THE LOOSE ENDS of the Ashbygate conspiracy are legion. There are so many questions to answer and many of them aren’t being asked. The reason is that the mainstream media are busy not asking them. (We will discuss them shortly.) Yes, you read it right, ‘busy not asking them’. Why do I say this? Well, it’s as plain as the nose on your face. This whole saga has been a serial failure of the media. Why have they refused to report in anywhere near enough depth this court determined conspiracy? The answer is clear with the Murdoch press. They don’t like the Labor party and want them gone. That is apparent by their pathetic tabloid, the Daily Telegraph, with its recent childish and immature depiction of Senator Conroy as a despot. Murdoch’s undeniably biased stable of newspapers represents between 65 and 70 per cent of newspapers in Australia. The Fairfax Group is another matter. They teeter between serious journalism and tabloid puffery. They still have some serious journalists, but not many. Then there is the influence of the richest woman in the world, Gina Rinehart, a major shareholder in Fairfax and one who seems to want total control of the Fairfax Media group. She also partially owns the Ten Network and is a director of that company. To even further muddy the waters, Ten’s Sunday Program ‘Meet the Press’ programme – once a serious journalistic enterprise produced by outstanding political reporter Paul Bongiorno – is now produced by News Limited. Paul Bongiorno has been moved to one side and the serious political reporting has been diluted by sport, lifestyle and entertainment reports. Ten also have LNP cheerleader and convicted racist Andrew Bolt producing the laughably partisan ‘Bolt report’. Channel Seven is owned by Kerry Stokes, and is also a right leaning organisation, though their whimsical press correspondent Mark Reilly has had his moments of greatness:
Chris Uhlmann, who uses emotive language about the Government and the prime minister whenever he gets the chance. Perhaps most pertinently, Uhlmann is also close friends with Ashbygate conspirator Steve Lewis, and indeed wrote a “novel” with him — The Marmalade Diaries. Uhlmann has been relentless on 7.30 in talking up stories about the Labor leadership. It is interesting to note that he, in fact is married to a Federal Labor MP, Gai Brodtmann, who allegedly was part of the Rudd faction.
So we have a partisan media. Whilst they drag up Julia Gillard and the AWU ad nauseam – now that their characters have been comprehensively crucified ‒ the media studiously ignore the real stories behind Craig Thomson and Peter Slipper. David Donovan, Peter Wicks, Ross Jones and I are resolute in our determination not to let these issues die from lack of scrutiny. So, in the form of questions unanswered, here are the loose ends from the Ashbygate affair:
On 19 March 2012, the manager of Opposition business, Christopher Pyne, spent two hours drinking with James Ashby in the Speaker’s office.
In conclusion there are many more questions to be answered than have been answered so far about this murky Ashbygate conspiracy to bring down the Government and, indeed, I have not canvassed them all.
Christopher Pyne is the manager of Opposition business and Coalition education spokesperson, and is an elected MP for the Federal seat of Sturt in South Australia. He has also lied about his involvement with James Ashby. The Liberal Party have wraiths who pull the strings from the mansions of the Sunshine Coast and the offices of the West End of Brisbane, all leading to the mining riches of the Western Australian and the Queensland outback. These are the people who want to form Government on 15 September 2013. Perhaps they should answer a few questions first.
THE LOOSE ENDS of the Ashbygate conspiracy are legion.
ReplyDeleteThere are so many questions to answer and many of them aren’t being asked. The reason is that the mainstream media are busy not asking them. (We will discuss them shortly.)
Yes, you read it right, ‘busy not asking them’. Why do I say this? Well, it’s as plain as the nose on your face.
This whole saga has been a serial failure of the media. Why have they refused to report in anywhere near enough depth this court determined conspiracy?
The answer is clear with the Murdoch press. They don’t like the Labor party and want them gone. That is apparent by their pathetic tabloid, the Daily Telegraph, with its recent childish and immature depiction of Senator Conroy as a despot. Murdoch’s undeniably biased stable of newspapers represents between 65 and 70 per cent of newspapers in Australia.
The Fairfax Group is another matter. They teeter between serious journalism and tabloid puffery. They still have some serious journalists, but not many.
Then there is the influence of the richest woman in the world, Gina Rinehart, a major shareholder in Fairfax and one who seems to want total control of the Fairfax Media group. She also partially owns the Ten Network and is a director of that company. To even further muddy the waters, Ten’s Sunday Program ‘Meet the Press’ programme – once a serious journalistic enterprise produced by outstanding political reporter Paul Bongiorno – is now produced by News Limited. Paul Bongiorno has been moved to one side and the serious political reporting has been diluted by sport, lifestyle and entertainment reports. Ten also have LNP cheerleader and convicted racist Andrew Bolt producing the laughably partisan ‘Bolt report’.
Channel Seven is owned by Kerry Stokes, and is also a right leaning organisation, though their whimsical press correspondent Mark Reilly has had his moments of greatness:
Chris Uhlmann, who uses emotive language about the Government and the prime minister whenever he gets the chance. Perhaps most pertinently, Uhlmann is also close friends with Ashbygate conspirator Steve Lewis, and indeed wrote a “novel” with him — The Marmalade Diaries.
Uhlmann has been relentless on 7.30 in talking up stories about the Labor leadership. It is interesting to note that he, in fact is married to a Federal Labor MP, Gai Brodtmann, who allegedly was part of the Rudd faction.
So we have a partisan media. Whilst they drag up Julia Gillard and the AWU ad nauseam – now that their characters have been comprehensively crucified ‒ the media studiously ignore the real stories behind Craig Thomson and Peter Slipper.
David Donovan, Peter Wicks, Ross Jones and I are resolute in our determination not to let these issues die from lack of scrutiny.
So, in the form of questions unanswered, here are the loose ends from the Ashbygate affair:
On 19 March 2012, the manager of Opposition business, Christopher Pyne, spent two hours drinking with James Ashby in the Speaker’s office.
In conclusion there are many more questions to be answered than have been answered so far about this murky Ashbygate conspiracy to bring down the Government and, indeed, I have not canvassed them all.
Christopher Pyne is the manager of Opposition business and Coalition education spokesperson, and is an elected MP for the Federal seat of Sturt in South Australia. He has also lied about his involvement with James Ashby.
The Liberal Party have wraiths who pull the strings from the mansions of the Sunshine Coast and the offices of the West End of Brisbane, all leading to the mining riches of the Western Australian and the Queensland outback.
These are the people who want to form Government on 15 September 2013. Perhaps they should answer a few questions first.