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RaymondPierreL3 @[email protected] · 2026-04-22 · 02:59 UTC

Words of wisdom from #AmyRemeikis:

“There is very little curiosity outside of the business pages about why Rinehart is doing this (Sarah Martin at the Guardian a noted exception). Context has very rarely been a forte of mainstream media, which tends to see adding in historical facts and events in their total context as rubbing up against their ideas of ‘objectivity’. That’s always been a problem, but it’s becoming an increasing threat to our democracy, with legacy media – not just in Australia, but also in the US and the UK – showing itself incapable of handling a backslide in democracy, partly because it doesn’t see context and proper analysis of power as necessary.”
Source: https://www.deepcutnews.com

#ThisIsNotJournalism

#amyremeikis #thisisnotjournalism

RaymondPierreL3 @[email protected] · 2026-03-24 · 03:20 UTC

A thoughtful piece from #AmyRemeikis in The Point.

I would only argue that #fuel prices were not the main reason for the #RBA disastrous decision to raise the #CashRate to 4.1%. Bullock herself started her press conference with “the labour market’ is too tight. IOW, the RBA is considering low empoyment figures (seemingly arbritrarily so, the same as their arbitrary acceptable inflation window percentage) to be the cause for the underlying inflation (which is nowhere to be seen in the latest data, see Greg Jericho’s many articles on the matter).

https://thepoint.com.au/opinions/260324-soaring-petrol-prices-have-exposed-a-rotten-core-in-australia

#amyremeikis #fuel #rba #cashrate

RaymondPierreL3 @[email protected] · 2026-02-18 · 04:44 UTC

#AmyRemeikis is a political analyst not a forcaster of political fortunes, but even Amy is safe to call it these days...

"The conservatives have destroyed themselves [...] , but they have been victorious in creating a Labor Party that governs in their memory. One of the reasons the Liberals have crashed over the past two elections is because Labor has filled the space they would usually claim, while the Liberals have run so far to the right that their main opponent is One Nation."

So in a few words: we now have a labor govt in 'liberal' clothing which is likley to remain so until it is ousted by... yes, by what exactly? Is the electorate ready for the Greens to assume a pivotal role in govt? I don't know. Nor do I know whether the electorate is mad enough, angry enough to go the #Populist route - gosh, I hope not. But all of the above is hypothetical of course, until it comes about that is.
#AusPol #Labor #LiberalLight #ON #Greens