The Pettiness

While it is clear the real electioneering won't start for at least another week it is difficult to draw any real conclusions from what has happened thus far. The media networks yesterday were so obsessed with a man in red speedos they went all negative at the Prime Minister because someone did a Tony Abbott... Considering what the country needs to do this type of reporting has become typical of Australian political reporting of late. Today's media is running with Mr Abbott's call for the sacking of a candidate for comments he made about Mr Abbott's draconian views of the modern society. Mr Abbott is anti-gays and I dare say he finds them repugnant. Truthful and accurate - still my opinion and one Mr Abbott will dodge.

The media is deliberately skirting the political issues themselves while running a self interested campaign - perhaps it would be good to pass a law to have media networks declare openly who they are supporting in an election like the do in the UK, it would then allow the voter to understand why some stories are run and some aren't.

While the focus is thrown to Ms Gillard about a candidate and his views, which in the main stream of things means nothing, as the comment was made in a safe, unloseable Liberal seat, the people of Australia are missing some real political coverage.

Why is Mr Abbott's comments on giving more money to 'PRIVATE' schools, which will in the end be stripped away from Public Schools when he withdraws the schools programs in place now, being down played? The very policy Liberal Party has against public schools has not changed since John Howard gave more money to private schools than public. Mr Abbott is Catholic and the bulk of the schools that will receive this new windfall will be Catholic schools. As voters this has to be an issue to examine; not all parents can send their children to private schools and not all Australian's are Catholic, but does that mean they have to go to underfunded public schools because of a policy that sees their funds go the the wealthier schools? It is a concern and it is another backward looking policy.

This also needs to be noted. Ms Gillard will have to start winding back the spending that has been in place for the last 3 years, so why it is clear the Liberal government wants to cut spending many of its projected savings will come from the natural wind back of completed life cycles or programs anyway. They will be saving money that isn't there in the first place. Like some of the billions that will be saved from money spent from a tax reform they won't support or put through if they win. This, is simple terms is, we will save billions by not getting the billions to spend in the first place. A nothing from nothing promise - easy one to keep as there is nothing in place as it is.

To follow the media at the moment it would appear Julia Gillard is doing nothing and Tony Abbott is trying very hard to be the savior of Australia - not too hard he isn't really doing that well. If Tony Abbott wanted to win this election he would have accepted the new mining tax and established a better formatted ETS. At the moment the Liberal Party is saying Miners pay too much tax and that there is no such thing as global warming. Critical issues - extremely critical issues. This is why the Greens have sided with Labor, at least Labor, with its obvious faults recognizes these two very important concerns for the country.

The view of the election thus far has only shown pettiness and spite with the media only too willing to play the whip up the crowd role...

By reading this blog you are hopefully getting away from much of the media crowd frenzy attitudes - if you monitored the media during the South Australian State Election you would have seen first hand the despicable nature of the media during an election. This blog still has a Gillard slant, as in keeping with the slight slant of the Australian population - things may shift by the media, but the media does not control this blog, nor does it influence the opinions of the blogger.

In a quick close out the Greens leader Mr Brown does seem set to hold the balance of power and going by what the Greens want to achieve in regards to Global Warming and the Environment it stands to reason they would side with a party with similar goals in this area.

Some would have seen reports 'The Greens will Close Roxby' which is again the media creating a type of fear in the population that doesn't need to be there. In order for the Greens to close a mine like this it would have to hold at least 51% of the seats in the parliament and the senate. So why such a report? The Liberal Party fears the preference assignment, so if the Liberal Party fears this, so too will the media networks. So, take aim at the Greens and try and belittle them before the vote so that no one will vote Green.

Anyone remember who the Liberals did this too once before? - How the media went on a full character assassination because the Liberals feared losing seats to the party? In this instance Labor was not innocent either, but it did not have media control.

It would be wise to ignore much of the scurrilous media accounts you are about to see as most of it is a misrepresentation of possible truths.