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The ABC Lacks Credibility · The Slippery Slope

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  You know one thing that infuriates me about the ABC here
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  in Australia? ABC is the Australian
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  Broadcasting Corporation, so it's a national broadcaster.
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  We pay our tax. Money goes into funding this.
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  Our national broadcaster and look I think it's been a good
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  thing over the years obviously with the radio that goes all
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  over the land, you know you can no matter where you go basically
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  you can always at least get the ABC for news think it's been a
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  good thing. However, the last couple of
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  years, when the, you know, since they've turned into a lefty
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  propaganda machine, have you noticed that they tend to just
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  treat us, the the viewer, the Australian citizen like we just?
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  Nafties like we're idiots. Like we've got no idea what
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  we're talking about. Let let us educate you on how
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  you should be living. Let us educate you on how you
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  should be thinking we know best because we're the ABCI would
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  just find them infuriating anyway.
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  Look there's been a few things that have happened lately.
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  I think it's it's called into question their the ethics, the
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  ethical standards. I think the the moral standards
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  flew out the door a long time ago.
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  This story came up, came up last week, I think very, very
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  interesting. And it's how they handled.
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  I'll read this headline for you. It's from the Guardian.
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  I'll bring it in so you can check out what I'm what I'm
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  actually reading here. Headline ABC defends Four
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  Corners crew who filmed planned protest at Woodside CEO's home.
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  There she is. That's the Woodside CEO to do
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  with the ABC has defended the actions of crew from Four
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  Corners. If you don't know Four Corners
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  is a program here in Australia. You know like a hard hitting
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  news program. They do investigative in
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  journalism, they planned. Who filmed a planned protest at
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  the Western Australian home of Woodside CEO after the state's
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  premier hit out at the public broadcaster, the Disrupt Barb
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  Hub activists. These activists have been a pain
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  in the butt for a long time now. You know, these are the kinds of
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  people that go and glue themselves to the road just
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  before peak hour and stop traffic anyway, so.
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  These activists have been heavily criticized for targeting
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  the home of Mega O'Neill on Tuesday, but reject suggestions
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  they had been attempting to threaten the chief executive.
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  They wouldn't threaten, they just make their laws very
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  uncomfortable and make you feel like you are being threatened.
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  But they don't actually threaten whatever the activists are
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  protesting. Against the ongoing development
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  of the Barrup Peninsula and Claimed Woodside has destroyed
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  thousands of sacred rock art sites as part of the development
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  of a large scale gas development known as the Barrup Hub.
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  Now the ABC has also come under fire as it had a reporter and
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  crew from the Four Corners program at the scene.
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  As protesters arrived. Disrupt Barrup Hub has released
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  images of the crew standing outside O'Neill's home.
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  O'Neill said in a statement that the protest was designed to
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  threaten me, my partner and their daughter in their home.
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  Such as extremists, should be condemned by anyone who respects
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  the law and beliefs. People should be safe to go
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  about their business at home and at work, The premier, WA Premier
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  Cook, he alleged. The ABC clearly had prior notice
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  and understood that and understood these people were
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  going to the CEO's house, her personal home, to take this
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  action. So I'll be seeking answers.
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  Contacting senior management to understand what it is they knew
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  and why they didn't take action to inform the police.
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  So an ABC spokesman defended the conduct of its reporter and
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  crew. This is, this is where I say the
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  ABC. Repeat the ABC.
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  Treat the public, the general public like we're just idiots,
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  you and I. We're fools.
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  We've got we we are not intelligent enough to understand
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  these. Highfalutin things are we?
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  So this spokesman has said that a Four Corners team had attended
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  the protest to gather material for a potential report later
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  this year. They had received a tip to go to
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  an address just prior, just prior to the action occurring,
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  and had no knowledge of what was there, including that it was a
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  person's house. I mean, really.
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  Including that it was a person's house.
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  They had no knowledge. They this person, this
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  spokesperson's treating us like we're idiots.
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  They had no knowledge. I'll tell you what, You type in
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  an address, you get an address. Type it in your phone.
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  You've got Apple Maps. The Apple one you type in the
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  address, it'll come up with a little pin on the address.
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  It also comes up with a a picture of the house.
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  Even if it doesn't have a picture, it comes up and shows
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  you the street, like a picture of the street and, you know, a
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  formation of the houses in that street.
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  I mean, you type it into Google Maps, the same thing it comes up
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  with the picture, comes up with the Street View, and they
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  they're trying to tell us they'd received a tip to go to an
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  address, but they had no knowledge what was there,
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  including that it was a person's house.
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  They're treating us like we're flipping idiots.
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  Can't stand them. When they arrived, the police
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  were already in tenants in numbers.
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  The ABC team remained on public land, observing what was
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  happening and getting some vision, as journalists do.
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  They at no time went on to private property or had
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  involvement in what was happening.
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  The ABC, the ABC team in no way colluded with the activists.
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  OK, OK. OK.
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  We're all just fools. We don't know what's going on.
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  They didn't collude? No way.
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  Environmental activists involved in the protests that they
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  suspected this part's actually funny.
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  They suspected W Australian police were using sophisticated
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  surveillance techniques, including listening devices, to
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  track their activities after the protest was thwarted by police.
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  OK, I spent a little bit of time working.
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  I think I've told everyone you know in the.
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  The COVID surveillance world, just a few years.
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  I tell you what, if you're if you if you're planning a protest
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  and you know you're trying to keep it on the DL and you rock
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  up at it, said protest address where you know obviously no
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  people live there as the ABC would have You listen, think and
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  the police are already there. Yeah, there's there's a good,
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  there's a it's a good chance that they're actually, they're
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  actually listening, listening in on your conversation somewhere.
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  But As for this Australian police, West Australian police,
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  using sophisticated, sophisticated surveillance
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  techniques, I'll tell you what, it ain't that sophisticated
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  these days. It's just commonplace.
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  Hey, but you know protesters, if you ever need any tips.
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  I can hook you up with some good advice.
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  It'll cost you, but I what do you say?
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  It is deeply troubling that a dozen WA Police officers were
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  present ahead of number publicized peaceful climate
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  protest. Are they spying on protesters?
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  The spokesperson said. I hope they are spying on
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  protesters cause I for one and sick and tired of these clowns
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  coming, they go and throw paint on on paintings.
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  They go and glue themselves to the road, you know, they glue
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  themselves into canoes and then glue the glue the canoe to the
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  road to the bridge like they're doing in Brisbane.
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  It's time that we, I won't say that don't advocate violence,
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  but heck, you know, when someone goes and glues themselves to the
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  road, I think sometimes I think, well, maybe they just need to
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  reap the consequences of their own stupidity.
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  So. Goes on to say, well disruptive
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  bar up Hub was prevented from carrying out a peaceful action
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  today by heavy-handed preemptive policing.
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  It was not a failure. Look the the rest of his
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  garbage. My my main issue here is like I
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  said, these activists just absolute they need to be stopped
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  and good on Western Australian police and the ABC.
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  Again, like I said, treating us like we're idiots because, you
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  know, they received an address. Only just prior had no idea that
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  it was actually a house where people would live.
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  We thought it was just like a rabbit Sparrow, apparently.
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  Let me know what you think. I think the ABC bunch of lefty
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  nufties, they need to actually bring in some, you know, get a
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  bit more, change their reporting a little more And so it's a
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  little more diverse. Little more diversity.
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  Maybe not have just all left wing, maybe have some people
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  with opposing views and get away from treating the Australian
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  public like we are adults. You can't see exactly what's
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  going on, can't see through their lives.
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  Let me know what you think. It's all my opinion.
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  Thanks for listening to the slippery slope.