One of the shittiest headlines I’ve seen.
The person who wrote this headline and thought it a good idea is a straight up turd.
One of the shittiest headlines I’ve seen.
The person who wrote this headline and thought it a good idea is a straight up turd.
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.

A case study of the Illinois Primary Election on March 17 The Illinois primary election is on March 17. And what happens in Illinois sets a blueprint for the rest of the nation. We cannot afford to miss this moment. In Illinois we are witnessing a textbook example of how
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
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'.
Antoinette Lattouf chats with Jan Fran about the case against the ABC on a new podcast called "we used to be journos"
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