Latest Atrocious Bile From Self-Satisfied Peter Van Onselen

Howdy dear availees...in a bludgeoning reminder of just how powerful trauma can be, I've again literally lost several days, lost them somewhere between the last post and this...could've sworn it was a week and turns-out it's 10 days, sorry, 11 days, and I'm genuinely at a loss to explain...(let me try...just engaging with the facts about 9 years of doin' this 'ere blog, and 20 years of the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up, and the abject failures of everyone to act, particularly the supposed 'Authorities', other than to perpetuate/protect the St Martins Cover-up and attack you personally, etc, etc, that's a veritable truck-load of perpetual and constantly re-enforced trauma, and that's a constant burden that unironically feeds-back on itself and re-traumatises, and on and on it goes-Ed)...fair call...(and trying to stay engaged with politics,which means being constantly exposed to abusive gas-lighters like Scott 'Scummo' Morrison and Christian Porter and PeeVee Onselen, et al, that just compounds and refreshes one's own personal traumas, etc, and on and on it goes-Ed)...indeed, and that sense of being completely swamped and then scrambling back to the surface to grab another breath before being dragged back under, etc, etc...(but knowing exactly what's happening doesn't make it any easier to deal with or resist, etc-Ed)...and round and round we go, and so it is and so it will continue to be...

To quote myself when providing counsel to others whom express dismay and depression, etc, at the state of the world and appallingly abusive and misogynistic gaslighting that defines Australian politics and it's complicit handmaiden the Main Stream Media, etc, etc, 'aside from the recollections of your own personal traumas, etc, it upsets you and angers you because anyone who is even just vaguely aware of the realities and is even just halfway intelligent, and gives just half a damn, that person is going to be upset and angered by those realities, and so, therefore, you as an informed, intelligent, caring person, you're gunna' be hugely confronted by those realities, and that's the cross you have to bear, and you should be extremely proud of that, 'cos by my estimation, it's a badge of honour...(well put sir, it is the intelligent ones whom give a damn, they are the ones most traumatised by trying to be informed and involved in the welfare of others, etc, it is far easier to be a selfish and self-involved-Ed)...indeed, as it also takes far less effort to be committed to your own opinion than it does to try and understand another's...  

And if y'all have been livin' it large under a rock somewhere, and therefore don't know what's being referred to in today's post, basically, Scummo had a li'l self-promotional 'meet-'n'-greet' photo-op outside the Australian Of The Year ceremony (January 2022), and AOTY 2021 Ms Grace Tame and her fiance were obliged to line-up and wait, and then shake hands, exchange pleasantries, etc, with Scummo and Jen...and Ms Tame politely shook Scummo's hand but always with a well-deserved look of disapproval for the low-life Gaslighter In Chief who had said such sub-intelligent things like 'female protestors are lucky they're not met with bullets', etc...(and who had definably acted to cover-up the 'alleged' Rape of Ms Brittany Higgins back in April 2019, and then relentlessly lied about it, and back-grounded against her and her partner last year-Ed)...exactly, and at this AOTY  Scummo photo-op Ms Tame has famously 'side-eyed' Scummo...(famously and quite rightly 'side-eyed' her disapproval of him as a person, which is, to our opinion, an immoral, psychotic prick!-Ed)..indeed, it's exactly what so many think of Scummo and would ourselves love to have the opportunity to participate in...(and indeed to have the courage to express so eloquently-Ed)...indeed, and both the courage of character and of conviction...(and never were so many things said so eloquently with ne'ry a single word spoken, ne'er so much expressed with a merely seering glance-Ed)...indeed, and for those whom ain't had the pleasure, here 'tis the link to that li'l exchange...please note that Ms Tame does respectfully acknowledge and briefly smile at Jenny Morrison...      

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwT3om4hJ9w                 

And whilst Ms Tame has had widespread support for her brilliant side-eye, it has been much to the chagrin of every rabid Right Wing 'commentator' and Liberal/National Crumb Maiden...(including our mate li'l PeeVee, who immediately did an article calling Ms Tame "childish" and questioning why she bothered to even show-up if she wasn't going to be polite and play nice, etc-Ed)...there's so much to cover just in that, but he was duly called-out about it by journo Amy Remeikis on Channel 10's The Project, where-in PeeVee is a regular host/panellist...The Project co-host Carrie Bickmore also challenged/questioned PeeVee's conduct/attitude/article, and he conceded that he 'could have just thought that not written it'...(so he didn't listen to what Remeikis and Bickmore actually said, and didn't recognise the inappropriateness of what he'd said, and didn't apologise, etc?-Ed)...no, but then in the days following, after a storm of protest about his pig-ignorance, he started saying 'by writing  about her like that, I was no better than Ms Tame'...(and that's not an apology or anything even remotely like it, it's absolute gaslighting about the criticism he's copped and trying to deflect it by-way of another attack on Ms Tame...what an arsehole!-Ed)...yep, PeeVee is right-up there with the best of him...here's the link to PeeVee's 'Editorial', one of many from various Right Wing sycophants in the pathetically pro-LNP complicit Main Stream Media...

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/grace-tame-if-your-disdain-for-the-pm-is-so-great-why-go/news-story/e2d14fb16eac6619ea1d21f5858831d8

There's so many things factually incorrect in this 'article', aside from the pro-LNP deceits, text-book misogyny, etc...for example, PeeVee carefully misrepresents the fact that 1) Ms Tame was technically obliged and/or chose to be there as the incumbent 2021 AOTY, there to respectfully acknowledge the 2022 appointee, and 2) that is not Scummo's house, it is a Taxpayer-funded public residence attached to the office of PM...the rest is typical PeeVee crap...Ms Tame is not "embarrassing" Petey, mate, you're the embarrassment, you're a pathetically thin-skinned coward who is a big man when attacking those you deem less powerful than ya'self...pathetic, cowardly, embarrassment of an alleged man...not gunna' try to go through it all again now, but I refer dear availees to previous posts on this 'ere blog about PeeVee...also, just Interweb search 'Van Onselen' in association with names like 'Christian Porter' and 'Ms Katharine Thornton' or 'Prof Gemma Carey'...I will however include this link to a Twitter feed that includes The Project exchange referred to above...I urge y'all to watch it, and just watch PeeVee's face as he gets thoroughly 'owned' but his arrogance and hubris and ignorance just won't allow him to accept that...

https://twitter.com/theprojecttv/status/1485892588058312704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1485892588058312704%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bandt.com.au%2Fchildish-peter-van-onselen-is-going-viral-over-his-comments-on-grace-tame%2F

And to conclude, here's the article I had first started to post about, and below that the original article the first one refers to...resultantly there's some repetition, but it's still worth reading both..there's also several links to other articles, etc...***

Peter van Onselen's record on Rapes:

(a short history of a man who thinks 'rape' is a topic that you can decide whose sides you're on)...

PART 1 - Grace Tame:

Peter van Onselen, via your article on Grace, you punished her because you DIDN'T LIKE THE WAY SHE LOOKED, or THE WAY SHE CARRIED HERSELF, or THE WAY SHE DIDN'T SMILE.

(Perpetrators share this feature with you, particularly the 'smiling' part, PvO).

PART 2 - Katharine Thornton:

This is a TRAIT that the public has seen in you PvO: that you punish women when you don't like the way a woman behaves or looks or thinks or defends themselves (as Katharine tried to do by raising the historical rape).

* 7 March 2021: After Christian Porter 'outs' himself as the Govt Minister whom Katharine accused of raping her,

Peter van Onselen says on ABC's Insiders programme about rape:

"if it's someone you know and if they claim that they're innocent — boy it's a difficult issue."

* within 1 week of saying this, PvO tweets a photo of the fictional book by Franz Kafka's "The Trial" about a man arrested & prosecuted for a crime that is not revealed to him nor to the reader (except that Porter was never prosecuted... so PvO paints a picture of a real crucifixion when there was none = gaslighting).

* PvO continued to write on the allegations against Porter, despite the clear conflict of interest.

In New York, famous journalist Chris Cuomo faced a conflict of interest in 2021 when his New York Governor brother Andrew Cuomo faced sexual harassment claims. CNN sacked the journalist when they found out he was helping his brother make statements to the public and using his media connections.

Compare the pair... except that PvO didn't help Porter make public statements because PvO made all the statements that Porter would have needed to gaslight the public: PvO carried out public lobbying for his close mate AND character assassination of Katharine Thornton when she was no longer alive to defend herself (RIP Katharine).

* PvO went on to PUBLISH the dossier of Porter’s accuser, Katherine. Her dossier was her harrowing and traumatic record of the rapes that Porter allegedly carried out when she was sleeping or had been plied with too much alcohol.

* While PUBLISHING it, PvO deliberately tries to smear Katharine's reputation by highlighting her mental health struggles and doubts on her rape claim, writing:

"Her life and death are a tragedy. Especially for her family, who have expressed concerns that, perhaps due to mental illness that included a bipolar disorder, she may have imagined the rape."

--> PvO suggests that the rape was 'imagined' (!!) and reduces it to a single rape when the dossier described multiple. At NO time did PvO acknowledge that Katharine's mental health struggles came from the alleged rapes as stated in the dossier.

* PvO was defaming Katharine, but unlike his current attempt to sue Gemma Carey for defamation, he is comfortable that he can't be sued by someone who has committed suicide following the rapes.

As Hayden O'Connor wrote in his brilliant article (attached) and from which many of the above & below paragraphs were obtained or paraphrased, Hayden said "It’s of vital importance to note that one’s mental health issues should never be used to cast doubt over allegations of rape or sexual assault."

* In Oct/Nov 2021 PvO serves a notice to sue Gemma Carey for defamation over her 9-word tweet. And when someone replies to his tweet asking if PvO will withdraw his court action given that she's apologised, PvO wrote "if you saw the despicable tweets that she did that required this apology you'd be shocked someone who should know better stooped so incredibly low".

* On 25 January 2022, PvO wrote a national article humiliating rape survivor Grace Tame for not smiling at the Prime Minister who had twice blocked parliament from investigating alleged rapist Porter.

* After PvO was widely criticised on social media for DEFAMING Grace Tame, he said he still has the same belief about Tame's non-smile but that it would have been better for him to have those thoughts without writing them publicly.

SO F*ckn PvO, you think it's ok for you to regret writing words publicly and choose differently in future, but you think it's not ok for Gemma Carey to regret writing her words publicly as you feel she NEEDS TO BE PUNISHED.

Rather than respecting that a woman has a right to make mistakes and choose differently in the future (it is ACTUALLY a human right to make errors and choose differently), you think she needs to be PUNISHED. Similar to your character assassination of & grueling punishment of Katharine Thornton for raising the allegation, like Peng Shuai in China.

This is what the nation and Gemma Carey picked up on from your actions around Porter, and which Gemma reflected in her writing in October 2021.

You think that you can defame Grace Tame and not be sued but instead "learn from the lesson", while you do not give Gemma the same courtesy.

PvO, you are POISON and a danger to women, that's what Gemma is getting at, she is merely reflecting on the public opinion of you.

Who are you Peter van Onselen?

(a) A self-entitled man who victimises women (even those who passed away).

(b) A man whose sense of purpose is to throw their weight around the country bullying women to 'defend his mate' even if his mate might have raped a woman.

(c) a man who takes the definition of public lobbying to a whole new level and carries out character assassination and defamation of numerous women repeatedly.

(d) A man who demands perfection from women, and takes away a woman's humanity by denying them basic human rights of making mistakes.

(e) a man so entitled that he THINKS rape is a topic that you can decide whose side you are on.

WTF, this is not 15th Netherlands PvO! This is 21st century, where a rape allegation MUST be investigated, YOU don't get to choose whose side you are on, you f*k!!!

Peter van Onselen, you better withdraw your action against Gemma Carey, for you don't realise how close you are to not being sued for defamation your f*ckg self.

***...and the original article, with the link included...*** 

Peter van Onselen's misogyny should be taken off air (independentaustralia.net) 

Peter van Onselen's misogyny should be taken off air

By Hayden O'Connor | 28 January 2022, 7:00am |  32 comments |  9,370 | 

Journalist Peter van Onselen has been criticised over slandering Grace Tame's demeanour towards the PM (Image by Dan Jensen

Grace Tame’s refusal to appease Morrison with a smile has set off a typical reaction from privileged, middle-aged men, including Peter van Onselen whose smug arrogance and sexism should no longer be tolerated by Channel 10.

* CONTENT WARNING: This article discusses rape

Australia has a Prime Minister who can’t understand the seriousness of rape unless he thinks about it as a father, also believing female protesters are lucky not to be met with bullets. Our Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, is a misogynist and it’s entirely appropriate to believe on the available evidence that his government deliberately covered up the rape of Brittany Higgins.

Despite all of this, when 2021 Australian of the Year Grace Tame (who is a sexual abuse survivor) refused to smile in a photo-op with said Prime Minister, a bunch of sexist, entitled, middle-aged men had a childish meltdown and used their platforms to attack her for displaying authentic and understandable feelings. One of these men was Peter van Onselen — Channel 10 should cut him loose.

Our country needs real action on safety and respect for women, that’s why at least 13 Independent female candidates are running on such a platform at the upcoming Federal Election, but we shouldn’t have to wait that long. Australia’s women have waited long enough and even though our Federal Government refuses to act, that doesn’t mean others can’t take action as individuals — or as a television network. 

Kings of defamation: Porter, Laming, Barilaro, Dutton et al

In a string of defamation lawsuits, Coalition MPs Barilaro, Dutton, Porter, Laming and others have let loose on citizens to suppress loose tongues.

Since allegations emerged against van Onselen’s close friend Christian Porter in March 2021, van Onselen has time and time again proven himself to be no friend of women and incapable of the integrity required not to comment on matters where he has a clear conflict of interest.

It started on ABC’s Insiders on 7 March 2021, where van Onselen said the following:

At the macro-level, I couldn't be happier that there is this shift that has occurred, so that women are coming forward and so that there is a move for change so that sexual abuse can somehow hopefully get better recognised and reform of the system.

 

At the micro-level though, if it's someone you know and if they claim that they're innocent — boy it's a difficult issue.

These comments were and still are highly offensive but evidently not offensive enough for Channel 10 to cut ties with van Onselen. The notion of explaining the “difficulty” of being friends with an accused rapist on national TV is vomit-inducing.

A week after these comments, Peter van Onselen made the following (since deleted) Tweet:

(Image supplied)

Franz Kafka’s The Trial is summarised as the story of ‘a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, with the nature of his crime revealed neither to him nor to the reader’.

Porter was never prosecuted and a statement was never taken from his accuser, so the plot of The Trial does not apply. If van Onselen was suggesting that he or Porter were prosecuted (by public opinion), then that is even more ludicrous. The public has every right to express their views on Porter’s guilt or innocence and also has every right to criticise van Onselen for his gutter journalism on this topic.

Peter van Onselen continued to write on the allegations against Porter, despite the clear conflict of interest and went on to publish the dossier of Porter’s accuser, and deliberately attempted to smear her reputation by highlighting her mental health struggles and doubts on her rape claim:

‘Her life and death are a tragedy. Especially for her family, who have expressed concerns that, perhaps due to mental illness that included a bipolar disorder, she may have imagined the rape.’

It’s of vital importance to note that one’s mental health issues should never be used to cast doubt over allegations of rape or sexual assault.

Twitter fights against Porter, van Onselen and Laming’s defamation threats

The defamation action against Professor Gemma Carey by Porter, van Onselen and Laming is about exercising power and control, writes Hayden O'Connor.

In April 2021, van Onselen published another article claiming that on addressing sexual assault, ‘surprisingly few ideas for change have been articulated this past month’. This statement was simply not true; at the time, the Respect@Work report had sat untouched with the Government for over a year and Grace Tame was calling for consent training in schools, in addition to a national definition on consent.

There were, of course, plenty of other solutions on offer from activists and experts but van Onselen wasn’t interested in that. Instead, he contributed to the sexist narrative that women only have complaints, rather than ideas and solutions.

Late last year, van Onselen attempted to flex his power and privilege over Professor Gemma Carey by serving a defamation concerns notice simultaneously with Christian Porter and MP Andrew Laming. Van Onselen was upset by comments that Professor Carey had made on Twitter and he now has the screenshots of Professor Carey’s apology pinned at the top of his Twitter profile.

Now, Peter van Onselen has come after Grace Tame and labelled her ‘childish’ for refusing to smile when dragged into a photo-op with the Prime Minister. When you take in all of van Onselen’s actions as listed above, it’s no surprise that he believes he should have some say on how women should think, feel and act.

It’s time men like van Onselen realised that women don’t have to smile, they don’t have to be kind and they don’t have to fake happiness or “civility” to protect someone’s image and ego — particularly the image and ego of a misogynistic prime minister.

Let’s be clear. As the outgoing Australian of the Year, Grace Tame had every right to be in attendance. Her attendance at the event had nothing to do with the Prime Minister, so the notion that she should not attend due to her dislike of Morrison is simply illogical. Grace Tame certainly doesn’t owe the Prime Minister anything – not even a smile – and the arrogance of Morrison to grab Grace for a photo-op, given the actions (and inaction) of himself and his Government is simply disturbing even if expected.

As we wait for the 2022 Election and hopefully a new government, why can’t Channel 10 stand up and say enough is enough and terminate van Onselen as an employee? By keeping van Onselen on the payroll and giving him a platform on The Project, Channel 10 is not only endorsing his smug sexism, but they are also actively amplifying it.

***So there we go...obviously I concur/agree with literally every word, and we will undoubtedly return to this issue, but that's more than enough for one day...apologies if it's a bit scattered, and I'm dragging along a month behind actual events, but that's exactly how I feel, so why should I be the only one? ahaha...

Tomorrow: I'll Try To Get To All That Mt Gambier City Council Stuff

All sorts of double-talk and careful deceit particularly when it comes to the latest cost blow-out/increases to Farcical Aquatic Recreation Centre (FARC), and about 'having a plan to have a plan', etc, for the Crater Lakes Precinct...

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