If you wish to protest about Murdoch's involvment in the election...

[buzzlightyearsgirlfriend]

There is an online peition you can sign:

"We, the undersigned, request that the Australian Press Council conduct an investigation into News Corp Australia’s media coverage of the 2013 Australian federal election campaign.

We also request that appropriate action is taken to prevent this from happening again in the future."

http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/complaint-against-news-corp-australia.html

[topsidesoul]

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@lakeland27 wrote:

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 the audience is actually (usually) 45% LNP 35% labor and !0 % green. the rest are undeclared or dlp acl etc.

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Well that is the ABC bias right there....only 45% LNP.....aboslute bias that Tony had to fight against by appearing on Big Brother.

he had to fight through all the sexism by using his wife and daughters and fight off those now true  alligations he likes to punch near womens heads.

The poor soul,I bet his fight to become the next Pope will be just as hard. What with all those homosexuals he had to deal with when he was training to be a priest.

[lakeland27]

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@topsidesoul wrote:

 I cannot count to 100.

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no neither can i, its just that i have a memory for that type of boring trivia

[izabsmiling]

Anyone done a search of petitions being signed against Murdoch media ? these are a few search results

UK: STOP RUPERT MURDOCH

http://www.avaaz.org/en/stop_rupert_murdoch_3/

378,122 have signed already! Help us get to 500,000

In 48 hours, nearly half the British mass media could be bought by one of the world's worst media moguls. 

Rupert Murdoch has exploited his vast media empire to push war in Iraq, elect George W Bush, spread resentment of muslims and immigrants, and block global action on climate change. He undermines democratic government across the world by threatening elected leaders with vicious and often false media coverage unless they do his bidding. 

Britain plays a key role in Europe and the world. If Murdoch has a lock on British media, he will use it to undermine UK, EU and UN support for human rights and democracy. The UK is up in arms over the Murdoch bid, and even the government, elected with Murdoch's help, is split down the middle as it makes a decision this week. Global solidarity bolstered Egypt's pro-democracy protesters -- it can help Britain's. Let's build an urgent global outcry to stop Rupert Murdoch.Sign the petition to Prime Minister Cameron and Deputy Prime Minister Clegg!

https://www.change.org/en-AU/petitions/rupert-murdoch-fairfax-abc-sbs-and-all-other-australian-media...

http://fairmediaalliance.wordpress.com/2013/06/23/petition-murdoch-fairfax-abc-sbs-and-all-other-aus...

Fair Media Alliance 

http://in.reuters.com/article/2013/08/27/us-australia-election-murdoch-idINBRE97Q0CK20130827

By James Grubel

CANBERRA | Tue Aug 27, 2013 3:52pm IST

(Reuters) - Australia's newspaper regulator on Tuesday weighed in on a row over bias by Rupert Murdoch's newspapers in the country's election campaign, telling editors to provide an accurate account of public issues.

Julian Disney, chairman of the Australian Press Council, has written to editors of major newspapers following complaints from the public and the industry over newspaper election reporting.

Disney reminded editors of guidelines issued in 2009, which stress the need to distinguish news from editorial opinion, although the Press Council says newspapers have the right to hold a political opinion and favor particular candidates.

"Newspapers that profess to inform the community about its political and social affairs are under an obligation to present to the public a reasonably comprehensive and accurate account of public issues," Disney wrote.

"As a result, the Council believes that it is essential that a clear distinction be drawn between reporting the facts and stating opinion. A paper's editorial viewpoints and its advocacy of them must be kept separate from its news columns."

[lakeland27]

the seminary would have prepared him well for cabinet in that case.

[izabsmiling]

 the petition in the opening post could also be sent to the AEC ?

[topsidesoul]

Petitions?

Do not work.

There are petitions to save the most obvous things like the barrier reef and I bet it's gone in ten years because not only is it not worth saving both nature wise and culture wise, it only helps employ a large industry.

I find it wierd Ruperts mother , Elizabeth, was such a great human being, while he turned out to be a pretty rotten apple.

She has a list of honors longer than the coalitions 17 page election book.

[freakiness]

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@aztecbangle wrote:

I wonder how Labor will  manage a competent government the people voted for en masse. It will be interesting to see how the PM deals with the 24 hour news cycle & the hostile Canberra press club, the gotcha press.

It's sad that Tony Abbot had to fight to win against the Unions/Rudd/Gillard/Rudd, the ABC, Fairfax, Getup, The Guardian papers not to mention the octopus reach of the ABC on line programs & Radio opinion, but win he did.

He cut through all the hate, gender & class wars & triumphed. It was an amazing win, he did it in a calm manner, his camapign HQ was professional & the people had had enough of the selfie tour of Mr Rudd.

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Anyone who seriously thinks the ABC was not predominately on Abbott's side was not watching the ABC. Same with Fairfax. They mostly favoured the LNP in interviews and stories for the past couple of years.  Just as any class wars and gender wars are mostly a product of the conservatives in response to progressive policies. They just can't handle change as is evidenced by the fatc that most of the front bench are recycled for the Howard years. 

They rely on the generation of fear and loathing to secure power with the help of the right wing billionaires club and IPA.

[lakeland27]

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@topsidesoul wrote:

Petitions?

Do not work.

There are petitions to save the most obvous things like the barrier reef and I bet it's gone in ten years because not only is it not worth saving both nature wise and culture wise, it only helps employ a large industry.

I find it wierd Ruperts mother , Elizabeth, was such a great human being, while he turned out to be a pretty rotten apple.

She has a list of honors longer than the coalitions 17 page election book.

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 she was attempting to even the ledger.

[windrake]

If Murdoch shone a light on the dysfunctional incompetence of failed labor then well done  Rup. a true blue Aussie who called it out.

Now Gillard has come out and told it like she sees it, to suit herself of course, but she’s irrelevent now just like Labor.

[freakiness]

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@windrake wrote:

If Murdoch shone a light on the dysfunctional incompetence of failed labor then well done  Rup. a true blue Aussie who called it out.

Now Gillard has come out and told it like she sees it, to suit herself of course, but she’s irrelevent now just like Labor.

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You're kdding right?

Rupe is no more true blue Aussie than Walt Disney was.