Media Analyst

The internet won the election In 1517, Europeans could simply pay the Catholic Church to absolve them of their sins.

If you missed it, my piece after the last election still holds true this time

Murdoch media lost and the internet won the election

capturedstates.substack.com/p/internet

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Reposting to show that the #auspol hive mind is much more useful than Australia's journalist class, who are only starting to notice patterns that were obvious months ago

1) I didn't miss any of those things
2) I didn't say I'm impressed with or voting for Labor
3) I was specifically talking about the most likely outcome of the election, which has changed dramatically in the past month

Australian journalists still predicting a Labor minority aren't connecting the dots

The Trump tariffs will strongly boost Albo's popularity and make the election about Dutton's danger

Dutton will sink with Trump. Teals will take more Lib seats

Labor majority is most likely

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The Voices groups share a largely unified agenda as they tackle the macro issues the duopoly won't. Having a face for that agenda has been pivotal for traction. Occupy and the Voice failed because they ignored our primate need for a leader. It's utopian and it fails. My 2c. The book sounds good!

Good interview. One thing I think about though - we're hierarchical primates. Holmes a Court is an ideal figurehead. He generates wide media coverage, is persuasive, powerful, and principled. His press club speech was great. Look at Occupy Wall Street and the Voice. Movements without a leader fail

Lehrmann inquiry head Walter Sofronoff engaged in ‘serious corrupt conduct’ , review finds Investigation by ACT Integrity Commission finds Sofronoff’s disclosure of confidential material to journalists amounted to corrupt conduct

Someone needs to write a book connecting the recent right-wing legal disasterclasses in Australia

Porter, Roberts-Smith, Lehrmann, Pell, Reynolds (surely soon), now Sofronoff

Privilege: from the Latin 'Privus Lex', meaning private law

Not anymore

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More likely, a civil case by a minority shareholder against Musk for breaching his fiduciary duty as CEO and causing them to take a loss. And that becoming a class action for unthinkable money. Musk and the board seem to have clearly breached their fiduciary duties to shareholders

Whether someone in Labor noticed my post or they did it on their own, this new ad is very good to see

The message must be hammered home throughout the election campaign:

Dutton can't be trusted to control Medicare

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The world's seen Trump's talent as a self-promoting con artist

Now we're seeing his talent at going bankrupt - four times so far - applied to the entire USA

Albanese says Dutton's Sydney trip amid cyclone approach 'a matter for him' Peter Dutton has yet to respond after the Australian Financial Review reported he had flown to a private event at the Sydney home of venue magnate Justin Hemmes on Tuesday. It is understood the opposi...

Albanese's fear to criticise Dutton's brazen scandals could be the thing that sinks Labor

There's an election in two months

'Anthony Albanese has said his opponent Peter Dutton can "comment on his own responsibilities."'

Fucking spineless. Get a strong soundbite

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Peter Dutton ranked as worst health minister in 35 years in poll of doctors Australian Doctor magazine says 1,100 readers took part in survey and quoted one GP as saying Dutton ‘will be remembered as the dullest, least innovative and most gullible’

If Labor has any communication skills at all, they will blanket this Medicare election with the fact that Dutton was ranked the worst Health minister in 35 years by Australia's doctors

Labor needs to run this fact everywhere in slick ads for months

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Yes but Labor also ran a truly terrible Voice campaign. Media didn't help but Labor's campaign was atrocious

First election thoughts:

- Labor can't communicate well and misunderstands the public
- Labor has ignored the severe issues (housing crisis, cost of living, corporate price gouging)
- The public loathes Dutton and thinks Albanese is a weak coward
- Teals and indies are pivotal

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Australia: Labor please run a competent campaign for once so we don't end up with hateful bigot Dutton running the country

Labor: The best we can do is Albo branded mints for $10

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The Age's daily vendetta against Labor deserves a daily commentary

It's never-ending, facile, and utterly bitchy by The Age's Liberal Party fluffers

Government spending on a newspaper's rapidly growing home state should be celebrated, not constantly attacked

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Macnamara and Wills are key seats that Labor will struggle to hold

It will be groups like the teals, Get Up and the Australia Institute that run effective Dutton = Trump campaigns. I agree that Labor will be pragmatically somewhat more restrained, but the effective messaging will proliferate without them

Election prediction:

Trump will have caused so much chaos and destruction in America by the time of the Australian election that Dutton will be sunk by gluing himself to Trump

Add in one or two rate cuts and an effective Dutton=Trump ad campaign, and Labor will win a slim majority govt

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YouTube video by Blonde Politics | The Silly Serious DARK GOTHIC MAGA: How Tech Billionaires Plan to Destroy America

The best explanation of what Elon Musk, Trump and the Silicon Valley fascists are doing

Required viewing

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The media hasn't picked this up yet, but the biggest communities on Reddit have all permanently banned the posting of X links due to Elon's Nazi salutes

Reddit has 97 million daily users

The impact on X's traffic and ad revenue will be massive

Thanks, looks good, I'll track it down

The Newspaper Axis: Six Press Barons Who Enabled Hitler How six conservative media moguls hindered America and …

Really good piece. Have you read this book?

www.goodreads.com/book/show/58...

The age of active government has begun. Only the right-wing has realised When the rabid greed of bankers and politicians finally collapsed America’s financial system in 2008, the ensuing global meltdown led governments to print unthinkable amounts of money in an effort to ...

The public is furious at inequality, cost of living and house prices, but only the right wing speaks to that anger

The public demands big action. Trump signed 20+ sweeping executive orders on day one

Huge lessons for Labor's upcoming campaign

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Labor must go fiercely hard on the Libs wanting to give a foreign extremist full control of our national internet infrastructure

Musk releases private footage from Teslas & is an unstable security risk

Labor must scare to win the election

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We've seen enough to know that neither major party will:

- Share our massive shared resource wealth with the public
- Make housing affordable
- Improve the NACC
- Run a Murdoch RC
- Stomp corporate greed
- Stand against genocide

We all deserve much better. Vote accordingly

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BREAKING: Dutton's nuclear meltdown

LNP admits nuclear "not serious... not going to cut it."

A parody showing what a properly unbiased front page would look like, free of billionaire propaganda

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'Punishment Island': That's how one worker described what would happen at Nine when workers spoke up about harassment Bosses in Nine's broadcast division would belittle, intimidate, gaslight and sexually harass employees, and when complaints were made against management, HR would cover it up.

Aside from ABC appointing a managing director who personally hosted a $10,000 a head Liberal Party fundraiser

The damning report into rampant bullying and sexual harassment at Nine Entertainment must surely disqualify its CEO Hugh Marks from the ABC job

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Hugh Marks appointed managing director of ABC

Was Rupert Murdoch too busy?

ABC chairperson Kim Williams has massive, deeply troubling questions to answer

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