MEAN GIRLS SAGA SHOWS HYPOCRISY OF LABOR PARTY
Senator’s uninterrupted spray at the PM over bullying claims on ABC morning radio is yet another example of the broadcaster failing in its duty to the regions
BACK in the juggernaut of the Peter Beattie days, the Labor Party had a strong suite of state MPS on the Gold Coast, crushing the hapless LNP and securing up to six seats.
Unfortunately for Labor, its true colours emerged when it kiboshed a cruise ship terminal and a cablecar from Springbrook to Mudgeeraba, just before the 2006 election, succumbing to pressure from the Greens.
The Greens provide Labor with crucial preferences which often get them over the line in tight contests. They are a hostage to the madness of the Greens. The Chardonnay Socialist is alive and well.
Labor has never quite enjoyed the same electoral success since those heady Beattie days, and the same goes for its federal fortunes. Seats like Moncrieff, Mcpherson and Fadden are among the safest LNP seats in the country.
That’s not to say Labor hasn’t had a crack at trying to break the Blue Curtain which surrounds the city.
It has based its federal Senator Murray Watt here for some time, a Left-faction warrior who is an impressive attack dog.
Take his recent appearance on ABC morning radio with Matt Webber. Senator Watt launched into a lengthy and uninterrupted vitriolic attack on Prime Minister Scott Morrison.
For the ABC to give Labor a free pass on the Kitching story shows why many in the regions have lost confidence in the national broadcaster
Senator Watt’s character assassination was based on recent sprays from Senators Jacqui Lambie and the LNP’S Concetta Fierravanti-wells. They alleged the PM is a bully and goes after women.
Fierravanti-wells is particularly upset after being demoted to an unwinnable spot on the NSW Senate ticket.
Now, to be frank, there’s a lot of these accusations emerging against Mr Morrison, and as the old saying goes, where there’s smoke there’s fire.
So let’s assume that the PM’S behaviour, in the rough and tough environment of politics, has been less than exemplary. Voters will judge him on this, to be sure.
Here’s where Webber could have prosecuted the argument against Labor over the late Senator Kimberley Kitching’s recent death and the behaviour of the so-called “mean girls’’ – Penny Wong, Kristina Keneally and Katy Gallagher. Nothing, despite being the biggest political story of the past month. The Mean Girls deny the bullying claims.
Friends and relatives of Senator Kitching have called
for an inquiry into what went down between these female Labor Senators, yet we’ve heard crickets from the Labor Party.
Of course, your ABC has run dry on the Kitching bullying story. Somewhere in Labor’s policy vacuum, they have policies that will determine our future, yet they are not being prosecuted on the ABC. The ABC is complicit in Labor’s small target strategy. The ABC is a platform for people like Senator Watt to take aim at the PM. Why isn’t the ABC canvassing these serious allegations levelled against his
three female colleagues?
Senator Watt works side-by-side with Wong, Keneally and Gallagher. Surely he would have known of Kitching’s testy relationship with the Mean Girls.
Yet he gets on local ABC radio and pans the PM for poor behaviour, while his leader turns a blind eye to an issue that strikes at the heart of Labor policy.
Labor’s business model is about empowering women, not bullying them. Albanese thinks he can swan into The Lodge without acknowledging he has a problem among his female ranks.
For the ABC to give Labor a free pass on the Kitching story shows why many in the regions have lost confidence in the national broadcaster.
Senator Watt is a product of the Labor Left faction. They are a law unto themselves. This latest free kick on the ABC shows why Labor struggles on the Gold Coast.
Last year, Senator Watt told Webber: “I think it’s really wise and really vital that politicians tell the truth.’’
Wouldn’t an inquiry into the Mean Girls affair uncover the truth? Labor are opportunistic, self-serving hypocrites.
MALCOLM Turnbull is pleased to announce that he will be speaking at the high-level Green Hydrogen Global Assembly and Exhibition taking place on May 17-18 in Barcelona, why?
Hydrogen, blue hydrogen, green hydrogen, what’s the difference? Answer: none whatsoever.
Green hydrogen has been named green because it is (supposed to be) extracted using only energy provided by wind and solar. “Extracted” is the big euphemism here. Hydrogen is not a freely available gas, it can only be obtained by extraction, with the main source being H2O, water, two parts hydrogen, one part oxygen.
The amount of energy used to extract hydrogen, be it by using renewable, or coal, or gas, or oil fired energy, is substantial; then add on the cost of whatever type of energy you would like to choose, to freeze, store, transport, then thaw the hydrogen for use to then produce energy, and unless the hydrogen can produce more energy than it took to extract, freeze, transport, thaw and re-use, the entire exercise is fruitless and a huge waste of money to use a gas that is highly volatile and explosive.
That’s the reason it has to be frozen, you would not want to be near one of those trucks if it was in an accident. DARRYL HENNIG, SOUTHPORT
WHAT is it about our Senate and the ABC?
While tuned in to Matt Webber this week as he interviewed Labor attack dog Senator Murray Watt talking up Labor’s election policies, I was taken aback when Matt virtually shoehorned Murray into a lengthy and uninterrupted vitriolic personal attack on Prime Minister Scott Morrison.
Murray’s character assassination was based on recent sprays from Senator’s Jacqui Lambie and Concetta Fierravanti-wells.
What Jacqui and Concetta alleged is untested. To my knowledge no one has asked for an inquiry.
And Labor certainly would not want one. It would spoil their tactic of negative speculation against Morrison.
On the other hand, in the case of Labor Senator Kimberley
Kitching and the Labor Senator mean girls, an inquiry was asked for but subsequently refused by prospective Prime Minister Albanese. Little of that appeared on the ABC.
In perspective, we are presented with Albo’s clear hypocrisy over Kimberley and the use of unsubstantiated allegations against Scott Morrison to address them. Somewhere in this cesspool of personality politics are policies that will determine our future, but Labor’s tactic is to encourage hate over reason.
Bowing to that will give us what we deserve.
As for Murray’s interview, I stepped out of my work vehicle and scraped my boot in the wet grass to rid myself of the stench of it.
BOB JANSSEN, GOLD COAST