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Cheeky Commodore Gamer Revisits Insects in Space C64
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UK Gaming Network Revisits Hewson’s Best Commodore 64 Games
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#Auspol #Hanson #Hewson #AustralianInstitutions
In terms of practicalities, it is hard to see how a new funding model separating the ABC’s city and country audiences could work. The ABC supports all of Australia and to further constrain its funding would seriously restrict its capacity to produce news across the country, along with Australian drama and children’s television. This would also put a real strain on its community emergency broadcasting, and local news and radio would likely suffer.
It is unfortunate that some bitter and twisted members of the Coalition are also calling for the privatisation of the national broadcaster. Do we really want an Australia where local voices and creativity are swamped by the global streaming and technology giants – a further Americanisation of our country?
Most importantly, in relation to the institution of our media, never should we see a leader threaten journalists for daring to pose a legitimate question. Hanson’s treatment of Guardian Australia reporter Sarah Martin was a conspicuous example of her vindictiveness towards the media, as was her banning the ABC from press conferences. All this is a direct lift from the Trump playbook. In her National Press Club question time, Hanson ducked a request to hold daily pressers during the next campaign.
There are also crucial questions to be explored about what Pauline Hanson would do with the Fair Work Commission. In a cost-of-living crisis, she has attacked struggling workers. She claims to represent ordinary Australians and yet has opposed all recent increases in the minimum wage and industrial relations reforms that have clearly benefited them. Meanwhile, her wage has increased significantly, despite her continuing failure to fully attend to her Senate duties.
It is also hard to understand Hanson’s opposition to childcare, especially as a single mother. Undoubtedly, the system needs reform and improvement. There is a widespread public belief that it is easily abused and exploited and that it still falls short of helping those families in most need. Carers and early-childhood educators are mostly women and are often underpaid by profit-making centres.
Finally, among the most disturbing features of the Hanson circus for me is her constant brandishing of the term “patriot”. Whatever Hanson’s disenfranchised, disappointed and disillusioned constituency may be, true patriots they are not. Just like Donald Trump, she has appropriated the term to alienate anyone who does not share her very narrow and wildly underdeveloped vision for our country. Her irresponsible use of this term is simply divisive: it is destructive nationalism.
Our country needs to be united. Real patriots – if this term is so important, it must be understood – want a country that strives to be better for all Australians, not just a select few. Hanson’s vision is dangerous.

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3/x The value of our institutions cont

And though they are all influenced by the experiences in Europe and the US, where surging migration has become a serious issue, these scenarios are not replicated in Australia. We are an immigrant nation. More than half our population is born overseas or has at least one parent born overseas. One of our major policy successes since World War II has been our development of a tolerant multicultural, multiracial, multireligious society that is the envy of many other countries – and the benefit to Australians is a richness of experiences, opportunities and lifestyle. This needs to be recognised and seen as a work in progress to be nurtured, not undone by silly calls for a monoculture.
First-generation migrants will have significant sway in the outer metro and city seats that Hanson hopes to win – and many of them will not be receptive to her message, including her anti-Muslim rhetoric. Moreover, though her remarks on immigration may be “raw meat” to her base, she can’t push too hard – business owners and farmers in regional communities in particular need the workforce.
One of Hanson’s most Trumpian approaches is her vilification of the media. She has threatened to abolish SBS and to partly privatise the ABC, charging people in the cities a subscription fee while maintaining free services to regional Australia.
We have a commitment to free speech and a strong independent public broadcaster in the ABC. Our media represents our commitment to the truth and accountability.
The attack on SBS is supposed to signify an end to multiculturalism, as Hanson sees the service encouraging reliance on languages other than English. Hanson wants to demonise those who speak other languages in their homes, and who educate their kids accordingly. This dig at the broadcaster is also to the detriment of the Australian viewing public who, like my family and me, would miss SBS’s excellent programs and entertainment – including the World Cup soccer.
Hanson’s threat regarding the ABC is just cheap politics. ABC News is the market leader for genuine and reliable news, while her preferred outlet, Sky News, operates more as an unregistered political party. It runs explicit agendas, throwing its weight behind the Coalition in recent federal polls, increasingly ineffectually as their champions Scott Morrison and Peter Dutton have disappointed them. I assume Hanson is hoping to shift Sky’s support to One Nation. She may well achieve this, with the support of her new chief policy adviser, mining magnate Gina Rinehart, whose companies are also significant funders of Sky News events.

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Hanson started her National Press Club speech by refusing to acknowledge Country and First Australians and outlining her intention to cut assistance to First Nations communities. Her refusal to recognise Indigenous heritage as the basis on which modern Australia has been built is disturbing, as is her failure to respect the world’s longest-surviving culture of more than 60,000 years.
The undercurrent to most of Hanson’s remarks is a pining for a “white Australia”, despite a half-century of policy explicitly geared to developing a multicultural Australia, backed by strong anti-discrimination legislation, a Human Rights Commission and a culturally diverse broadcaster in SBS.
Hanson made it clear she would abolish the AHRC. Similarly, she committed to fire the Sex Discrimination Commissioner, and she punched down hard on the two leaders. The AHRC has long been a target of certain members of the Coalition who don’t understand or accept the need to avoid division and hate speech and to treat all people with dignity and respect. It cannot be denied that the AHRC has played a very important role in our society in enforcing anti-discrimination and hate speech laws against those, like Hanson, who seek to use inflammatory and racist rhetoric for some perceived short-term political gain.
I recall that former prime minister Tony Abbott, now Liberal Party president, rejected the AHRC report on the inhumane treatment of children in immigration detention. The conservative think tank the Institute for Public Affairs, at the time headed by Tim Wilson, wanted the commission abolished – Abbott later appointed Wilson to lead it as “freedom commissioner”, and push for repealing anti-hate speech laws in the Racial Discrimination Act.
It is very difficult to understand, let alone to accept, Hanson’s political thinking on immigration. The One Nation leader obviously believes she has a winning strategy with her proposed cuts to intake – which the Coalition has also made a centrepiece of its agenda. Indeed, it has become a bit of a contest between them as to who can be the toughest on immigration, clearly to our national detriment and disgrace.
Hanson and the Coalition are calling it wrong. Recent polling from RedBridge Group on what primarily motivates One Nation voters suggests it’s not immigration but rather a desire to disrupt the two-party system and “politics as usual”.

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The value of our institutions

John Hewson is a professor at the ANU Crawford School of Public Policy and former Liberal opposition leader.

27th June, 2026 Saturday Paper
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Pauline Hanson’s speech to the National Press Club should have convinced most people of her incapacity to govern our nation. She was on song with her written speech, cataloguing resentments and grievances, and was both unscripted and unhinged in response to media questioning – which, to be fair, wasn’t all that incisive.
The media missed many opportunities to extract details of her so-called policies and electoral intentions. Voters are looking for answers, and they are entitled to be informed. Specifically, she said very little about what she believed was worth cherishing and protecting in Australia today. Surely it’s not politics, or politicians, but our institutions.
Institutions should matter more to us. Hanson’s Trumpian plan is to undermine or destroy all that is attractive about living in this country, attacking the very fabric of our society.
I have always been impressed by the wisdom of 19th-century English economist and essayist Walter Bagehot, who observed that “the characteristic danger of great nations ... is that they may at last fall from not comprehending the great institutions which they have created”.
To my mind, Australia is defined by its institutions and practices. There is so much here to be protected. In some cases, these structures need further development and reform, but they should not be attacked.
Looking at the big picture, we have a strong Constitution that has defined our federation, governments and substantive political structures and processes. Importantly, we have compulsory voting.
Our economic institutions are very strong, with the Treasury, Finance and Industry departments, the Productivity Commission and an independent Reserve Bank. We are emerging as a global leader in the essential energy transition, with our concentration on renewables and storage.
We have a strong and professional public service – in policy advice, design and delivery – and it is one of Hanson’s biggest targets. She clearly supports cuts, both in aggregate numbers and by closing departments against which she harbours prejudice. She has already singled out the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water – she joins United States President Donald Trump in claiming climate change is a hoax – and the National Indigenous Affairs Agency.

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Dieses Mal zeige ich euch das Spiel „Exolon“ von Nick Jones aus dem Hause Hewson aus dem Jahre 1987. 🕹
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Fresh news from London report eminent archaeologist Sir Pericles Pemberton-Smyth is missing in the Sinu region, South America
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