Hastie continues his push. Is Andrew Hastie making a play to the new “right-wing thought leader” of the Liberal Party? Previously we’ve reported that he inherited — and has enthusiastically used — Tony Abbott’s old email contact book, and caused a potential headache for Scott Morrison with his outspoken stance on China.
Now we see that he’s paying for promoted Facebook views:
It will be worth keeping a close eye on this continued to push to raise his profile.
Greens watch. Contrary to circulating rumours, we have been reliably informed that Lidia Thorpe is a still a candidate for the Greens’ Senate spot vacated by Richard Di Natale. After our piece yesterday we heard she may have dropped out, but Victorian Greens state director Martin Shield told us Thorpe remains a candidate in the Senate preselection. This is a blow to Julian Burnside, Thorpe’s most realistic rival for the spot.
Alternative histories. Treasurer Josh Frydenberg is getting a schooling in the racism of Winston Churchill after he said Churchill wasn’t racist compared with you-know-who in World War II. Of course, finding examples of Churchill’s anti-brown and anti-black racism isn’t hard.
But “fun” fact: he was also anti-Semitic. In a 1920 article, “Zionism vs Bolshevism”, he identified “international Jews” as the cause of the world’s problems going back to the French Revolution, and saw their alleged nihilistic tendencies as issuing directly from their religion. Not such a funny old word …
Trending. Yesterday’s Google trends data gives us a little good news: the groundswell of interest in the Black Lives Matter movement has not just been posturing, something we’ve been keen to have a kick at here in Tips and Murmurs. A lot of people are clearly taking the moment to look at what they can do practically.
Sure the potentially useless “Blackout Tuesday” — with “black square” and “How to do Blackout Tuesday” — spiked sharply in the last week, but search interest for the far more practical “How to financially help BLM” also spiked more than 5000% over the past seven days.
Two articles today with NO COMMENTS ALLOWED.
As is frequently pointed out, the commenters usually are better informed and far more interesting than the banal, by-the-numbers articles.
Given the numerous typos, poor grammar, dodgy fact-checking and overbearing censorious nature, I find it hard to believe that people pay to be treated with such contempt.
Fully agree. Maybe it’s time for an examination of who is responsible for these actions. If you don’t want people to comment, don’t publish it.
That self examination (which will not happen) should include the moderation which blocks comments containing words used in the articles.
Crikey is frightened, like the rest of the so-called independent media, of upsetting Rupert and the rest of the redneck media so any contentious comments are swiftly moderated, that’s what’s killing the broad stream print and visual media and why Facebook is so popular.
Today’s NO COMMENTS articles have nowt to do with Morlock.
One is only Latinos and the other Aboriginal policy.
The real fear is upsetting the transectionalists, not that “you can’t say that” has become “you can’t think that”.
Even Grundle chaffs against the refusal of the latte louche to hear anything contrary to the Truth du jour.
Trouble is that it will be different tomorrow, & tomorrow, & tomorrow.
Fraudberg and his personal facts again….
Still repeating, as is the pm, that Labor used robodebt.
Andrew Hastie wants Scomos job, if the job keeper and job seeker payments are withdrawn or scaled down the resultant recession will give Hastie the opportunity to move against Scomo on the basis of a new broom sweeps clean policy agenda and he`ll have Duttons support and backing behind the scene because Dutton is pissed off with Turnbull and Scomos stealing his P.M`s job.
And what do scoundrels do? Just like China boy Andrew Hastie is doing pose next to the national flag.
The only good thing about Charlie Lewis’ ‘anti-semitic’ jibe against Churchill was the link to what Churchill actually said 100 years ago at the time of the new USSR, with its bloody violence.
Best to read what Churchill said and judge for yourselves.