Haha .. morrison gov is deathly slow fixing this: https://www.aph.gov.au/petition_list?id=EN1938
Kevin Rudd petition calls for royal commission into News Corp domination of Australian media Petition set up by the former PM caused problems for the Parliament House website after more than 38,000 people signed in 24 hours ... The petition, launched on the Australian Parliament website on Saturday, had gained more than 38,000 signatures by Sunday morning, with Rudd tweeting that the popularity of the petition had caused the website to suspect users signing it were robots .. “The truth is Murdoch has become a cancer, an arrogant cancer, on our democracy,” Rudd said. He said 70% of Australia’s print readership was owned by Murdoch and he owned virtually every newspaper in Queensland “which swings so many federal election outcomes”. Over the past decade, in 18 out of 18 federal and state elections, “Murdoch has viciously campaigned in support of one side of politics, the Liberal National party, and viciously campaigned against the Australian Labor party,” Rudd said. “There’s no such thing as a level playing field any more.” Rudd said Murdoch retained loss-making newspapers in Australia to maximise his political power in defence of climate change denial, and pursue his commercial interests in relation to the national broadband network. “The final reason we need this royal commission is the sheer arrogance and swagger and bullying behaviour by Murdoch and his editors against anybody who stands up against him or has a different point of view.” A Department of Parliamentary Services spokeswoman told Guardian Australia: “The APH ePetitions site has had an unusually high number of page views in the last 24 hours. There have been intermittent timing-out problems caused by this volume and changes have been made to increase capacity.” Ref: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/oct/11/kevin-rudd-petition-royal-commission-news-corp-media-domination-australia? _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
