This is so reminiscent of the Joh years of political bastardry and compliant media that allowed criminality to flourish. I witnessed the degradation we are now re-living because media has neither the courage nor the ability to stand up to obvious corruption.
Tony Koch
September 13, 2020
One of the less attractive aspects of human nature is our tendency to hate the people we haven't treated very well; it's much easier than accepting guilt. If we can convince ourselves that the people we betrayed or enslaved were subhuman monsters in the first place, then our guilt isn't nearly so black as we secretly know that it is. Humans are very, very good at shifting blame and avoiding guilt.
David Eddings
September 9, 2020
Journalism is not stenography. It was never supposed to involve unthinkingly transcribing whatever nonsense a political leader might spout about the price of meat or takeaway pizzas without making an assessment of those claims. It was never about a reflexive positioning midway between the views of opposing parties. If someone is demonstrably lying, or talking through their hat, then that is what we should say.
Lenore Taylor
September 6, 2020
[The] Government is not going to be pushed around by Google and Facebook. It’s going to do exactly what News Corp tells it to do.
Paul Barratt
September 1, 2020
Andrew Bolt + Miranda Devine + Daisy Cousens + Rowan Dean + Peter Dutton + Blair Cotterell + Lauren Southern + Rupert Murdoch + Scott Morrison = Brenton Tarrant
Serkan Öztürk
August 29, 2020
As Trump accepts his nomination, his face heavily made up in golden make up, an unarmed black man is shot in the back seven times in front of his children. Meanwhile Americans believe they live in the 'greatest country in the world'!
Elaine McKay
August 25, 2020
The meaning of identity is now based on hatred, on hatred for those who are not the same. Hatred has to be cultivated as a civic passion. The enemy is the friend of the people. You always want someone to hate in order to feel justified in your own misery.
Umberto Eco
August 10, 2020
[on the USA] Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but you need to know how silly you look if you post some variation of, “Welcome to Socialism…”. You are not seeing Socialism. What you are seeing is one of the wealthiest, geographically advantaged, productive capitalist societies in the world flounder and fail at its most basic test. Taking care of its people. This crisis is not about the virus. This crisis is about the massive failure of our, “Booming economy,” to survive even modest challenges. It is about the market dissonance of shortages in stores, even as farmers/producers destroy unused crops and products. This crisis is about huge corporations needing an emergency bailout within days of the longest Bull Market in our history ending, and despite the ability to borrow with zero percent interest rates. This crisis is about corporatised healthcare systems being unable and ill equipped to provide basic healthcare, at the same time they post record profits. It is about crisis response depending on antiquated systems nobody remembers how to operate. But most of all, this crisis is a direct result of the politicisation of every aspect of our society for the benefit of a privileged few. The vilification of education, science, media, natural rights, rural lifestyles, urban lifestyles, charity, compassion, and virtually everything else for brief political gain has gutted our society.
Paul Field
August 8, 2020
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
H.L. Mencken
August 3, 2020
Covid19 has exposed the lie that free markets can deliver healthcare for all, the fiction that unpaid care work isn't work, the delusion that we live in a post-racist world. We are all floating on the same sea, but some are in superyachts & others clinging to drifting debris.
