...Note the last part of that quote —“she spoke for our country”. It is not the job of any ABC interviewer to speak for anyone’s country. It is not the job of the ABC to attack groups and individuals Mr Abbott wants to ban. And the ABC is not meant to be a propagandist. Instead of telling the Prime Minister that Ms Alberici is not a propagandist or a tool of the Abbott Government’s dangerously xenophobic, racist and anti-Islamic “Team Australia” concept, the ABC’s managing director Mark Scott simply tweeted the interview and its transcript. But Mr Abbott’s ploy of seeking to turn the ABC into his propaganda tool by praising journalists who agree with his view of the world was not the only example last week of the Federal Government’s sinister authoritarianism. Mr Morrison, in an act of bullying and such hypocrisy that the term needs to be spelt with a capital H, has referred workers from the Save the Children Fund to the Australian Federal Police for allegedly misusing privileged information, which is an offence under Commonwealth law. Mr Morrison is seeking to censor individuals who work in the gulags on Nauru and Manus Island from speaking out against the serial abuse of men, women and children that occurs courtesy of the minister’s policies. What makes Mr Morrison’s action so distasteful is not just that he is seeking to stop the truth of human rights abuse emerging, but that he quite obviously leaked to a journalist recently a report that was critical of aid workers in detention centres. As noted above, capital H hypocrisy...
Posted on: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 21:42:06 +0000
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