Hi, this news blog is an attempt to create some competion in the news madia especially as government forces wish to NATIONALISE the media group to suit themselves and also as a medium to express my views which have never been accepted by the toffy nosed literacy experts in the Age Newspaper and more recently the closure of the Herald-Sun group to prolific letter writers like myself who have freely offered and had published hundreds of opnion pieces in both their newspapers and more recently online. There recent attemptes to monetise their newspaper offerings has resulted in the defacto censorship of public opinions and so I had to move offshore to continue with my very opinionated contributions. Bob Livingstons Liberty News has opened up his online newsletter with open arms and they have received several hundred of my ramblings on politics both in Australia ana USA. The USA system of government is strange to say the least and some of the gun enthusiasts are even stranger imo, but their system of political freedoms has permitted me to express my various opnions and debating angles without severe censorship. I have been called all manner of titles for daring to suggest they implement our Medicare type service in America but I've been called everything communist, a stalanist, a socialist etc and yet i am able to write back with many more opinions without being shot at yet..lol
It's been pleasing this week to see Clive Palmer a long term member of 43 years of the Australian Liberal Party come out to stamp his public views on a variety of topics on political policy directions.
I have a number of current friends who and now elderly Liberal Party members who have been complaining to me about this and that happening in politics over the years or complaining about the poor callibre of our leaders, etc but as always I say to them...what did you do about it when you were a member? They give all manner of some poor and some fair excuses like "I offered to serve on policy committees but I was never invited" OR " I did not have the time with career issues taking up most of my time"
The now successful politicians were able to take the leadership because of the many others who kept quite and did not Stand up and be counted. Jeff Kennett in Victoria was an example of an elected dictator because no one else dared defy or challenge him and we know who they were that just waited for their time to come without rocking the boat.
I've been waiting to hear from some younger politicians to support Gina Reinhart in her quest to get a board seat in the Age Newspaper but the silence is deafning. Here we have a situation where an Australian business woman has purchased a rather large stake in the Fairfax Media Group and the board have shown more loyalty to their staff than their new part owners.
It beggars believe that we have a new owner of a rather large stake reported to be 18.6% and full of ideas to increase readership of the Age Newspaper and other newspapers and yet the Board of Directors are tied by governance matters and we have politicians like the Greens and the ALP who wish to stop media commerce by attempting to NATIONALISE the Fairfax Group to stop an Australian buying Australian assets, yet sit ideally by while other foreign interests keep buying up our other enterprises with the help of former politicians called Lobbyists? Who are these GREENS & ALP politicians really working for?
So in my opinion Cliver Palmer has hit on a very important topic when he has put a resolution to his party administrators that Lobbyists should not be part of the party executive. This issue is far more inportant than just a few former politicians making money on the side on top of their hefty government pensions. It raises more suspicions in the eyes of the voting public about the very real possibility that some politicians nearing retirement may already be working for the best interests of large corporations who have offered them or their children and grandchildren jobs now or into the future or paying the current politicians to delay their retirement until a later date. Of course there is no evidence to say anything like this is happening now, however I'm sure i'm not the first to think this way.
Oh and in case anyone reads this blog...does anyone know which Victorian organisation was charging its clients $250 per hour for looking for people who did not exist...or preparing tax returns which the tax department did not want?
I believe in free enterprse and competition, so lets create more news blogs to compete with the soon to be nationalised Age Newspaper and Media group...and maybe those Age editors who recently resigned could start up their own blogs so they can own and also have editorial independence and then some Age readers may move over to read your blog....just as you feel the articles were driving people to buy the newspapers and not the classified, something your Board of Directors may never have contemplated when the editors won their argument so many pre-internet days.
