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Tuesday, 11 February 2020

Morrison’s strategy of confusion



Podcast from The Guardian

Full Story
Scott Morrison

After weeks of bad press over the sports grants scandal, the government is trying to move on. However the way Scott Morrison has reacted to this issue is triggering some alarm bells. In this episode of Full Story, political editor Katharine Murphy breaks down Scott Morrison’s strategy of confusion, and what it could mean for our trust in the political system
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Reported by Katharine Murphy and presented by Laura Murphy-Oates. Produced by Ellen Leabeaterand Joe Koning. The executive producers are Miles Martignoniand Gabrielle Jackson.
Mon 10 Feb 2020 04.00 AEDT

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/audio/2020/feb/10/morrisons-strategy-of-confusion

You can read Katharine Murphy’s analysis of the PM’s lack of transparency in dealing with the troubled sports grants program, and the effect of this scandal on our political institutions. You can also read Sarah Martin’s report on how the Coalition quietly spent another $150m sports grant fund during election campaign.
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I was inspired to start this when I discovered old editions of "The Worker". "The Worker" was first published in March 1890, it was the Journal of the Associated Workers of Queensland. It was a Political Newspaper for the Labour Movement. The first Editor was William "Billy" Lane who strongly supported the iconic Shearers' Strike in 1891. He planted the seed of New Unionism in Queensland with the motto “that men should organise for the good they can do and not the benefits they hope to obtain,” he also started a Socialist colony in Paraguay. Because of the right-wing bias in some sections of the Australian media, I feel compelled to counter their negative and one-sided version of events. The disgraceful conduct of the Murdoch owned Newspapers in the 2013 Federal Election towards the Labor Party shows how unrepresentative some of the Australian media has become.
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