Your views: Newspapers, Rudd and population
CAROL FAULKNER: Former News Corp Australia chief executive Kim Williams makes the point that if consumers don’t like the kind of biased coverage that was so obvious in Rupert Murdoch’s newspapers during the election campaign, they can take their business elsewhere (Former News boss plays coy on coverage, InDaily, September 12, 2013).
All well and good, if you’ve got somewhere else to go. South Australia’s The Advertiser, Sunday Mail and Messenger newspapers are all News Corp-owned, and I believe similar monopolies exist in other states. Presuming these monopolies were deliberately planned and executed, it makes News Corp’s “campaigning journalism” all the more insidious.
ELSPETH REID: Re Grattan: Under Rudd’s Shadow (InDaily, September 11, 2013) No doubt the media is the main culprit in flogging this story till its last drop of life is well and truly squeezed out of it; however it’s certainly becoming apparent what a bunch of ungrateful B’s some of those in the Labor Party are. Rudd won them the 2007 election and as thanks for that they haven’t stopped kicking him ever since. They wouldn’t have won in the first place without him.
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MICHAEL LARDELLI: Unemployment in Australia is now 5.8% and 6.8% in SA (Unemployment at four year high, InDaily, September 12, 2013) and the rate is even higher among our youth. And yet we are still importing people so that our population grows at a rate of a city the size of Canberra every year.
The previous government trumpeted the fact that it had added half a million jobs to the economy in the past three years but most of those jobs went to immigrants – so what did they really achieve? And the majority of “skilled” immigrants don’t even find employment in their area of training so that we now even have employment programs to support them. But without this “skilled” migration there would be less downward pressure on wages and conditions and property values might fall so we can expect industry to keep pressure on the government to keep Australia’s population growing at third world rates.
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