Malcontents?

[Dale Stiller]

Tonight, Monday night, on the ABC as usual will be the 4corners program. Those of us who attended the meeting at Roma, Friday 9th Oct, where Professor Bob Carter & Senator Barnaby Joyce spoke were well aware of the 4corners TV crew who were following Barnaby that whole weekend to film about Barnaby & the ETS; or so we thought.

ABC has released the preview to tonight’s program & the title immediately got my alert antenna mobile – Malcolm and the Malcontents.
Here is a link to the Four Corners site; on the top left hand side there is a box, Next on 4C, where you can play the short preview video.
By clicking on the Read More on the Coming Up box, there is an introduction to tonight’s program.
“Reporter Sarah Ferguson goes inside the conservative parties to find out what the party members really think about climate change and why they're so reluctant to back their leader.”

How much is going to about the Labor Governments response to the Climate Change belief, the ETS/ CPRS and how much of this program will be devoted to the likes to leadership speculation in the Liberal Party we will have to wait to see. Read Barnaby’s account of that weekend and you get an impression of him & the crew getting on quite well & some constructive footage shot. But what has happen to this footage back at the editor’s desk? How much will hit the floor with all the footage that was shot of the other political players? What slant will the 4corners team put on tonight’s program?

From the 4corners web site
“To make matters even more complicated for Malcolm Turnbull, the Nationals leader in the Senate, Barnaby Joyce, has told Four Corners that the Liberal Party has betrayed the bush. He says he will argue against the scientific view that man has created climate change and warns that he will conduct a campaign in regional seats against any deal that would deliver a new tax on regional voters:
"I think we are going to win on the ETS. I think it's going to be blocked in the Senate and we'll end up with a double dissolution."

BY the links above to the 4corners site, after Monday the video for the program should be available. I have already directed your attention to the left hand side of the page to the boxes, Next on 4C & Coming Up; well below that is another box that says, Have your Say. I suggest that once we have seen the program we do have our say, not only on this discussion but also leave 4corners know of the job they have done and also leave Australia know that the ETS must be voted down in the Senate.

Malcontent? I think I’d rather be called a sceptic.

UPDATE
It’s now two sleeps since the Malcolm & the Malcontents on ABC’s 4corners and now I’ll leave you with my impressions.
Those of us who attended, promoted or organized the Roma meeting had gain much ownership of the event, but we must come to terms that the 4corners team were not there to film the meeting as such but rather Senator Barnaby Joyce as one player in the wider context of the ramifications of the ETS policy upon the coalition. I believe that there is a possibility that we can thank Barnaby for dragging the crew out “bush” with him, including to the meeting where Bob Carter spoke; Bob Carter may not have otherwise made an appearance upon the program. Possibly? Prof David Karoly of Melb Uni, was brought in as a counter balance to Bob Carter, but in my opinion he had the appearance of mad emu flapping about claiming undeniable evidence that emus fly. I sat one row behind the camera tripod, off to one side & I know that the camera was not always rolling when Bob Cater gave his presentation. It did film every word Barnaby spoke.

With in mind the story that the 4corners team were trying to present, I believe that they did a fair enough effort. I did resent the narrative saying, Bob Carter as a one man band, but I the unforgivable sin, (take note Sarah) was to call the participants in the campdraft at Roma cowboys. This is after all Australia.
Next day throughout the news & current affairs the Government played the opposition disunity card for all it was worth. Example being this 7.30 Report story, Coalition split over emissions trading bill. Transcript & video available from this link.

Today, rightly so the focus is on Remembrance Day & the political focus has returned to the asylum seeker issue. It maybe that those in the Turnbull camp unnecessarily aired their weak kneed fears in the press yesterday. Maybe, maybe not; Have a read of this article & tell me your thoughts

[John Mikkelsen]

Should be interesting Dale, thanks for the head-up. (By "interesting" I don't necessarily mean "balanced", we'll just have to wait and see).

[Jeff T Hutcho]

Hi Cate,
You should be able to get it as a podcast from Aunty's B/S Centre, on the 'net, maybe a delayed podcast.
That's how I watch Lateline, when I really have to.

Jeff

[Sue Manton]

Good Post Dale,

It really did seem unlikely that the Government Funded (ie: tax payer funded), Green machine ABC would be doing anything this positive. This line from the intro tends to make me think they'll portray Skeptics / farmers as idiots

"The earth is not actually warming, we still have rain falling ... we can go outside and not cook."

But we'll wait and see. One thing's for sure they're playing along beautifully with labours in turning the spotlight back onto the Coalition and it's disunity over the ETS. - Coincidence I think not. After copping a battering over the Asylum seekers it's been flagged by many political commentators that they Labour need to refocus on the opposition and it's woes. Enter stage Left - The Tax funded, Labour PR machine - The ABC 4 Corners!

But I'll wait and see tonight, I could be wrong.

[Steve Truman - Agmates]

G'day Sue & Dale,

Dale thanks for posting this - will distribute today to all my contacts outside of the community via the share icon. Gives us all the chance to comment before and after the show.

Top comment Sue - you have to wonder about the timing. i see that Barnaby's role and the show get a mention in todays Australian editorial

No need to rush as Rudd goes global.

"Yet on Four Corners tonight, some in the opposition will suggest it was all heat-of-the-moment stuff, that they were more or less intimidated by green hysteria in 2007 and that they know better now. Senator Joyce told the Nine Network yesterday that the 2007 plan was "little more than a thought bubble"."

We will really get a good look at the ABC's idea of balanced reporting tonight. Will they come up to the mark?

[Dale Stiller]

4corners did do a good report on the proposed coal mining on the Liverpool Plains in northern NSW. But I have also seen many a 4corner program with real slant pushing an agenda.

[sarah ferguson]

Hi Dale,

I'm glad you enjoyed the story I did on Coal mining on the Liverpool Plains. The coal industry on the whole didn't like the story but the farmers did. I guess you cant't please all the people all the time. I also did the report on tonight's Four Corners about the coaltion and cliamte change. I hope you find it interesting. One of the most intersting things about the story was that all the commentary was provided by the politicians themselves and not by outsiders so it is a truly inside view. If people are intersted in the ETS I would refer them to a story done by my colleague LIz Jackson earlier this year called the Heat on the HIll. It is still available on line at the Four Corners site.

[Dale Stiller]

Thanks Sarah for being a part of our discussion. Where you in control of tonight's story all the way through the filming & editing? In writting this posting I had the fear that you came out for more than a one day fly in, fly out grab of footage but had time to learn more of the background & feelings of people living in regional areas and after this your imput was lost to the control of others & their agendas.
I believe there is a great need for all people to communicate in this country & get away from poloration & blame games.
This has been written in a great hurry, please excuse my poor spelling & grammer. Must get back to work.

[Malcolm Sloss]

Sarah,
If we really wanted to know about the reason for the ETS, and what its true outcomes will be, the last place we would find out is the ABC. For at least 50yrs there has been a gross distortion towards propogander and deception coming from dear old aunty.
If you think you're free to deliver real unbiased journalism, try reporting the truth about UNAgenda21, population reduction and control, food production controls and an ETS whose real purpose is to control and tax all life on earth......
....... I bet you would'nt get a second article go to air....,...
Think real hard on this Sarah..
Every breath that every living thing takes involves a carbon transaction...
The ETS is a tax on life.... It is about controlling ALL life on earth.
Adolf Bligh has just brought in the equivalent to the worst of HITLER'S legislation with the anti bikie legislation, which will be able to be used against any group designated undesirable.
It'll go very well with Adolf Beattie's Auswich being built at Gatton.

Adolf Rudd is about to treasonously sign away Australia's soverienty in Copenhagen, handing Australian governmental control to the unelected UN communists despite the fact that global warming seems to have stopped in 1997.
There's no end of big story headlines here if you're game, Sarah.
How about some real investigative reporting putting forth the real truth..

Perhaps those things are out of your league. How about you just poke around and find out who made the big money subdividing the Wolfdene Dam site. Some would argue that it should have been the most eficient dam site in SEQ. Perhaps you could put your journalism skills to uncovering the money trail.

Skeptical of journalism,
You bet,
Malcolm Sloss

[John C Fairfax]

According to the ABC promotion the program is about people tearing apart the once powerful coalition, not about climate change.

ABC news usually only allows about 50 comments in 'have your say'. Perhaps Agmates should try to get a comment in to direct people to having more say via an "Agmates comment" thread continuing on from the ABC thread.

[Dale Stiller]

Good idea John. I'm intenting to watch the program & then immediately have my say on the 4corners site.

[Dale Stiller]

Susan there were 2 small video cameras in operation that night; a hand held, up front & centre, by the Climate Science Mob & a one on a tripod on one side of the hall on behalf of Property Rights Australia.

[Nicholas Tam]

This once again confirms that the Coalition should have privatised the ABC when in government.

I am sick of my taxpayer dollars, and those of the rest of Australia, mostly creamed off the wealth generated by regional industries, being used to subsidise this sort of propaganda and Kerry O'Brien's partisan interrogations on the 7:30 Report every evening. At least other leftist organisations like The Age and CNN spout their rubbish using private money.