What the #LiberalParty itself needs to understand is that #NewsCorp is a foreign-owned communications business, with its own agenda of #fostering #hatred, #resentment and #division in order to sell advertising and subscriptions. Its alliance with the Liberals is in pursuit of those goals — not in pursuit of good policy. Its best interests are those of the Murdochs and other shareholders that are paramount to News Corp’s business model (which, let us remember, pays not a single cent of tax in Australia), not those of Australians.
That’s why News Corp will always encourage the Liberals to pursue policies that punch downward, that divide and alienate, that are about culture wars targeting minorities. We can complain about the toxic effects of fostering division and resentment, but in the words of that eminent statesman, Michael Corleone, it’s not personal, Sonny, it’s strictly business.
#auspol #NewsCorpse #Murdochracy
https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/05/05/news-corp-liberal-party-defeat-sky-news-coalition/
![Heather Cox Richardson Lincoln Reminds Us 4/17/2025
[In] 1858, Democrat Stephen Douglas complained that those coming together to oppose the Democrats were d ragtag coadlition whose members didn’t agree on much at all. Abraham Lincoln, who by then was speaking for the new party coalescing around that coalition, replied that Douglas “should remember that he took us by surprise— astounded us—by this measure. We were thunderstruck and stunned; and we reeled and fell in utter confusion. But we rose each fighting, grasping whatever he could first reach—a scythe—a pitchfork—a chopping axe, or a butcher's cleaver. We struck in the direction of the sound; and we are rapidly closing in upon him. He must not think to divert us from our purpose, by showing us that our drill, our dress, and our weadpons, are not entirely perfect and uniform. When the storm shall be past, he shall find us still Americans; no less devoted to the continued Union and prosperity of the country than heretofore.”](https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/114/359/523/217/028/868/original/0950cc49d928eeda.jpeg "Heather Cox Richardson Lincoln Reminds Us 4/17/2025
[In] 1858, Democrat Stephen Douglas complained that those coming together to oppose the Democrats were d ragtag coadlition whose members didn’t agree on much at all. Abraham Lincoln, who by then was speaking for the new party coalescing around that coalition, replied that Douglas “should remember that he took us by surprise— astounded us—by this measure. We were thunderstruck and stunned; and we reeled and fell in utter confusion. But we rose each fighting, grasping whatever he could first reach—a scythe—a pitchfork—a chopping axe, or a butcher's cleaver. We struck in the direction of the sound; and we are rapidly closing in upon him. He must not think to divert us from our purpose, by showing us that our drill, our dress, and our weadpons, are not entirely perfect and uniform. When the storm shall be past, he shall find us still Americans; no less devoted to the continued Union and prosperity of the country than heretofore.”")
