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Australia’s media quality and independence down the gurgler if Murdoch/Abbott win 2013 election

Firstly, there will be no legislation to inhibit the absolute freedom
of the press in Australia. They will be able to print any damn thing
they want. Truth will be shredded and thrown out the window, personal
privacy of targeted individuals will be rampantly invaded and their
characters destroyed.

Murdoch will insist on selling the ABC

Australia will never again abstain in a U.S. promoted vote in the
United Nations. Australia will return to lockstep the US in
international affairs.

If Rupert Murdoch wins in 2013 , (includes video)  Independent
Australia, 29 Dec 12
Rodney E. Lever provides a chilling preview of what will happen if
Rupert Murdoch gets his wish and Tony Abbott & Co win the Federal
election next year. LET’S JUST PUT our thinking caps on for a minute
and imagine what Australia would be like if Rupert Murdoch gets his
wish and in 2013 installs a coalition government led by Tony Abbott,
Joe Hockey, Julie Bishop and Mal Brough.

Everything they do will be according to the wishes of a man who lives
in a $100 million dollar Park Avenue penthouse in New York city and
spends most of his working days in a skyscraper office building with a
telephone clamped to his ear directing the activities of his 50,000
employees. That is, when he is not encircling the globe in his private
fleet of Boeing jets.

We can expect that the Coalition team will have some attractive
policies to present to the voters before the 2013 election, but they
will be discarded and forgotten immediately the votes are counted
because they will be too busy celebrating and getting their marching
orders from the old man in New York.

Then the new policies will click in and, bearing in mind the record of
previous Liberal governments, we can expect the following changes —
extracted from reading recent editions of The Australian and past
activities of News Corporation.
Firstly, there will be no legislation to inhibit the absolute freedom
of the press in Australia. They will be able to print any damn thing
they want. Truth will be shredded and thrown out the window, personal
privacy of targeted individuals will be rampantly invaded and their
characters destroyed.

Murdoch will insist on selling the ABC. He has hated it all his life.
In the post-Whitlam era, he had Malcolm Fraser and John Howard slash
government funding of the ABC and change the management. But they made
such a hash of it and the public response was so savage that the ABC
was saved. This time it will be a quick privatisation sale, like the
Commonwealth Bank and Telstra. The ABC will be commercialised with ads
every 25 seconds. Tony Abbott will love this. He will be able to wipe
the Kerry O’Brien tapes. Mal Brough will be able to wipe Ashby.

Australia will never again abstain in a U.S. promoted vote in the
United Nations. Australia will return to lockstep the US in
international affairs. We will support Israel in every step of its
battle to survive in the new post-empire era of the Middle East.

Foxtel-Sky will expand its coverage to Asian countries, replacing the
ABC’s Australian service, while Australia’s existing free channel
services will struggle to survive — and, one by one, will go down the
gurgler……..
http://www.independentaustralia.net/2012/politics/if-rupert-murdoch-wins-in-2013/

December 29, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | AUSTRALIA - NATIONAL, media