Oz Election Thread #4 - Gillard's Labor

Did you see Media Watch, a bit earlier?
I loved how Holmes pointed out that the Canberra media gallery's response was so totally out of kilter with the very strong popular - ordinary people's - response to Gillard's speech in the parliament.

How have they become so out of touch? (say nothing of irrelevant, quite a bit of the time?) Signature

On the single parent dole thing.

I wonder if the media is getting more out of touch because less people base their realities on it - or if less people base their realities on it because it's more out of touch.

.... the misogyny/sexism thing.

People seem to be approaching it as a black/white dichotomy - when actually it's a spectrum of behaviours and attitudes.

Personally I don't think of Tony as a misogynist (not that I'm an expert) but I'm pretty sure he has some sexist attitudes - and those have misogynist elements.

The Macquarie Dictionary's decision to change its definition of misogyny after Prime Minister Julia Gillard's speech in Parliament last week has caused outrage and division on social media.
Some say the move to broaden the definition from a 'pathological hatred of women' to include an 'entrenched prejudice against women' is ludicrous. .....

Carbon tax contributes to emissions drop

CONTROVERSIAL shock jock Alan Jones has been ordered to undergo ''factual accuracy'' training, and to use fact-checkers, in another damaging blow to his credibility.

External trainers will conduct training sessions for Jones and other news and current affairs staff at 2GB. But their task could be a challenging one, with many leading journalism academics having been involved in the online ''Destroy the Joint'' campaign against Jones. That campaign led to droves of advertisers abandoning the show in the wake of Jones' offensive comments about the Prime Minister in relation to her late father.

The Australian Communications and Media Authority yesterday released a damning report on Jones' show, finding he breached broadcast rules by falsely claiming Australians contributed just ''1 per cent of .001 per cent of carbon dioxide in the air''.

''The percentage of man-made carbon dioxide Australia produces is 1 per cent of .001 per cent of carbon dioxide in the air,'' Jones told his listeners on March 15 last year. ''Nature produces nearly all the carbon dioxide in the air.''
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2GB told the media regulator Jones had done his own research for the claims, but neither he nor the station could provide any evidence. ....

OPPOSITION leader Tony Abbott did not raise his policy of towing back asylum seeker boats to Indonesian waters when he met the country's president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, in Jakarta last night.

The policy is the key point of contention between the Coalition and the Indonesian government.

Neither Mr Abbott nor Dr Yudhoyono spoke after the approximately 30-minute meeting about what they had discussed, but Indonesian foreign minister Marty Natalegawa told reporters that "that specific modality, that specific possibility," was not raised by Mr Abbott. ...... <cont>

Canberra's $24 million campaign for a seat at the world's top table paid off early today, when Australia raced ahead of Luxembourg and Finland in voting at UN headquarters to win membership of the UN Security Council.

but it would be our UN ambassador on the security panel wouldn't it?