Blunt messaging is spreading panic

Blunt messaging is spreading panic

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IT’S time to listen to blind Freddie. When COVID first struck it was both common sense and politically astute for governments to design the communication response on the advice of the best medical minds in the country.
Now as the second wave rolls up the beach it is neither common sense nor politically astute to use doctors as a handy excuse for clumsy messaging. The COVID-19 communications now need to be sophisticated, well-rounded and comprehensive.

Elites sold us out to Chinese communists

Elites sold us out to Chinese communists

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WAR preparations, a government-imposed recession or depression, shock reporting about an allegedly resurgent Wuhan virus, borders closed, talk that overseas travel will not be allowed until next year, the Andrews government’s links to the Beijing dictator, more lockdowns in Melbourne with public housing tenants put under house arrest, the political parties and the mainstream media speaking more in unison than even during a world war— where is Australia going?

We’re not in this together, we never were – Abbott

We’re not in this together, we never were – Abbott

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FORMER Prime Minister Tony Abbott has revealed his frustration at the mindless suggestion that Australians were sharing the pain of the ongoing COVID-19 epidemic.
In a wide ranging interview with the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) published last Wednesday, Mr Abbott made it clear that the “doing class” – and not the “talking class” – had worn the brunt of the crisis.

Doomsday messaging must stop!

Doomsday messaging must stop!

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IN THE NSW town of Bowral last week it was hard to find a car space. Motels, hotels and virtually every restaurant were booked out.
The queue outside the main-street pie shop extended, with social distancing, 100 metres along the footpath. This was a town in recovery mode. Not a sign of Coronavirus. The hotels alone had been turning people away every night, at weekends up to 50 per night.

Pro-republicans dazed & confused over letters

Pro-republicans dazed & confused over letters

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PRO-republican leaders lost their collective minds this week after the “Palace Letters” disproved their long-held claims of royal involvement in the Whitlam dismissal.
Expecting a smoking gun that would trigger a rush to republicanism, the newly released documents instead shredded the anti-Monarchists’ credibility – leaving them to invent conspiracy theories to hide their disarray.