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Good take here, but I think most people would have thought a double dissolution just around the time of this referendum would be bad anyways.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We need a real alternative for these people to get their news. Royal commission will just waste tax money

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

There are plenty of alternative outlets. A Royal Commission is just needed to gut the Murdoch/Costello/Seven/Ten stranglehold on the market. We need to fracture the media cologmorates so that they can't own more than 1 medium and enforce citizenship requirements for ownership.