Selection of Australian of the Year is made by the Board of the National Australia Day Council. There have been some truly outstanding recipients of the Australian of the Year awards in previous years. They have more than adequately satisfied the criteria set down by the selection committee: Demonstrated excellence in their field Significant contribution to the Australian community and nation An inspirational role model for the Australian community The Local Hero award acknowledges a significant contribution at local community level Many people are now asking how a divisive person like Adam Goodes could achieve such an award. It has a lot to do with the selection criteria and the make-up of the selection committee, both of which reflect the creeping political correctness and group think that is slowly enveloping us all. For example, included in the selection criteria is the following: In ensuring that the Australian of the Year…
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You can save yourself three years of politically correct, left-wing indoctrination at journalism school by just following the simple steps below.
Learn the following vocabulary with its emphasis on hard-hitting negative verbs:
(All of the following are regularly used in media reports. See how many you can spot next time you read a newspaper or watch the TV news.)
Sparked (the most important word in a journalist’s vocabulary), as in “sparked anger”, “sparked uproar”, “sparked outrage”, “sparked a war of words”;
rolled, as in “Caucus rolled the Prime Minister”, or “The Minister was rolled on the issue“. Political leaders never change their minds or review their decisions, they “back flip” or they are “rolled” ;
caved-in; back flip; exposed; blamed; threatened; warned; sent shock waves; shattered; pummelled; taken a hit; rolled over; attacked; intimidated; undermined; killed; spinning dangerously out of control; the death toll from a tragic ….….,
Anna Marshall Following pressure from feminist groups, the Western Australian parliament in 1985 dramatically amended the law relating to rape, first by changing the term rape to sexual assault and then greatly widening the definition of what could be classed as sexual assault. Many acts not previously constituting rape were included in the new Act. The criteria for sexual assault Kevin Ibbs life was riuned by two conniving women who conspired to have him charged with rape was widened to include any type of penetration by any object or any part of another person’s body where consent was not present and ongoing. It did not matter that force or threats were not used. The penalty for any type of sexual assault was increased to fifteen years imprisonment. Where any type of force was used, the charge was aggravated sexual assault, carrying a penalty of twenty years imprisonment. The draconian Act…
Anna Marshall On March 3, 2006, a woman who shot dead her husband from a “sniper’s nest” at their central Victorian property walked free from an Australian court after being charged with the murder of her husband. Not only was it murder, it was, according to the prosecution, a cold-blooded and calculated execution. Claire Margaret MacDonald walks free from court after killing her husband On 30 September 2004, primary school teacher, Claire Margaret MacDonald, aged 39 at the time, put on a camouflage outfit and rubber gloves, grabbed her husband’s high powered rifle and hid in the bushes near where the family’s Land Rover was parked in a paddock on the couple’s property in Acheron in Victoria, and waited for her husband to arrive. She lured him to the spot by telling him the Land Rover’s battery was flat. She loaded five bullets into the magazine and kept a…