Tag: Media Monopoly

The Midas Curse: How Mining Interests Own Australia’s Democracy

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Scott Morrison waves coal in Parliament. The Minerals Council supplied it. He thought he was conducting. He was the instrument.
That moment wasn’t an aberration. It was testimony.
For decades, the mining lobby has achieved what every industry dreams of: complete bipartisan capture. Not just influence. Not just access. Ownership.
Today’s analysis maps the complete system; from dark money pipelines to media amplification, and asks whether we’re willing to build a movement powerful enough to break it.

Quiet, Piggy: How Calling a Female Reporter Livestock Became Just Another Tuesday in the Death of American Democracy

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This is it—the final piece examining what “quiet, piggy” really means.
We’ve traced how outrages disappear (Part One) and mapped the nine-year war on women who speak (Part Two). Now we need to understand the broader pattern.
Because what’s happening isn’t chaos. It’s a playbook. Refined over decades. Tested globally. Deployed in America with surgical precision.
The question isn’t whether you’ll recognise the strategy. It’s whether you’ll resist before the window slams shut.

Uday and the Rotting Throne: Lachlan Murdoch in 2025

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Imagine inheriting a media empire after spending $1.1 billion per sibling just to buy off your siblings. Then discovering you’ve just spent billions to secure control of something that looks glorious on the surface but is, underneath, a paper tiger gasping for oxygen. That’s Lachlan Murdoch in 2025. The real story of Lachlan’s consolidation isn’t that he won. It’s that he inherited a media empire at precisely the moment when media empires stopped being empires. A forensic examination of how News Corp became a hollowed-out dynasty, why Lachlan can consolidate control but can’t actually run the thing, and what it means for democracy when the last large-scale independent news organization enters managed decline.