I remember the media persecution of Gough Whitlam and his Wife in 1975 - it was relentless and so obviously untrue or exaggerated that supporters of the "Lucky Country" should have seen through it.

The attacks on our "occa" dinkum Aus, Mark Latham was so personal and so orchestrated that it even followed him and his family AFTER he had retired from politics. Gross abuse of decensy and unnecessary.

Shortly after Abbott's accidental "election" as leader of the Coalition rabble, the Mad Monk had a very interesting meeting with Rupert Murdoch.  A more confident and outspoken Abbott emerged with the surprising claim that "he and his party" would give Kevin Rudd "the fight of his life".

At the time IMHO, very few would have taken this statement seriously, given that it was coming from a person who has a habit of not knowing what he is talking about. This is the ex-health Minister of the Rattus "New Order" who ripped a total of $1 billion dollars out of health spending.  This was the same Minister who made the infamous "rock solid and iron clad" promise on the safety net.

Since his "elevation" to the dizzy heights, he has contradicted or diametrically changed his opinions on almost everything.

Now, with the help of a Murdochracy which seems to live by paraphrasing the famous crap of Howard in that "we will decide who governs this country and the methods by which they will govern".

To encapsulate - can any fair dinkum Australian understand what it means to be hunted; misquoted; persecuted and generally lampooned by the National Media?  The obvious bias of the ABC in all of its various presentations is a disgrace to the thought of it being the "people's voice".

It is supposedly even-thinking since it is paid for by our taxes but - ever since the Howard "New Order" changed the controlling body, the stigma of bias has been established - and continues with Barry Cassidy and Fran Kelly et al.

Now we may have a slight turnaround in the MSM, not for any thought of fairness or truth, but to create a situation where "bad news" sells newspapers but, there is a limit.

Have "they" realized that they have gone too far and need to back off - for profit and credibility reasons?

I enjoyed the article by Bernard Keane very much.  Fair and balanced.

God Bless Australia and force the Corporations to accept good government and to err is human (as they should well know).  NE OUBLIE.

When Kevin Rudd became leader of the Labor Opposition, the Howard "New Order" government's Corporation media sieved through his entire life with the express purpose of making him a lame duck.

Many accusations were made, even against his Mother, who had kept her family together after the loss of her Husband.  When I look back, I was very offended as an Australian, that a foreign owned media Corporation would have the gall to attack the Opposition leader in the most typical Conservative methods which are better left in their gutter.

The Opposition has no power I wrote - why would you attack them when what they say or try to do is merely a future hope? They do not control the House of Representatives nor the Senate and as a matter of fact, I suggested at that time that the Labor Party were less likely to abuse power because they didn't control the Senate.

As it turned out, we thankfully got rid of Howard and some of his "New Order" jackboots.

Now we have a government which Lindsay Tanner rightly said had an extended honeymoon due to the Rudd Government's positive action on Stimulus which avoided the recession for ALL Australians and is the envy of all Treasurers in the advanced economies.

This is true.  Think of it - the Liberals wanted to stop the stimulus as did some other nervous nellies in other economies - the result was the opposite of the Conservative's platform of "do nothing" and we are the beneficiaries of that courageous and positive action.

The Abbott mob have tried to discredit Kevin Rudd in every conceivable way - including trying to deny him and his party the kudos for protecting the Australian working families from a nasty recession.

When Kevin Rudd was receiving media exposure for his determined attitude of meeting with the Australian people personally - and it was resonating with ordinary Australians - they claimed that he was the biggest camera exposed politician - not the mincing poodle of the Liberal front bench?

If he had not been constrained to do so by his own policies when he was elected - the Corporation's representatives would have claimed that he was too aloof to be a people's Prime Minister.

However, in the situation we Australians find ourselves in, we have a tried and true government whose reform legislations have been completely blocked by the Conservatives and their Green co-conspirators.

The tragic and un-Australian foreign media campaign can only be described as unwarranted interference in the domestic politics of the Australian people and does any mildly educated person sincerely deny that?

We have become a more and more multi-cultural society and I believe that the Rudd government has treated the asylum seekers with more compassion than did Howard in his infamous decision to stop our Navy from saving 365 of these people from drowning.  The infamous SIVEX - remember?

The irony is that the people who want more for the desperate Afghans etc., are against Rudd and are willingly or not supporting the foreign media Corporation's campaign against any sign of humanity.

How must Rudd himself feel personally?  I believe that this person is fair dinkum and I will trust him and his excellent front bench against any conservative opportunist like Abbott, Dutton and Hockey.

Indeed, we have a choice which, by Abbott's own negative policies has confirmed, this election is between the Corporation interests of foreigners, media or business, and the Australian people and their interests.

Deep down, with all of the dishonest media claims - this is possibly the last chance that Australians can "Take back our country and its assets" - at least in a fair way - and isn't that the shame about the entire policies of the Rudd Labor government? To conciliate and mediate with all stakeholders?

If we continue to slide down the scale of independence, our future generations, even the young girl who challenged Rudd's veracity - will have lost forever the right to have a say in their future.

God Bless Australia and may our people objectively consider the policies of the Rudd Labor Government and - on a business basis - compare the success rate with the failures.  NE OUBLIE.