Retired Rear Admiral Guy Griffiths says the aggressors of war “never seem to achieve what they want”. Griffiths entered the Royal Australian Naval College at age 13 and served during World War II.
He spoke to Sky News hosts Alan Jones and Peta Credlin about the choice and his experiences in combat. "The futility of war has been demonstrated not just by World War II but anything that’s happened since,” he said. Image: AP
wars aren't futile for those who make huge sums of money out of them.
Morrison can’t wait to be part of another Arab/American oil war..I wonder if it’s his ultra right wing Christian religious extremism...
My grandfather was at Tobruk and New guinea with the 2/43 batt 9nth div. I salute him and all the other Australian heroes that defeated fascism and tyranny. Lest we forget.
Cant argue with that at all.
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ABC's Tony Jones issues rare on-air correction over Sky News ratings | Sky News AustraliaHost of the ABC's Q&A program Tony Jones has issued a rare on-air correction, at the very end of the broadcast of the show, regarding comments which disparaged Sky News television ratings aired on the publicly-funded broadcaster.\n\nDuring a live broadcast of the network's weekly flagship political program on August 26 Shadow Immigration Minister Kristina Keneally noted that platforms including 'Sky News After Dark' were growing in Australia.\n\nThe Shadow Minister was interrupted by ABC host Tony Jones who interjected that the subscription television network was 'growing to a very small audience, to be fair. You’re probably talking about 5,000 people watching at that time', followed by an invitation to 'correct the record' by Sky News.\n\nSky News CEO Paul Whittaker took up the offer to correct the record and wrote to ABC management including recently installed Chair Ita Buttrose and news director Gaven Morris requesting a correction to the record to adhere to the ABC's charter which mandates factualness.\n\nMr Whittaker noted in the letter that Sky’s evening average viewership between 6pm and 10pm on Foxtel alone, 43,921, is 'more than eight times higher than the number referenced on the Q&A program' which outrates ABC News in Foxtel homes by 350 per cent.\n\nIt also receives ratings on par with ABC News across regional Australia via its Sky News on WIN channel which is a commercial operation and receives no government funding to operate.\n\nSky News’ recent half-yearly results saw a 29% audience increase year on year to its evening programming. In primetime Sky News reaches 472,000 Australians per week on Foxtel and 374,000 per week in regional Australia on Sky News on WIN, to deliver an audience 12 times larger than the publicly funded broadcaster claimed.\n\nThe correction from the national broadcaster follows a recent study by independent media monitoring service Streem which showed 'newsworthy' print and online media articles, examining more than one million Exactly! When is he leaving?! The Australian people have had enough of Tony Jones. Please move on! Still, nobody watches because the content and presenters have damaged the brand too much. Nobody watches Sky, its crap.
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Australia's post-war immigration story 'a business model for asylum seekers' | Sky News AustraliaRowan Dean has told Peta Credlin 'the story of Australia is the story of post-war immigration ... but it has become a business model for asylum seekers who know how to play the media game.'\n\nA Tamil family-of-four is currently on Christmas Island awaiting the outcome of an asylum request for their youngest daughter, after being torn away from their home in Biloela, Queensland when the mother’s visa expired in 2018.\n\n'Although this story looks terrific at face value, the key thing is it makes that decision making in government so much harder ... we elect people to make those tough decisions and not pander to the emotion of the crowd,' Mr Dean said.\n\n'We know there's a real sob-story here ... we'd love to have them in the country, but if we give in on this it opens the floodgates,' because the people smuggler business model just needs 'one success story,' he said.\n\nImage: News Corp Australia\n rowandean The new business model is a cheap flight into mascot. 64,000 & counting under morrison. You would need several thousand asylum boats to match that. You kids just keep repeating those Lib press releases though. Keep focused on those non existent boats. Your doing great! rowandean And here's me thinking the ' story of australia ' is about boat people OH , you only mean WHITE boat people Got it
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Identity politics ‘an ugly way to think about the world’ | Sky News AustraliaAuthor Lionel Shriver says identity politics is “an ugly way to think about the world and to behave toward other people”.\n\nSpeaking to Sky News, Ms Shriver said identity politics is a “very rigid social structure” that keeps people in boxes, pitting them against each other.\n\n“It’s a movement that is bent on imposing a whole language and a way of thinking on everyone else.”\n\nThe writer also noted people are “constantly coming up with rules” and taboos against issues such as cultural appropriation but don’t have authority to do so.\n\nImage: News Corp Australia 😍😍😍😍 That is very true! I thought we were all Australian!! I see it as killing Culture, just as she stated It is a system that is genocidal in strategy bc truly if you delete the culture of one group, i.e. Canada, you better look at the disparity in adoption of, 'freedom,' by countries that control its people completely i.e. Malaysia .
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Students won’t ‘lay down and accept censorship’ | Sky News AustraliaRenee Gorman from the Institute of Public Affairs says students aren’t going to “lay down and accept censorship” at Australian universities.\n\nIn a recent survey conducted by the IPA, 59 per cent of students believed they are prevented from voicing their opinions by other students.\n\nSpeaking to Sky News Ms Gorman said there is “a groundswell and a rebellion' brewing, as it is not in 'young people's natures' to be told what to do.\n\nShe said universities need to be “a pillar of our democracy”, and that funding should be questioned if they do not uphold that right.\n\nImage: Getty TheIPA TheReneeGorman Millenials already self censure. Say something politically incorrect at a BBQ & they wont say a thing. They cant get away fast enough. Its hillarious.
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Wong was 'evasive' on the stand during ICAC hearing | Sky News AustraliaFormer NSW Labor MP Ernest Wong was 'evasive' when answering questions about whether he sold a fundraising table to a prohibited Chinese donor and covered up the illegal donation by crediting the money to fake benefactors, according to Sky News reporter Caroline Marcus.\n\nMr Wong is a central figure in an unfolding ICAC investigation into whether a $100,000 cash donation to the NSW ALP in March 2015 was an illegal one that came from prohibited Chinese property developer Huang Xiangmo. KKeneally hero's these are her best mates they put her in the senate. Looking forward to see her called into the ICAC telling lies.
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Activists need to ‘spare us the sanctimony’ on refugees | Sky News AustraliaSky News host Peta Credlin says activists and “those who do not understand the law and global practice” on resettling refugees should “spare us all the sanctimony” on an issue they “know so little about”.\n\nAdvocates, as well as Labor politicians, have urged the Coalition to let a Tamil family stay in Australia, despite a series of courts rejecting their claims for asylum over seven years.\n\nMs Credlin said the government’s job is to make tough decisions needed to keep the country safe.\n\n“Let me tell you the hard and bloody unpalatable truth here. The job of government is not to make easy decisions,” she said.\n\n“The hypocrisy of the Labor Party is just breath-taking … Labor's selective logic might make for good media, but again and again, it shows that you just couldn't trust them to govern our country, or God help them, manage our borders. She's spot on, as usual DEPORT Sure this family were terrorists.
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