"Being the majority means it's very difficult to pin down exactly what they look like," said Mr Reed, who set up his own polling consultancy, Resolve, this year after 20 years of polling in Australia, the US and the UK, including for Crosby Textor.
"They may or may not be of faith. They may or may not have a certain ethnic background. They may or may not be a certain age group. They are incredibly diverse. Judith Brett has written extensively on the history and culture of the Liberal Party. She observes"the phrase 'quiet Australians' is an interesting one, because we have to remember that actually it's Mr Morrison's rhetorical phrase".
"I think that shows that there's a rhetorical tradition in the Liberal Party of pitching to people who are not that engaged in policy, in politics, who are not part of the union movement, for example.
We shouldn’t be celebrating Morrison’s terminology or the idea that being a good, quiet little citizen is good and that protesting and organising community action is bad. What is this propaganda-fuelled bullsh!t?
Excuse the mess 🤮just vomiting quietly in the corner
The ones allowing Morrison to slash public services, shut down human rights, limit freedom of the press and watch your country burn.
The ones allowing Morrison l
This is the best phrase the lnp have ever coined. Labor are in complete disarray over it. Thanks to XR and Sherele Moody people equate labor-greens voters as hysterical narcissists who think hero firefighters go home and beat their women to a pulp Johnny Setka style.
Quiet Australians are those who died in CC enhanced bushfires, were Indigenous & shot dead by police, LGBTIQ or robodebt victims or drought stricken farmers who suicided. Otherwise, the cognitively challenged mushrooms lapping up LNP BS who think the gov is doing a great job.
People who watch 7:30 don't need to be told how shallow voters gave us such a policy free govt. We don't need the term legitimised so it can be further weaponised against people who simply give a ! about social issues. auspol
None of us should be quiet, we are not compiant members of a far right religious cult.
A more accurate description would be 'noisy minority'
The 15 million Quiet Australians who do not watch or listen to ABC and therefore didn’t see, enter or hear about “Australia Talks” ! It is “ABC Viewers Talk” and not the former.
Are they the ones who 'get a go if they have a go' or the 2.3 million Australians (16.7%) who are either unemployed or under-employed. Or the thousands of Australians struggling to survive on minimum wage? Or the women who are victims of DV? Or the victims of Bush Fires?
They’re the ones paying taxes to fund you lefty traitors...!!
Why is the ABC using Morrison's Trumpist propaganda terms? What about 'who invented the 'quiet Australians' spin, and why?'
Those that are not communists
Why is the ABC using Morrison's Trumpets propaganda terms? What about 'who invented the 'quiet Australians' spin, and why?'
Really bad form I’m a quiet Australian but I get loud when I need to call out corruption and destruction - the cornerstone of ScottMorrisonMP LNP govt. auspol2019
I would be very offended if someone accused me of being a quiet Australian.
These are the quiet Australians.
From what I gathered from this puff piece was that they are uninformed and gullible. They actually fell for the marketing campaign run by the LNP. They didn’t investigate policy or the effects on the community. They are the sort of people that advertising agencies love.
Really WGAF? We've had enough of their flipping self-satisfied silence
We're on fire. I don't care.
ABC stop playing into the LNP's propaganda.
They don't exist, quit using the LNP talking point as fucking 'News'
The quiet Australians are the tax paying sensible centre right that see through twitters lefty bullshit. And thank god for them all.
I am not a Quite Australian
An LNP construct. The demographic who were successfully convinced the ABC was 'left biased' to the point the ABC is now a vapid, yapping shadow of its former self, facing irrelevance due to relentless budget cuts & the political machinations of those responsible.
Do not agree with these 'quiet Australians'. But showed great journalism principles in this cover. Well done, ABC!
Appalling journalism. Why not just screen SkyNewsAust in place of abc730 and save time.
Fools.
Vocal, politically ignorant climate change deniers who work for Rupert Murdoch, spout Morrison slogans and take part in shameless LNP advertisements run by the once independent ABC are the 'Quiet Australians' it would seem.
Selfish, wilfully ignorant people who assess politicians in only the most superficial ways, and end up voting for the very people most determined to screw them over.
Me:
Clive Palmer is?
Scott Morrison despises hard-working, struggling Australians because he believes they 'should have made better choices.' Don't validate his spin.
Pathetic attempt at LNP propaganda. I don’t watch ABC due to your total capitulation to authoritarianism. notmyabc
Thick as brick and mortar
Oh FO
Who buys into this govt spin nonsense.
💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥Who are we ? We are the majority & we are not quiet. We are ignored by the establishment and silenced by corrupt and fake news media. You have really pissed us all off big time. Get ready for the storm bitches. 💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥
Passive fools.
So, basically if the only thing you care about is your own interests, you’re qualified as “quiet Australian”. Now it’s a virtue not giving stuff about what happens outside your small petty world. Protesting is now seen as making others’ lives difficult.
More LNP wankery
Thanks ABC! We didn’t have enough hearing these divisive baseless empty rhetoric from our PM.
well, apparently one of them -Jacinta Singh identifies herself on twitter as a News Limited journalist. Just confirming to me that Tingle is an LNP hack.
And the elderly. We don't participate much in the 'conversation' in the media 'space'. We aren't interested in creating anxiety. We just want good government that can and does fix things and we will vote accordingly... mostly.
No such thing as Quiet Australians therefore this question does not exist. OzJournalismSucks auspol quietaustralians LoudAndProud
Racists. Bigots. People who hide being their hatred by calling people who call them out “intolerant”. Known in the US as Trump Supporters.
I work hard every day, I have aspirations to save for a house, provide for my family, and have survived breastcancer. I'm a quiet Australian who believes this government isn't really listening to us low income earners.
A figment of imagination from Crosby Textor that you are now peddling as something of note. Fearless ABC no more.
Do Quiet Australians die in bushfires like Green voters? beetrooter ClimateEmergency bullshitboy
They are the people that Scott Morrison will harm...
The majority! 9NewsAUS 7NewsAustralia
F*UCK of with your propaganda!
A figment of the LNP imagination. Thought that was pretty obvious ABC! auspol
Complete bullshit ABC. Ita, the LNP and Murdoch has you by the short and curlys, not my ABC anymore 😡😞
Who are the Propaganda Merchants?
Another term for CBF. Those who show no interest are failing us all
The 'quiet Australians' are the ones who complicitly agree with Morrison and his Merry Men. Mind you, if there stocks and shares drop we shall hear them very clearly and LOUDLY.
Why are you again parroting the government’s rhetoric?
Please stop framing politics the way the COALition want it framed. It's highly partisan 'journalism', more like propoganda.
Love too be a spineless hack
Where can I get my Unquiet Australian t-shirt?
Why are you picking up on this rubbish? And interviewing Newscorp personnel? Stop acting like the media arm of the LNP!
Quiet Australians = passive Australians.
F🤬ck off with your LNP propaganda puff piece. It's no longer our ABC, it's the LNP's ABC
The people who died because these dipshits voted for a pack of bellends, hope that helps
nice ratio dipshits
I thought you couldn't have advertisements on your platform
Ask the Liberal Party spin doctors who coined the nonsensical term; one intended to shame and silence any of us with a view contrary to the inanities of this puffed up PM ScottMorrisonMP
Far out....really? A Murdoch lackey? Media fail . Please don’t give the RW ammunition to attack the ABC.
How embarrassing 😐 . Please stop with the Government Propaganda. Using NewsCorp media to pose as Morrison’s “Quiet Australians “ ...fail How’s that RightToKnow working for you? Pumping out Morrison’s propaganda is not journalism 🤨
Losers still stinging.
surely you could find a 'quiet Australian' who is not an ex or current newscorp employee
Quiet Australians = empathy deficiency
Dodgy ABC
Stop using the phrase like there is such a thing as “quiet” Australians. It’s propaganda to discourage people from speaking out against Morrison and his government. Your job isn’t to be a propaganda outlet for Morrison, but to hold the government to account. You’re failing.
ToomeyWright They are the ones who voted at last election against labor.
Your worst enemy. DEFUND THE ABC.
The millions who refuse to watch FAKE NEWS abc.
Quiet Australians = US Silent Majority. And there are many of us across both continents.
Turns out the ABC's QuietAustralians are ex-editors from Newscorp... who knew ? auspol
If you are talking to the media and looking smugly into the camera, you just proved you are not a quiet australian
They are make believe. Even David Attenborough couldn’t find that rare and elusive species. I have never met one. Australians are pretty mouthy
Just saving peeps the trouble from having to read this; 'Quiet Australians' are people who shut their mouths, keep their head down, and don't offend their masters like good little pets.
The majority of voters
Judging by the article it seems the Quiet Australians would probably overlap to some extent with the Ignorant Australians? And why on earth are the abc and latingle promoting an LNP talking point? Anyway, now that they've spoken out I guess they aren't Quiet anymore? auspol
What crap. He would demand more action on climate change if media actually gave the facts and the funded disinformation campaign stopped. We are already seeing negative feedback loops. Our rainforests are burning for goodness sake
By quite Australians, you actually mean 'old' Australians.
Haha not that bald bloke that's for sure
I’d hate to be a “quiet Australian”. Imagine being a made up concept of ScottMorrisonMP and the LiberalAus , a myth perpetuated by Murdoch media and it’s sub-branch once known as How embarrassing would that be?!
If they're talking to you, then they're not the Quiet Australians.
Former Newcorp editors? 😂 ABCGoneToHell 🔥
I love the articles implication that if you are voicing your concerns about your children's futures in the face of a climate emergency that you aren't also busy working and living life with your kids. Apparently quiet Australians can't multi-task
SavedYouAClick: the Quiet Australians are apparently ex-NewsCorp journos. Shameful, .
please stop using this bs term
deah_leery already found em
Usually not ABC watchers....
The ones who work hard, pay their taxes, pay mortgages, bring up their children, look after their ageing parents, volunteer in community groups, are volunteer fire fighters, don't whinge and whine...they just get on with it and vote on polling day!
the same people as the Silent Germans. The trauma from being silent from fear is extreme, and goes into the next generations.
The workers.
This reminds me of Monty Python. The compliant followers.
A backward thinking selfish group of people hanging onto privileges and ignoring the growing inequality in their country
Well SinghJanita identifies as a 'News Limited journalist' not so quiet then.
Where the bloody hell are they?
Thank God I am not a quiet Australian!
Does nothing, puts self first, still gets all the perks fought for by others. Did I sum it up?
the quiet australians are as one of these people said - too busy to make a lot of noise. they work, pay tax, employ people and get off their butts. and they are not stupid. labour wanted to increase taxes as the economy is slumping - thats insanity.
Quiet Australians?
Quiet Australians?
‘WHERE ARE THE QUOTATION MARKS AROUND THIS PR-CONCOCTED PIECE OF PR?!’ we 👏🏼deserve 👏🏼better 👏🏼journalism 👏🏼
One of them's a Newscorp journalist reading straight from Murdoch's script. Nice research there, people.
Oh dear, you will have to leave the city to discover us.
Nice propaganda from Auntie Compromised on behalf of ProMo.
ToomeyWright The quiet Australians like me, are quite because they are all too busy working, some with a couple of jobs paying taxes and exorbitant energy prices and keep likes of Di Natalie, SHY and Bandt in clover. I work so they don’t have to.
Yep go after people paying taxes fools
Just more divisive nonsense. We are all the same. This left vs right is ripping this country apart
Really shouldn't have read this. Wish they'd remained quiet. 🤦♂️ 'Scott Morrison is just like us'... what a damn good way to insult yourself!
Silent balloters. Who know more about the decisions we make at the ballot box than perhaps you care to give us credit for, but youdoyou!🤓🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
The Quiet AUSTRALIAN....received Franking Credits, Negative Gearing Benefits & Cayman Islands accounts.... they're quiet because they don't want everyone to know....now ssshhhhh!
Quiet? Only when it comes to speaking out against injustice, disadvantage & those who need help. Self-centred, selfish people No group of Aussies is are more loudly supported by every radio shock jock, the nutters on Sky News, Murdoch print, TV breakfast shows.. and now ABC.
ToomeyWright Politicians and state & federal government agencies on International Men's Day (19 November) GenderEqualityWhenItSuits
ToomeyWright Men, and the women who care about them feminism means GenderBias not GenderEquality
Those who are complicit in the dumpster fire that is the LNP.
I almost cried when Scott Morrison used the term quiet Australian.
If you have to ask then you won't like the answer.
Ok Doomer. okdoomer
Not this:
ToomeyWright If there's quiet Australians you've got to watch; especially around polling time!
We are the one's that want the television arm of ABC and SBS sold. Farmers only listen to the ABC on radio.
The people who died in the bushfires due to government not listening to fire chef delegation in April? Auspol
I wonder when they will realise that they voted against the party that actually would have looked after their interests/concerns, and voted for the one that used them as a marketing tool
badministrator9 Explain this 👇🏽 lies fake quiet Australian's auspol Morrison Australia
Pathetic. How could latingle have been involved in both of these ABC articles? Today's puff piece pushing a LNP slogan (where are the quotation marks in the title?) has NewsCorp journalist (SinghJanita) posing as a ordinary 'quite Australian'.
Those that are quietly dying under this regime?
Gagged or stupid
Hmmmm, who are the 'Quiet Australians' you ask? Well, one of them is a News Corp journo, and that now casts doubts on the others in this govt puff piece.
So this is just what Morrison would like us to be-Quiet Australians who passively sit by in complacent ignorance while he destroys the hard work & achievements made by Noisy Australians. Why are you giving a voice to lazy, complacent & ignorant voters Let them be quiet!
so being a quiet Australian means being self absorbed and not seeing beyond the end of your nose. In which case 'quiet Australians' are the problem
Aren’t they the ones that got burned to death because of the PrimeArsonist policies ?
They are definitely not the fat ugly left wing lesbians who are hijacking the abc .... ummm they do not waste their time listening to the abc unless it is the Olympics the cricket or the football !! The silent majority!! Hear them roar !!
In what universe is Scott Morrison someone from Western Sydney? He grew up in the Eastern Suburbs and lives in the Shire.
They don’t approve of protest about climate change but are concerned about the effects of the drought on farmers. Cognitive dissonance much?
Basically people who unaware of a world outside themselves.
Funny how we always hear about freedom of opinion and expression , and when people exercise that right our born to rule top end of town elites moan up a storm . As long as you agree with their view 🧐
The only time quiet Australians get involved in politics is vote time so political parties who guage voters mood by listening to all these noisy fringe groups are off track.........dnnnnna Labor.
Yes imagine no protesting No women’s vote , no voting rights for first Australians! Give me a fucking spell
The quiet are the nervous - trusting that a system of them working hard to pay off their house will remain and the knife-edge balancing act that is their life will be ok in the end. I hope their lives aren't bumped off the knife edge leaving them with an uncertain future.
It’s funny the ABC had to go out & find them. It seems when ‘Australia Talks’, the majority of the population doesn’t talk to the ABC. I wonder why. 🥳
The one quiet Australian in this story who believes electric cars are the stuff of 'la la land' is going to get a huge shock. Haha
Quiet Australians are also those who have been seriously hurt by government policies and actions, who have written to the government to complain, only to be ignored by an arrogant ignorant government.
Any one that voted for the LNP at the last election.
Vacant drones.
I will never be quiet.
Legitimate question from they have no idea 😂😂
Conservative middle class law abiding families who pay tax.
Un Australian to be too quiet.
Wow! No wonder this country is going backwards. What a small minded, myopic and selfish view of the world these people have.
Oz is going PC, lefties crazy, rendering any normal opinion racist/bigoted/phobic etc. Result=the majority stay silent but rely on voting. That’s the check-valve that democracy brings.
The ones who voted for Scott Morrison
ABC still giving life to Morrison's invented 'quiet Australians' BS?
Quiet Australians aren’t consuming ABC leftist rubbish.. they do fund it though
The only quiet Australians will not be on social media, because evryone here just yells at each other.
Im a quiet Australian and so is my wife, thoughts and prays to you all. Im off to work hard now for this great land as all quiet Australians SHOULD be. If they are not they are just loser leaners or rat bag inner city folk if only these people had our discipline to work hard
They beliefs of these nongs is selfish, inward looking ...they would follow sheep to the Abbatoir....
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