ULf3mOiHJGDMc0LwNXhjf8AOL1pLBmH_AWkNxv8VEWhUOrxykrlLRCSxq0u3iyM2FuZO1pJmJQTJBdZvY9XyQRLoy0x1OgM-sI/w500-h419/Screen+Shot+2020-09-14+at+4.09.13+pm.png" width="500" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Fear is a powerful motivator<br />& can be used to inhibit change<br />(stay with the known, change is scary)<br /><br /><br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Media Manipulation<br /><i>Democratic Symbolism</i></span></b></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEMLlVmsvYEZI_HHl-G-9W7eLC_wpvETnPUOg8HUTsGfGZn1eM7RQhKpNElNLn6A3c9vPYPxk5mWKbtyK0tYhkEJuWroFc_FPU194SkcbcG1bfjUrEw4axW-H1T99FYhiDLn0Q8SzlD6E/s886/Screen+Shot+2020-09-14+at+4.09.28+pm.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="740" data-original-width="886" height="418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEMLlVmsvYEZI_HHl-G-9W7eLC_wpvETnPUOg8HUTsGfGZn1eM7RQhKpNElNLn6A3c9vPYPxk5mWKbtyK0tYhkEJuWroFc_FPU194SkcbcG1bfjUrEw4axW-H1T99FYhiDLn0Q8SzlD6E/w500-h418/Screen+Shot+2020-09-14+at+4.09.28+pm.png" width="500" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Lack of accountability<br />Who is held to account?<br />Who is presented as above reproach?<br />What happens when you look at different media? </span>(<a href="https://traverselife.blogspot.com/2020/01/is-scale-of-australian-bushfires.html">2019/20 Bushfires</a>)<br /><br /><br /><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Media Manipulation<br /><i>Attack the Messenger!</i></span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8uhI7rWr1T2W9kkdqw_9rb0WWm3AEfsGwc78ZC1ryKkWs8lgemq5lnsb2yGplHjT0xO4T_9y6Pd0RdTxMdaLbzyEXRcyjP7zB5SqwIRZUmMiquwvmfMEdtrCrrWKqcso6cG9-mSjg7as/s881/Screen+Shot+2020-09-14+at+4.09.42+pm.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="744" data-original-width="881" height="423" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8uhI7rWr1T2W9kkdqw_9rb0WWm3AEfsGwc78ZC1ryKkWs8lgemq5lnsb2yGplHjT0xO4T_9y6Pd0RdTxMdaLbzyEXRcyjP7zB5SqwIRZUmMiquwvmfMEdtrCrrWKqcso6cG9-mSjg7as/w500-h423/Screen+Shot+2020-09-14+at+4.09.42+pm.png" width="500" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Avoiding the issue by deflection<br />or name calling<br /><br /><br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Media Manipulation<br /><i>False Neutrality</i></span></b></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLlNx5rluiBx-LkKyFTej1n0tPWN7sMiStPLsNQ7xPx-hNuJVBySD9zMJNj4qbK9VksQ2DzbhLlxLg3drgNnvg5-o2IWp-5J8Mnw4TKBp4C2TmETLd5Bh6OiwitbfVoxSCzvD_YSSRHwQ/s886/Screen+Shot+2020-09-14+at+4.09.57+pm.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="742" data-original-width="886" height="419" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLlNx5rluiBx-LkKyFTej1n0tPWN7sMiStPLsNQ7xPx-hNuJVBySD9zMJNj4qbK9VksQ2DzbhLlxLg3drgNnvg5-o2IWp-5J8Mnw4TKBp4C2TmETLd5Bh6OiwitbfVoxSCzvD_YSSRHwQ/w500-h419/Screen+Shot+2020-09-14+at+4.09.57+pm.png" width="500" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Who is being interviewed?<br />What is their affiliation?<br />Are we informed?<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Media manipulation<br /><i>Leading Questions</i></b></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFNmXjnICPBbSYIrWSO7ae4kSp_wIcqg_q1YT5JjueQMTu1_xaPWnLehzm4Q6aRg3ERaoNU1C_TbuNyP_NXx7lLQbzptYgr60UykA42CAsn0m7OCdyeZhkfE5PBHJ4j_hQ270rS6gcxUI/s885/Screen+Shot+2020-09-14+at+4.10.25+pm.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="743" data-original-width="885" height="420" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFNmXjnICPBbSYIrWSO7ae4kSp_wIcqg_q1YT5JjueQMTu1_xaPWnLehzm4Q6aRg3ERaoNU1C_TbuNyP_NXx7lLQbzptYgr60UykA42CAsn0m7OCdyeZhkfE5PBHJ4j_hQ270rS6gcxUI/w500-h420/Screen+Shot+2020-09-14+at+4.10.25+pm.png" width="500" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Basically telling us what to think.<br />But sneakily ... of course<br />Is there any other way?</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Media Manipulation<br /><i>Trolling</i></b></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq07FpaD4DWn8pg9Gf1wRw2Lnj_mR_AKtvOp16fjBWJ6o2ffPtB5VXYobTCCkT9glM_Y0bttDDQ-dy3Zo5Zm5qW_lElktXXmknn2uDn97fklvemJWgUSDUZ89WASmENhYbp0KKR03lGYk/s889/Screen+Shot+2020-09-14+at+4.10.43+pm.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="740" data-original-width="889" height="416" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq07FpaD4DWn8pg9Gf1wRw2Lnj_mR_AKtvOp16fjBWJ6o2ffPtB5VXYobTCCkT9glM_Y0bttDDQ-dy3Zo5Zm5qW_lElktXXmknn2uDn97fklvemJWgUSDUZ89WASmENhYbp0KKR03lGYk/w500-h416/Screen+Shot+2020-09-14+at+4.10.43+pm.png" width="500" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Watch out for pointless, repetitive questions</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">or statements<br />which have already been answered.<br /><br /><br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Media Manipulation<br /><i>Anecdotes</i></span></b></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEMVEkUnelp9ZLpCZC-W-0pNIwOC7bY1PVhbp-wyAFZ0sHcfMCHIaWUgIrCAAy44fI9O-4cuTd8Zo8IFmEy_6G9cyD1Z43PhMrI2WjKKd-QL_DLSaok2VuApfLfRqOMfrY01RnYxv2njY/s874/Screen+Shot+2020-09-14+at+4.11.00+pm.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="727" data-original-width="874" height="416" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEMVEkUnelp9ZLpCZC-W-0pNIwOC7bY1PVhbp-wyAFZ0sHcfMCHIaWUgIrCAAy44fI9O-4cuTd8Zo8IFmEy_6G9cyD1Z43PhMrI2WjKKd-QL_DLSaok2VuApfLfRqOMfrY01RnYxv2njY/w500-h416/Screen+Shot+2020-09-14+at+4.11.00+pm.png" width="500" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Occasionally of some human interest, but usually irrelevant.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Media Manipulation<br /><i>The Middle Ground Fallacy</i></b></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO-QHM5NG0KyQHjxwOK-P1D0MxWKgi_4I4RKnl5ZaQ1OtgsHvrJPkTkVIcm3VtabLM4508yn-6KSYPP6sHm8bEsU3s2Z0RWYucopOKkroiFnp_w-iayErJX7lYbvKTdfwAJs72jCC70YE/s888/Screen+Shot+2020-09-14+at+4.11.13+pm.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="888" height="423" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO-QHM5NG0KyQHjxwOK-P1D0MxWKgi_4I4RKnl5ZaQ1OtgsHvrJPkTkVIcm3VtabLM4508yn-6KSYPP6sHm8bEsU3s2Z0RWYucopOKkroiFnp_w-iayErJX7lYbvKTdfwAJs72jCC70YE/w500-h423/Screen+Shot+2020-09-14+at+4.11.13+pm.png" width="500" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">When "balance" is anything but.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Media manipulation</b><br /><b><i>Democratic Backsliding</i></b></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5y0idVE8wXtTgK9NHfJyzzir2YJqn7rmHMn9aKZyIY5qf5Nk0hwppsHoxzHgQOQwe0nED18Xe7LfRW-tSPpJ0sqK1VCS1SvCJ6_LQG2nyEF9JB2CSlziQBYceW17MRTjPdQAJSCS1RdY/s885/Screen+Shot+2020-09-14+at+4.11.26+pm.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="749" data-original-width="885" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5y0idVE8wXtTgK9NHfJyzzir2YJqn7rmHMn9aKZyIY5qf5Nk0hwppsHoxzHgQOQwe0nED18Xe7LfRW-tSPpJ0sqK1VCS1SvCJ6_LQG2nyEF9JB2CSlziQBYceW17MRTjPdQAJSCS1RdY/w500-h424/Screen+Shot+2020-09-14+at+4.11.26+pm.png" width="500" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Chipping away bit by bit<br />and then ... kapowie<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Media Manipulation<br /><i>Whataboutism</i></b></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOt5K5oAa_DcORF1CnSDruEXzL0XIo3362zcjgd7vCEeXOmWI4n9XGR17L-ilbRI6LlVMhvEXsGZjCXHjUUgt2L5pFhaBSC_Lbz-i2fiin2nH3abj-aEl8juRD02mokZcAEyINxIOiIV0/s884/Screen+Shot+2020-09-14+at+4.11.42+pm.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="740" data-original-width="884" height="419" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOt5K5oAa_DcORF1CnSDruEXzL0XIo3362zcjgd7vCEeXOmWI4n9XGR17L-ilbRI6LlVMhvEXsGZjCXHjUUgt2L5pFhaBSC_Lbz-i2fiin2nH3abj-aEl8juRD02mokZcAEyINxIOiIV0/w500-h419/Screen+Shot+2020-09-14+at+4.11.42+pm.png" width="500" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Distraction, irrelevancies & diversions<br />They're everywhere.<br /><br /><br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Media Manipulation<br /><i>Alternative Narrative</i></span></b></span><i><br /></i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwV-iEvygAA2BkBZ5Bph0aqO6u5xOSfd5XV0viP4yj1vs4B-zCz2jYbecItkN5gvFPraaZbjpyywb9YkdpAcpb_x16xi7iLhMHRXLmsxY2T33FDEWTKANBZNyqTtDokXqZM9cwv5FP8sM/s886/Screen+Shot+2020-09-14+at+4.11.57+pm.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="742" data-original-width="886" height="419" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwV-iEvygAA2BkBZ5Bph0aqO6u5xOSfd5XV0viP4yj1vs4B-zCz2jYbecItkN5gvFPraaZbjpyywb9YkdpAcpb_x16xi7iLhMHRXLmsxY2T33FDEWTKANBZNyqTtDokXqZM9cwv5FP8sM/w500-h419/Screen+Shot+2020-09-14+at+4.11.57+pm.png" width="500" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Deliberately muddying the water <br />to create confusion, doubt & overload.<br /><br /><br /><br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Media Manipulation<br /><i>Security Theatre</i></span></b></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgphU5YFcfhm3oEeSXsYbivddkvdiU1HhbnMHIg3yRHxGuA8roACNMANIHhoiKC659xBh71evCmjsAcd_ZEMhh3eLDougkM-koyrDbBSzNz-1YwCB_sdrlSePyNuSKVZA9AAx76Py_fHl8/s889/Screen+Shot+2020-09-14+at+4.12.10+pm.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="741" data-original-width="889" height="418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgphU5YFcfhm3oEeSXsYbivddkvdiU1HhbnMHIg3yRHxGuA8roACNMANIHhoiKC659xBh71evCmjsAcd_ZEMhh3eLDougkM-koyrDbBSzNz-1YwCB_sdrlSePyNuSKVZA9AAx76Py_fHl8/w500-h418/Screen+Shot+2020-09-14+at+4.12.10+pm.png" width="500" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Simplistic 'answers' to complex issues.<br />Slogans, sound bites & quick fixes.<br />"If it's too good to be true, it's too good to be true"</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7iY_yami3xetBhuxOM0ujBwXkUEa-kvk3zeGHbkDB_pe3VTGdO4Bwbgj1Wd1qK33Pt5MgetBSyzkxzuOILXjqWldwXQjk6skflvGzkLNGiUzqTRtZ3u-Sn2uBsPAKNwVbrnXByNHOt7Q/s908/Screen+Shot+2020-09-14+at+4.12.34+pm.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="772" data-original-width="908" height="544" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7iY_yami3xetBhuxOM0ujBwXkUEa-kvk3zeGHbkDB_pe3VTGdO4Bwbgj1Wd1qK33Pt5MgetBSyzkxzuOILXjqWldwXQjk6skflvGzkLNGiUzqTRtZ3u-Sn2uBsPAKNwVbrnXByNHOt7Q/w640-h544/Screen+Shot+2020-09-14+at+4.12.34+pm.png" width="640" /></a></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Workshop potential</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">These tiles would be excellent workshop material for groups such as </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Community groups, church groups, U3A, Knitting Nannas & </span><span style="font-family: arial;">interested in fairness, democracy, climate change, renewable energy, ethics. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">It's also an opportunity to discuss <a href="https://traverselife.blogspot.com/2020/01/is-scale-of-australian-bushfires.html">media concentration in Australia </a>and how that affects what's reported, how it's reported, who's interviewed (or not) and what's missing. What are their links to the media outlet? Who benefits? Who is silenced? Why? How are photos cropped to frame perception? </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Discussion points: Look at how the words in headlines are carefully selected to create an emotional response. This doesn't necessarily reflect the tone of the article but are chosen so that passers by will see them at supermarket checkouts, servos and in cafes. Drip feed negativity has an impact.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://traverselife.blogspot.com/2020/01/list-of-australian-independent-media.html">Independent media</a> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">and <a href="https://traverselife.blogspot.com/2020/01/why-was-australia-so-underprepared-for.html">media bias</a>. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Compare murdoch media coverage of the 2019/20 bushfires, with a variety of other reports. What's the same? What's different? When did it become the norm to undermine science? Who undermines? Who benefits? What is the result in our communities?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Spoiler. <a href="https://www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/morrison-and-murdoch-scrambled-to-hide-the-climate-cause-of-the-bushfires/">This article</a> has a lot of the answers.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">And there's this: </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6Lh9CPJliL6v3OLVxDmNDV-q6oPHo8sa9S4CLjs-ZX90v5j8zSH0zJteXQuw8k8UOQinx-GLC2ZJtrH6OWLKRZrhIYurIx37JhubCXn-D0fo1QMun-mQhVxgWItKXA7H8KuQFVRrML-8/s1125/Coverage+of+lib+lab.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="630" data-original-width="1125" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6Lh9CPJliL6v3OLVxDmNDV-q6oPHo8sa9S4CLjs-ZX90v5j8zSH0zJteXQuw8k8UOQinx-GLC2ZJtrH6OWLKRZrhIYurIx37JhubCXn-D0fo1QMun-mQhVxgWItKXA7H8KuQFVRrML-8/s320/Coverage+of+lib+lab.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHylcsH-HLWJ_dv5xiBdZx6CYBPwD-OzXrp5WnRKh6_ZnxjU_xEyr6xIhjqkoYkoPIMUGTDXt6fiuSF5yyJ9CXAfVUpLpOZzNyLtIocJW-X9pn684-zaq0WreVlwfqAJUGovsiFY68qco/s1280/Newscorp+bias.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="591" data-original-width="1280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHylcsH-HLWJ_dv5xiBdZx6CYBPwD-OzXrp5WnRKh6_ZnxjU_xEyr6xIhjqkoYkoPIMUGTDXt6fiuSF5yyJ9CXAfVUpLpOZzNyLtIocJW-X9pn684-zaq0WreVlwfqAJUGovsiFY68qco/s320/Newscorp+bias.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Thanks to <i>Access Disrupt</i> for allowing me to share these informative tiles. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Facebook: </span><span style="font-family: arial;">https://www.facebook.com/accessdisrupt/posts/130575525422675</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Twitter: </span><span style="font-family: arial;">https://twitter.com/AccessDisrupt</span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></div><span><a name='more'></a></span></div>Suehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09715879775216108688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6289360952268100151.post-26203097637926990302020-01-17T17:30:00.010+11:002021-09-14T17:06:05.145+10:00List of Australian Independent Media <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">The wise person in your life would have immediately replaced the removed item with something more interesting. The gap caused by the loss or habit was filled & satisfied!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">The same with media. When we discover that particular media no longer support our needs, values or morals; when it's divisive and pits state against state:</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6izrbLix35wWqwggp7NA7P97MBVwSyJsk1KVAc5jEKFGu6HMwc4cxSeuC6-fxw58WeIHdv1hjF6yzL3mNFmb4PWgocCEAJhoThJdeU2RpSUkysiFPZW-6dcqB8XDEHz5iE4PJTuEK85Y/s1125/murdoch+comparison.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="598" data-original-width="1125" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6izrbLix35wWqwggp7NA7P97MBVwSyJsk1KVAc5jEKFGu6HMwc4cxSeuC6-fxw58WeIHdv1hjF6yzL3mNFmb4PWgocCEAJhoThJdeU2RpSUkysiFPZW-6dcqB8XDEHz5iE4PJTuEK85Y/w400-h213/murdoch+comparison.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVm7rkC7WwUiveLkSEWzfmPejoOkXenhS8oCXVa6SpaiNlkIf8kX3fTHn9ax6DyEVgpgSwR2Yg_x2kU48jfqLjatDwmVDQZThqB2pCn0bJ0KBCnqwQRcbvMaly7_mqD6KG1ft-litLOY4/s1878/nsw+vic+comparison.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1051" data-original-width="1878" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVm7rkC7WwUiveLkSEWzfmPejoOkXenhS8oCXVa6SpaiNlkIf8kX3fTHn9ax6DyEVgpgSwR2Yg_x2kU48jfqLjatDwmVDQZThqB2pCn0bJ0KBCnqwQRcbvMaly7_mqD6KG1ft-litLOY4/w400-h224/nsw+vic+comparison.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div>and particularly when it deliberately undermines health advice designed to keep us safe, <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1pbzDV9qftGTuqkeceOC7EdAXjhTX5uTmB7EaD8aRtaYwEtgk-IY9dVMQdWp1L9-tSPDaz4A9SZbJkkmzk_ooG3xDmmfDeq5EOAxyf3G2g6ySdBVeWMOKr-MFUPemJdUYWR5KH580-Ag/s1979/+murdoch+sabotage.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1049" data-original-width="1979" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1pbzDV9qftGTuqkeceOC7EdAXjhTX5uTmB7EaD8aRtaYwEtgk-IY9dVMQdWp1L9-tSPDaz4A9SZbJkkmzk_ooG3xDmmfDeq5EOAxyf3G2g6ySdBVeWMOKr-MFUPemJdUYWR5KH580-Ag/w400-h213/+murdoch+sabotage.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">It's time to change AND replace it with more diverse options.</span></span></div><br />
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<!--EndFragment--><br />Suehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09715879775216108688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6289360952268100151.post-24872289929139586542020-01-14T16:07:00.000+11:002020-01-14T16:07:01.474+11:00Why has Australia's mainstream media consistently supported the current government? <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2011</b></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>9 years ago</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Australian Labor Party, with Julia Gillard as leader, had a comprehensive range of <b>policies</b> which would have strengthened communities and our environment prior to the current bushfire crisis.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=-EyW7oFk6n8&feature=emb_logo">Policies included</a></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">jobs</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">skills</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">infrastructure</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">health</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">medicare</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">schools</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">technology - an effective and efficient NBN</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>and effective action to address climate change </i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Meanwhile a brutal <b>campaign</b> was run by the then opposition (current coalition of Liberal & National Parties which now govern Australia (aka LNP or Coalition)) supported by our extremely <a href="https://traverselife.blogspot.com/2020/01/why-was-australia-so-underprepared-for.html">concentrated media landscape</a> and influential voices that didn't support these policies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Peta Credlin admits the climate change policy under Julia Gillard's Labor government was never a carbon tax, but the coalition used that label to stir up brutal retail politics.</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Credlin, the former chief of staff to Tony Abbott when he was prime minister and now a political commentator for Sky News, said the coalition made it a "carbon tax" and a fight about the hip pocket rather than the environment.</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>"That was brutal retail politics, and it took Abbott six months to cut through and when he did cut through Gillard was gone," she told <a href="https://traverselife.blogspot.com/2020/01/why-was-australia-so-underprepared-for.html">Sky News</a> on Sunday. </i></span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><a href="https://thewest.com.au/politics/carbon-tax-just-brutal-politics-credlin-ng-s-1674127" style="background-color: transparent;">https://thewest.com.au/politics/carbon-tax-just-brutal-politics-credlin-ng-s-1674127</a></i></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In addition, the then opposition leader, Tony Abbott pledged that there'd be </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">pledges all broken by his and subsequent coalition governments. None of this has been in the best interests of citizens. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The impact of <b>lack of media diversity</b>, and partisan media, painting the coalition as unquestioningly positive, while Labor's policies were irresponsible, has had a devastating impact as we now see with the terrifying bushfires. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Lack of action since 2003</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">More <a href="https://traverselife.blogspot.com/2020/01/is-scale-of-australian-bushfires.html">here</a> about the impact of the government's policies and decisions going back to the 2003 </span><a href="https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/House_of_Representatives_Committees?url=bushfires/inquiry/report/fullreport.pdf" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/House_of_Representatives_Committees%3Furl%3Dbushfires/inquiry/report/fullreport.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwjL-sH13vPmAhXWF3IKHQeQApQQFjAAegQIARAC" style="color: #660099; cursor: pointer; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap;">A Nation Charred: Report on the inquiry into bushfires</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are links related to defunding research, avoiding recommendations, cutting staff against advice, delaying or ignoring requests for meetings. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The polices, obstruction or lack of action have had a negative impact on: firefighters from volunteers to professionals in various departments, efficient and effective response to the scale and intensity of the fires, citizens (loss of life & trauma), jobs, farming, agriculture, water, birds, animals, health, insects, trees, koalas, roos, and will continue to impact the timeliness and efficiency of recovery of individuals and communities.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Questions to ponder</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Why was, and is, some media so keen to present one political group as good </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and the others as irresponsible</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Why don't they discuss the impact of policy, or lack of it, on citizens & our environment?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Why do they mock valid concerns about climate change?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Who are they mates with?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How do they benefit?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Soundbites are no substitute for policy</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Slogans are no substitute for policy</i></span></div>
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Suehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09715879775216108688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6289360952268100151.post-68449835454656539012020-01-14T11:33:00.002+11:002020-01-14T12:11:14.052+11:00Australian Govt bushfire response FACT CHECK<span style="color: #453f3c; font-family: "pt sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 19.5555px;">A selection of </span><a href="https://www.climatecouncil.org.au/fact-check-pms-interview-with-insiders-host-david-speers/#twitter" style="font-family: "PT Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 19.5555px;">FACTS</a><span style="color: #453f3c; font-family: "pt sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 19.5555px;"> related to the current bushfires in Australia. Fact Check by the Climate Council.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #453f3c; font-family: "pt sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 19.5555px;">The requests for assistance in the lead up to the fire season were not solely concerned with defence force allocations. Groups such as the Emergency Leaders for Climate Action (ELCA) clearly</span><span style="color: #453f3c; font-family: "pt sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 19.5555px;"> </span><a href="https://www.climatecouncil.org.au/emergency-leaders-climate-action/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e81b61; font-family: "PT Sans", sans-serif; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bolder; letter-spacing: 0.01em; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: top;" target="_blank">requested</a><span style="color: #453f3c; font-family: "pt sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 19.5555px;"> </span><span style="color: #453f3c; font-family: "pt sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 19.5555px;">additional funding for national aerial firefighting equipment well before this bushfire crisis. By the time the Prime Minister finally decided to provide funding for this equipment, four months had passed and 2.7 million hectares had already burned.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #453f3c; font-family: "pt sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 19.5555px;">in 1985, the </span><a href="https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id%3A%22media%2Fpressrel%2FHPR03002784%22" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e81b61; font-family: "PT Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 19.5555px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: bolder; letter-spacing: 0.01em; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: top;" target="_blank">Liberal Party’s David Connolly</a><span style="color: #453f3c; font-family: "pt sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 19.5555px;"> suggested the Federal Government should expand its role and show leadership in managing bushfires.</span><span style="color: #453f3c; font-family: "pt sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 19.5555px;"><br /></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #453f3c; font-family: "pt sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 19.5555px;">Inaction has been systemic over many years including not adopting the recommendations from the 2003 report:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #453f3c; font-family: "pt sans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 19.5555px;">3 WORD SLOGANS AREN'T POLICY</span></span></div>
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Suehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09715879775216108688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6289360952268100151.post-71663310194933314792020-01-10T14:33:00.000+11:002020-01-18T11:57:28.956+11:00Why was Australia so underprepared for the bushfires?<b style="color: #383838;"><a href="https://theconversation.com/factcheck-is-australias-level-of-media-ownership-concentration-one-of-the-highest-in-the-world-68437"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Australia's media ownership</span></a></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Although there have been some changes to Australia's media landscape since 2016, it's helpful to get an understanding about how we ended up critically underprepared for the current fires.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">The industry’s four largest players, News Australia, Fairfax Media, Seven West Media and APN News and Media, are estimated to account for over 90% of industry revenue in 2015-16. The Australian media landscape is one of the most concentrated in the world. An extremely small number of firms, most notably News Australia and Fairfax Media, publish content that reaches the large majority of Australians.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A June 2016 <a href="http://www.ibisworld.com.au/industry/default.aspx?indid=1816" style="outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;">report on Australian free-to-air TV broadcasting</a> by market research firm IBISWorld said:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">News Corp </span><a href="https://www.foxtel.com.au/about/the-company/company-profile.html" style="background-color: white; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;">owns controlling stakes in Foxtel</a><span style="background-color: white;"> – which </span><a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/who-owns-the-worlds-media-9780199987238?cc=au&lang=en&#" style="background-color: white; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;">has a monopoly</a><span style="background-color: white;"> in the pay TV market – and Sky News, which is </span><a href="http://www.skynews.com.au/connect/about-sky-news.html" style="background-color: white; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;">carried by Foxtel</a><span style="background-color: white;">.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Tragically for Australia, we're now experiencing the outcome the our lack of diversity in mainstream media.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Few articles alerted readers to the </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">advice which was </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ignored, recommendations obstructed, & lack of preventative action taken, or about the impact of defunding research and gutting the public service.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><b>Australian <i>mainstream news media</i> has been described as a <a href="https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2019/may/1556632800/richard-cooke/news-corp-democracy-s-greatest-threat">political propaganda entity</a></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">The dominant narrative is that the Coalition or LNP (the Liberals & Nationals combined) are the only party worthy of our vote.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">(NOTE: Australian Liberals are US conservatives & UK Tories)</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">It sounds unreal to say that News Corp is not a media organisation. It sounds outré to say that it is instead a political propaganda entity of a kind perhaps not seen since the 19</span><sup style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;">th</sup><span style="background-color: white;"> century, one that has climbed to its pedestal through regulatory capture, governmental favours and menace</span></span></i></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><b>These fires are NOT normal </b>but you wouldn't know that if you only see headlines in the dominant msm.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><b>These fires <i><u>were</u> </i>predicted, </b>but you wouldn't know that if your media diet doesn't include Independent Media.</span><br />
<a href="https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24532643-500-australian-government-report-predicted-severe-wildfires-11-years-ago/"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">New Scientist:</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><i><span style="background-color: white;">In 2008, </span><a href="https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20190509080516/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">a report commissioned</a><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><a href="http://www.garnautreview.org.au/pdf/Garnaut_Chapter5.pdf" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">by the Australian government</a><span style="background-color: white;"> predicted that from about 2020, global warming would cause Australia’s fire seasons to start earlier, end later and be more intense. “We knew this was going to happen”.</span></i></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Yet, despite this and the 2003 Report <i>"A Nation Charred: Report on the inquiry into bushfires"</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i><span style="background-color: white;">"the Australian government has acted almost as if nothing unusual is happening. In November, deputy prime minister Michael McCormack </span><a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-11/inner-city-raving-lunatics:-michael-mccormack-on-greens/11694044" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">told ABC Radio</a><span style="background-color: white;"> that “we’ve had fires in Australia since time began”. He dismissed the role of climate change in the current fires as the “ravings of some pure, enlightened and woke capital-city greenies”.</span></i></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><i>Meanwhile the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/nov/11/dear-michael-mccormack-the-only-raving-lunatics-are-those-not-worrying-about-climate-change">Guardian</a> reports:</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><i>“We know it’s getting drier, we know it’s getting ... er, you know, situations in parts are getting very warm,” McCormack said, before indicating the government was taking sensible action on climate change – which was the kind of action that didn’t inconvenience anyone, and particularly not the coal industry.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">For some of the government decisions, obstruction and inaction which have had an impact on the current devastation see <a href="https://traverselife.blogspot.com/2020/01/is-scale-of-australian-bushfires.html">this thread</a> collated by Kara Schlegl. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">For <b>years</b>, <span style="color: blue;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #14171a; font-family: "arial";">experts have repeatedly warned federal governments about the impacts of climate change denial, deforestation, urbanisation, and the impending bushfires.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #14171a; font-family: "arial";"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #14171a; font-family: "arial";">Yet the government was</span></span><span style="color: #14171a; font-family: Arial;"> reluctant to even support the most <i><b>basic </b>of preventative measures - and the murdoch media encouraged Australians to vote for them with a devastatingly effective "kill bill" campaign.</i></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Finance manager resigns over NewsCorp dangerous and damaging misinformation</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: white; color: #0a1633;">"I find it unconscionable to continue working for this company, knowing I am contributing to the spread of climate change denial and lies. The reporting I have witnessed in </span><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0a1633; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Australian</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0a1633;">, </span><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0a1633; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Daily Telegraph</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0a1633;"> and </span><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0a1633; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Herald Sun</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0a1633;"> is not only irresponsible, but dangerous and damaging to our communities and beautiful planet that needs us more than ever to acknowledge the destruction we have caused and start doing something about it."</span> </i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: , , , "segoe ui" , "roboto" , "ubuntu" , "helvetica neue" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">Is the scale of the Australian Bushfires related to government policy?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #14171a; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.3125; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">A detailed account of how the Government has failed us on Climate Change, again and again and again. I worked on this with @tomcballard @ChamberlinM & @closest_eves </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; white-space: pre-wrap;">at Tonightly. Let Tom's rage power you through these terrible and terrifying days.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="background-color: #f5f8fa; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #14171a; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.3125; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">A year on and this isn't even satire anymore. </span><span class="r-18u37iz" style="background-color: #f5f8fa; color: #14171a; white-space: pre-wrap;">#AustraliaOnFire</span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="background-color: #f5f8fa; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #14171a; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.3125; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span class="r-18u37iz" style="background-color: #f5f8fa; color: #14171a; white-space: pre-wrap;">#AustraliaBurning</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">Here's a list of reasons why the scale of the bushfires in Australia is absolutely the Coalition Government's fault.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Morrison Government ignored expert advice, that's been rolling in since April 2019, saying they would need specialist equipment, including water-bombers, to fight off unprecedented bushfires this season. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">As part of their '$3.5 billion shake up' to the public sector, the NSW Liberal State Government <b>CUT </b>$12.9 million from Fire & Rescue NSW, plus $26.7 million from the volunteers (Office of NSW Rural Fire Services). </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Vegetation isn't the enemy</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Morrison Government's response to the 2018 bushfires in Queensland was to attempt an inquiry into state land-clearing laws designed to protect much needed vegetation - blaming the trees for the fires.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #121212; font-size: 17px;">“If you want to know what caused those conditions, I’ll give you an answer – it’s called climate change”</span><span style="color: #121212; font-size: 17px;"><br /></span></span></i><span style="color: #121212; font-size: 17px;"><i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"every candidate at the next federal election must reveal their stance on global warming, so voters would know if they were supporting climate change deniers or not."</span></i> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/dec/07/queensland-bushfires-palaszczuk-blasts-morrison-government-over-land-clearing-inquiry" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The Guardian</a></span></span></blockquote>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Premier begs for bushfire assistance </b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">During the 2018-2019 bushfire season, the premiere of Tasmania had to BEG the Federal Government for extra assistance because federal funding (the NDRRA) doesn't support protection or relief for World Heritage Listed areas, or non-populated sites.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-02-09/plea-for-federal-help-fund-wilderness-fires-clean-up/10796466" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">ABC</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Relief NOT prevention</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Morrison Government's strategy to tackle climate change natural disasters has been solely focussed on injecting money into relief efforts after the event, with no new funding allocated to prevention and protection<b>.</b></span></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The strong business case for investing in disaster risk reduction has been underlined for some time by groups as diverse as the Australian Productivity Commission and the Australian Business Roundtable for Disaster Resilience and Safer Communities.</span></i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="color: #272727;">The US National Institute of Building Sciences, for example, found that </span><a href="https://www.nibs.org/news/381874/National-Institute-of-Building-Sciences-Issues-New-Report-on-the-Value-of-Mitigation.htm" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #b00736; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">every dollar</a><span style="color: #272727;"> invested in mitigation can save six dollars in future disaster costs. </span></i></span></span><i style="background-color: transparent; color: #14171a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/preventing-disaster-from-striking-australias-economy/">The Strategist</a></i><span style="background-color: transparent;"> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">It isn't only the Government's spurious claims and ineptitude around Climate Change that are hurting us, it's their reluctance to even support the most basic of preventative measures. Including making enormous <i>budget cuts to research and public services.</i></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>"Australian scientists have expressed disappointment over a budget update that cuts Aus$328.5 million from research funding that had been expected over the next four years." It</i></span><span style="color: #222222;"><i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> will "rob Australians of life-saving treatments, research to help prevent floods and bushfires, and advances in almost every aspect of people’s lives" </span></i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07840-w" style="font-size: 17px;">Nature</a></span></span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Where did the funding go?</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">That relief wilderness funding Tasmania begged for? It never came. Morrison has a long history of PROMISING relief funding for disaster efforts, and then deferring that funding to a later date - Delaying recovery efforts and making communities even more vulnerable.<b> </b><a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-04-14/no-sign-of-wilderness-fire-damage-funding/11001418">ABC</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Decisions delayed, environmental positions unfilled, requests for meetings ignored & budget cuts.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; white-space: pre-wrap;">Just last month, (December 2019) Morrison announced even <i>more cuts to the public sector</i> (the Government has cut billions). These services have a direct impact on fire prevention, rescue and relief including <i>health, environment, research, communications, and community services like the ABC</i>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; white-space: pre-wrap;">Disengagement with Environmental issues has been consistent. </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">Former Environmental Minister Melissa Price did the exact same disappearing act in the 2018-2019 bushfire season as many of our ministers have done this season. </span><br />
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/feb/16/the-invisible-minister-melissa-price-accused-of-going-missing-on-the-environment" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Guardian</a><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">More warnings ignored</span></b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">While experts warned federal governments about the impacts of climate change denial, deforestation, and the impending bushfires, Environment Minister Sussan Ley invested her energy into getting Adani across the line and feral cats. I'm not joking.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: white; color: #121212;">Ley, who welcomed the </span><a class="u-underline" data-link-name="in body link" href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/jun/13/adani-cleared-to-start-carmichael-coalmine-work-as-groundwater-plans-approved" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); color: #ab0613; cursor: pointer; transition: all 0.15s ease-out 0s;">Queensland government’s decision on Thursday to give the green light to the Adani coalmine,</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #121212;"> told Guardian Australia she wanted to see more action on recycling, threatened species and biodiversity protection, and a greater focus on individual action to achieve a better environment.</span></i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #121212; font-style: italic;">On climate change, Ley said she was “interested” in the emissions reduction task of government /and said she believed the Coalition’s climate solutions fund is “where we need to be”.</span><i> </i><span style="background-color: white; color: #121212;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/jun/14/sussan-ley-ill-be-an-environmentalist-as-minister">The Guardian</a></span></span></blockquote>
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ignorance about the koala crisis </span></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">And though she has been very performative about protecting wildlife and links to climate change, it's clear Sussan Ley is ignoring experts<b> </b>and has no idea what she's doing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #212529; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>The major issues<b> </b>which need to be dealt with have been ignored. No moratorium on deforestation, mining projects or massive urbanisation development projects relevant to NSW and Queensland. </i></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212529; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>NO EFFORT to address climate change impacts and the urgent need for protected refuge areas. </i></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212529; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>NO PLANS to deal with ongoing drought impacts.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The situation is very concerning. Primary koala areas have been experienced a terrible drought for a long time, there’s massive dieback in the forests. No flowering, barely any new leaf growth.</em><br /><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Koala carers were already screaming for help because they were picking up joeys abandoned by their mothers who were struggling to survive. They can’t produce milk, the leaves have no nutritional value. This situation is going to be a major problem for sustaining koalas who have survived.</em></span></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Taggart spells out the long-term impacts on trees that sustained fires so hot that they will not recover and produce pollen and nectar for at least 20 years</span></span></i> </blockquote>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">‘Marsupials and nighttime animals use pollen as protein and nectar as energy. There’s going to be a real impact on native animals, gliders in particular. <a href="https://independentaustralia.net/environment/environment-display/sussan-ley-workshop-reveals-ignorance-towards-bushfire-koala-crisis,13353">IndependentAustralia</a></span></em></em></blockquote>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Years of obstruction</span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">Maybe the most insidious and dangerous member of Morrison's cabinet, Energy Minister Angus Taylor has been standing in the way of Climate related progress and policy for years.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">Does Australia have a climate change record to be proud of? Spoiler - </span><span style="color: #14171a; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">No</span><br />
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/dec/31/fact-checking-angus-taylor-does-australia-have-a-climate-change-record-to-be-proud-of" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Guardian</a><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Funding stripped from Centrelink - AGAIN</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">Most bushfire disaster relief payments are made through Centrelink, as well as some RFS volunteer funds. The same Centrelink the Coalition has made a sport of stripping funding from for years. The Centrelink that Morrison targets again and again.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #0a1633; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>"harsh and short-sighted cuts: 18,000 jobs slashed and up to another 4500 predicted in 2017. More just last month.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #0a1633; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>unless the government uses this budget to begin a concerted and long-term effort to repair the damage it's caused, the problems will only worsen. Ordinary Australians will bear the brunt through shoddy services and more. Even a small increase in the so-called "efficiency" dividend, /would have a disastrous effect given how under-resourced key agencies are already.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>THOUSANDS of regional jobs have been cut.</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Instead of sensible policy, <span style="color: #0a1633;">the Turnbull government uprooted the "Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority to Armidale at great cost, losing specialist regulatory scientists along the way. The Senate inquiry has made clear the damage to the pesticides authority.<a href="https://www.smh.com.au/opinion/federal-budget-2017-more-public-service-cuts-will-harm-australian-and-the-government-itself-20170502-gvx5ln.html">SMH</a></span></i></span></blockquote>
<span style="background-color: #f5f8fa; color: #14171a; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">In fact, I would argue the Morrison Government has, more than any Government before it, campaigned to make 'public services' the enemy, those same public services who are on the ground right now, saving our country against all odds.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">We're all aware of the Government's blistering incompetence when the fires started, but here is a great refresher from November, including Morrison refusing overseas assistance.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #212529; white-space: normal;"><i>the NSW Premier and PM have recently taken and/or failed to take action that can reasonably be expected to have serious negative consequences for firefighters, communities and individuals threatened by bushfires — both currently and into the future. </i><a href="https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/morrison-and-berejiklian-cant-see-the-forest-for-the-burning-trees,13305">Independent Australia</a></span></span></blockquote>
<span style="background-color: #f5f8fa; color: #14171a; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Cuts over many years - 2011</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f5f8fa; color: #14171a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">But this didn't start with Morrison. It didn't even start with Tony "volunteer firefighter" Abbott and his cuts to services and systematic undermining of relief and recovery efforts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">the NSW RFS budget was cut from $307 million to $287 million in 2011-12. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">infrastructure items such as tankers and capital equipment and control centre [construction] is [affected]</span></i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Both the Rural Fire Service and Fire and Rescue in metropolitan areas face cuts to jobs and wages. The bulk of the RFS are already volunteer firefighters who take time off work to face fire emergencies. This means many are retirees, with a third of Queensland’s volunteers aged over 55. Cutting the few full-time staff will leave it even less equipped to fight fires.</span></i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Abbott’s federal government tightened the rules for disaster recovery payments to people affected by the fires, denying people cut off from their homes or without power and water for extended periods any payment.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://solidarity.net/" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Solidarity.net</a></span></blockquote>
<span style="background-color: #f5f8fa; color: #14171a; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">And yes there are failings from the other parties, ludicrous ones that beggar belief, but there is no party that has consistently harmed our environment, successfully undermined anti-climate change campaigns, and hurt firefighting efforts more than the Coalition. This is on them.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: #f5f8fa; color: #14171a; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">Everything in this report still applies. Including the catastrophic lack of urgency & responsibility from politicians.
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: #f5f8fa; color: #14171a; white-space: pre-wrap;">"If those very same notes are not considered or acted upon by policy makers and decision takers... that would indeed be the greatest tragedy of all"</span></span> </span></blockquote>
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<span class="r-18u37iz" style="background-color: #f5f8fa; color: #14171a; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">Some background on this is that we uncovered so much horrific shit Australian governments have done (or failed to do) in the face of impending climate change disaster that I still have nightmares about it, & I also fell out of love with Paul Keating which made me very depressed.</span><br />
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<span class="r-18u37iz" style="background-color: #f5f8fa; color: #14171a; white-space: pre-wrap;">And the most INFURIATING THING is that Bob Hawke was one of the first leaders in the WORLD to attempt to centre policy on Climate Change. We could've been global leaders in this. We almost were. </span></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Hawke was in the Lodge during the crucial period when Australia first became aware of – and tried to grapple with – the issue of climate change. And the trajectory of his leadership, not to mention the manner and timing of his political demise, leaves behind a huge question of what might have been</span></span></i> <i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="r-18u37iz" style="background-color: #f5f8fa; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://theconversation.com/bob-hawke-the-environmental-pm-bequeathed-a-huge-what-if-on-climate-change-117318">The Conversation</a></span></span></span></i></blockquote>
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Suehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09715879775216108688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6289360952268100151.post-55904698262823801572020-01-08T15:51:00.000+11:002020-01-08T15:51:18.494+11:00What's the deal with prescribed burns in Australia?<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On the Australian pm's knee-jerk reaction to call for increased prescribed burns (hazard reduction) in response to random farmers who the pm chose to listen to.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's telling isn't it, how the pm didn't cut them off, turn his back and walk away, as he did from the devastation at <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/pm/shock-and-grief:-cobargos-community-still-reeling-from-fires/11845328">Cobargo</a>. </span><br />
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<i>You've got no power, you've got no telecommunication, you've got fires all around you. Your sewer is actually hooked up to the power, so that means you've got no sewer. You've got no way of getting food. There is no fuel.<br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3b3b3c; font-family: ABCSans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">How do you feed all the animals here, and how long is this going to go on for?</span></i></blockquote>
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<i>If you come into a town when they're in a state of shock and grief, you'd best come with something that can alleviate that.<span style="background-color: transparent;"> </span></i></blockquote>
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<b>Remember the pm literally and figuratively turned and walked away from this devastation.</b></blockquote>
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<i><span style="background-color: white; color: #3b3b3c; font-family: ABCSans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">And if you don't, then you're not going to have that sort of… People aren't going to welcome you and give you a warm embrace either.</span> </i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We know the govt hasn't listened to advice from professionals with decades of experience.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yet, like easily influenced conspiracy theorists, comments from farmers (Who are they, what's their agenda?) are given authority.</span><br />
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<i><span style="background-color: white; color: #121212; font-family: "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures;">"There are two major restricting factors for carrying out prescribed burning. One is the availability of funds and personnel, and the second is the availability of weather windows.</span> </i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="background-color: white; color: #121212; font-family: "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #121212; font-family: "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures;">The 2018-19 annual report of the NSW Rural Fire Service says: “The ability of the NSW RFS and partner agencies to complete hazard reduction activities is highly weather dependent, with limited windows of opportunity. Prolonged drought conditions in 2018-19 adversely affected the ability of agencies to complete hazard reduction works.”</span></i></blockquote>
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<i>Fires " that had burned only two weeks previously, but “the burnt leaves were burning again”.<span style="background-color: transparent;"> </span></i></blockquote>
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<i>“There has been lots of hazard reductions done over the years – more by national parks than previous years – but the fires have burned through those hazard reduction areas.” <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/jan/05/explainer-how-effective-is-bushfire-hazard-reduction-on-australias-fires">Full article </a></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0a1633; font-size: 18px;">"Hazard reduction burning is really challenging and the single biggest impediment to completing hazard reduction burning is the weather,"</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0a1633; font-size: 18px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0a1633; font-size: 18px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0a1633; font-size: 18px;">"It's only when the conditions back off a little bit that you actually have some prospect of slowing the fire spread.</span><span style="color: #0a1633; font-size: 1.125rem; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">"It's important, but not the panacea, and something we should have a very open and frank discussion about."</span><span style="color: #0a1633; font-size: 18px;"> <a href="https://www.smh.com.au/national/hazard-reduction-burns-are-not-the-panacea-rfs-boss-20200108-p53poq.html">Full article</a></span> </span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We now have the situation where fire chiefs are having to spend time clarifying misinformation that's being DELIBERATELY spread by members of the Australian government.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Think about that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Australian govt ministers knowingly misinforming citizens with simplistic nonsense, while studiously avoiding the reality of the complex interlinked challenges associated with our changed climate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What a bloody waste of time.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What's the real agenda here?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Why has this misinformation been eagerly spread by the pm, members of his government, the murdoch media throughout the world, in a coordinated way </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">by powerful, influential men</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Why are they so keen to give a voice to a random farmer over numerous, highly respected professionals with different areas of expertise? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Who do these politicians really represent?</span><br />
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<br />Suehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09715879775216108688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6289360952268100151.post-57521769489628744232019-04-24T16:26:00.001+10:002020-01-10T11:15:02.036+11:00Election 2019. Who will you vote for?Not just WHO will you vote for, but equally as important:<br />
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What does the political party stand FOR?<br />
What does the political party stand AGAINST?<br />
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<b>Spreadsheet of major party policies created by Denise Shrivell (Twitter @densieshrivell ) to help Australians make an informed vote in the 2019 election <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1l0gMO800TOTDfyQ5gaBglbqPfSMcrA_4zSFyiJIXjrU/edit#gid=315447109">here</a>!</b><br />
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The political policy spreadsheet is arranged alphabetically starting with Aged Care, the Arts, and goes on to The Banking Royal Commission, Climate, Defence, Disability, Education & Training, Energy, Indigenous, Industrial Relations, Security, Science, Welfare and much, much more.<br />
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Back in the "old days" we'd have a fair idea about a parties political policy going from past experience, we'd glance at some electioneering material, add a news article or two, and head off to the polling booth!<br />
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Of concern for Australia, our mainstream news media is now dominated by the foreign owned murdoch empire (which has been described as a <a href="https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2019/may/1556632800/richard-cooke/news-corp-democracy-s-greatest-threat">political propaganda entity</a>) and other increasingly right wing players, with few equally as vocal outlets dedicated to equivalent, but left leaning views.<br />
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This means we're getting a repetitive diet of opinion that the Coalition or LNP (the Liberals and Nationals combined) are unquestioningly wonderful, and Labor, the Greens and Independents are dangerously deluded. Like any mono-diet it's unhealthy for us as individuals and for OUR society.<br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">It sounds unreal to say that News Corp is not a media organisation. It sounds outré to say that it is instead a political propaganda entity of a kind perhaps not seen since the 19</span><sup style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;">th</sup><span style="background-color: white;"> century, one that has climbed to its pedestal through regulatory capture, governmental favours and menace, and is now applying its energies to the promotion of white nationalism, even as white nationalists commit scores of murders. </span></span></i> </blockquote>
Lies are increasingly passed off as 'post truth' or other sanitised phrases chosen to obscure deliberate deception. Sound, socially inclusive policies from Labor are dismissed, avoided, or deliberately lied about, by politicians and this media.<br />
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We're unable to trust some vocal politicians & some mainstream media to tell the truth or to let us know which policies will have a negative impact on us. We ONLY hear what they want us to via an mind boggling network of community, local, regional and national publications.<br />
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<i><b>Political party ideology and policies affect most aspects of our lives and include: </b></i><br />
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access to affordable education, childcare, health facilities, roads, infrastructure, nursing ratios in hospitals and aged care facilities, disability support, social security, wages, water and food security, biosecurity, and safety regulations which help keep our families and communities safe.<br />
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Safety regulations aren't just inconvenient Red Tape for big business wanting to cut costs and time. They're dismissively and mockingly referred to as Nanny State Regulations, but they're vital for a healthy, well functioning, safe society.<br />
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<b><i>Who stands for what in the 2019 Election </i></b><br />
You can search individual party websites to compare policy, or use <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1l0gMO800TOTDfyQ5gaBglbqPfSMcrA_4zSFyiJIXjrU/edit#gid=315447109">this spreadsheet</a> created by <a href="https://twitter.com/deniseshrivell">Denise Shrivell</a> It's a comprehensive list of the major party policies, (LNP Coalition, Labor and Greens) and makes being an informed voter easy.<br />
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The policy spreadsheet is arranged alphabetically starting with Aged Care, the Arts, and goes on to The Banking Royal Commission. Then there's Climate, Defence, Disability, Education & Training, Energy, Indigenous, Industrial Relations, Security, Science and Welfare and much, much more.<br />
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<i><b>Vote for policies which support your needs and values!</b></i><br />
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Suehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09715879775216108688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6289360952268100151.post-75845976621333901522015-08-25T16:46:00.000+10:002015-08-25T20:08:59.605+10:00Part S - Teaching in China - Shanghai<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">It’s a sobering experience to have
spent more than 4 hours flying across the vast and mostly empty interior of
Australia with its approximately 23 million people clinging to a few pockets on the
perimeter, only to spend the last few minutes of the 12 hour flight peering
down at Shanghai with more than 24 million people in just the one city.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I don't know Shanghai well, but I enjoy visiting. Over the years, I’ve walked along a few streets, I’ve taken
a few taxi rides, been on a couple of subway trips. Given the size and density
of the city, that’s as insubstantial as someone making an assessment of
Australia based on perfect Spring day in Sydney and concluding that no place
could be finer! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">One year, we stayed at a small hotel in the
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_French_Concession">French Concession </a>and enjoyed walking ... and walking, and walking. Wandering down
alleys, peering between fence palings, oohing and aahing at statues. </span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF_55CRT8Yy3WDgJ6Po6vRFqQnjO6BU12zqAd9E3t9NGVkjZMSTRs-pN5-OWbF3A8nBVpK23UTGYFhOQKF7XgjRmzyM0ySOgWn8VioBKbnbEXrEEYNvXVZ-31axZWDsKpTiXoSaBnMzlg/s1600/IMG_8546.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF_55CRT8Yy3WDgJ6Po6vRFqQnjO6BU12zqAd9E3t9NGVkjZMSTRs-pN5-OWbF3A8nBVpK23UTGYFhOQKF7XgjRmzyM0ySOgWn8VioBKbnbEXrEEYNvXVZ-31axZWDsKpTiXoSaBnMzlg/s320/IMG_8546.JPG" width="240" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial;">As a tourist, I find this area enticing. The generous tree lined streets provide welcome shade and a sense of coolness in the hot, humid summer heat, and while some areas are busy with crowds of people, others encourage you to pause and reflect on the rapidly changing country. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Shanghai is a living city, with children heading off to school, university students and exchange students milling around with backpacks and take away coffee. Men of varying nationalities in suits, striding purposefully to offices. Others gliding along on bicycles, seemingly oblivious to the traffic, threading through cars and electric motor bikes with apparently no care in the world!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Chubby middle aged men stripped to the waist, some only wearing boxer shorts, sitting on upturned boxes, or with their singlets or t-shirts rolled up to below their armpits to allow their sweat to evaporate in any hint of breeze. Beautifully made up women, slender and haughtily confident of their superiority, clip along in sparkly stilettos and short, figure hugging outfits. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Older people stroll to get the morning paper, some with small dogs with little booties. Washing hanging on poles jutting from windows in narrow, homey alleyways. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; text-align: center;">In parks, in singles and groups, people exercising in the mornings - various kinds of dance, tai-chi, games similar to badminton - all part and parcel of a city so different, but somehow vaguely similar to Melbourne. Maybe it's something to do with the plane trees and the Chinese having been part of the Australian population since the early days. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; text-align: center;">Here, as in Melbourne, you're just a face in the crowd, no different to millions of others. It's very different to teaching off the tourist track, where it's obvious many people haven't seen, let alone spoken with people from English speaking backgrounds before, where your every move is cause for curiosity and staring.</span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgobG52OTZfDRyYefw9Ws56x5bYPVCDZtUUAj36eSx1Xpd3Nyj9_4LwYoTY85edJGsfH7bDWoTyc4bWU5hXfxfLCgdwSKvdjqcU9MhWRhyphenhyphen0bzqYtP77LvVTdZA7CIZ0znGcWbBrbR8mtc8/s1600/IMG_9102.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgobG52OTZfDRyYefw9Ws56x5bYPVCDZtUUAj36eSx1Xpd3Nyj9_4LwYoTY85edJGsfH7bDWoTyc4bWU5hXfxfLCgdwSKvdjqcU9MhWRhyphenhyphen0bzqYtP77LvVTdZA7CIZ0znGcWbBrbR8mtc8/s320/IMG_9102.JPG" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial;">Hoardings and living green walls hide construction sites and the crowded relocatable housing for workers who've been attracted to work in the big city. Living conditions are as varied as in any large city, and dust covers the valiant efforts to dry washing on a line outside a hut. The amount of construction is incredible, cranes appear like a giant game of pick-up-sticks, scattered around the huge city. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">It's a riot of colour, movement and sound.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Shanghai is a city gripped by modernisation, and the pace of the change is breathtaking. On my first visit in 1978 it was like visiting a city with solid roots to the past. Those roots are still there in the lively alleys and the stately old buildings contrasting with the futuristic gravity-defying new ones. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Not everything relating to the past has been discarded, but what demands attention is the iconic skyline and colourful nighttime lighting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The Friendship stores are long gone, replaced by international flagship stores encouraging</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> consumption and materialism, but of more interest to me are the people who've flocked from around the world to make this city home, bringing with them skills, interests and services for locals, expats and tourists alike. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Not least is the availability of international foods, wines and good coffee! </span><i style="font-family: Arial;">Leaf and Bean</i><span style="font-family: Arial;">, </span><i style="font-family: Arial;">Jamaica Blue</i><span style="font-family: Arial;">, and a variety of independent cafes make a stopover in Shanghai after teaching in the country a real treat! </span><br />
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Suehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09715879775216108688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6289360952268100151.post-78908381651003742942015-08-15T17:12:00.002+10:002015-08-25T20:06:37.966+10:00Part R. Teaching in China. Rest Rooms.Ah the joys of miscommunication!<br />
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It appears that the term <i>rest room</i> isn't a euphemism for the area where the toilets are housed, but was to be taken literally! At our school in Xuzhou, the rest room appeared to be a formal conference or Boardroom, and during the vacation period it had been set aside for staff to rest in after lunch.<br />
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However, we weren't aware of that on the first day, and, on being asked if we'd like to go to the rest room, made polite, non-committal noises and entered ... I don't really know what we expected, but it certainly wasn't this!<br />
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Details of the large room were difficult to make out in the diffused light, and the gentle sounds of deep breathing (some might use the word snoring) greeted our chattering entrance. Stunned, we lapsed into awkward silence and looked at each other. Could this be true? Were the skeleton staff on duty really deep in a post luncheon kip?<br />
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Formal Boardroom chairs had been pulled together to make the semblance beds. Heads lolled in what appeared to be awkward, uncomfortable angles, on the backs or arms of the chairs, feet were draped over the adjoining chair. Clearly this wasn't a new idea, as all staff members were completely at ease and relaxed. Some had simply put their head down on the boardroom table and checked out for a while.<br />
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We'd regularly enter the classrooms after lunch to find all lights had been turned off and our students sound asleep with their heads on the tables. Even they had the sense to have a complete break!<br />
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How civilised! An area specially set aside to have a snooze in the middle of the day! Australia could really learn from this! Less stress! Increased afternoon productivity! And so simple!<br />
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Unfortunately the opportunity for total relaxation wasn't for us. We rarely returned from lunch for long enough than to sit for more than a few moments before gathering our bags, books and photocopies and presenting the afternoon sessions. There were times in the afternoons when I thought longingly of the Rest Room and those gently snoring souls.<br />
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In contrast in 2015 in Gaoyou, we had lunch at the hotel we were staying at, and so were able to lie back in private and put our feet up in our hotel rooms on the pleasantly hard Chinese mattresses, (my back loves them!) and have a complete break after eating. It did wonders for my aching legs and I was able to give more energetic presentations in the afternoons!<br />
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On my list of things to learn however, is the ability to sleep anywhere. It'd be a very useful skill!<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">My previous posts about</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"> </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">Teaching in China </i><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">were our <a href="http://traverselife.blogspot.com.au/2014/08/off-to-teach-summer-school-in-jiangsu.html" style="color: #0067ff; text-decoration: none;">Arrival</a>, <a href="http://traverselife.blogspot.com.au/2014/08/banquets-banquets-and-more-banquets.html" style="color: #0067ff; text-decoration: none;">Banquets</a>, </span><a href="http://traverselife.blogspot.com.au/2014/08/culture-and-comfort-food-while-teaching.html" style="background-color: white; color: #0067ff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px; text-decoration: none;">Culture and Comfort foods</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.5620002746582px;">,</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"> <a href="http://traverselife.blogspot.com.au/2014/08/part-d-teaching-in-china-driving-in.html" style="color: #0067ff; text-decoration: none;">Driving</a>, <a href="http://traverselife.blogspot.com.au/2014/08/part-e-exercise-teaching-in-china.html" style="color: #0067ff; text-decoration: none;">Exercise</a>, <a href="http://traverselife.blogspot.com.au/2014/08/part-f-teaching-in-china-fabulous-food.html" style="color: #0067ff; text-decoration: none;">Fabulous Food</a>,<a href="http://traverselife.blogspot.com.au/2014/08/part-g-teaching-in-china-games.html" style="color: #0067ff; text-decoration: none;">Games</a>, <a href="http://traverselife.blogspot.com.au/2014/08/part-h-teaching-in-china-history.html" style="color: #0067ff; text-decoration: none;">History</a>, <a href="http://traverselife.blogspot.com.au/2014/08/part-i-teaching-in-china-illnesses.html" style="color: #0067ff; text-decoration: none;">Illness</a>, <a href="http://traverselife.blogspot.com.au/2014/08/part-j-teaching-in-china-from.html" style="color: #0067ff; text-decoration: none;">From Jerilderie to Jiangsu</a>, <a href="http://traverselife.blogspot.com.au/2014/08/part-k-teaching-in-china-kenny.html" style="color: #0067ff; text-decoration: none;">Kenny</a> (which is about <i>toilets</i>) <a href="http://traverselife.blogspot.com.au/2014/08/part-l-teaching-in-china-lists-lists.html" style="color: #0067ff; text-decoration: none;">Lists</a> and <a href="http://traverselife.blogspot.com.au/2014/08/part-m-teaching-in-china-communication.html" style="color: #0067ff; text-decoration: none;">Communication Misunderstandings</a>, <a href="http://traverselife.blogspot.com.au/2014/08/part-n-teaching-in-china-non-verbal.html">Non-verbal communication</a> followed by <a href="http://traverselife.blogspot.com.au/2014/09/part-o-teaching-in-china-observations.html">The Observations of an Onlooker</a>, <a href="http://traverselife.blogspot.com.au/2014/09/part-p-teaching-in-china-pets.html">Pets</a>, <a href="http://traverselife.blogspot.com.au/2015/08/part-q-teaching-in-china-questions.html">Questions,</a> Rest Rooms and the next will be .... <a href="http://traverselife.blogspot.com.au/2015/08/part-s-teaching-in-china-shanghai.html">Shanghai</a> ...!</span><br />
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<br />Suehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09715879775216108688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6289360952268100151.post-19961611529965916342015-08-14T14:52:00.000+10:002015-08-15T17:08:22.392+10:00Part Q. Teaching in China. Questions.The one question I've been most often asked on my return from teaching teachers in China is, "Would you do it again?"<br />
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I've often wished it was, "Did your students gain confidence in their spoken English?" That would be easy to answer with a confident - "Yes, all of them!"<br />
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But "Would you do it again?" is harder to answer. Partly, it's related to my undeniably Western upbringing and how my body copes with the change of food - it doesn't adapt quickly to the quantity of oil used in Chinese cooking. I'm constantly on the verge of diarrhoea and have a complaining gut. I have trouble sleeping, and find the sweltering heat and extreme humidity draining. Others suffer with painful heat rash. The lack of easy contact with home is challenging. "Yes ... maybe" is met with "So you didn't enjoy the experience", which simply isn't true. Questions aren't always easy to answer.<br />
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Once you've gained the confidence of adult students, and respect and trust has been fostered, questions beyond your expectations may surface.<br />
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Stereotypes absorbed from films make for interesting discussions: Is everyone really that wealthy? Do you all have large homes? We might rarely stop to think about the skewed version of the "typical" western family life, particularly as depicted in TV shows and movies glorifying "the American Dream". We know it's a facade, and the reality for the bulk of US citizens and the western world in general, is very different. Westerners aren't a homogenous group and while students might implicitly understand this, it's important to also note differences within and between cultures. We don't all live in huge beautifully furnished homes. Not everyone is wealthy, many people are afraid of overseas travel particularly to a communist country where the main language isn't English.<br />
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My Chinese students were stunned to hear that, before I left home, I'd heard comments like: "Be careful, you never know if you'll be safe overseas, especially in China."<br />
"What do you mean you don't know the name of the town and hotel you'll be staying in before you arrive, isn't that dangerous?" "How will your family know where you are?"<br />
"Isn't China a scary place?" <br />
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My Chinese teacher-students looked at me with wide eyed disbelief, then looked at each other with genuine shock tinged with hurt. How could anyone think they, as individuals, could present a danger to anyone! "We thought all Westerners would be comfortable travelling to China." "We're just the same as you except we speak a different language."<br />
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And one thing leads to another. More questions emerge, and as trust builds, so does the confidence to ask them.<br />
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One day, I had the sense that something was going on between a group of the women. There was a general shuffling of feet, and pointed looking at each other.<br />
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"Do you want to ask me a question?"<br />
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Nod, nod, nod.<br />
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Okay, why aren't they asking? Why do they look so embarrassed? They haven't been backwards in coming forward the past few days.<br />
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"Is it something you'd prefer the men not to be here for?"<br />
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Nod, nod, nod.<br />
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Oh my goodness. What on earth could it be? What to do? How do I handle this? Nothing like this was mentioned in the pre training sessions! I checked with our interpreter and she encouraged me to let the women ask whatever it was they wanted, so I asked them to write the questions down with the understanding that I'd do my best to answer as well as possible.<br />
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And what followed probably only came about due to my age, and reinforced that we're all in this together. We all face similar problems and often feel the need to share and know we're not alone:<br />
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<li>How do I get on with my in-laws?</li>
<li>How do I teach manners to children?</li>
<li>How do I broach the topic of sex education with my child?</li>
<li>How early do I begin the discussion?</li>
<li>But they also were curious about our attitudes to abortion and single parenthood, about contraception, menopause, age and retirement.</li>
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At other times they asked questions specifically related to teaching:<br />
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<li>How do you inspire students?</li>
<li>How do you help the student who is struggling - with school work, or with problems at home?</li>
<li>How do you make your classroom interesting when there are tight time frames in which to deliver necessary material?</li>
<li>How do you be a great role model?</li>
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And like so much in life, there's no single easy answer. Life is complex, answers will be different, depending on your country of origin, your age, experience and personal background.<br />
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More than anything I encouraged them to keep sharing between themselves, to find mutually supportive networks and to use this sharing experience as a great start.<br />
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As for "Would you go again?" I returned to Jiangsu in 2015 (to the city of Gaoyou) and found the experience just as rewarding the second time!<br />
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You don't need to know who these people are, or their positions in society to see that they're having a grand old time! The body language is full of bonhomie, humour, good will and smiling togetherness, perhaps responding to a mutually amusing joke. No signs of disagreement or dissent.<br />
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You certainly wouldn't entertain the possibility that a particularly offensive comment had just been made would you? There's nothing in the body language of any of the people to hint at anything other than something delightfully lighthearted and humourous. Shared with the people out of view, but being looked at. It's as if they're saying, 'This is funny isn't it, you're laughing with me!' Along with a jocular nudge in the ribs.<br />
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Here, however is footage of the shameful episode: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zj2PCfzb6ak">PM Abbott likens Opposition Leader Shorten to Dr Goebbels</a> and some further information (<a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-03-19/jewish-labor-mp-walks-out-after-tony-abbotts-goebbels-comment/6332910">here</a>).<br />
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How did it get to the stage that a comment likening the leader of the opposition to one of the most vile men and regimes in modern history, is treated as a joke, a source of humour, supported and encouraged by those members of parliament we're able to see?<br />
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Not only is the pm not sanctioned by the speaker, those who've rightly objected are evicted. I know parliament rarely seems to be a place of measured, insightful, mature or wise discussion, however imho, this piece of footage could be used to highlight so much that is unhealthy about Australian politics. Highly offensive comments and mock apologies, complete with smirking laughter. Anything can be said and laughed off, and it's all fine! It's a joke. No care, no responsibility.<br />
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In addition, not only is abbott not cautioned by the speaker, there's no encouragement for him to think before he speaks, no encouragement to contemplate the inappropriateness of the comment. No reminder to take responsibility for his words or actions. No expectation that he could, indeed should behave like an adult (as if there should ever be a need to be reminded when you hold the highest office in the land). In fact it's quite the opposite, we see that an objection results in the demand for the objector to leave.<br />
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Without some call to reflect, as a mature adult would, or to be responsible, there is precious little for the viewing public to respect. No wonder so many people have turned off, disillusioned, disgusted, distressed at how low our highly paid parliamentarians have stooped. Employed to represent us, with the hope that the country will be wisely governed and cared for, they are instead acting more like a feral year 9 class where students vie to outdo each other with raucous, irresponsible behaviour, and foul comments.<br />
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<span style="color: #17365d;">“I used my research skills to find more about being a personal concierge and found iCALM which was really helpful. And so now I’m a personal concierge and my business is called <b>Allow Me To Assist</b>." </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #17365d;"><a href="http://www.allowmetoassist.com.au/"><span style="color: #17365d;">www.allowmetoassist.com.au</span></a></span><span style="color: #17365d;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #17365d;">"It took weeks to get a business name I was happy with. I wanted the name to tell the story and wanted a logo that fitted. It had to be easy to read, appeal to older people and not be ambiguous. I’d never had thoughts of having my own business, but it’s the door that opened and I love what I do, even though it’s not what I’d planned."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #17365d;">"One of the important things is to meet people and make genuine connections. I usually set up a personal meeting first and that’s my client’s opportunity to check me out and get a sense of my trustworthiness.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #17365d;">My clients need to feel ok with me, to see if I’ll fit in with what they need. People might need me to fill a gap when life has got overwhelming, they might ask me to do their banking, shopping, take their car for a service or feed the cat! They need to be able to trust me with their credit card or car, so building trust is a large part of what I do."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #17365d;">"I’m getting known now, and have some really good client testimonials which is great. Some of my regulars call me their fairy godmother, because I’ve helped out during family emergencies. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #17365d;">Not everyone has access to extended family to call on when things get too much for them, and they need to be cloned to be in two places at once. I have your back, and can get you out of time related trouble.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #17365d;">I’ve got my weekly and fortnightly regulars; I take some elderly people out for mid week morning tea and specialty shopping, or even to medical appointments because their children are working in the city. Others call on me occasionally when something major is happening, like a 40<sup>th</sup> birthday party, when I help with the organising, invitations and decorations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #17365d;">I also do packing support, debriefing, making coffees and supplying food when someone has just shifted. I’ve reminded businessmen that important family events are coming up, and am always very discreet! Tact, diplomacy, and confidentiality are important.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #17365d; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">"I was
so, so scared that first day. I found where I had to go, took a seat and tried
to be invisible. I felt so out of it and so different to everyone else that I
felt sick; it was horrible. But we started with a meet and greet game which
broke the ice. It was funny! In the afternoon the teacher got us<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>moving around which was good, because
it broke up the little cliques that had started forming.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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students were chatty and inclusive, they were young, helpful and supportive. It
was amazing!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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discovered that I was a thorough researcher and the other students really
appreciated that, and enjoyed working in a group with me which was an unexpected
surprise! They had things to teach me and I had things to teach them. It was
fantastic and I loved it all!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span>I felt like a woman with a brain and not just a mum. I was so excited to
be studying something I loved."</span></div>
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like someone had opened a door in the small, comfortable house I was very
familiar with. But even though I knew the house very well, and had lived in it
for many years, I’d never noticed a little door hidden in one of the walls. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #17365d; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">I opened
this door which had been hidden, and it was extraordinary! Beyond the door I
found a mansion – a whole rich, amazing area with so many incredible rooms that
I’d had no idea were there. It was wonderful, and it was welcoming me.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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isn’t the first person to describe this amazing sense of wonder and tearful joy
when they realise that further education is something they can not only do, but
embrace wholeheartedly. It opens a whole new world of possibilities and the joy
is almost overwhelming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #17365d; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">“I felt
important, valued and engaged. Our society needs to encourage all sorts of
people to retrain and use their skills. I studied with a diverse group which
made debates interesting - lots of passionate people argued and had to explain their
point of view clearly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They had
their opinions challenged and changed by someone with a broader or different
experience. It was great!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #17365d; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">"I had to
learn to hold my tongue and not jump in with an opinion too quickly, I had to
listen and try to work out where a different opinion comes from. As a parent my
perspective was valued, and because I’d read widely I was able to enrich a lot
of discussions. The young students were respectful which I hadn’t expected.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #17365d; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">“My
first assignment was given that first day! I had to do a powerpoint presentation. I had no
idea what to do or where to start. The bloke next to me knew all about them
which terrified me. I went home and googled them – I watched a YouTube tutorial
and worked out how to do one, then I had to learn about the topic and put the
two things together!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I got a HD
(high distinction) on that first assignment – it was like a wholesome drug and I wanted
more HD’s! I loved putting it all together and seeing the result. IT WAS
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wanted to work in law enforcement, or in the courts with welfare agencies. I’d
think of one thing and it’d open more doors. I’d love to have gone on and done
criminology, but it was just too expensive. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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quickly realised there weren’t openings in the police force after the change of
government and changes to funding. There were so many who’d lost their jobs or
been redeployed that I didn’t have a chance. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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graduating, I spent the next 12 months applying for jobs and going for
interviews. It’s hard when you don’t even get email acknowledgement after you’ve
submitted a complex job application that’s taken hours to do. It’s soul
destroying to apply for job after job and hear nothing at all, but after all
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO70Om8sd-lSXSy1Up9w3guajoyRBod5KxLpfdCwrtKGCtHZ-3ofWwN_DLHUH5P1wc9P6PwAFRC4vsRgB1kh8nDCMtSs1wvh1_ZLRpAYvs8OWOeq9dIJLFlZFgdcHfyYtE1RLkB-N9a4M/s1600/PC020957.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO70Om8sd-lSXSy1Up9w3guajoyRBod5KxLpfdCwrtKGCtHZ-3ofWwN_DLHUH5P1wc9P6PwAFRC4vsRgB1kh8nDCMtSs1wvh1_ZLRpAYvs8OWOeq9dIJLFlZFgdcHfyYtE1RLkB-N9a4M/s1600/PC020957.JPG" height="200" width="137" /></a><span style="color: #17365d; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">I kept
wondering what else I could do to get a job. I was getting desperate and began
to wonder if I could possibly create a business myself using my new skills and
my previous work experience.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #17365d; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">I
itemised my skills and thought long and hard about my transferable skills. I
began looking at job trends in the US, and what new kinds of job markets were
opening up there. I figured if it was early stage there it’d come in here
pretty soon. I read about <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">personal concierge</i>
which gave me a term that I could research further. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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In <a href="http://traverselife.blogspot.com.au/2014/12/part-3-stay-at-home-mum-starts-her-own.html">Part 3,</a> Melissa puts everything together and creates a small business from scratch.<br />
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