The left’s biased compassion
FORGET about the horrors of Nauru. What about the hell at home?
With all the kids now coming off Nauru, will the ‘compassionate’ left turn its attention to the suffering here at home? Don’t hold your breath.
There’s no excuse for their silence with two more stark reminders about the struggles kids who are out of sight and out of mind of the inner city people who use their voice to tweet and march about almost anything else than this.
For the first time in 18 years a baby has been born with syphilis. This is an entirely treatable, and more importantly, avoidable condition.
In the past couple of years, according to the health department there are 887 cases in the Northern Territory and 196 in Western Australia, 184 in Queensland and 44 in South Australia.
Most shockingly there have been 15 cases where infected mothers pass it on to their unborn children with a heartbreaking seven babies dying.
These numbers made no impact on the news with virtually no coverage bar a single story on the ABC’s website.
The second jolt of reality came late in the week when Territory Families confirmed they undertook 10,448 investigations last financial year.
There were at least 2366 confirmed cases of child abuse.
Even worse was their admission that 22 per cent of cases investigated were left alone only for the same child to be the victim of more abuse in the next 12 months. Last year that number was 17 per cent.
Again, virtually nothing in the media. Nothing on Twitter and nothing on TV.
The moral left are selective at best about what they care and campaign about. They just do not want to engage with the reality of what happens far away from the cities. Instead they complain about Australia Day.
A TALE OF TWO PRIME MINISTERS ON TV
Much will be made of Malcolm Turnbull’s appearance on Channel 2 this week.
He will be welcomed with open arms despite leading an attack on their news people that led to the managing director and chairman losing their jobs.
They will get the leather jacket version of Turnbull who will claim the evil conservatives who won in a landslide in 2013 stopped him being the PM he intended to be.
Of course this is not true. He rode high in the polls for months and squandered his chance to lead.
His record was losing 14 seats and plunging the government into a oneseat majority that he went on to destroy by leaving the parliament.
On the other hand, Prime Minister Scott Morrison will answer questions from regional Australians when he appears with me in Townsville on Sky News on Wednesday night.
This was an opportunity I personally offered to Turnbull when he was PM last year, but he chose to ignore those people. Morrison deserves credit, not because he’s coming on Sky News, but because he wants to look Townsville locals in the eye.
The media will play their favourites, but you be the judge of who really cares about you.