1951 And A Reason To Avoid An Early Double Dissolution (kevinbonham.blogspot.com)

submitted 1 year ago by cloaker@kbin.social to c/australia@aussie.zone

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Kevin Bonham is on aus.social now @kevinbonham fyi

Good take here, but I think most people would have thought a double dissolution just around the time of this referendum would be bad anyways.

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[-] TassieTosser@aussie.zone 7 points 1 year ago

"and perhaps most importantly there is what I refer to as the Labor Fail Factor - the historic tendency of the Coalition, for whatever reasons, to on average do a much better job of recovering from bad polling to a good or at least not so bad election result. "

I'd call that the "Murdoch Spoiler Factor". We need a Media Royal Commission so badly.

[-] MortyMcFry@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago

We need a real alternative for these people to get their news. Royal commission will just waste tax money

[-] TassieTosser@aussie.zone 5 points 1 year ago

There are plenty of alternative outlets. A Royal Commission is just needed to gut the Murdoch/Costello/Seven/Ten stranglehold on the market. We need to fracture the media cologmorates so that they can't own more than 1 medium and enforce citizenship requirements for ownership.

[-] cloaker@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

There's obvious large public interest on the topic so it's rather sad we haven't seen any news on one.

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