There has been widespread condemnation of the disgraceful federal election campaign conducted by the Labor-Coalition duopoly. Even sections of the mainstream media have felt compelled to criticise the extent to which “representative democracy” has been replaced almost entirely by snake-oil pork-barrelling, taking the John Howard doctrine of “non-core promises” to a level that defies any reasonable definition of “democracy in practice”.

We have seen the major parties’ abysmal expansion of uncosted populist promises, their failures to address key issues of socio-economic inequality and continuing environmental destruction, their scare campaigns about confected threats, and even the adoption of the neo-fascist Trumpian agenda, or collusion with its objectives.

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But the most disgraceful aspect of this campaign, which condemns it to an unprecedented ignominy, is the deliberate censorship of Australia’s contribution to genocide.

It is the issue the polls do not mention.

In a betrayal of the values and principles, rhetorically claimed as central to democratic governance and the rule of just law, the Labor-Coalition establishment has provided overt and covert support for an ongoing genocide, which while most of the mainstream media hides, social media doesn’t.

The investigative research of a number of courageous people........

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