Nicolas Howe has been watching how the Fairfax, Murdoch and ABC media are treating alternatives to the population growth scenario of 35m plus. He finds that they are not giving them due representation and therefore biasing the debate. Letters not published. Rights of reply not balanced. His article confirms others on candobetter.org which have found this to be a consistent pattern with Australia's commercial mainstream media. They publish material to normalise population growth. They belong to the growth lobby. They have vested interest in population growth. As for the public media, the ABC - as has been pointed out before, it employs a number of ex-Murdoch journalists and allows professional property developers and other members of the growth lobby to dominate debate.
Murdoch media
Concerns about the Age, the Australian and the ABC censoring population debate
Australians were never asked and never gave permission for today's mass immigration
Anyone know about Paul Kelly's 'bargain'?"
"Paul Kelly argues in his The March of Patriots that there is a bargain between the Australian people and their governments. The Australian people accept a big, diverse and in many respects generous immigration program, so long as it is orderly and well controlled by the government." (Population growth lobbyist, Greg Sheridan, The Australian) See alsoInterview' with Paul Kelly yet more free ABC advertising for Rupert Murdoch
Vote on whether a population of 35m would be good (ninemsn)
'Interview' with Paul Kelly yet more free ABC advertising for Rupert Murdoch

The Murdoch press promotion of Paul Kelly's misnamed book The March of Patriots, chronicling the Prime Ministerships of Paul Keating and the early years of John Howard's, has been supplemented, at taxpayers' expense, by Brisbane ABC local radio stations Conversations program.
See also: "Review of Naomi Klein's 'The Shock Doctrine'" of 21 Nov 07
Pornography and the Celebrity Bestiality Report - Economic trends today
Pornography is not just about getting naked, or having sex, or even recording, depicting or describing it. It requires an element of commerce. Lots of people think they can get rich from it, and some very big household-name corporations have diversified into this area, including GMH and the Murdoch Press. Perhaps they hope to have a pornography-led recovery from the global financial crisis? Anyway, it seems like just about everyone is involved, whether they like it or not...
If this is not democracy - then what is?
In an article written in 2007, Tony Ryan of the Tariff Restoration Bloc shows how Australia's formal democratic inititutions, in fact, do not practice government of the people by the people for the people. He shows how effective democracy should work, where effective democracy still operates today and where it has in the past historical times.
Contents: What is known about real democracy?, What should be the shape of contemporary democracy?, Ensuring democratic consensus.
Property Council population-growth propaganda now a regular feature in Canberra Times
Shouldn't the Canberra Times label as advertising the regular piece by the Property Council of Australia's executive director, Catherine Carter? Isn't there some legal requirement to do so? (Article by Mark O'Connor)
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