IPA Review features a Richard Allsop “Golden Age” review of Frank Bongiorno’s “The Eighties: the decade that transformed Australia” It is hard to know if Frank Bongiorno is the son of Paul Bongiorno, the partisan left winger of the ABC program the Insiders, but his presentation of history is as one sided. The book begins in 1983 where Bob Hawke won an election for the ALP. It details every claim to greatness of the ALP government years it examines. It even extends to cover so called gaffs of conservatives, like Joh for Canberra or Fightback (which was early ‘90s). It fails to examine in detail questions of responsibility for good decisions, where parliament passed good choices that bolstered the economy because the conservatives were amenable. A strong contrast to now, where the ALP will not pass legislation in the national interest. One might read with interest of a time when small parties, like the Democrats, called the honest conservatives ‘bastards.’ Or when the Nuclear Disarmament Party (NDP) put the future inept ALP Minister Peter Garrett number one on their ticket. NSW was saved from terrible building society collapses because the Liberal Government run by Nick Greiner made good fiscal decisions. Every other state ALP government suffered terrible reversals related to their corruption. But Bongiorno gets lost in the detail and doesn’t notice the thread. One can tell how close Bongiorno is to unions, when he seems to eulogise the destruction of the corrupt BLF. Bongiorno seems to feel that struggling workers benefitted by being subjected to exploitative, murderous corruption. Just like Shorten does today in opposing the ABCC. And so we see the lie that Bongiorno did not notice. Neither Hawke nor Keating were great, and Shorten is as incompetent as they were.

Mainstream media are struggling to digest the ineligibility of Hillary Clinton for office. They know nothing now they did not know a fortnight ago. Only, they haven’t reported it. So they claim confusion and say Trump will be ineligible for office. This confuses people who don’t know that Trump is not being investigated by the FBI, but the Clinton foundation has five ongoing FBI investigations that are so serious that the FBI have admitted they will likely indict. In response CNN interview a female Trump supporter who runs a business and ask her how she feels about sexual allegations. CNN also do an article on people breaking Trump signs, and claim that it is concerning that one person used fire crackers and electricity to protect their Trump signs. Media are protecting themselves by butt covering, but they are still campaigning against Trump, possibly because Hillary can’t and Democrats aren’t.

Meanwhile, one of the all time great major league baseball games closed the 2016 World Series. Chicago Cubs defeated Cleveland in the tenth innings. Cleveland played bravely. Cleveland will hurt for a while, but they won’t have to wait forty more years, as Chicago Cubs have, for that win. Their first since 1908. It seems a year for underdogs. Sharks in ARL, Bulldogs in AFL and .. #Trump4President2016 next Tuesday and finally #Hillary4Jail2016

Australia is poorly positioned to capitalise on a Trump Presidency with both the foreign affairs Minister Julie Bishop and the Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull talking out to personalise antipathy to Trump. One understands they prefer Hillary Clinton because they prefer working with corruption. They had insisted Abbott give over $10 million aid to the Clinton Foundation in 2014, and rolled Abbott after he stopped the payments. But neither Bishop nor Turnbull has explained how Australia will be better off with a corrupt Clinton as President, compared to a GOP backed Trump. Trump is not Reagan. Trump is very good at negotiations and knows how to run an executive team. Reagan was more reliant on insiders from GOP. Trump can deliver on promises better than Turnbull can. Turnbull has portrayed himself as being a good business executive. With Trump as President we will see a real one. Trump would never have put himself in the ridiculous position Turnbull has. All Turnbull can do now, constructively, is resign.

Meanwhile Trump’s progressive opponent is loved by the press and demonstrably corrupt. And the Libertarian candidate is trying to find Aleppo. Or a head of state.
Rumour now runs internationally that the apparent Saudi Spy who partners Hillary Clinton kept a life insurance policy of emails left in her ex husband’s computer. And the FBI found it. And so the insurance policy has been cashed in early. And the FBI investigating a witch on Halloween have found incriminating evidence on her familiar’s Weiner.

One person who knows how to profit from central planning is Hillary Clinton. The Chicago Tribune is withdrawing support from her, and suggesting that Democrats replace Hillary. But corrupt news, like the Tribune, knew everything now known about Hillary as they supported her days ago. Maybe they are only backing a tribe, but not a policy? And Maybe they want to find another crook. I note that press, who had accepted Hillary's corruption, are now denouncing her Saudi Spy Handler

Donald Trump's speech at Gettysburg is frightening media. They have supported and protected insider corruption for a long time. Trump will clean up the festering wound, and make America great again.