The ABC has refused to explain why it ignored the revelation that the private home of Woodside Energy boss Meg O’Neill had been invaded by climate activists despite having a film crew at the scene and the news making national, front-page headlines.
As first reported by The West Australian, a group of Disrupt Burrup Hub activists descended on the City Beach home Ms O’Neill shares with her partner and daughter early on Tuesday morning.
“This was not a harmless protest. It was designed to threaten me, my partner and our daughter in our home.”The ABC came under fire and faced pressure to explain after it was revealed a television film crew — understood to be an interstate team filming a documentary for 4Corners — had accompanied the activists to the home to record the protest.
But despite having a camera at the address and news of the incident making headlines on WA’s commercial television and other national news websites, the ABC did not publish a report online, nor mention it during its 7pm bulletin.
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Dutton will be all over this.
Meanwhile, Mark Willacy’s bullshit story about Heston Russell continued to unravel in court today.
Plus, Shane Drumgold – currently on gardening leave – won’t be returning as DPP of the ACT. As Janet Albrechtsen explained today, he’ll be exceedingly lucky to escape prosecution for perverting the course of justice.
And a certain former Liberal staffer is going to sue the @rse off a certain ACT Department. I feel like setting up a crowdfunding page to support him.
the ABC in the organisational sense needs to be Nguyễn Văn Lém‘ed
Speaking in purely metaphorical abstract terms here.
Just another day in their PM Albanese’s communist vision for Australia.
Wait for their “Voice” protests.
Ordinary, hardworking Australians (like those that these activist scum are trying to put out of work) should turn up and protest outside the activists’ homes, and see how they like that!
The left – “it’s okay when we do it!”
Clearly not harmless when it is not the ‘office’ that is protested- against but the private person as an individual who is targeted, and the person’s family.
Thus the ABC which happens to be attending the protest scene has a duty to report to the nation on,
1. the ways in which the the protest is an unlawful attack on private individuals; OR
2. the ways in which it, as the national broadcaster, is prepared to be complicit in unlawful attacks on private persons who hold office.
The ABC is completely out of control and should be abolished.
And if not that, subject to the RC Turnbull and Krudd are calling for the Murdoch empire.
C.L. at 2 August, 2023 at 8:21 pm
Exceedingly good to hear!
The Culture of Transgression
Our antinomian elite’s war against tradition has become a war against the working class
by Michael Lind August 01, 2023 – tabletmag.com
NFA
I do t think many people on this site or more generally like to think of themselves as working class.
Pity.
Their abc, if harbouring any decency at all, should have called the plod on what is really a crime against privacy.
I guess they’ll say they didn’t report it so they’re good community members.
FMD.
Pat
Working class man.
I’m working class, I have a trade certificate and worked as a tradesman for more than a decade. I may also have other quals too.
It’s totally dishonest to send a crew to cover a story at 6 in the morning then refuse to cover it because other coverage is negative and you can’t possibly spin it in the way you might have originally thought.
This shows how totally battleship Potemkin the ABC has become.
C.L.
Did the protesters have an ‘X’ carved on their foreheads?
Maybe it was Musk’s fault!!!!
“Meanwhile, Mark Willacy’s bullshit story about Heston Russell continued to unravel in court today.”
Yep. I sometimes wonder what the outcome would have been if Cardinal George Pell had taken similar legal action back in 2016 and 2017 against Milligan and the ABC.
“by Michael Lind August 01, 2023 – tabletmag.com
I’ve been meaning to buy Michael Lind’s books. Brendan O’Neill has interviewed him twice, one interview only a few months ago. Lind nails everything that’s going on in the USA.
One good part of the story is that apparently the plod were already in place, waiting for the scum.
A comedian on Jo Nova’s blog virtually comes out and says the protesters were just “ordinary citizens” seeking to hold a corporation “to account,” and that O’Neill should “sit down and discuss her shared experience with such people.”
Yeah, sure; radical extremists invade her private place illegally, and she has to explain herself to them?
Nothing like a good ol’ “struggle session”.
This is known as “lying by omission”.
Someone (the blog host?) made an excellent observation recently that the more unwatched, unread and unlistened to (i.e. the more utterly irrelevant to the general public) that the ALPBC becomes, the more dangerous it will be.
I’ve long maintained that it should shut down with extreme ruthlessness. That is, fire them all, appropriate their pensions/personnel benefits (e.g. unused leave) sell off the sites previously occupied (Southbank and Ultimo sites would fetch multiple millions) and all the other capital/collateral as well destroying its archives from about 1970 onwards. As some might know, that position is somewhat more moderate than I have previously advocated.
There is absolutely no logical or acceptable reason for a taxpayer funded collectivist propaganda organ to exist in this day and age, especially in a nominal “democracy”.
I’m wondering: would the protesters have bothered if they knew the ABC weren’t going to turn up? I see the ABC as pure enablers in this scenario.
Don’t destroy the archives, Rabz. Preserve them for forensic investigation.
Jeez Rabz, you’ve gone soft. Skulls (NADT).
I remember several years ago, Roger Franklin of Quadrant (and a regular commenter on Dover’s blog) jokingly said what he would like to see happen to the ABC Southbank and Ultimo HQs.
He copped a lot of flak from the left for that.
@Franx
I identify as working class.
I even own a blue singlet, but my wife only lets me wear it when I’m gardening.,
Forester, et al – yes, well, then, the elite transgressors and destroyers – as per NFA’s link 2 August 9.28pm – are up against it.
(But essentially, my point was that as per the article where the antinomian transgressors prefer to function in a falsely-constructed context where they, the transgressors, are the elite and distinct from the working classes, on that view it is the working classes (or those who did not distinguish themselves from them) who are free to reject the transgressions (the wokisms, eg) while upholding traditional mores and codes of justice.)