Mt Druitt, taking one for the team

Mr Melbourne, showing his beret-sympathiser credentials, clearly does not understand the grand Sydney tradition of taking one for the team. If he were to live here he'd comprehend just how much Sydney suffers in order to gift just one world-class locality to this great nation. Instead he is off drinking boutique microbrewed beer in some trendy bar in Richmond enjoying the products of our city's hard labour.

The people of Mt Druitt know just how important a rosy red sunset is to the people living on the coast and are therefore prepared for the minor inconveniences of a shorter life and longer commute to work. Once again, we work as a team to deliver on our world-class potential - some get all the benefits, and others pick up the tab, just as God intended. Mr Melbourne harbours some passe twentieth-century socialist agenda, wondering why the ALP cannot get it up anymore, while Sydney just gets on with it.

The new media laws have the potential to bring Uncle Rupert's world-class touch to every city in Australia, not just Brisbane and other unmentionables. Our beloved leader has already scotched the advertising-on-the-ABC line, using that clever politico-logical brain of his:

And there is an argument, of course, that there's a limited pool of advertising dollars and if they are spread further around then it makes the position of the commercial TV stations, well, it alters their position, because they don't get any public funding.

I could've sworn that the Feds were pumping dollars into propaganda at a rate that the ALP could never dream of; heck, my old mate Tony Abbott got $60 million for anti-abortion noise-making just for losing the RU486 "conscience" vote. One may also recall that Michael Duffy claimed:

It can even be argued that businesses have the right to reach the educated middle class through broadcast media, which the ABC's near-monopoly largely denies them. Fairfax and The Australian certainly suffer from being unable to advertise on 702 ABC Sydney or Channel Two. (Incidentally, under the existing legislation the ABC could run paid commercials now on its very successful website and its podcasting.)

in the truly world-class Sydney Morning Herald, no less. It is just so incredibly grandiose to be that concerned for Uncle Rupert's bottom line, and only a hard righty could see so far through all the left-wing bullshit surrounding any mention of the ABC.

So the short story is that the advertising budget in Australia is of a fixed size, even though the economy is growing, and that the ABC should not be allowed access to that budget as it might harm the export of AUD to those in more need of them than us. Everyone clear on that? Great!

Time to pay some attention to that meddling Simon Crean from Victoria... everyone knows Kim is doing us all a favour as the ALP leader, so just shut up and wear it. God this rightwing shtick wears thin.