A local extreme protest has dragged in the national broadcaster to an embarrassing national debate.
Everyone wants to know why the ABC didn’t call the police…
The climate activists turned up at the family home of Meg O’Neill at 6:50 am on Tuesday morning in Perth, Western Australia. They had spray paint and padlocks because she’s the CEO of Woodside Energy which will, in their words “emit 6 billions tonnes of carbon over the next fifty years”. Police say CCTV footage shows they had already done surveillance on the house to find out what time she left for work. O’Neill lives with her partner Vicky Hayes* and teenage daughter and was described as “shaken” by the incident.
For some reason, the national public broadcaster, the ABC, was coincidentally also there to film the likely criminal activity at this unlikely hour, but having filmed it, for some other reason, they didn’t show the footage or even report the incident at all on the ABC News Tuesday night, while it made headlines around the state and was “the biggest news of the day”.
Woodside on Tuesday pointed to the camera crew’s presence to show the home invasion was “an organised and deliberate act designed to intimidate Ms O’Neill and her family’’.
The idea of menacing families at home is usually something the Mafia does. Pretty much everyone, except the ABC apparently, could see why this could be a criminal act. Indeed, two of the leading protestors were already on bail. The police were watching them, and were at the house ready to ambush them at 6.40am. Who was more surprised in that moment — the Police that the suspects came with the ABC, or the ABC, that the police were already there before them?
The police arrested the activists, two of whom spent the night in jail. They’ve since faced court and been bailed (again). The Magistrate says she believed the case had “a reasonable prospect of conviction”.
But the big question remains — The Australian, and The West Australian and the state Premier in Parliament are all asking what the ABC was doing there. The broadcaster was there in a suburb ready to film a dawn protest with vandals seeking to terrorize a family and possibly damage their home?
The WA Premier wants answers from the ABC:
– The West Australian
Mr Cook said it was “simply not good enough if what has taken place … is that there was a conspiracy to withhold details of this unlawful action from the police”.
“Given that they knew that this action was going to involve going to someone’s private home, I think anyone would be appalled if that sort of action was known about and wasn’t acted upon,” he said. –
So the ABC excuses flow, and it just gets worse
Incredibly, the ABC flew in a film crew all the way from Sydney on the other side of Australia, but say they didn’t know it was a private home, and didn’t know it belonged to the Woodside boss.
ABC won’t explain why it did not report arrest of activists outside Woodside boss Meg O’Neill’s private home
Shannon Hampton, The West Australian
The ABC claims it had no idea climate activists were planning to target a house — or that it was the home of Woodside boss Meg O’Neill — when a 4Corners film crew was given a tip to attend an address in City Beach.
The national broadcaster issued a fresh statement on Wednesday finally addressing the furore amid pressure to explain after Disrupt Burrup Hub protesters targeted Ms O’Neill’s family home with an ABC film crew in tow.
It confirmed the crew, which is understood to have flown in from Sydney, was filming for 4Corners and attended the property to “gather material for a potential report later this year”.
Presumably the ABC send crews on 4,000 kilometer trips all the time without bothering to do two more seconds of research. That’s what tax dollars are for!
If we don’t shut the ABC down for colluding with people planning potentially criminal things, we should shut them down for criminal waste of taxpayer money.
The ABC say they got a tip off “just prior to the action” — as you do, you know — before gathering a film crew and jumping on a five hour flight. As it happens, they claim the police were already there when they arrived, and they didn’t trespass and they didn’t collude.
If you chain someone’s gate to stop them leaving, is that a siege?
The details look bad.
Protesters planned to chain themselves to Woodside boss’ house, police allege
Rebecca Peppiatt, WAToday
[WA Police prosecutor Kim Briggs] said the protesters, who are part of an activist group called Disrupt Burrup Hub, planned to damage the property and stop the Woodside boss from leaving.
“The intention of the group was to damage the property using spray paint and lock themselves [to a gate] with a D-lock to hinder the ability of Ms O’Neill to leave the property,” he said.
Two activists were already on bail
To make things even worse for the ABC, two of the activists was already on bail for a previous incident of climate extremism at the Woodside AGM. If only the ABC had “the internet” and had looked up Jesse Noakes and Gerard Mazza they would have know what a high risk event this might be?
In June, Mr Noakes was charged with aggravated burglary with intent and refusing to obey a data order stemming from an alleged protest at Woodside’s AGM in Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre.
— Sarah Steger, The West Australian
Indeed, this was so high risk, the WA Police were watching the activists and were ready at the house on the day. Six police officers stormed out of the house to ambush the protesters who had turned up “with the ABC in tow”.
Mr Noakes said his only role that morning was to lead a convoy of four ABC TV crews to the house and observe the protest.
— Sarah Steger, The West Australian
Surely that’s a misprint. It must be four ABC people? But it’s still an expensive team to fly on a return trip across a continent when you don’t know who they’re talking to, what they’re going to do, or where it is going to happen, eh?
Either the ABC is innocent but utterly incompetent, or they are colluding in intimidation for political gain.
*Corrected: Her husband turned out to be a wife.
Looking from the other side of the world surely they should be praised, given 2000 dollars each out of public funds and provided with a chauffeur driven electric car so they can get to their next planet saving activity. Surely a film and a book follows?
Of course that is no doubt what a sizeable proprtion of those living in Melbourne and Sydney and Perth believe. The rest of us just despair.
Perhaps we could lend you Nigel Farage for a couple of weeks. He would soon sort ABC out
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I suggest tipping off the ABC to protests in Alice Springs and a month later in Darwin. The following month – Adelaide.
Then, tell them there will be an anti-MSM protest at their own headquarters.
Locals can provide the details to make these tips sound plausible and reasonable.
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Tell the ABC there’s a climate nutter protest at the South Pole. Once they’ve flown there let them know there’s no return flight for 6 months. They can swim back to Aus , which should be pleasant as Global Warming has made the southern ocean a warm bath;-)
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This is an open & shut case of conspiracy, for which the penalty is quite high. It will be interesting to see if it is applied.
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Conspiring to do what? I don’t get what has been done that should be penalised?
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OK, so Gee Aye, imagine a hostile group which includes people on bail for aggravated burglary were planning to go to your home to lock you in and spray paint your walls. Let’s say I found out about it with enough time to book airline tickets for a 5 hour flight. Should I call the police or you to warn you, or should I bring cameras to film the fun?
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Your inability to logically process this situation and understand right from wrong explains a lot.
It’s the same condition that inhibits the ability to understand that building unreliable power generators that have to be backed up by a duplicate set of reliable generators will not reduce the global temperature.
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“penalised” ?
Is this word appropriate in the gender neutral era of 2023?
Surely there must be a less offensive alternative.
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Countrified?
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Just chalk this up next to the other intimidation, harassment and “doxxing” carried out by those of a left-leaning persuasion in Australia, where the targets have been politicians and their family members, or indeed anyone who doesn’t “behave”. Recall Cory Bernardi’s children being harassed at their school by useful idiots, as just one example.
They are not above using their own family as weapons either. Recall too, Sarah Hanson-Young very eagerly dragging her young daughter onto national TV shows to complain about David Leyonhjelm.
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What really annoys me is the mealy mouths who will begin their excuses by saying “well both sides do it”. No. Both sides do not do it. It is only the left that engage in harrassment and personal assault. The left is now and always has been the ones to take to the streets with chants, pitchforks and torches. I guess it stems from the fact that leftists are generally poorly educated, lack manners and are incapable of debate.
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There is one and only side that engages in this type of harrassment and that is the brain-dead indoctrinated socialist- left crowd. Note how many people endorse their behaviour. Expect leniency from the court.
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Lawrie, you didn’t mention the grass.
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The ABC and the protesters ALL use gas from Woodside.
Taking names and addresses of same and turning their gas off is an appropriate measure.
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I have a better idea: cut off the gas to the ABC – that might make them think for a change
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’Everyone wants to know why the ABC didn’t call the police’
Erm….because as you point out the police were already present.
The ethics of where this protest took place can be debated but as ordinary citizens seeking to hold corporations to account have been elsewhere subject to surveillance and lawfare initiated by such corporations it might be good for Woodside’s CEO to sit down and discuss her shared experience with such people. Such sharing might result in common ground.
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If they already knew the police would be there then why didn’t they warn their allies, their fellow soldiers in the Marxist war on civilisation? Another troubling factoid is that they spent all this money travelling then didn’t show the exclusive film they had taken. That makes me think that things didn’t go to plan and their fellow Marxist soldiers didn’t achieve the objective they had expected. As for sitting down and talking to these people, you cannot use “feelings” to run corporate policy, or you should not, and all these people have is feelings; no science, no credibility in wider society and probably not even paying customers. If society agrees with these people, I am sure they will let the corporates know in a Bud Light way, legally. There are, after all, plenty of opportunities for the Marxist soldiers to voice their grievances, they could even talk to their friends in the press, in a legal grown up way.
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You’re on thin ice here champ as you seem to be condoning this behaviour.
These dangerous protests by thugs who are completely relying on the rule of law to protect them while they act outside the law will eventually end in serious injury to someone, maybe the “protestors” or their intended victims.
Either way the time is fast approaching when one of these “protests” goes very badly and these fools only have themselves to blame.
If they weren’t so stupid they would know that the oil they are protesting against makes almost everything they use or are wearing. So they are either very stupid or that is not really their aim.
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The ABC is not only completely biased politically, but also completely incompetent journalistically. They were told to attend an address in a place called City Beach but didn’t realise it was a private residence – even when they turned up!? If they were incapable of asking any questions, then you would have to conclude that maybe journalism is not the career for them. Also, as the ABC has their offices in East Perth, was it really necessary to fly a crew across the country at our expense? We all know the answers of course, but you can’t help repeating the rhetorical questions. It relieves the frustration somewhat.
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A simple search on google maps would have told them exactly where and what that address is.
It beggars belief that they or some producer or whoever despatched them would not have done so as soon as they were given the “tip-off” and the address.
Also, what “journalists” or “responsible broadcaster” just launches a four-person crew across the country on a tip-off without doing the most rudimentary of checks? Then again, it is their ABC, so I guess anything goes these days.
On the other hand, it’s entirely possible that they are not being 100% truthful.
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They are not just “ordinary citizens”, they are climate extremists with an ideological agenda.
Anyway, what, or who, gives them the right to hold a perfectly legal business or corporation to account?
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Whether you agree with what the Corporations are doing or not is irrelevant, they are not breaking the law.
Maybe the ‘ordinary citizens’ should sit down with the law makers and the law enforcers and have a chat. Protest needs to be targetted, these lot are way off.
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It is NEVER right for anybody to target somebody at their family home. Never in a million years. How would you feel if this happened to you?
And I despair that it seems three folks also approve of this nasty and threatening behaviour.
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Ascertain when the flights were booked and by whom!
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4Cornersproducer?
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This should be a warning. There is absolutely nothing climate extremists, and the Left in general, will not do to achieve their totalitarian objectives.
We have already seen their willingness to disrupt traffic, including emergency vehicles, destroy historic artworks, engage in harrasment of family members of their targets and at their homes and many other crimes.
There are also Leftist oriented articles that encourage such behaviour like:.
There is nothing these people won’t do, up to and including murder, as they continue to be emboldened by taxpayer-funded organisations like Their ABC and individuals such as the Monbiot article I quoted,
Just look how far historical Leftists such as the National Socialists and International Socialists were prepared to go. As I said, there is absolutely nothing these people aren’t ultimately prepared to do as they become emboldened and realise the lax attitudes (and even encouragement) of police, courts and lawmakers.
Tolerance for their lawlessness must stop now.
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Tolerance for lawlessness? I’d be encouraged by even a reduction in encouragement of lawlessness.
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Their AlpBC is nothing but a leftist front masquerading as a “news”outlet. I am so disgusted with Buttrose, I thought she may have brought some balance to the rabble there but NO, think it is worse now than ever. Maybe ABC stands for Associated Bl**y Communists. My guess anyway!
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The ABC collective were happy with Buttroses appointment because they quite rightly believed she would be a pushover. She comes from their milieu.
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Buttrose is an enormous disappointment. Many people in the thinking community had high hopes for her that she would sort out the one-sided bias, as required by law. That was, up until one of her very first pronouncements of her job, that she didn’t see any bias in Her ABC so there was nothing to fix.
So we just get more taxpayer funded 24/7 Leftist propaganda.
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Another Morrison failure. Praise the Lord..
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Dave,
Ita Buttrose, head of ABC, is often heard on radio 3AW Melbourne, the big one here, speaking in commercials advertising Pfizer medications.
I wonder if that will end in tears as the class actions over improperly tested Covid-19 vaccines start to damage Pfizer?
Geoff S
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Geoff, I would have thought she is prohibited from doing advertisements in her position, especially as the organisation she heads is a purveyor of the Official Narrative that covid vaccines are “fully safe and effective” and this thus represents a conflict of interest.
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The government again just being pseudo pharmaceutical sales people. Pfizer execs must just have a great big laugh every time Australia is discussed at marketing meetings. Not only did they probably blackmail the country with their vaccine contracts, they get their product advertising, delivery and legal cover for free from us taxpayers.
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The Four Corners crew were not there to film the illegal activity of the greenies.
What the ABC crew were hoping for was a reaction from the O’Neill family that would allow them to publish a twisted “gotcha”.
Of course the ABC are parasites, but that isn’t the point. The point is that they don’t mind being so.
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On the other hand
“Just Stop Oil activist SLAMMED by physicist over eco claims | ‘A lot warmer during Egyptian period!’ ”
https://youtu.be/xohjpMyGYc8
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Thanks Another Ian and what laughable lunacy from the JSO idiot and packed full of lies and stupidity.
The Scientist was very accurate and is also a published author on the subject of energy, but these anti-SCIENCE loonies are just a lost cause and always ignore proper DATA and evidence.
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Ian,
Yes, this gotcha method is not uncommon.
Kerry O’Brien sprung it on me when making a 4-Corners program on uranium mining at Ranger.
That was but one of the promises/reassureances that was flagrantly broken.
Geoff S
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Of course their ABC has been running this agenda for decades and have told every lie in the book in their support of so called Climate change loonies or the UN’s SEC GEN’s latest planet BOILING idiocy.
This ABC team should be sacked and Dutton should demand that the ABC be defunded ASAP.
Meg O’Neill and Woodside are Aussie Heroes and I just hope they take legal action against their ABC and this dangerous group until they stop them from any more domestic intrusions.
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Causing their chosen victim to spend time, effort and money is likely to be seen as a victory in the terrorist eye. Even provoking the police presence is likely to be seen as a victory in the terrorist eye. And of course getting the attention of participants in Jo’s blog is likely to be seen as a victory in the terrorist eye.
The terrorists are not right in their heads. Normal sanctions only encourage them. And of course not taking sanctions only encourages them. I’d be happy to see them treated in the same way as if you or I turned up and did the same thing. Of course that would require the police and a magistrate to treat them in the same way.
I think getting the message that they are nothing special may deflate their egos just a little.
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Legal action against the individual journalists would be the place to start. During discovery phase, get the court to provide access to their communication and find out who told them this incident was going down.
If they try to tell lies in court, and claim they “just happened” to be there and had no idea who lived in the house, then hit them with perjury because no judge would ever believe such rubbish.
Once you can get their messages, might be excellent evidence for aiding and abetting.
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What did the journalist do that was potentially against the law? Incitement to an illegal act by others?
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No one believes they got a last minute tipoff and then flew right across the country (using up valuable fossil fuels) but didn’t bother to have a quick check on Google Maps to see where they actually were going that day. It’s a laughable implausible story … I doubt you even really believe it.
If they want to tell that to the Judge, after a forensic examination of their phone records and which web pages they were visiting (all are on record, in Australia it’s mandatory to keep these records) then let’s see if the real evidence backs up their story. I bet the ABC are not bright enough to cover their tracks.
https://legaldictionary.net/aiding-and-abetting/
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Mr. Aye: Did you assume Tel meant criminal action? Why? Can’t a homeowner sue? That’s legal action, isn’t it?
Obtuse is as good a look as it gets for you.
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No news about Greens Senator McKim’s rant on Parliament. On their website
7 News did but not what set him off. They made it sound like Canavan was rude. He actually pointed out Farquhar lied that Pakistanis blamed Australia for their floods because Pakistan is building 4 new coal power plants.
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John Sullivan, the Jan 6 rioter who was a lefty instigated violence that lead to shooting of a protester, and was paid by the ABC for footage, has been reported to be out of jail and fighting for Ukraine.
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“and fighting for Ukraine.”
Sounds good, they should all go off and do that, cleanse the planet no end.
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I don’t want to get into the politics of it too much. I will just leave my opinion at that what was best for Ukrainians was to extort Russia to leave the regions as semiautonomous for bucket loads of money. Putin would have paid and some could have been passed on to Hunter Biden to oversee it.
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Our BBC has pages dedicated to glorifying (well almost) climate protests.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/topics/cjyykdwmw58t
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It was wonderful to see Matt Canavan stir up that Greens’ loony in the Senate and he certainly lives free in their heads.
And all because he annoyed this delusional fool by pointing out that Pakistan is currently building more Coal power plants.
But this unhinged loony actually BELIEVES that Canavan is potentially killing people because he wants RELIABLE, CHEAP ENERGY for his state of QLD.
AGAIN, just unbelievable but true.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRK450ZDuc8
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I think if I was the CEO you would have to speak to my gateman before you entered the 200m long meandering driveway behind the 3M high walls around a 50acre garden.. You could hold up signs as my chauffeured Rolls went past.
Anything to keep the ABC out!
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The last article has a picture of the protestors who were grabbed up.
As usual, they were soft-handed pencil-necked beta males who have never seen a day of manual labor in their lives (and of course they both had on jaunty hats). I guess I can understand why they are so intent on seeing the climate apocalypse averted …. because they will be the first to be eaten when people are forced to choose between bugs and long pork.
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Another version of the Human journey over the last 200 K + years and how lucky we are today to live in the most benign climate for so many thousands of years.
But the incredible increase in life expectancy, wealth and an increase in food etc all around the world is exceptional since 1950.
So why would we want to throw it all away and have nothing to show for it by 2040 or 2100 or …..?
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/08/02/a-brief-history-of-climate-from-prehistory-to-the-imaginary-crisis-of-the-21st-century/
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I should add that the “we” I’m referring to above is the wealthy, but stupid OECD countries and certainly not the developing, intelligent NON OECD group.
Just look up the real co2 emissions DATA over the last 35 years.
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Thanks Neville. From you link through e
a number of others I have a better but superficial understanding on earlier times. The massive upheavals of such major changes to climate makes an absolute joke of the current slight and benign warming which could stop any time. If students were taught this they would laugh at the apocolyptic announcements by the clown at the UN.
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The ABC are a disgrace. They support activist groups and their thuggish behaviour towards ordinary citizens getting on with their everyday life.
The ABC and the thugs must be held accountable for this outrageous activity !!
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The Qld beef industry has upset environmental groups after satellite data shows tree removal for farming
https://au.yahoo.com/news/beef-industry-under-fire-after-controversial-satellite-data-release-063517195.htm
Would we ever see such data for tree removal for solar panels, wind turbines and grid connection
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Just noting that it was not a four corners crew. That is where the mysterious “four” comes from. Not strictly a news crew.
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At the start of the post, the question was posed “Everyone wants to know why the ABC didn’t call the police…”.
At the end of the post “ WA Police were watching the activists and were ready at the house on the day. Six police officers stormed out of the house to ambush the protesters who had turned up”
So the police were already there, and everyone could see that – where does the “Everyone wants to know why the ABD didn’t call the police…” stand?
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The ABC crew came not knowing the police were there.
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true… and?
So they get a tip off and an address and this means they should call the police?
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If the tip-off involved some unspecified action at the private home of anyone (they had every opportunity to look up the address on google earth and see that), and involved climate activists who are not the most peaceful or intelligent of folk, then any responsible person would have not jumped on a plane to fly across our large country to be there for the 0650 kick off of whatever was planned by the protesters.
Any responsible person would have had look at the address, done a bit of research into both the informants and the possible owner of the house, and thought it prudent not to get involved, and to notify the WA police that there might be some danger posed to the occupants of that house.
Those occupants, by the way, all turned out to be female including a cjhild, and by inference less able to defend themselves against any potential physical invasion of the home.
It’s also quite possible, not to say even likely, that the ABC crew knew full well all along exactly whose residence it was, and exactly what the activist nutters intended to do. Really, who flies a four-person crew across the country on a sketchy tip-off to just be at a certain address at a certain time? All the ABC mob had to do was not admit anything and act all innocent and pretend they didn’t know.
That the WA police were already aware of the intended action and had already deployed officers to the house is really quite delicious. At least they took the threat seriously. The protesters and ABC crew must have been quite discombobulated!
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A taxpayer funded organisation flies staff across the country to witness a crime being committed against a private citizen and your response is “Duh, I see nuffing wrong”.
Starting to see why you think we can change the temperature by letting China burn our coal while we make windmills.
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The vehicles with ‘police’ written on them did not give the game away?
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Peter and Gee, you guys are hilarious. Let’s say the ABC got a tip off someone was going to a school to hold kids hostage and they decided not to phone the police to prevent this crime but to work with the criminals to film and publicize their demands?
Does that sound like a good “national broadcaster”?
Anyone who knew that crime was going to happen becomes an accomplice by hiding it.
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That would be tragic but not relevant
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Your wilful blindness is interesting. Tell me why you think the examples of why holding a teenager hostage in her own home is different to holding her hostage at school. I’m curious. How does your brain parse this…?
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I agree, but most people, apart from you and I can’t see the truth.
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The reason that “it’s not relevant” is so obvious.
It didn’t take place in Canberra The ACT, the only zone in Australia viewed as relevant to the assorted occupants of that exalted kingdom.
Maybe that should be “persondom”
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Something else of interest, the protest mob have a mixed meme, climate and country.
https://www.disruptburruphub.com
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Thanks.
From looking at that site I infer that ‘the viros’ believe they have a score to settle with Woodside.
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what are you supposed to be correcting?
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Really? See your own response at #24
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This doesn’t meet any of the criteria to be called a protest. This was an act of violence aimed to intimidate and you would hope the law is used to maximum effect to put these criminals behind bars for a very long time. But alas, we all know they will be released and given the green light to commit more crimes next week. It really does appear that we’ve reached the point in society where law and order enforcement has collapsed within the legal system and people now have no choice but to manage their own security arrangements going forward, such as deployment of trained guards or militia.
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Police made arrests.
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And so they should have. I would expect the same if thugs targeted me at my home.
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It’s the courts that are the issue, not the police. Just look at the crime wave in QLD and the NT, where juvenile offenders are arrested one day and are back on the streets the next committing murders and robbery. Eco terrorists are treated in exactly the same way and are released back on the streets, emboldened by the realisation that they are supported by the law. This situation has lead to an explosion of crimes in recent years, because the law has moved from providing a deterrent to effectively encouraging crimes for people that fit into certain racial or political categories. Obviously it’s worse in the USA, where the President is now a target if he’s on the wrong side of politics. However, if he’s on the left side, he can be on the CCP payroll and suffer no consequences.
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Only because the police were ahead of the activists, and had deployed already.
Bit of a nasty shock for the intended protesters and the ABC crew, eh!
I wonder who gave the police the tip-off….
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If this statement is to be believed, this is a nothingburger
[Guardian]
So the police were already there and they turned up on a tip off.
Also on the abc is this article.
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aye, there’s the rub.
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Just prior, and flew from the East coast to something they did not know existed.
The police also had a tip off.
A group nobody has heard of, is now known worldwide, seems the most likely reason.
More like The ABC team in colluded with the activists, they are communists, lying is all they have.
Sadly they get free advertising from sites like this, the irrelevant become relevant, at least in their own irrelevant minds.
The human rights abusers were on the scene so no crime would of been commited.
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The police weren’t ‘tipped off’, they were running active surveillance.
The ABC knew well in advance that something was planned, which would be worthy of recording.
The ABC knew the nature of the organisation.
The ABC knew the nature, history and motivation of the people involved.
The ABC knew the police were interested in the organisation.
The ABC failed to notify the police of what was about to happen (they would have told us otherwise).
Therefore the ABC acted in complicity.
There, spelt out for the logic-challenged.
As Jo summarised, ‘Who was more surprised in that moment — the Police that the suspects came with the ABC, or the ABC, that the police were already there before them?’
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You do understand how long it takes to fly from the east coast to Perth … don’t you?
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Having done it several times in the 1970’s, I recall that it’s a four hour flight. Interestingly, because of the two hour time difference, it only takes an apparent two hours flying to Perth, but six hours on the return journey.
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Sounds good but the ABC will hit this one to the boundary. They will just say they were told a protest was happening and they went to film it. What’s wrong with that?
Of course, that is just a facade. They are an activist organisation, clearly.
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Since when was protesting outside someone’s family home considered OK?
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Anybody who thinks it’s okay to engage in vandalism, intimidation, and violence, as statements against those whom they don’t like, should look up the date Nov 9-10, 1938.
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Indeed. And I have no doubt the Left would do it again if given half a chance.
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Once again, ABC further cheapens its bias-tarnished reputation by its trial by media operations that only go after targets selected by leftists.
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Jo,
Meg’s spouse is her wife, not her husband. Sorry to seem to be a pedant.
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Thanks. Will fix. Odd that the wife is rarely mentioned. I mean the protesters were described as intimidating Meg and her daughter. Doesn’t the other woman — Vicky Hayes — count?
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the protesters tried to escape before police arrived,
but unfortunately they had glued themselves to the premises…
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Either the ABC is innocent but utterly incompetent, or they are colluding in intimidation for political gain.
BOTH. along with lots more examples of waste of Taxpayer money.
The ABC should be disbanded immediately. No use trying to sell it as there would be NO Buyers. Unless the Left wants it. Oh, they already have it don’t they.
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The WEF wouldn’t be interested in buying it, as they already own it.😄
How many fingers in “domestic terrorist” pies does the ABC have?
Time to revoke their broadcasting licence.
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My guess would be that the ABC Perth office refused the assignment, so the head office zealots had to oblige. Might be a story there in itself.
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Good point. Perth’s a small town. The drones at the ABC Perth hive might want to keep their future career paths open.
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My guess is that the local ABC crew are being sidelined, and the protestors got in touch with “Big ABC”. More and more local news here is generated in Sydney and we West Australians are pretty sick of it.
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Yesterday, The Australian was reporting on this incident. So I offered the following comment – “Pretty simple, the ABC is full of climate alarmist greenies. But I’m sure they were there for some “balanced” reporting”. Guess what? The comment was rejected by the moderators.
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This hate stuff has been going on for years.
Back when I was publicising uranium mining, here is a call typical of many that my young wife and our school aged chnildren had to combat.
“Your husband has been interstate for two days now. You must be getting lonely. Would you feel better if I visited you after midnight when your two little boys are asleep? We could talk about dirty nuclear energy or dirty sex. … ”
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I cannot un derstand the mental picture this person had about uranium mining. That particular big mine is now finished extraction over 30 years. To my knowledge, no worker nor innocent bystander was harmed in the process. So, what is it that gets into the mind to cause such unusual words to issue, after going to the trouble to find out where we were, phoine number, etc.
It has to be a sickness of the mind.
Geoff S
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The best thing for the perception of Uranium power production was the Simpsons, Geoff. A whole generation of people ( now late 20’s/early 30’s) grew up with that clever comedy show. Saw Homer working at the plant and realised nuclear power was no big thing. Your experience probably pre-dates the popularity of the Simpsons. Yours was probably more the China Syndrome type era. Hope that’s not simplifying things too much. 🙂
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The WEF wouldn’t be interested in buying it, as they already own it.😄
How many fingers in “domestic terrorist” pies does the ABC have?
Time to revoke their broadcasting licence.
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How about “utterly incompetent, and colluding in intimidation for political gain”? Utterly incompetent because this collaboration has united state and federal governments and Labor and Liberal in condemning the ABC, and led to further inquiries as to how much was spent sending a camera crew from Sydney to Perth to document the doxing and harassment. Only the Greens are silent, which reveals a lot to ordinary Australians
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By next year it is likely that China will be responsible for 30% of the world’s CO2 emissions whilst Australia will be around 1%. Are these protestors going to go to a Chinese embassy or consulate with their spray cans and padlocks? I don’t think so…
https://www.worldometers.info/co2-emissions/co2-emissions-by-country/
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The ABC 4C program put that Trump Russian Collusion program to air years ago. Did 3 nights of it. Probably paid a fortune to put it together and presented by Sarah Ferguson. These guys ( and girls) have got form. I’ve never seen an apology /correction/ retraction of any sort from them on the issue. Sarah F still fronts the 730 report. Not that I watch any ABC, I just happened to mistakenly tune in prior to Utopia one week. The 4C program has an exalted position within the ABC, they think they are untouchable. Don’t expect any apologies, sackings or investigation of this incident just like the Trump Russian collusion nonsense.
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I believe that the BBC and the ABC are some of the very few public broadcasters funded by their respective govts. All other public broadcasters in other countries are funded by subscriptions. Surely it is well past time that the ABC be asked to move to subscription funding.
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The BBC is NOT funded by the government – who in any case is funded by taxpayers – but is funded by a tax on your ability to watch broadcast television from ANY source, aerial, cable or satellite.
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If it’s funded by a tax, it’s funded by the government, who administer your taxes.
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It’s a ‘voluntary’ tax that you have to pay legally if you want to watch any live TV – even if you’re blind.
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But Gerry, the government appoints the board that runs the BBC and sets the licence fee. So it is definitely not independent. And, let’s not get into its links with the spooks.
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I’m being bombarded with a petition to stop Woodside from drilling in the ocean west of Perth. Now based on the actions of these creeps, I’m seriously looking for the petition to SUPPORT Woodside drilling in the ocean. Enough is enough…
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Why were the ABC’s 4 Corners crew there? Were they there to film the intimidation of a private individual and her family? Is that the level of journalism you come to expect from a government (taxpayer) funded news organisation? I would expect this type of behaviour in a New Russia or a failed state somewhere, not in a civilsed, educated country like Australia. Embarassing and slightly concerning.
I used to respect the likes of the ABC and BBC. Now? Not so much
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Sunak’s constituency home targeted by green peace.
https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/23698016.greenpeace-protest-rishi-sunaks-home-north-sea-oil/
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And here in the UK, the PM’s private house in his W Yorkshire constituency has been invaded by Greenpiss ecofascists draping black cloths over the front of his house having arrived with climbing gear and ladders. The PM and his family are away on holiday. Poor old Greenpiss have had to film it themselves rather than have a BBC film crew in tow, but I suspect if they had only asked…. After all, when the police raided Sir Cliff Richard’s house over fake child abuse claims the BBC were there front and centre. At least Sir Cliff successfully sued them over it.
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Sorry Gerry, didn’t see your comment – great minds think alike …
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The nutters go after the CEO of Woodside . The Cops are waiting (tipoff) and so are the ABC (tipoff). Someone is RUNNING this . Qui bono ?
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Or maybe the police are actually doing their job and keeping their eye on people who create trouble? I mean, maybe. And the ABC — if they were in on it there’s no way they would have put themselves in such an embarrassing position as to turn up to a police ambush while actively in the same car convoy as the people who ended up in jail that night.
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Jo,
The tipoffs may be from different sources but unlikely. The protesters are part of an organization staging a media stunt . Warning the media and police maximises that . The protestors are not the sharpest tools in the box…and yes, it gets hot under this tinfoil hat.
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Interesting coincidences:
Five people have been arrested after activists climbed on the roof of the prime minister’s home to protest at 100 new North Sea oil and gas licences.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-66391947
BBC present when police raid stars home. BTW he is/was innocent.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11139719/Sir-Cliff-Richard-reveals-devastating-effect-false-sex-abuse-claims-state-mind.html
The obvious conclusions are that the state propaganda organs have an inside track when it comes to pushing an agenda, and ‘activists’ operate globally.
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These moronic protesters should be banned from using any kind of fossil fuels derived product, let’s see how long they last.
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They’d be done for indecent exposure.
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