For once I'd love to see someone on the Right, a loud free speech supporter, stand up for speech they disagree with instead of demanding it be shut down.
In Australia there's no one.
There's not that many on the Left either but they're not Tasmanian tiger-like in their scarcity.

Anthony Albanese was determined to show solidarity with women. Instead he became the story
Thank you Karen. This is what journalism is all about: getting to the truth.
People who weren’t there are still blaming Albanese on partial or warped knowledge. theguardian.com/australia-news…

Attention...whatever it takes.

I just missed out in the ballot. Had two cousins whose numbers came up. Went to Vietnam. One badly wounded. The other with lifelong PTSD. Neither able to work again. Lives destroyed for what? My father fought in New Guinea. Hated politicians who sent young men to wars of choice!

It’s an eternal truth that the only thing you will discover in a political autobiography is the bad memory of the author.

I’ve read a lot of memoirs by former politicians and they are invariably deeply self justifying and unrewarding reading, best used as door stops. But Morrison’s seems to have taken the PMs memoire into entirely new territory of bizarreness!!

Donald Trump: “The job numbers just came out, and it's horrible. And I say that not happily; I say it very unhappily…It’s only going to get worse.”

Fact check: When Trump left office, the unemployment rate was 6.3%. It's 3.9% now and has been below 4% for 27 months.

'domestic violence has become an endemic product of decades of neglect or misguided funding cuts -often driven by ideological agendas, like targeting single mothers, or the drive for governments to get out of social housing.'

Tingle on systemic failures.
abc.net.au/news/2024-05-0…

This says a lot about the state of the Australian media and the ugliness that it has encouraged in this country!

And the coward has now deleted his social media accounts.

Australia 39, down 11 on the World Press Freedom Index for 2024. Blame weak whistleblower protections, farcical FOI procedures and responses, and lack of first amendment culture 😔 rsf.org/en/index

Greg is a classic 'balance' journalist. Let both sides have a say and leave it to the audience to make judgements about the content. This is not my idea of political journalism!

Geoff Kitney Because Jennett IS a grubby shill.

Ita left a hell of a big job for her successor, Chris. But really hope to see some significant changes soon. Very alarming that current affairs on ABC TV now seen by management as a low priority!

Surely a journalist of Greg’s experience and seniority at the ABC could have said “no, I won’t do this”!! Why would he allow himself to be part of something so grubby??

Are there no senior editors at ABC news any more. How could anyone with basic journalistic skills think it a good idea to interview Barnaby Joyce on this issue. I despair about the decline of editorial standards across the Australian media.

Mike Carlton The abc is a disgrace to use this predator as a commentator on the “treatment of women “ when they are fully aware of his history….what a joke this bloke is and the abc invite him on to talk bullshit. #weatherboardnine

Brian Toohey on Albos continual failures - johnmenadue.com/albos-continua…

'Until yesterday, Republicans were the harshest critics of lack of free speech on campus. Now they want to stamp it out. Hypocrisy is too mild a word to capture such a switch'. Me on why adults, not students, are America's problem. ft.com/content/198902…

How, indeed?