Cancelling Press Freedoms: Hedges and the Hypocrisy of Australian Media

Cancelling Press Freedoms: Hedges and the Hypocrisy of Australian Media

We expose the hypocrisy behind the National Press Club’s cancellation of Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Chris Hedges, silenced for planning to speak about the collapse of journalism and the genocide in Gaza. We reveal how corporate sponsors like Raytheon, BAE Systems and Thales – all supplying weapons to Israel – help shape media censorship in Australia’s so-called home of free speech. We also examine the Optus Triple-0 outage, which blocked hundreds of emergency calls and caused three preventable deaths, highlighting the failure of neoliberalism and the dangers of outsourcing essential public services. And as the Liberal Party descends further into chaos, with Andrew Hastie’s aborted leadership challenge, Jacinta Price’s infighting and Peter Dutton’s factional damage, we ask whether Australia’s conservative movement is now ideologically bankrupt and politically finished. #AUSPOL
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Song listing:
  1. ‘All I Need’, AIR (feat. Beth Hirsch).
  2. ‘Ameno’, +eRa+.
  3. ‘Sign O’ The Times’, Prince, remix by Michael Saxom.

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Unhappy Holidays And Apocalypse 2019

Unhappy Holidays And Apocalypse 2019

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10 Helmi 201944min

A Victorian Landslide, Men Behaving Badly And Government Survival

A Victorian Landslide, Men Behaving Badly And Government Survival

Another wipeout for the Liberal Party in the southern state of Victoria means their federal counterparts need to watch out, with their election due by May 2019. Was Victoria a win of the good over the...

5 Joulu 201837min

Wentworth History In The Making, The Politics Of Asylum Seekers And Selling A Prime Minister

Wentworth History In The Making, The Politics Of Asylum Seekers And Selling A Prime Minister

We had history in the making in the seat of Wentworth, a by-election thrashing of the Liberals following the resignation of Malcolm Turnbull, and we now have another independent on the crossbenches – ...

6 Marras 201832min

Trouble Brewing For The Liberals And Feeling The Love Of A New PM

Trouble Brewing For The Liberals And Feeling The Love Of A New PM

The Liberal Party is facing challenges in three big elections – Victoria, NSW and federal – with a few other challenges in the Wentworth by-election. But the biggest issue is money – they haven't got ...

28 Syys 201836min

The Seven Days Of Madness In Canberra

The Seven Days Of Madness In Canberra

It's been dubbed the week of madness in Canberra, but it was also a week of gross incompetence and a fine example of the poor political management that has encompassed the Liberal National Party since...

30 Elo 201847min

A Super Saturday And The Big Media Fail

A Super Saturday And The Big Media Fail

Super Saturday: it sounds so American, but we had it all in our own backyard – Perth, Fremantle, Mayo, Braddon and Longman. A campaign that started with all the pressure on Bill Shorten completely swu...

2 Elo 201833min

Byelections, A Clash Of Western Civilisation And The ABC Of Attacking The Public Broadcaster

Byelections, A Clash Of Western Civilisation And The ABC Of Attacking The Public Broadcaster

Five federal byelections, and we think the more things change, the more they will stay the same. We suggest there will be no change in the numbers on the floor, but politics is so unpredictable in thi...

21 Kesä 201839min

A Failing Budget, Gaza Disaster And The Spectre Of An Early Election

A Failing Budget, Gaza Disaster And The Spectre Of An Early Election

The 2018 Budget was a classic ‘here today, gone tomorrow’ Budget. Who remembers any of the key points, aside from ‘personal tax cut’, and ‘surplus’? (** Read the fine print: tax cuts in seven years). ...

28 Touko 201841min

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