A recent interview on ABC was the subject of a formal complaint. The official response from the national broadcaster is even more problematic.

Australia’s economy has gone from close to the worst-managed in the OECD, according to data from the IMF, the UBS, the World Bank, the OECD, Trading Economics and elsewhere, to near the top today.

The ABC’s unawareness of these major shifts is an indictment of its inability to monitor critical data.

  • @Balthazar
    4•4 days ago

    But it sounds like, as the Democrats in America, they have trouble bringing attention to their successes?

    • @[email protected]
      3•3 days ago

      “Why do none of these capitalist businesses want to talk about how less rampant capitalism is better for the common man?”

    • @[email protected]
      6•3 days ago

      Nah they forget they’re the left of centre party and are handing a win to libs because of it.

      • Outlawed vapes
      • Legalised vapes again but now you need a prescription and can only buy from pharmacies (gotta wring them tax dollars)
      • Snuck in change to TGA to also outlaw dry herbs vapes and schedule cannabis on the same level as morphine
      • Have done fuck all about housing or inflation
      • During a cost of living crisis, Centrelink (welfare) is still unliveable
      • Focused making NDIS more “financially stable”
      • Went ahead with a costly referendum that trashed relations with indigenous Australian
      • The under 16 ban for social media (while I agree with it) was poorly planned, rushed and handed Libs easy sound bites
      • Worked with the coalition to take over CFMEU (a union) and appoint an administrator. Many members now want to disaffiliate with labour because of it.

      Feels like labour is now lib lite, pissing off their own voters as well as lib voters for not doing enough.

      • @[email protected]OP
        3•3 days ago

        Labor haven’t been left wing for decades, but they are a vaguely competent liberal party as opposed to the vastly incompetent conservative coalition.