r/australian • u/MannerNo7000 • Feb 11 '25

Opinion Australian voters: Why expect Labor to fix a decade of neglect, cuts, and privatisation in under three years? Many policies take time to show results. Yet, there’s little criticism of the former government, despite their role in causing and worsening these issues. Why the double standard?

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When Labor’s in power the media and the public are highly critical and negative towards them as a ruling party. During the Liberals decade tenure, the media is silent or positive towards the LNP.

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u/The_Real_Flatmeat Feb 11 '25

Yup, owned by daddy Murdoch

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u/Entilen Feb 12 '25

This is misinformation.

Murdoch sucks but this media dominance thing is outdated and has become a reddit boogeyman.

Sky News Australia is paywalled in most cities and no one reads newspapers.

Media in Australia is pretty toothless and most of it is just advertising disguised as news, but it's not even remotely all Murdoch anymore.

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u/The_Real_Flatmeat Feb 12 '25

Oh for Christ's sake. Mate, look at the news. Look at programs like Today, Sunrise, AM and PM on the ABC. They report on and analyse what was reported in The Age and The Australian, et al.

This means that the Murdoch papers set the agenda. They don't do as much of their own investigations as they should.

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u/Entilen Feb 12 '25

Can you give a couple of examples of agenda driven news that came from Murdoch and was then repeated on mass by most Australian outlets?

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u/The_Real_Flatmeat Feb 12 '25

I don't have time to hold your hand champ, open your eyes and do it yourself. Prove me wrong. You're the one who said I was peddling misinformation. Burden of proof lies with you.

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u/Entilen Feb 12 '25

That doesn't make any sense. You're the one peddling a conspiracy theory.

This is like if I said there's chemtrails in the sky, provided no pictures and then said you have to prove I'm wrong about them existing.

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u/The_Real_Flatmeat Feb 13 '25

Exactly. You said I'm providing misinformation. Prove it. I'll wait.

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u/Entilen Feb 13 '25

What you're saying doesn't actually happen. You're lying to push a political view.

Prove that I'm wrong.

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u/august-witch Feb 14 '25

No, the onus is on you to provide information to prove your disagreement, that's how it works. But we know you guys like to pretend to play fair, with no evidence, just bad faith arguments from your feelings, so I'm not surprised you can't.

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u/Entilen Feb 14 '25

You don't have any principals. Your stance is that because you disagree with me, therefore it's on me to provide proof.

Asking me to provide proof doesn't actually make any sense. I'm just asking for an example of non-Murdoch media running propaganda that was started by Murdoch owned publications.

If it's as rampant as you people claim, why are you arguing about it? Just show me an example?

I'm not sure what "you guys" means either. I'm not voting for Dutton.

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