LOL

Dutton gave a good ol' smack-down to an ABC "Journalist" ...


PETER DUTTON AND ABC JOURNALIST'S STOUSH IN FULL

Reporter: With Hezbollah you're saying being responsible for the deaths of women and children, groups have commented on the hypocrisy of that situation because there are no bans currently on Israeli flags being raised, despite 45,000 people dying at the hands of the Israeli government.

Dutton: Israel is a democracy. It's not run by a terrorist organisation. Hezbollah is a terrorist organisation, they’re a listed terrorist organisation and if people are in favour of a terrorist organisation they should declare it and authorities can deal with them.

Reporter: And if not the number of deaths, what determines.... What determines the fact that Hezbollah is a terrorist organisation even though-?

Dutton: Where are you from, I'm sorry? Which organisation?

Reporter: Um, ABC.

Dutton: ABC. So what's the question from the ABC just to be very clear?

Reporter: I just wanted to find out because groups have commented...

Dutton: No, no. But you asked about the listing of the organisation. I just didn't understand that question I'm sorry.

Reporter: Ah, yep. So, ah.

Dutton: This is a question from Canberra is it? You're reading it from a phone?

Reporter: Ah, no. So ah. Just wanted to ask in terms of, ah, looking into that for the investigation, you've asked the Prime Minister and the minister (Tony Burke) to direct the AFP in its investigation.

Dutton: No. That wasn't the question you asked. What was the question you asked?

Reporter: I just wanted to understand.

Dutton: No, you asked a question about the listing so just ask that question again.

Reporter: So if you could sort of explain what determines something as a terrorist organisation?

Dutton: Well I had presumed up until this point at least the ABC supported the government's laws. And the government has passed laws, supported on a bipartisan basis, but not by the ABC it seems, in relation to the prescribing or the listing of a terrorist organisation. Hezbollah under Australian law is a listed terrorist organisation. Now if the ABC doesn't support that they should be very clear about it because I think that's quite a departure.

Reporter: That's not what I'm ...

Dutton: But you asked me why the country has listed Hezbollah. They're a terrorist organisation. They're organise terrorist attacks and if that is not clear to the ABC, then I think the ABC is in greater trouble than even I first imagined.

Reporter: That wasn’t my question




The scandal is set to engulf the public broadcaster in fresh controversy just days after ABC Chair Kim Williams warned young journalists against taking activist viewpoints on stories.

"Many of our younger journalists have a much more activist view of the role of journalism, and a much more policy-prosecutorial approach to their journalism," he said last week at the 2024 Lowy Institute Media Award Dinner.

"And I’m sure that any of the editors in the room would readily confirm what I am saying.

"In the case of the ABC, that is simply not available to those journalists. And not only is it to be discouraged, it is to be ardently opposed," Mr Williams said.

Hezbollah’s External Security Organisation was officially designated as a terrorist organisation by the Australian government during the Howard administration.

The United States and European Union have both also deemed the armed wing of Hezbollah as a terrorist organisation.

Hezbollah has engaged in various terrorist activities, including abductions, suicide bombings, car bombings, political assassinations and rocket attacks.

Iran has been funded most of Hezbollah’s activities, while the group also receives funding from criminal enterprises and Lebanese diaspora. 

Additionally, Hezbollah has been implicated in planning terrorist operations and providing support to other terror groups, including assistance to Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hamas.


https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/opposition-leader-peter-dutto...

We should sell the ABC taxpayers shouldn't be funding their rubbish.

If Lefties want to watch it they can put up with ads like everyone else.

John Smith wrote on Oct 1^st, 2024 at 3:51pm:


Israel is bombing sites where Hezbollah fire rockets and gather to make mischief.

Fair targets.... the Average Leb (most are pretty average) has been warned well in advance to get out of the way.

We should restrict ME immigration to only those who are clearly benign refugee seekers and Christians and a few others, such as Druze etc.     Saves on hunting them down for waving bad flags... NO flags here but national and state ones....

Bring on the Ensign Eliminators...

Just because the ABC might know about what makes something terrorist organisation, etc, the viewers might not - and giving Dutton an opportunity to get message across to viewers - instead he went wacko.

John Smith wrote on Oct 1^st, 2024 at 3:51pm:


Wrong. They are bombing sites from which Hezbollah operates, either weapons storage, sites which are used to make strikes into Israel or sites where terrorists eat, sleep, meet for various purposes. The problem is that most of these sites are in populated areas in buildings filled with civilians. They use Lebanese citizens as human shields and the Lebanese government clearly has no issue with this. Why do you think Israel issues warnings for residents in certain buildings or towns to leave prior to carrying out strikes? It’s not the fault of Israel if Lebanon allows terrorists to use their people as human shields. Hamas has done the same in Gaza, using apartment buildings and hospitals in an attempt to prevent strikes by Israel. Is it sad when civilians get killed or injured in these strikes? Absolutely. But what else can Israel do other than warning residents of an impending strike? They can’t leave those missile sites to allow them to continue striking inside Israel.

Daves2017 wrote on Oct 4^th, 2024 at 6:26pm:

The ABC said an exchange between a female reporter and Peter Dutton was “not a piece of reporting” or a position taken by the ABC after she asked him to explain why Hezbollah was a terrorist organisation and Israeli flags were not banned.

At a tense lunchtime press conference on Tuesday, ABC reporter Anushri Sood....

Armchair_Politician wrote on Oct 4^th, 2024 at 7:05pm:



Have you ever heard Israel say any site they bombed anywhere was not used to hide terrorists or launch rockets at them? Even when they get proven wrong they still repeat their lies, and you keep swallowing it, hook, line and sinker.

Armchair_Politician wrote on Oct 5^th, 2024 at 9:46am:


I'm not surprised. You like getting it wrong.

thegreatdivide wrote on Oct 5^th, 2024 at 12:34pm:



devestating death toll?

who writes this crap.

obama and the saudis have killed 2 million in yemen

why the exageration

John Smith wrote on Oct 1^st, 2024 at 3:51pm:


Exactly.

thegreatdivide wrote on Oct 5^th, 2024 at 6:16pm:


Australian government declares a organisation terrorist by passing law in parliament .

This particular vote was supported by both the Lnp and labor.

She ( I hope) is mentally capable of google the answer to her nothing question.

As far as how Israeli has come to be, what?

You have a time machine and your going to send her back in time where she will change all history by saying, no, I  from the abc and you may never heard of me but my mum thinks I’m great and I command all the world and I order you not to do it?

Ffs, big hat, no cattle

I landed my dream job ... and turned it down

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Daves2017 wrote on Oct 5^th, 2024 at 8:53pm:


That should be the  job of the UN, not the Oz parliament. 

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Yeh... both f**kwits who are willing to risk destroying the world over an ideological conflict between Chinese people living on Taiwan and the mainland.

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She, like all fair-minded people, are revolted by Israel's ongoing genocide.

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It "came to be"  by a UN vote to partition the  Palestine Mandate land. See UN res 181.

The UN should have enforced that resolution, by laying down the law  to trouble-makers on either side.

Or rather, Israel should NOT have been recognized by the UN, until the provisions  of UN res. 181 could be securely implemented.

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See above. She's revolted by the ongoing genocide in Gaza, and oppressive occupation of the WB. 

thegreatdivide wrote on Dec 3^rd, 2024 at 11:23am:



Explained

https://x.com/CherylWroteIt/status/1863513333824880782

Frank wrote on Dec 3^rd, 2024 at 11:59am:


I already explained it, are you dementing?

(Don't need to read 'Cheryl wrote it' (!)....)
 

Frank wrote on Dec 4^th, 2024 at 10:54am:


Actually the world needs public media which can counter the self-interest of the corporate world, epitomised by Murdoch's rags.

The ABC invariably wins all the awards for journalism at the Walkleys and other awards.  The ABC is the most trusted news source in Australia.  It has the best current affairs programs.  Murdock is usually down near the bottom, pushing some idealogical viewpoint which can easily be discarded by most intelligent consumers.  They like idiots like Dutton and Trump who can be easily manipulated.  Tsk, tsk, tsk... 

The ABC has been hijacked by the Media Left to pump it's bias Woke Leftism.
Only losers watch the ABC these days. Taxpayers should no longer be forking out for its TDS rubbish. But it shows what grifters the Left are.

Your aimless curiosity is inefficient.

You don't understand anything much.
Your Media is no longer the truth on Politics and should stick to Eurovision and the Voice with Delta and a Seal. 😆

Aww diddims.

Go watch your ABC and do your Wordles like a good boy for Aunty and her purple hair.😆

What, no comeback? Peccary's white flag accepted.

Frank wrote on Mar 23^rd, 2025 at 4:27pm:


Ok.

So what IS your number one source?

Frank wrote on Mar 23^rd, 2025 at 5:13pm:


Another conservative too embarrassed to say where they get their "news".

Oh dear.

My number one source is the ABC, and I'm extremely proud to say that.

They're not perfect, but they're better than social media apps designed for teenage girls (seems a bit creepy that you guys use those things).

Did you find any good stories about Slovenian hookers in the latest edition of Delo?

I'm curious.

Frank wrote on Mar 23^rd, 2025 at 5:49pm:


Too embarrassed.

Oh dear   

Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM wrote on Mar 23^rd, 2025 at 6:06pm:


Simple question: what's your number one news source?

And they can't even attempt to answer it.

Pathetic, sad and quite telling.

Setanta wrote on Mar 23^rd, 2025 at 7:27pm:


Indeed.  I consult many different sources.  Many.

However, it seems that English is not your strong suit.

Here's the question, once again:

"What's your number one news source?"

Now, do you understand what "number one" implies?

And, can you see anywhere in that sentence where I ask "What is your only source of news?"?

I'm curious.

So, what's your number one news source?

Too embarrassed to answer?

Setanta wrote on Mar 23^rd, 2025 at 8:01pm:


White flag accepted.

Why are conservatives too embarrassed to reveal their number one news source?

I'm curious.

Looks like a fair cop to me ...

Those of us accused by the IDEOLOGUES of following the IDEOLOGY of Sky News are batty - I pop into Sky maybe once a week for a minute or two while scanning channels... and find my information sources everywhere... including poor old ABC.

Once upon a time - if you can recall - I said that NITV often had some good things to say - HOWEVER .................... given their antics and the antics of Abophiles, I have turned right off any special consideration for television for Abos etc.

WokeBC has fallen into disrepute by its own sword... pushing propaganda for the 'woke' version of life ...

Frank doesn't read "news", Greg. He's most often surprised by it when it comes across him. What Frank does is ingest the opinion pieces of bloated, supercilious, entitled old white guys who are salty because everyone isn't white and it isn't 1960 anymore.

Frank reads these pieces (and unkindly shares them with us in lieu of establishing an argument outside of petty putdowns) so he can congratulate himself on agreeing with someone slightly more relevant than him. Loud "hear, hears" must be heard by Mrs. Frank in the kitchen when the latest Spectator opinion piece lands in the old boy's inbox. And Frank can congratulate himself for being right all along ... as a miserable old bigoted misanthrope.

He's not alone.

And this is why he's so excited about Trump. Tell him something just awful and arguably illegal Trump did; show him the footage, quote him the text, give it to him in Trump's own words and he'll call you a whole bunch of names, liar the most telling. He doesn't care. What he cares about is that Trump shares his prejudices and is acting on them.

That's all it takes.

So news? To Frank?

Inconsequential.

As for me ... i , like Setanta get my news from varied sources but if i'm researching something and there's an ABC link to the subject, i'll most definitely check that out first.

I trust the ABC over any other mainstream source in this country. So do the overwhelming number of Australians. Most trusted news media, consistently.

Thanks, Aunty.

Pecker thinks he's Waleed interviewing Setanta and others on the Panel.

"bloated, supercilious, entitled old white guys who are salty because everyone isn't white and it isn't 1960 anymore."

This hilarious comment lead me to wonder exactly which 'culture' mothra and the ABC chodes would prefer to live under......

Indonesian?

Malaysian?

Indian?

Chinese?

Pakistani?

Afghan?

African?

Gazan?

Syrian?

Russian?

Lebanese?

North Korean?

Central American?

South American?

Saudi?

Iranian?

Maori?

Aborigine?

You know the list by now... funny thing is - ALL the cultures in which mothra would be able to do the things 'she' claims to be doing, and make the utterances 'she' does - are the cultures of 'old white guys', who built them from the dust and mud, and installed the standards 'she' enjoys, and defend and protect them.

Those other cultures would whip, stone, throw acid in the face of, hang, behead, machete to death, shoot, club to death, stab, spear, literally skin alive, or imprison in a dank dungeon (just for starters) each and every one of those blue-haired, lithpy, whining, 'woke', outspoken 'men' and women dressed like whores etc, characters from the ABC - and the likes of mothra. ... and yet these chodes claim to love those cultures over their own.

It's a form of mental illness.

**mothra I refer to as 'she' because 'she' is an internet persona - meaning not necessarily what 'she' claims to be.

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stunspore wrote on Oct 4^th, 2024 at 4:13pm:



What? are they all as thick as you?

Dutton put the idiot journo in his place.

Frank wrote on Oct 5^th, 2024 at 4:39am:


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Another diversity hire & true to her format articles on that drug crazed phuk at Yuendemu who stabbed 2 coppers before he was shot dead in self defence.

Casting doubt over the copper who was found not guilty of murder after the investigation but not before his own boss & the Labor Minister threw him under the bus.

Frank wrote on Mar 25^th, 2025 at 8:13am:


Excellent.

How could anyone have an issue with that?

Frank wrote on Mar 25^th, 2025 at 8:13am:



It's more a propaganda arm of the Govt of the day but with a left leaning bias.

greggerypeccary wrote on Mar 25^th, 2025 at 7:52pm:



Reuters is the least biased in the world - I believe.

Peccary gets his from his Aunty with purple hair and a shawl called the ABC. 

Reuters is a partner of Covering Climate Now. They dissemble alarmist storylines.

"The Associated Press and the New York Times, however, avoided such pitfalls. Both news organizations employed a journalistic technique known as “a truth sandwich.” A concept developed by the linguist George Lakoff and backed by media critics including Margaret Sullivan and Brian Stelter, a truth sandwich starts by stating the factual truth, then reports the false claim, then restates what’s true. The AP story began by reporting that some of the world leaders gathered at the UN “are watching their citizens die in floods, hurricanes and heat waves, all exacerbated by climate change.” "

...

"The Reuters playbook endorses the same approach but uses a different term for it, FWEF, which stands for: “State the Fact. Warn the audience they’re about to hear a lie. Explain how the lie misleads. Restate the Fact.”

https://coveringclimatenow.org/from-us-story/reporting-the-truth-when-politician...

However, the truth is more prosaic. The IPCC finds no trend in floods, hurricanes are getting less, the ACE index shows no trend on intensity, and more people still die from cold, even in Australia, than heat.

Daves2017 wrote on Oct 19^th, 2025 at 6:56pm:



We're just a 2 bit player in the world.   

Tens of thousands of Sydney radio listeners have deserted the ABC in the latest ratings survey. When this happens to commercial radio networks, there are panicked phone calls, urgent meetings between executive producers, frantic exchanges between advertisers and marketing sales people and invariably a reshuffling of advertising priorities and schedules followed inevitably by a changing of the on-air guard. Some seasoned presenters may even lose their jobs, as other young talent find themselves suddenly being given the opportunity of a lifetime.

But of course, it’s completely different over at the ABC. To be sure, there will be a few embarrassed conversations, some awkward swapping of plans, but essentially it’s business as usual. Because unlike commercial radio, the ABC hierarchy knows more than a billion dollars is coming their way regardless of how well they perform.

Which is why over the years, much like the BBC in Britain, the ABC has become an echo-chamber of hard-left political activism across all its platforms in a manner that has only one inevitable result: viewers switch off.

The collapse of not only watchability but also political relevance has been most evident on the ABC’s flagship political television programmes, like Insiders, Q&A (now discontinued, which says it all), The Drum, 7.30 and so on. Although these shows still go through the motions, they lack the bite and insights of previous years, offering up instead a tedious diet of Trump Derangement Syndrome, insufferable wokism and non-stop pandering to indigenous activism. It is indigestible gruel of little substance and even less spice or flavour.

Meanwhile, back in ABC radioland, Sydney breakfast man Craig Reucassel, formerly of The Chaser comedy shows, had his worst result in his two years hosting the show, the morning lightweight Hamish Macdonald lost market share, the afternoon’s James O’Loghlin also dropped, while drivetime host Chris Bath crashed to an abysmal 4.9 per cent market share. Failure all around.

There is no justification for the taxpayer propping up these losers. The next non-Labor government must commit to immediately putting the ABC onto a subscription basis, so that, hopefully, the icy wind of commercial competition forces them to lift their game

Brian Ross wrote on Nov 27^th, 2025 at 2:08pm:

The Spectator is a weekly British political and cultural news magazine. It was first published in July 1828, making it the oldest magazine in the world.



Pretty, pretty, pretty good, no?

The ABC is a propaganda arm of the Govt of the day.