Congratulations Murdoch on what looks like a win.

[i-need-a-martini]

...and commiseration Australia on your loss.

[azureline**]

I so wish the internet and the tv and the radio would give it a rest......isn't it over?

I turned it all off................... but still it is there.................

[fiestas*girl]

oh hello ibis, fancy seeng you here again.

[*ibis]

g'day FG

oh nero will never go away

he is  needed around here

[lakeland27]

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@*ibis wrote:

g'day FG

oh nero will never go away

he is  needed around here

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[acacia_pycnantha]

Well now that Tony has won I can hardly contain my curiosity over how he is going to "stop the boats".

[acacia_pycnantha]

Long time ago i read a quote saying something like that "every people gets the government they deserve"

I have thought about that and i think it's BS.

there is NOTHING i can think of that the australian people have done (except the genozide on the aboriginals, but that's so long ago that the ones responsible are dead and i don't believe in punishing the descendants of criminals for their crimes) to deserve tony.

[freakiness]

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@acacia_pycnantha wrote:

Well now that Tony has won I can hardly contain my curiosity over how he is going to "stop the boats".

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He figured out that ir's easier to stop the reports of the boats.

Only 2 have been reported so far.  😄

[debra9275]

the boat yesterday apparently had 2 journalists on it as well

I haven't heard much about it in the press

[kennedia_nigricans]

...the murdoch press? LOL

we buy the age now even though we don't live in melbourne.

before the election hubby was sick of the propaganda in the australian which we usually bought so i bought him an age newspaper.

don't know if we will ever buy the australian again.

[freakiness]

https://theconversation.com/heads-still-firmly-buried-in-the-sand-medias-denial-of-reality-dominates...

10 September 2013, 1.35am AEST

Heads still firmly buried in the sand: Media’s denial of reality dominates election

How would you characterise the mainstream media’s performance during the election campaign?

At a time when our leading scientists are continually spelling out the massive and urgent threats that climate change, biodiversity loss and other aspects of the global sustainability crisis pose to the future of human civilisation the most charitable thing I can say is that quality journalism was almost completely missing during the election campaign

Instead of detailed analysis of the climate change and environmental policies put forward by the various parties we had a never ending media focus on personality, gaffs, and the numbers generated from highly questionable polls.

Instead of journalists holding our potential leaders to account for providing workable solutions to the massive challenges that we face they kept their heads firmly buried in the sand with most explicitly or implicitly advocating that continuing with business as usual is somehow a rational thing to do. Personally, I find it impossible to understand how and why it is that the vast majority of the media have engaged in such a wilful denial of the crises that we face. When did the most important aspect of a journalist’s job stop being about investigating and reporting the truth on matters of vital importance to the public?

If the media’s coverage of the federal election was the best that our current crop of journalists can produce then I think it is time that they retired and let a new crop have a go at actually doing the job that society and humanity desperately need them to do. The children of today and tomorrow whose futures we are currently destroying deserve a drastically better media than the one we currently have.