I’m part-way through Paul Barry’s biography of Kerry Packer, called “The Rise and Rise of Kerry Packer”, and I’ve been struck by a couple of passages.
In the 1930s Packer’s grandfather, R.C. Packer (the man who started the newspaper empire) wrote in his newspaper “Smith’s Weekly”:
“The free spirit of Australians will not long tolerate a Soviet with its bullies and parasites.
Week by week, the Communist misrule of New South Wales flings more men into unemployment and plies fresh burdens on the productive power of the people.
The manhood of the nation is in revolt against these evils. They cannot be tolerated … Liberty-loving Australians will kick to perdition the attempted tyranny of Lang.”
At the time, Packer was railing against Jack Lang, the New South Wales Premier, who was installed as leader of the NSW Labor Party by the Australian Worker’s Union. Yep, that’d be the same AWU that installed Ju-liar Gil-tard and is currently wrapped up with her in allegations of fraud so massive they could bring down the Federal Government. The words Packer wrote back then apply equally today. Unpopular, over-reaching and pandering ALP governments have been swept from power in almost every single state and territory, and Australians are champing at the bit for an opportunity to show the federal ALP exactly what they think of their 1950s Soviet-style class warfare.
Interestingly, Lang later called for a Commission of Inquiry into the media (really, he wanted to target and destroy the Packers). The parallels with today’s Labor Party are kind of eery.
A quick skim through the first couple of chapters of the book, which focus on Kerry Packer’s father and grandfather, reveal that the Australian Labor Party has, at least since the 1920s, been (a) a criminal gang controlled by the Australian Workers Union, and (b) a gang that thinks nothing of engaging in bribery, bullying, corruption and class warfare to get its grubby paws on power.
Thanks in no small part to Frank Packer (Kerry’s father), the Australian Labor Party was kept out of office from 1949 to 1973. If Australia really is “the lucky country”, it will be thanks in large part to the Australian Labor Party that it will be kept out of office from 2012 until at least 2112.
Call an election Ju-Liar. It’s time for your performance review. :gunner
Labour (Democratic) goverments from around the world have been responsible for destroying one country after another. It is hard to keep them out because they buy their votes with the voters’ money…………by promising the voters more of OPM (other peoples money). People are so easily seduced! :rant
@mawm:
Great Minds think alike.
I’ve said the same thing for years.
In Australia, Britain, Canada, New Zealand, and America – The English speaking Left has been engaged in a vast international effort spanning decades to destroy Anglo-Saxon liberty!
Clearly, we patriots of the Anglosphere have to launch an equally vast international effort to remove Leftists from all positions of government authority in our various countries, because like rats they run from one country to the next spreading the deadly virus of Marxism in many forms.
We need an Anglosphere Tea Party Movement that has at the top its agenda the complete destruction of socialism under any name.
…and we have already started our “Committee of Correspondence” in the true revolutionary cause of freedom on scores of electronic bbs that span the world.
This guy is a genius!
http://youtu.be/oQvdgE_qAQI
The plan to keep America Awesome!
Pain collars for members of Congress, so if they spend too much they get zapped.
The cost of running government spread equally among citizens. If you can’t pay you get chucked out. If you’re a compassionate person, you work to make government as small as possible.
Defence policy is giant killer robots and space lasers.
Shock collars sound good,better still we can apply the same treatment to TV personalities like Chris Matthews,then he really would have a tingle run up his leg every time Obama speaks
I think you will ‘like’ this .
Peter Schiff: “Tax Or Ban 100% of Profits? Make Them Pay”.
Peter Schiif interviews individuals at the DNC.
http://youtu.be/lG-kpNiLWf4
I had that on my watch list, Robert. I still struggle to believe Leftists are quite that stupid, but we see evidence every single day that yes, in fact they are.
Not the Leftists ruling elite, they are not stupid.
Top China official Ling Jihua in surprise demotion
There have been reports that his son’s involvement in a Ferrari car crash may have been to blame.
The Communist Party would have wanted to avoid a scandal that exposed the privileged lifestyle of the ruling elite.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-19467312
And who says history doesn’t repeat?
This looks like a great read.
It’s pretty fascinating, cadwaller, insofar as there was at least some balance to the newspaper content in those days; the political “right” had a voice.
I’m not sure whether it’s the author’s lefitsh leanings (there’s some pretty loud dog-whistling going on) or if it was just the times they were living in, but Frank Packer is certainly reporting as have used the Sydney Telegraph papers as his personal weapon. He loathed the Labor Party and their masters in the union movement, and went all-out to destroy them in the editorial pages. News content was what Packer decided it would be. Robert Menzies (by all accounts Australia’s best-ever Prime Minister in his own right) was supported unfailingly. And Packer railed on topics that protected his personal interests (including attacking and hounding from office the Menzies government’s Federal Treasurer when he tried to unwind a massive tax-avoidance scheme which would have cost Packer hundreds of thousands of pounds).
Against this backdrop, I can certainly understand why the political Left would want to silence Conservative voices (the Murdoch papers are the “hate press” for publishing articles sceptical of “climate change science” and scathing of the Gil-tard government’s carbon dioxide tax), and why they would have worked so diligently to prevent Gina Reinhart (aka Public Enemy Number One) from taking over and saving Fairfax!
An authentic member of the US House of Representatives
http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/418674/september-04-2012/better-know-a-district—new-york-s-9th—yvette-clarke
With this kind of Representatives what could go wrong ?