By MICHAEL SLOVANOS
THE ABC’s so-called fact checkers are attempting to dictate to Australians what constitutes “correct political discourse” and what doesn’t.
When Senator Ralph Babet expressed alarm about the police-state-style arrest of Australian nationalists by South Australian police on Australia Day 2024, the little leftie hit squad at ABC News Verify pounced on him for using an article from The Noticer about the incident.
The Noticer is a news site used almost exclusively by the Australian National Socialist Network, who are generally branded “neo-Nazi” or “white supremacist” because they favour reinstatement of the former White Australia Policy that operated in Australia for 50 years and restricted immigration to mostly European people.
Cairns News reported on the arrests at the time. The SAPol operation would have done the former East German Stasi secret police proud. Police made up bogus charges such as “wearing hate group insignia” and loitering in order to arrest 15 group members who staged a public rally at the National War Memorial in Adelaide, singing Waltzing Matilda.
The “hate group insignia” charge against a Perth man Mason Robbins was dropped by police, who also paid his legal fees. After their arrests Mr Robbins and the rest of the NSN members charged – except for Stephen Wells – spent three days in solitary confinement before being released on bail with conditions preventing them from entering Adelaide CBD or contacting others members and associates of their political group.
Wells refused to accept the conditions and remains in isolation in the maximum security Adelaide Remand Centre, even though his initial charge of loitering has since been withdrawn at a bail hearing. He will face court on a single charge of displaying a Nazi symbol for his NSN patch on April 17.
Senator Babet, like Cairns News writers, were outraged by the treatment of this group, which had all the appearances of an organised pollitical hit job involving police, the courts and the South Australian Labor government in collusion.
And then the leftie crew at ABC News Verify joined in the witch hunt, attempting to “question” Senator Babet because he “openly shared and discussed content from the site on social media”.
Babet’s apparent sin was to post on X “If the information in this article is correct then Australia is heading towards a very bleak future where the courts are used to punish political opinion.”
ABC News Verify asked the senator “if he was aware The Noticer publishes neo-Nazi and white supremacist content”. Babet’s answer hit the mark: “I shared a true and factual article. Did you forget that I am a black immigrant and a democratically elected federal senator?” he said.
The targets of ABC News Verify also include an Illawarra anti-offshore wind farm campaigner, the Telegram platform, UK anti-immigration groups, and people who oppose transgender men in women’s sports.
ABC News Verify then goes on to quote a si-called far-right extremism and political communication expert Jordan McSwiney, from the University of Canberra, who makes the stunning observation that it appears “The Noticer was designed to continually attract new audiences and insert its more extremist ideologies into the national discourse”.
“A lot of The Noticer’s content is curated to mask the far-right nature of the website,” the academic doctor said. “This means people may share it without necessarily realising that they are sharing content from a far-right website.”
It appears that the leftist guardians of Australian public discourse believe innocent Australians who visit a “far right” website may be unconsciously led astray into “dangerous beliefs”. And what might those “dangerous beliefs” be, one might ask?
That immigration is out of control in Australia and causing a housing shortage? That western governments are becoming increasingly totalitarian? That “climate change” is a monstrous scam designed to disempower and control populations?
It’s very clear in ABC New Verify’s own words where they stand when describing the Noticer: “Ethnicity features as the focal point for dozens of articles across the website. Other articles are framed in a way which denigrates immigration, multiculturalism, Indigenous rights, feminism, and LGBTQI+ communities.”
Oh how dare they denigrate immigration, multiculturalism, Indigenous rights, feminism, and LGBTQI+ communities! The statement reveals the rare atmosphere inhabited by these guardians of discourse. Those topics are routinely criticised and attacked and exposed daily on popular social media channels including Cairns News.
ABC News Verify features “star” investigative journalist Kevin Nguyen who has the sort of profile that might lead a suspicious conspiracy theorist to think he’s an MI6 or CIA asset planted in media. We know they do exist.
Nguyen has worked for all “the right media” and specialises in open-source intelligence (OSINT), that is, the collection and analysis of data gathered from overt sources and publicly available information to produce actionable intelligence, primarily used in national security, law enforcement, and business intelligence.
Nguyen is a politically-correct journalist extraordinaire, having worked with the Washington Post, New York Times, Al Jazeera, Wall Street Journal, Vice, and CNN. He is also a “media educator” and was a 2023 journalism AI fellow at the good old London School of Economics, where all the key establishment talent goes to learn how to play the great game in service of His Majesty.
Another example of Nguyen’s work is his hit piece on an anti-wind farm campaigner in the Illawarra, where Labor proposes to set up an offshore wind farm to enrich their “green” party donors and further drive up the cost of electricity.
His specific target was Alex O’Brien, who runs Responsible Future (Illawarra Chapter) or RFI, which opposes the offshore wind farm. O’Brien heckled Anthony Albanese when he visited the Wollongong recently to promote a local ALP candidate.
Nguyen notes that O’Brien, tut, tut, has even met with Opposition Leader Dutton and other senior Liberals and that the protest group, shock horror, has “increasingly been given a platform in local, national, and even international media”.
“But many (read the renewable energy industry and their Labor-Green stooges) are questioning whether the messaging pushed by the group and its associated social media accounts has been distorting and poisoning the debate,” says Nguyen.
And what leads Nguyen to this judgment? “RFI has been accused of “Trumpian-style” attacks on advocates and experts, spreading misinformation and disinformation narratives imported from the US, misrepresenting the true level of community opposition for the project and cherrypicking the testimony of a prominent conservation group.”
“Trumpian-style attacks”? Good gracious me! Did somebody mention “drill, baby, drill?” or “wind farms are horrible!” Oh the poor wee wind farm people! After all, they only want to save the planet and earn multiple millions in government subsidies in the process.
It sounds to Cairns News that RFI has run a very effective campaign in heading off an appallingly stupid idea, not only in the Illawarra but in other Australian communities fighting these monstrosities.
Why stick hundreds of giant wind towers with a 20-year lifespan in the ocean when existing coal-fired power stations simply require some long-overdue maintenance and upgrades to keep running into the near future and doing what wind farms don’t do – providing reliable, inexpensive energy 24×7.
