So don’t post teasers. Are you a shill for the website?
He is not a shill for the site but is a thoughtful Aussie FRiend for over 10 years.
No, I’ve been a member of FreeRepublic for over ten years and one of the main things I do is share stories from Australia (and to a lesser extent the UK) that are I think are likely to be of interest to fellow conservatives.
The site I’m sharing this article from is Australia’s only national daily newspaper - ‘The Australian’. It’s owned by Murdoch’s NewsCorp and it’s one of the most significant sources of news and opinion in Australia.
Unfortunately it puts a lot of stuff behind paywalls nowadays. The other major Murdoch papers in Australia (which are based out of the four largest cities - the (Sydney) ‘Daily Telegraph’, the (Melbourne) ‘Herald Sun’, the (Brisbane) ‘Courier Mail’, and the (Adelaide) ‘Advertiser’ aren’t quite as bad (their subscription technology is different) but it’s also an issue at times. But it’s capitalism in action, really - they are charging for a product a lot of people are willing to pay for.
The two major left wing papers in Australia, the ‘Sydney Morning Herald’ and the (Melbourne) ‘Age’ don’t block as many articles, but they don’t let their stuff be shared here, and as they are hard left there’s not much people here would want to read anyway (except perhaps on “knowing the enemy” grounds.)
Fortunately ‘The Australian’, and the more conservative state dailies, do allow for the posting of reasonably large excerpts here (in line with FreeRepublics 300 word policy, it seems), so I can generally at least try to share the sense of the article as I have tried to do here, so anybody who is interested can maybe track it down - sometimes that’s not that difficult once you have a few specific sentences to search for, because it may be available in google, or may also be published somewhere else as well.
Tell us who you personally are a shill for.
Do you demand posters not excerpt the New York Times?