Thousands of complaints to ABC over Israel-Hamas bias
Sophie Elsworth
Sophie Elsworth

The ABC has received more than 3000 complaints since the Israel-Hamas war started on October 7 and a majority of grievances are about bias.

The ABC’s editorial director Gavin Fang – appearing before Senate Estimates on Tuesday – said the taxpayer-funded broadcaster had been flooded with complaints since the war began.

“About 58 per cent of those complaints have been largely about impartiality and bias … those complaints have alleged that we have been pro-Israeli or anti-Palestinian and about 41 to 42 per cent have been running the other way.

“This is a really complex story, a very fast moving story so we are always trying to meet our editorial policies.

“We’re always looking to update stories and fix stores where we get things where we don’t come up to the mark straight away

Bern earlier:-

McCallum issues channel 10 & Lisa a warning, you are bordering on contempt.
Drumgold emails channel 10 (via his junior) under no circumstances will my office pursue you for contempt.

Slippery prick.
But the moron doesn’t understand the law.
McCallum could have hauled their arses into court on a contempt charge herself.
What does the senior law officer then do?
Switch bar tables?
Excuse himself?

Hope and pray that this is true.

WHO’s Pandemic Treaty negotiations are failing; they are blaming it on vaccine patents

Lisa Wilkinson (without a hint of irony):-
“I was misrepresented and stitched up by the media”.

Bourne1879
Feb 13, 2024 2:25 PM

JC has no problem with ticking. However if you downtick him you are cheating the process.

No, that’s just you being a dishonest low quality commenter. I never said any thing of the sort, you lying little prick.

I said, I have zero issue with ticks whether their upwards of down. I’ve always maintained that low quality commenters such as yourself are cheating. That is, creating multiple ticks either to yourself, perceived allies, or down against the person you dislike regardless of a comment.

Classic JC. If you believe he had no problem with the ticking then I have a bridge to sell you.

Rooster is not even a good liar.

Even the blog owner mentioned he strongly suspected there was cheating going on. Interestingly, the rooster chooses to ignore cheating and pretends I’m against regular honest ticks. I wonder why?

Low quality commenter and a fundamentally lousy liar. That’s the Rooster for you.

Lehrman case – fascinating watching!

Lady in the ill fitting white jacket (why white?) seems very composed as her high flying legal career is dissolving around her.

Anyone how can sell back the government a piece of paper it supplied for $300 million is not without talent.

During WA Inc that was BAU.

Who needs MAFS when you’ve got court? The best reality TV if you get a good steer on which courtroom to go to.

Jacinta Price calls for NT Attorney-General to resign following alcohol conflict of interest
On Tuesday, federal Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price called on Deputy chief minister Chansey Paech to resign, calling his actions “sickening.”

By liam mendes
Reporter
3:18PM February 13, 2024
3 Comments

There are calls for the Northern Territory Attorney-General to resign after it was revealed he purchased shares in a wholesale company that supplies alcohol to bottle shops in the NT, just months before his Labor government failed to renew Intervention-era grog bans on remote communities in 2022.

The end of the bans has seen a huge increase in domestic violence and alcohol fuelled assaults in the Territory.

Deputy chief minister Chansey Paech purchased an unknown number of shares in the ASX-listed company Metcash in May 2022, according to parliamentary disclosure records obtained by the NT independent, before divesting them in December 2023 – just two days after then chief minister Natasha Fyles was forced to resign over undisclosed shares in a mining company.

Paech, a firm critic of the 2007 Intervention policy which included the banning of alcohol, pornography and limited welfare payments, was a supporter of legislation passed by the NT government in 2022 which gave communities the option to introduce alcohol for the first time in 15 years.

According to the NT independent, Metcash is registered as a liquor wholesaler with the NT Government and supplies takeaway alcohol, as well as groceries to IGA stores in Alice Springs, Darwin and remote communities. A subsidiary also supplies alcohol to takeaway alcohol stores Thirsty Camel, Cellarbrations and Bottle-O stores in the NT and across the country.

At the time of purchase, Paech – who holds no legal qualifications – was the Minister of Indigenous Essential Services and Minister for Remote Housing and Town Camps. The? NT Cabinet code of conduct forbids ministers from holding shares in any company “that may create a conflict of interest as a result of their portfolio responsibilities”.

“…and a desire to assist Ms Higgins” what???

Lehrmann v Network Ten &

And refarding this afternoon’s proceedings –

It’s Ch10’s Executive Management that needed to make the admission and statement about Wilkinson. They are the one’s responsible for running the show (or shit show in their case).

Get them in the Dock and grill them.

FMD. Rooster Must I get over myself? Since the site owner’s announcement last week, you have been harassing the site with multiple versions of this gibberish and garbage. I’ve just made an effort to address your crappy, foolish, and deceptive remarks, but I’m the one who has to grow up? You are an absolute fruitcake.

I’m not lying when I claim that you have been cheating; your dishonest harassment of the site is a clear indication of your true intentions. Let’s assume, however, that you haven’t (which I doubt). Assuming you haven’t cheated, you appear more than willing to provide other low-wattage nobodies the option to do so if it allows you a safe space.

Really, figure out how to cite and link, before you dribble on. Send 350 emails a day to the site owner, expressing your anger and frustration. You are incredibly boring, unpleasant, and draining. You drain the site of any energy. An energy sink in human form.

Another objective well thought out comment by another of the site’s low energy, low wattage, low quality commenters. Take a bow, Woddenhead.

JC
Feb 13, 2024 4:34 PM

Get back to the Fat Pizza Bar & Grill you fat faced short arse Sictorian Pompous Wind Bag.

200 million Down Thumbs for you.

Okay, thanks woddenhead and I bet you’ve tried to reach 200 million until you realized it would take you 3 months to hit the goal, you innumerate imbecile.

Is there any news, you morons can focus on instead of this back and forth gibberish.? Anything?

Let’s try this. Woddenhead, Rooster, Crazy Karen, what do you think of the fact that if the current rate continues the US will be absorbing near enough to 9 million illegals this year?

“An essential part of the new totalitarianism is the enforced belief that the internet was never invented and that the ABC, for example, is the only official source of information.”

But, but, but….
ABC, BBC, CBC, MSNBC, CNN et al ad nauseum, aren’t they all part of the “Trusted News Initiative”?
It’s in the name see – Trusted! Must be true. As Homer Simpson says “TV wouldn’t lie!”

How can you doubt that Biden is THE MAN? Badacaff care! Truindashadapresha! Well, anyway…

How can you doubt that we must undo more than a century of industrial progress in less than 10 years or we’re all dead? Experts tell us – experts I say! They’ve been telling us for 30 years that we only have 10 years or it’ll be too late, why do you doubt it?
Do you want to kill Grandma, you monster? Won’t you think of the children?
Just live in the pod, eat the bugs and get your Neuralink implant – we’ll take care of the thinking and stuff for you, OK? We’re much smarter than youse.

Putin is a regular order tyrant with 200B in his back pocket and the blood of vestal virgins to perk up his mojo. He will keep going until Russia is completely destroyed. Possibly thats a russian version of what great nationalistic leaders look like, myself I’d prefer someone like Howard who looked and acted like a suburban accountant.

None of the above for me, thanks.

Very large flock of chickens coming home to roost in Victoriastan. IT’S HAPPENING as they say.

The last one out of Disasterstan doesn’t even need to bother to turn off the lights.

Wouldn’t surprise me in the least.

REPORT: Former Obama Adviser Susan Rice is the ‘Central’ Figure in the Biden Administration’s Approach to the Border

Bugger. Just heard it’s 500,000 with no power.

Well, they won’t be charged for the electricity during the time it is down so it 3evens out and they can have no reason to complain!

And even more, if the electricity comes from the private sector, which as Numbers used to point out the cost of which contained profit being stolen from consumers, people are coming out ahead because part of the money they are not being charged is for electricity they don’t get, but they are also not being robbed by running-dog capitalist swine!

A political masterstroke!

Why don’t you google ‘Melbourne blackout’

One of many articles, the aged.
price soared to $16,000

Inside Israel’s hostage rescue: ‘Diamonds are in our hands’

An elite team stormed into the second floor of a building as airstrikes rained down on the border city of Rafah.
By Chao Deng

Reuters02:41
From The Wall Street Journal
February 13, 2024
6 minute read
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Palestinians in the city of Rafah, on the Gaza Strip’s border with Egypt, awoke Monday to the sound of explosions. It was 1:50 a.m., but it looked like daytime outside.

“I never witnessed such a violent night since the war began,” said Hanan Abdulkarim, who said her window was flashing white when she and her 6-year-old son woke up. “I was 100% sure we were going to die at that moment.”

Minutes earlier, an elite Israeli team of counterterrorism police and intelligence agents had used explosives to break through a blast door and rush into the second floor of a residential building in the city. They exchanged fire with militants, killing at least three of them.

They quickly surrounded two men—70-year-old Luis Har and 61-year-old Fernando Simon Marman—and attempted to shield them with their bodies. Both men were dual Israeli-Argentinian citizens and had been taken from Kibbutz Nir Yitzhak on Oct. 7. They were thin and weak after 129 days in captivity.

As the rescue at the residential building unfolded, airstrikes rained down on operation centers of Hamas, to prevent the group from having a real-time picture of the raid, according to Israeli military spokesman Daniel Hagari.

More than a million Palestinians have crowded into the city of Rafah, seeking refuge from Israel’s offensive against Hamas to the north. But the war has been closing in on them. On Sunday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed on American television that the Israeli military would enter Rafah, which he called the last bastion of Hamas. Israel is proposing setting up sprawling tent-cities as part of an evacuation plan for those sheltering in the city.

The rescue of two hostages brought a glimmer of hope for Israeli families with loved ones still held captive in Gaza and offered a moment of optimism for the nation. For Palestinians in Gaza, however, the operation was another reminder of how exposed they are to Israeli military operations.

“I truly believed it was our end,” said Hanan Harbi, a doctor’s secretary who had sought refuge in Rafah with her five children.

Nearly 70 Palestinians were killed in the operation, mostly in airstrikes, according to health authorities in Gaza. The figures don’t distinguish between militants and civilians.

As the rescue operation unfolded, many Palestinians in the city said they thought the invasion had begun. They weren’t the only ones.

Around 2 a.m., phone alerts went off at the military headquarters in Cairo, Egyptian officials said. Panic ensued among defense officials. They thought Israel had started the offensive, which risked pushing a wave of Palestinians into Egypt, without telling them.

In Israel, Netanyahu had gathered with top officials—including Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and Ronen Bar, the director of the country’s security agency Shin Bet. They watched live footage of the rescue from a Shin Bet special operations room in an undisclosed location.

Netanyahu later said he had watched the SWAT team place the explosive charge. Seconds later, he said the team reached their target. A voice could be heard over the radio: “The diamonds are in our hands.”

It was code for the two men.

Time in Captivity

The two men—Fernando and Luis—had been taken on Oct. 7, along with Fernando’s sisters Clara Marman and Gabriela Leimberg, as well as Gabriela’s 17-year-old daughter, Mia. Luis is Clara’s partner.

Clara, Gabriela and Mia were released in late November as part of a one-week cease-fire deal between Hamas and Israel.

All five of them were kept in one residential house, Clara told The Wall Street Journal in an interview last month. Luis, who has four children and 10 grandchildren, didn’t have his hearing aid or the medication he needed for high blood pressure and diabetes.

They kept track of time by listening to the Muslim call to prayer five times a day. Each prayer had a different tune. Mia and Clara would count the days.

To pass time, the adults in the family told Mia stories about their life on the kibbutz, including how Clara and Luis met when he was working at the kibbutz factory. Sometimes they heard buzzing outside from what they thought were Israeli drones trying to collect intelligence. When it was possible, they would try to speak louder, in the hope their voices would be detected by the drones.

When the family had to split up as the three women were released in November, their captors gave them only a bit of time to say goodbye. Clara’s eyes welled up in tears as she recalled her separation from Fernando and Luis. “They tried to play it cool but I could tell they were devastated,” she said.

A Daring Rescue

Before rescuing Fernando and Luis, Israeli forces prepared for a month, the head of the police SWAT team said. The operation was a collaboration between various Israeli forces, including an elite group of police officers, Shin Bet and the Shayetet 13—Israel’s equivalent of U.S. Navy SEALs.

“We waited for the right timing and intelligence to move in,” Israeli military spokesperson Lt. Col. Richard Hecht said on Monday.

The decision to go ahead was made as negotiations to release hostages stalled, said David Tsur, a former commander of the police SWAT unit. “If the deal had progressed, I think they would have canceled the operation,” said Tsur.

The SWAT team likely spent weeks practicing how they would enter the home and deal with potential complications posed by being in a dense neighborhood, said Tsur. They would have planned the precise timing of each movement and task, he said.

“From the moment you explode the door, you’re already exposed,” said Tsur. “You have a few seconds to get to the terrorists and eliminate them. Then begins the evacuation operation.”

As they were evacuated from the building early Monday, the two men and their rescuers came under fire as they walked down a narrow road in Rafah, according to aerial video footage released by the Israeli military. “The forces have started to move along the route,” an Israeli officer can be heard saying to his colleague. A tank convoy can be seen moving along the road.

The Israeli military said that it carried out strikes for roughly one hour as the men were whisked out of Gaza. At nearby Kuwaiti Hospital, the wounded began flowing in.

Musa Masaad, a 21-year-old Palestinian who was staying with relatives in the neighborhood where the raid took place, started checking on his family members after being awakened by deafening blasts. He said he could see bodies outside on the ground.

A bit further away, Ameen Abu Taha, 34, was sleeping in a tent in a neighborhood of Rafah that the Israeli military had designated a safe zone. He held on to his daughter and brother’s four children, and urged them to go back to sleep. “I honestly thought we were going to die,” said Abu Tah.

As the city of Rafah reeled from the strikes, Fernando and Luis were almost out of harm’s way. As they were being taken in a vehicle to a helicopter, they were greeted by members of the Shayetet. “Welcome back. How are you guys? How are you feeling?” they asked the men.

“Shocked, shocked, all right,” said one of the men, according to a video released by the Israeli military. They were buckled in and asked whether they wanted a blanket and water. One of the officers offered the men shoes since they were still barefoot.

“We love you!” said someone in the crew.

Just after 3 a.m., Fernando and Luis landed at Sheba Medical Center, where they were greeted by family. There were long hugs and tears. Fernando held Gabriela tightly, while Luis embraced his daughter Natali Afgan. A medical staff member in green scrubs smiled on the side.

“I’m still speechless really,” said Maayan Sigal-Koren, Fernando’s niece. “We’re all still shocked here.”

“We waited for this. We dreamed about this for a very long time,” Gefen Sigal Ilan, Fernando’s niece, told Israeli radio on Monday.

Has Chris Bowen congratulated Victorians yet for cutting down their emissions?

Forget Net Zero, Victoriastani’s are aiming for Gross Zero. Lily D’Ambrosio BA (Latrobe) is handling the engineering.

Rooster

Not even attempts at humor are going to give you a boost to high quality. But nice try hough. There’s never any harm at attempts to self improvement.

I see the Turtlehead is linking to his old stuff, which gave me an idea. I’ll link to one of his totally normal comments each day. Should be fun. Tomorrow’s

Bill Gates should be murdered.

Even AEMO had Victoria sending bulk mega electrons to SA. Looked rather weird.

That might not fly politically for long you suspect. Particularly at the former Pony Club. “Queensland electrons are for Queenslanders”, we’ve been here before.

JMH
Feb 13, 2024 7:01 PM

Let us hope territories of the Greens in Melbourne are hit and stay hit for as long as it takes.

Inner city cables are mostly underground, you nincompoop and if they have to cut power because of demand, it’s always at the extremities. So keep hoping. Stick to tossing a coin if it’s me or liz abuse for the day, and stop making comments about stuff you know nothing about.

Lastly, what are you going to do with the severed heads in the freezer if your power goes off? Ice from the service station?

Tom
Feb 13, 2024 4:39 PM
Sky News is reporting 150,000 Victorian homes are experiencing blackouts as AEMO orders power-shedding with demand for air-conditioning soaring on the hottest day of the summer. The problem was triggered when Gippsland’s Loy Yang power plant went offline.

Australia’s hippie power grid in action.

Maybe this will make some voters in Dunkley bypass Labor and vote for the Lib candidate. If I were the Dunkley Lib candidate I would make this an issue even if it is a national electorate, link Bowen to the Victorian debacle and push how this is the likely future for the whole of Australia.

Teh Paywallian reporting it as an outage at Loy Yang A. So what is it?

JMH Feb 12, 2024 6:02 PM
Oh – yeah. Noted. The creature cannot elude multiple exposures. BTW, Sal – are you and I having an affair as the dipstick stated a few pages back? Bwahahaha.

I musta missed that one.
S’pose it’s an example of the “high value” comments we’re apparently blessed with?

I sacked two people today. I’m the boss, you hear!!!!

Just so people aren’t confused, the sacked two people comment a paraphrase of one of Driller’s many high level, humble comments from a few days ago. High quality and very interactive too.

JC
Feb 13, 2024 7:30 PM

I sacked two people today. I’m the boss, you hear!!!!

Hopefully for something totally legit.
Like, say, a vague suspicion they had dobbed you in to “OH&S”.