What is it about lefty types that they seem to imagine that Australia’s suburbs are as dark and distant as central Africa in the 19th century? When former prime minister Julia Gillard made the gruelling journey to Rooty Hill (50 kms, 40 minutes by car), she packed enough luggage for an Edwardian heiress doing a Grand Tour. As she and her entourage swanned into the local RSL club, all that was missing was a train of porters and a small boy waving a palm frond.
Likewise, nothing could have demonstrated in more stark terms the ABC’s elitism than last year’s trek by its senior management and journalists, in search of the great mystery of What Does Australia Think? Gamely leaving behind their Sherpas, the intrepid team of taxpayer-funded discoverers travelled all the way from inner-city Ultimo to…Bankstown. A whopping 20 kms away.
But, if the ABC’s great voyage of discovery (not to mention the billion-plus in taxpayer money they gobble every year) gave them any insight into what the poor, unwashed masses are interested in, we’re yet to see the evidence.
The ABC are still sticking to their trite, left-wing talking points, ordinary Australians be damned.
7.30…report[ed] on a climate change demonstration in Sydney.
This time ABC reporter Tracy Bowden did not make it to the southwest suburbs. She did not even go north over the Harbour Bridge. Instead the 7.30 crew travelled a few suburbs from Ultimo to Edgecliff, which abuts Double Bay — one of the most fashionable, and expensive, parts of Sydney’s eastern suburbs.
Well, ABC types already know for a fact that anyone who doesn’t live with a harbour view is by definition an uncultured, uneducated redneck who probably didn’t even study Arts at Sydney University.
You’ve heard about the doctors’ wives phenomenon, used to portray the wealthy spouses of professional men who do not vote in accordance with their perceived economic interests but flirt with green-left causes. On Wednesday, 7.30 came across the phenomenon of doctors’ husbands.
It turned out that 7.30 was interested in a planned silent vigil for climate action scheduled for 9.30am last Saturday outside the Edgecliff office of Dave Sharma, the Liberal Party member for Wentworth. The organisers were semi-retired lawyer Rod Cunich and his medical doctor wife Margot Cunich.
Well, if an inner-city lawyer and a doctor aren’t representative of the real Australia, who is? Certainly not some bogan plumber or, shudder, shop assistant from Punchbowl.
On Wednesday’s 7.30, Sales also introduced a segment on the Prime Minister’s address to the National Press Club earlier that day by saying Tingle would explain that “in the short term Prime Minister Morrison has some pressing matters to deal with”. Tingle mentioned the response to the bushfire emergency and climate change, then showed footage of herself cross-examining Morrison on the sports grants controversy.
Certainly the bushfires are pressing matters. But so is the coronavirus outbreak, which has the capacity to adversely affect not only the health of Australians but also Australia’s mineral and service industries. Tingle did not mention this in her report of Morrison’s address, even though he had covered the issue in detail.
ABC journalists only expressed the most passing interest in Morrison’s outline of the government’s plans for bushfire recovery. For the whole address, only one journalist even bothered asking about the coronavirus and Australia’s response – but that was one of the wicked Murdoch press, so it’s obviously just a right-wing conspiracy.
Once again, so many of Australia’s leading journalists are out of touch with the public’s interest in matters such as how to clean up after a disaster and how to prevent a possible medical emergency.
theaustralian.com.au
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