Finally, ABC Pravda shunts Laura Tingle

For wicked immigration-influencers like "independent" Abul Rizvi , or Australian un-National University's Liz Allen and Alan Gamlen, it's second nature to play the Racist Card to shut down popular resistance to Australia's crazy 46% increase in population this century. Amusingly, when ABC celebrity Laura Tingle tried the same stunt at a literary love-in last May, it blew up in her face.

A year later, soon after chief political correspondent's muted appearance on ABC-TV election-night, came the "surprise announcement".

This most "highly respected" journalist who is the six-year "political editor" at ABC-TV's 7.30 report is "exceptionally excited" to become ABC global-affairs editor.

She'll struggle to emulate the capable chap she replaces. Is ABC seriously suggesting there's no better pick for the role? Via a Guardian groupie, she herself alluded to a demanding selection process. No doubt supervised by an "independent" panel.

Guardian serenaded her "forthright analytical skills", dissing News Corp for pushing "culture wars". What about left media, lying their heads off, pro cultural-warrior Albanese?

The aura of Laura

So Phillip Adams used to say, when crossing to "mingle with Tingle" at Radio National (RN) Late Night Live.

Look, I have some time for Adams, his successor David Marr. Adams would dial up notables round the world – they'd talk to him and us. Though Marr is pro multicultural open-borders , he writes interestingly on religion and other topics, note his bios of Patrick White and others.

In Laura's case, where's the community benefit, to offset the injuries inflicted?

With life's hard knocks, we mortals tend to learn, get a grip, you're not that smart. But Laura seems to have sailed through from tender youth to retirement age, cosseted to admire her own blonde abilities, appearing insulated from home-truth feedback.

There was that Sam Neill breakup. Don't know the backstory – don't even cope with the front story. Allegedly he fell for her writing and broadcasting. Whose erotic essence, I'm afraid, escapes my shallow sensibilities.

My satirical election postmortem, Sam, finds her frequently flouting journalistic self-moderation and self-awareness.

For example, she loves that sensible "non-racist" conversation on immigration. The one where the brainiac upper-classes and the 200-plus open-borders federal politicians know what's best for thingamajig voters.

Before exiting 7.30 report, she couldn't resist one more decadent immigration love-in with her favourite liars, sorry influencers, I mean experts. Albanese's huge 70% hike on the previous immigration record, so she fibbed, is not "that different".

Rizvi swore the Coalition - not Labor – was responsible for annual net-migration busting half a million. Even for ABC, what a whopper. Expect worse over 2025-31.

Then, Laura's post-election wrap welcomed Albanese's positive "social cohesion". Yeah, like rising inequality, fierce cost of living, huge immigration, all-time rental distress, and record housing unaffordability. With privileged inner-city Labor electorates (enclaves) that can preside over the masses elsewhere.

For obliging Laura-left media, it's not Labor being extremal but the Coalition – Trump, DOGE, culture wars, women problem, blah blah – while "royal" Albanese's election campaign was a "work of art". A simpler analysis is that he's been a smidgin lucky facing first a Morrison then a Dutton.

Instead of unrelenting attention to Albanese's habitual betrayals of voters, the Coalition placed a big outside bet upfront, on their contradictory and easy-to-criticise policy of nuclear-net-zero.

Laura's halo catches fire

Sure, she's a "highly respected" ABC journalist, among people of her own class and convergent groupthink. Laura-lovers seem astonished to learn, there's an army of us punters out there, not taking her stuff at face value. Remembering this rank hypocrite , before she switched horses, acknowledging Australia's heedless overpopulation.

Last year, when Laura was obliged to walk back the racism gaffe, her vetted statement implied, you're still racists.

After ABC botched the targeted Antoinette Lattouf sacking, Lattouf's barrister seized on the double standard. How come ABC celebrities like Tingle can be as partisan as they please?

ABC management blustered, that the gaffe was an "impartial statement based in fact". In crass translation, we've got your back Laura, but maybe there are limits.

In that same month, February, Laura quit the presidency of National Press Club, after four years wheeling in tame presenters fielding soft questions from indolent journalists.

The excuses offered up for the "star's" sudden departure were Election 2025 (unconvincing) and her role as ABC Board staff rep (unlikely). Post election, she's off to write new Laura-scriptures for global-affairs. Can't wait.

The atrophy of ABC

Take the Tingle out of the ABC News and TV equation, that still leaves a controlling "news" coterie whose egos swamp knowledge and insight.

Come on down, X-celebrities Patricia Karvelas, Annabel Crabb, and Sarah Ferguson. Patricia loves hosting Q+A, where entitled ministers and "stakeholders" can jeer at struggling dads or homeless volunteers, disadvantaged by the massive migration.

There are brighter spots. Brisbane's ABC Radio seems a bit fairer than Sydney/Melbourne. ABC News survivor Ian Verrender gets day-release, to write about cost-of-living contradictions, maybe even link mega-migration to rental crisis.

Can these fig-leaves last? Half-seriously, I imagine ABC Recruitment uses AI, to identify media proteges from approved diversity-equity-inclusion backgrounds. Weeding out others, especially lower-class prospects guilty of critical faculties or Anglo heritage.

I used to think, dispense with ABC News and TV, save RN. Even that's 50-50 nowadays.

There's the twee religiosity. Literature has diminished from Ramona Koval to gushing chat-shows. Top-flight presenters like Alan Saunders (no relation) have died or quit. I can Download This Show but must they be so bouncy? Even the Science Show includes UN climate-action propaganda. RN law, psych, history, are still OK.

Overall, 2022-25 ABC News and TV have spearheaded a billion-dollar propaganda-ministry. Running Aussie-battler stories of tearful rental crisis whilst carefully ignoring Albanese's record-busting 1.3 million migration.

ABC only gets worse

High Court and AEC are surviving examples of federal entities where, arguably, internal culture and roles counter the inevitable biases of top appointees. It's ages since I'd say that of federal departments like Treasury, Education, Home Affairs. Or federal agencies like CSIRO, ANU, ABC.

Though Ita Buttrose was a partisan ABC chair, she looks savvy, compared with Labor successor Kim Williams AM. Who meddles just like her.

With no apparent irony, this gent contends that "factualness" is the ABC watchword, we can't be "left or right". To smite (yawn) "lies" and "misinformation", we're "in alliance with the commercial newsrooms to create an informed democratic citizenry". The gratitude of the lower orders is palpable, is it not?

He says this guff publicly, invoking names like Menzies and Chifley. PMs of faraway times, when you could even imagine the national leader having local welfare at heart. Not (hi, Mr Albanese) UN doctrines and policies, Chinese or Indian requirements, and "free" trade agreements.

"ABC Pravda" is how it'll be for years to come. If masochism's your thing, try engaging with their fake consultations, forums, and complaints. Which are scarcely more independent and impartial than Russian or Chinese courts systems.

I doubt the Coalition would dare detonate ABC, if ever regaining power. More likely, they'd try ineffectually, to moderate the imperial broadcaster's suffocating left culture.

I know, I know. We haven't even mentioned the other immigration-propaganda-ministry, $350 million SBS. This UN acolyte is a partisan stronghold of the "ethnic" groups dominating Australia's increasingly divisive politics. SBS Movies is their saving grace.

What a relief, living in a vigorous democracy with rule of law, vibrant groupthink, plus a carefully reforming visionary leader treading UN boardwalks of open-borders and climate-action for net-zero. Wouldn't it be dreadful having a nationalist leader like Giorgia Meloni or Viktor Orbánin charge?