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News Corp has no shame in having no standards

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From Independent Australia
14th December 2023

Rupert Murdoch's News Corp relies on underhand news-gathering practices that present a lack of journalistic integrity.

Murdoch article drums up hysteria with factual errors

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From Independent Australia
23rd January 2024

Blatant factual errors in an article published by The Australian on the Government's immigration strategy could have been avoided with simple fact-checking.

Facts and figures confirm Murdoch’s minions are continually lying to you

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From Independent Australia
29th July 2024

News Corp in Australia systematically distorts the ‘news’ it publishes, this time on bankruptcies.

Murdoch presenters and executives admit they lie to you routinely

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From Independent Australia
13th March 2023

The latest court documents provide damning proof of News Corp’s intentional malice and mendacity.

Liberals incite Far-Right to lynch Andrews

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From Independent Australia
18th November 2021

Managing editor Michelle Pini takes a look at the latest Melbourne protests, where society's scariest gather, fuelled by complicit Liberal Party politicians.

Conspiracy cults breeding terrorism through protests

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From independent Australia
24th November 2021

Protests by right-wing groups over vaccine mandates have seen a rise in extremist behaviour, with death threats carried out against politicians.

Coalition provocation and silence fueling ugly Melbourne 'protests'

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From independent Australia
18th November 2021

Before we focus on the people at the Melbourne "protests", we should consider the messaging that got them there and the complicit silence that enabled them.

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At Morpheth yesterday Morning.

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Looking around and having fun in Morpheth yesterday morning

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Jennifer & I were out and about in Morpheth yesterday morning

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Jennifer & I visited The Dave Sands Memorial yesterday.

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Jennifer & I were out and about in Dungog yesterday afternoon.

Swan named world's best treasurer

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From abc.net.au
21st September 2011.

Treasurer Wayne Swan has been awarded the prestigious finance minister of the year award for his handling of the Australian economy.

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From independent Australia
2nd September 2024

Chalmers on track to join Keating and Swan as world’s best treasurer

The latest economic news confirms the Albanese Government is responding to uncertain times remarkably well, as Alan Austin reports.

Doomsayers proved wrong again as businesses expand and prosper

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From independent Australia
1st September 2025

Official data on Australia’s economy continue to undermine the Albanese Government’s critics.

Data shows Queensland Labor's economy outperforms other states again

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Independent Australia
10th June 2024

As elections approach, the mainstream media are ramping up efforts to deceive voters into reinstalling the Coalition, Alan Austin reports.

We really must talk about the Howard and Costello economic disaster

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There's nothing like a splash of colour on a dull, cloudy day! Thanks Mr King Parrot. 🪶 #Birds #AustralianWildlife #Parrots

A male king parrot on a bird feeder tray.

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From about the 20th-ranked economy in 1982, Australia had risen by 1996 to sixth in the world — behind only the United Arab Emirates, Norway, Singapore, Japan and the United States.

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From independent Australia
3rd September 2013

According to the LNP and their old media campaign team, Howard and Costello were brilliant economic managers; Alan Austin debunks this obvious furphy decisively.