Quite a disturbing read on the influence and behind-the-scenes meddling of vested interest money in democracy. You won't find this in any of the #BoycottMurdoch and related media (sadly, including the sanitised #OurABC in Australia):

https://lets-address-this-with-qasim-rashid.ghost.io/aipac-crypto-and-draftkings-are-buying-illinois-elections-is-your-state-next/

Whilst this is an article about US politics, the parallels to Australia are eerie. Not so much on meddling with the electoral system, as luckily, we have an electoral commission. But non-transparent bodies are buying both sides of the major parties.

#democracy #transparency #kleptocracy

The ABC has this amazing analysis of how Australia manages to remain less messed up than the rest of the world.

We don't trust our pollies (who does?), but we do trust our elections and our institutions. They are not perfect, and we've got a bunch of glaring issues that we need to fix (especially regarding #FirstNations people), but we are significantly less broken than almost anywhere else.

Can we improve? Absolutely. And we will. But carefully and with consensus.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-23/justin-wolfers-boyer-lecture-australia-democracy/105922196

#AusPol #Australia #OurABC

Sad 🙁

I was a faithful viewer of "At the Movies" on ABC.

I almost always refer to the show as "the Margaret and David show'.

#ourABC
#AtTheMovies

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/aug/14/david-stratton-esteemed-australian-film-critic-dies-aged-85

Antoinette Lattouf chats with Jan Fran about the case against the ABC on a new podcast called "we used to be journos"

https://youtu.be/qDn2m-RFCy4?si=c9tmd1m6fl5vamuo

#newsmedia #ourabc #lattouf #palestine #israel

When arts & media organisations see their interests best served by bowing to pressure from interest groups, even when the actions pressed upon them go against their own stated policies & obligations, we are in trouble. Nick Feik on #OurABC #DontMentionTheWar

https://nickfeik.substack.com/p/the-lattouf-case-and-the-ongoing

Dear #ABC #OurABC, become a closed-loop human centipede, eat it, and continue to eat it.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/jun/25/antoinette-lattouf-v-abc-unlawful-termination-case-verdict-federal-court-judgment-ntwnfb

#AusPol

Just so I have this right, the ABC has cancelled Q+A, and have nothing planned to replace it??

#auspol #ourabc

These birds are so full of #plastic you can hear them 'crunch'

#bird
#ourABC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tET7-wG3Rvc