My suspicion is that the media, largely controlled by Murdoch press in Australia run a proportion of the political agenda and vice versa. . Essentially Rupert Murdoch's press, Newscorp I think?, has been working with conservative agenda political parties for around 30 years to damage the reputation and human worth of any group of people who don't fit with their view of the world. Which really ends up being most of the usual suspect slave drivers like the Reinharts, the Packers etc. People outside the relatively small proportion of the population made up by these intolerable misanthropes and their minions are all fair game as soon as they voice any opposition to the cultural ethos of "work-spend-consume" or dare to suggest that there might be more to life than these singular activities. Murdoch is a mean old man who can best be analyzed through his twitter account which, a bit like Trump, demonstrates his core viewpoints which are generally nasty. I notice that Murdoch press occasionally does whip up a progressive story line but it seems to use this tactic to enforce th e opposing view of antisocial, individualist rhetoric and which is tended by people such as Alan Jones and Bolt and is generally in opposition to social protections and peoples well being in general . The fact that life is a complex affair is avoided at all costs by the media acting in service to political parties in Australia. The media in Australia is a function of parties and also functions to shape parties. Media and Government are in it together whether journalists are aware of this or not (most presumably most are aware ) and is used to express opposing opinions, never allowing a more complex analysis of life to take place, never finding common goals, drives, needs and aspirations. Simone Weil pointed out the nature of political parties and the use of political media in her pamphlet "Notes on the abolition of all political parties" in 1934, nothing has changed since then, the situation has merely intensified and the observations made by such brilliant analyzers of political parties, (Dickens is another pretty astute observer of the Anglo Saxon political style), regarding the division of people along the lines of wealth, poverty and politics in general has been used by politicians and the media to sure up the endless oppositional framework that our lives are shaped by. Developing a deep hatred of political parties and of the media is healthy way to approach the matter, neither of these institutions are not concerned with us or our health, our spirit and creativity or the wellbeing of our immediate environments, the world that sustains us, but instead always works to sure up the continual expansion of the two institutions: political parties and media enterprise.