The broad concern for me is how much damage Rineharts influence and funding is doing.
This is a problem to be honest. The entire mainstream media is owned and in lockstep. There’s a continual attack on the left and anything social and it’s all one way as Tracy Westerman commented today. The main social media sites are being botted and paid trolled to the shithouse, they’re fucking everywhere. It’s all Rinehart and her money plus Murdoch and Stokes as well.
Labor is too pissweak to anything about it. They have an absolute majority and they won’t pass anything that stops or arrests this, like legislation which breaks up media ownership or ensures some integrity. They’re giving away money to developers for infrastructure, ignoring the public on a gas tax, cutting NDIS and the campaign Rinehart been paying for since the Voice is just fucking everything because everyone’s terrified of the left when they are the only ones fighting for us.
Labor’s the problem; if they did the two or three things needed, like public housing access fixes, instituted that gas tax and didn’t cut the NDIS they wouldn’t have half the issues they’re having now.