Mr Denmore
@mrdenmore.bsky.social
Ex-journalist, ex-broadcaster, ex-Catholic, ex-X, ex-hausted. Mr Denmore is the long-term nom-de-plume of now retired Australasian journalist and corporate communications hack, Jim Parker https://www.jparkermedia.com.au/
80% of Australians support a complete ban on gambling advertising. It’s time the government got on board. Join the campaign today to call on the federal government to protect young Australians from the predatory gambling industry and free our feeds from gambling ads.
With the two major parties clearly owned by the US security establishment, the defence lobby and the Sinophobes, Australia needs a referendum on AUKUS or give up on the pretence that we are a working democracy.
‘Australia’s no-holds-barred bipartisan embrace of AUKUS is likely to be one of the worst defence and foreign policy decisions our country has made,’ writes former Foreign Affairs Minister Gareth Evans. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/defe...
The case against AUKUS
As this week’s ALP National Conference will confirm, the Albanese government remains strongly wedded to the AUKUS nuclear-propelled submarine project. But the project was misconceived from the outset ...
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Demarcation dispute in legacy media land. “We will decide how bullying is defined and who is bullied,” writes septugenarian shockjock Neil Michell from his own bully pulpit. www.smh.com.au/national/the...
These ‘witches’ claim to have brought down Kyle, Karl and Alan Jones. In fact, they’re bullies
But by what right does activist group Mad F---ing Witches appoint itself as guardian of what is proper and fair? How representative are they of the “real” audience?
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Where are all the 'freedom' warriors when an artist loses his job for dedicating a piece of music to journalists killed in Gaza? MSO clearly is putting the sponsorship dollars from the vile Zionist lobby ahead of artistic integrity. theconversation.com/the-mso-and-...
The MSO and Lattouf rulings are seemingly at odds. Where does this leave free speech at work?
The court has found the cancellation of Jason Gillham’s concert by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra was not prohibited by Australian workplace laws.
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What is it with the gerontocracy in the USA? People just hanging on forever in Congress and the Supreme Court well into their dotage, blocking younger people with new ideas and when they should be out in the garden with their grandkids enjoying retirement.
Grandpa Abe's Confused Exit in The Simpsons
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‘The significance of Harry’s reunion meeting with his father, King Charles, cannot be overstated,’ gravely intones the ABC News reporter. Actually, it can and you just did.
Spongebob Nobody Cares Meme
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What is wrong with the ALP in its refusal to tackle the gambling industry?? Is there anyone with a conscience in that party ready to speak out? It just defies reason
I’m another baby boomer who has done well out of the house price lottery. But I also want to see prices become more affordable so my adult children are not shut out of the market. I really don’t understand why Angus Taylor and the looney Libs find that so hard to understand. Anyone??
Reminder to the press gallery as they roll out the boilerplate language on tax reform changes. This is what a ‘backflip’ looks like:
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Essential reading for Australians👇👇👇👇👇 Foreign interference in Aus politics Thanks @auspoldaily.bsky.social for such clear articulation
Alex Fein@auspoldaily.bsky.social · 2mo ago@brenthodgson.bsky.social and @aaronsmith333.bsky.social, are you able to work your social media magic here and on the evil place (aka X, where I'm basically invisible) to spread the word on this Substack? Thanks so much!! redbridgeintel.substack.com/p/call-it-wh...
A new book focusing on media coverage of Gaza - like the recent ABC 7.30 report interview with a flotilla victim - shows how judgements regularly made in other contexts become controversial only when applied to the state of Israel.
Friday essay: How to Sell a Genocide exposes the double standards of reporting on Gaza
Almost all major human rights organisations agree the destruction of Gaza meets the legal definition of genocide. Yet liberal news outlets still do not use the word.
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Israeli police force Gaza flotilla activists to kneel with hands bound, video shows - www.reuters.com/world/middle...
Israeli police force Gaza flotilla activists to kneel with hands bound, video shows
The video shows dozens of detained activists kneeling in rows with their hands zip-tied behind their backs, in what appears to be an outdoor Israeli port facility.
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As News Corp attacks sensible tax reform via its news pages, recall that by far its most profitable investment in Australia is its majority stake in the digital real estate giant REA Group, which has a market value of $22bn and an EBITDA margin of 62%. Of course they hate attacks on property spivs!
Amid the media's hysterical pearl clutching over the Budget, ask yourself: If by some miracle the Libs regained power, would they restore the Howard era CGT discount and NG regime? The answer is NO. Both fiscal reality & demographics are against them. It's all noise and confected outrage, folks.
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Journo to Albo: ‘Will you apologise to the people who voted for you after you said you wouldn’t change CGT or negative gearing?” Umm, I don’t think the geared up spivs concerned about losing their tax perks ever voted for the ALP.
‘But you said we’d stop for an ice cream.’ The press gallery’s infantile squawking about ‘broken promises’ ignores that the silly ‘rule in-rule out’ games in election campaigns are for the media’s own benefit. The rest of us in the real world simply don’t care. It’s good policy we care about.
One wonders at the intelligence of the Australian electorate when they vote for the hatchet-faced woman’s party of grifters as an expression of the interests of the ‘underdog’ when she’s getting flown the world around by a fascist billionaire masquerading as a poet.
If the Libs’ identity crisis explains One Nation and the inevitability of a coalition between the two, surely the ALP will finally twig that its own demise will only be prevented by enfranchising its left flank and forming a coalition with the Greens?
I see the Bondi Royal Commission has devolved into ‘someone once said something nasty to me because I am Jewish’. We all despise prejudice against ANYONE based on race or religion but why is legitimate criticism of the state of Israel over genocide of Palestinians always recast as anti-semitism?
The recommendations from the interim report of the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion are tentative, lightweight and backed by scarcely any supporting analysis. Paddy Gourley urges Commissioner Bell to take into account in her final recommendations the Netanyahu government' s resp…
Light rations from the Antisemitism Royal Commission thus far
The recommendations from the interim report of the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion are tentative, lightweight and backed by scarcely any supporting analysis. Further recommendations must take into account the Netanyahu government's responsibilty for the stimulation of antisemitism here and around the world.
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Schoolboy stuff, except the kids are better behaved. The lower the stakes with these clowns the lower the behaviour. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
‘That’s assault’: One Nation volunteer grabs Liberal senator’s phone in clash outside polling booth
The clash came as the pair disagreed over this masthead’s revelation that One Nation’s contender David Farley had previously attempted to stand for the Labor Party.
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To join the latest US initiative to open the Strait of Hormuz, the Maritime Freedom Construct, while hostilities continue would make Australia an accessory to the international crime of waging an aggressive war, says Crispin Hull. #Iranwar #auspol
Australia: don’t join the war crime
Australia is expected to consider this week a request from the US to join a coalition of allies in a military effort, the 'Maritime Freedom Construct', to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Australia should refuse, even in the unlikely event that others join.
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Someone is going to have to explain to me how raising interest rates domestically lowers global oil prices. ‘When the only tool you have is a hammer…’ #RBAclueless
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Australia Institute research shows Australia’s gas tax system is failing – billions in exports, but falling returns to the public. These are Australia’s resources. It’s time we get a fair return. ✍️ Add your name to the petition calling for a 25% tax on gas exports: https://theaus.in/3OIgCP4
Great interview w @punterspolitics.bsky.social on 7am podcast this arvo. It’s worth understanding why the system doesn’t think Aussies own our mined resources. It’s a century of hard work to fight decolonized countries thinking we had a say in our wealth. #auspol open.substack.com/pub/lucyham2...
How should we respond as Moneyland works to screw us ever further into submission?
The ultra rich are crushing living standards and protest rights. There is a parallel in the brutality against Palestinians and in America's gulags. We do not have long to challenge the trajectory.
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