I won't be signing Kevin Rudd's Petition - January 2021
I won’t be signing Kevin Rudd’s Petition. Several weeks ago, a friend tagged me into a Facebook post where former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd was “..officially launching an official petition to the Australian Parliament, calling on the Parliament to establish a royal commission into the abuse of media monopoly in Australia, in particular by the Murdoch media, and to make recommendations to maximise media diversity ownership”... Sounds very official, doesn’t it. This friend that tagged me in the post is not only a Facebook friend, but also someone I consider to be an actual friend. But I won’t be signing the petition. Forget my contempt for Mr Rudd. His pathetic search for relevance, ten years after his own party sacked him, and several years after the Australian voting public resoundly sacked him a second time, is the least of my worries. In Mr Rudd’s video, Mr Rudd declares that the Murdoch Media has a “Monopoly” in the print media, and Mr Rudd wants to “maximise divers...