I want to take issue with a few things John Kendle wrote recently: >Aren't the main issues in Australia today - crime/unemployment/drugs >From my perspective, NO. The headlines of mass media reports might give that impression, but that is because of the lack of emphasis they place on a host of other serious issues facing Australians. If you doubt that there are other serious issues, take a look at a website I put together last year for someone who would probably be labelled a redneck: it's called Freedom for Australia at: http://tonypitt.net We are probably all influenced by what the media tells us. I certainly was, back in the days when I was busy establishing a home and family. But now that I have lived longer and had more time to analyse events, I am struck by the number of instances where the observations of my own ears and eyes are at odds with the stories portrayed by the media. Conclusion: I now believe those who assert that the media is involved in a huge and ongoing propaganda exercise intended to control for their own purposes the populations of "democratic" countries such as Australia. >The sale of Telstra completely should proceed, but with controls similar to >media/TV. Sounds like that came direct from a government media release. The "controls" on our media/TV are a bad joke. They allow our airwaves to be swamped by a glut of the worst of American "culture". They allow popular programs to be interrupted ad nauseum by unrequested advertisements. They do nothing to ensure a fair hearing for political views (such as those of Neither) opposed by the establishment. They do nothing to prevent the media misinforming the public. They allow foreign media magnates to buy up media once owned by Australians. >The important thing about the GST, is that it will collect some >taxation from profit shifters A more important thing about the GST is that it has been portrayed by the libs and media as the ONLY possible solution to our tax problems.... when of course, it is not. Where in the media have you seen and heard an equivalent discussion of the Tobin tax, a tax on funds transfers out of Australia, a tax on foreign owned businesses operating here, or reintroduction of a death tax? Sorry John, with respect, I think you are being hoodwinked; a victim of media propaganda. >Both Liberal and ALP have zero tariff protection policies. The results of >this are the decimation of manufacturing industries and the accompanying >unemployment of low skilled workers. Glad to find something on which we agree. Dare I plug another of my webpages... Australia needs an Industry Policy? It's at: http://dkd.net/davekidd/politics/indpol.html Dave -- David Kidd Webmaster http://dkd.net E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maryborough, Queensland 4650, Australia Phone (07) 4122 1120
