Show Notes
Jacinta Allan has finally read the room (and the dire polls) and resigned as Premier. Her blind spot? Failing to understand the deep anger around the entrenched corruption and taxpayer dollars that are being funnelled to the crooks who have the Big Build infrastructure project in a vice-like grip. It is mega-scale organised crime brought to the surface by the dogged, forensic reporting of Age journalist Nick McKenzie. [from 6:50]
We also unpack the ABCs removal of two suspect Four Corners episodes reported by a (now sacked) journalist recruited by the national broadcaster after an earlier life as a Mongols bikie. [from 19:35]
And Zoe Daniel says the media is to blame for the rise of One Nation as Pauline Hanson plumbs new depths blaming some women for the domestic violence scourge despite data revealing that the perpetrators are overwhelmingly men. [from 29:15] Support independent journalism Become a member Or go to: buymeacoffee.com/truthliesandmedia
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