{"id":243330,"date":"2025-10-27T03:53:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T03:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/243330\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T03:53:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T03:53:10","slug":"news-corps-call-to-back-australia-is-nostalgia-laced-stupidity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/243330\/","title":{"rendered":"News Corp&#8217;s call to &#8216;Back Australia&#8217; is nostalgia-laced stupidity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You might find it odd that the US-owned tax dodgers of News Corp have taken a break from their normal business model of undermining Australia\u2019s social cohesion to spruik manufacturing, via its creatively named \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/commentary\/editorials\/back-australia-to-spotlight-vital-role-of-local-industries-and-businesses\/news-story\/600edc22f081539ce0c5f98bf82691c2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Back Australia<\/a>\u201d campaign. But dig a little deeper and News Corp\u2019s political agenda emerges \u2014 and a bizarre kind of circular logic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The claim that the \u201chollowing out of domestic production of essential goods in favour of often inferior imports has been a strategic mistake\u201d is a little hard to take from one of the organs that so assiduously promoted neoliberalism in the 1990s and 2000s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You might find it odd that the US-owned tax dodgers of News Corp have taken a break from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[23041,64,63,99,512,2490,22530,92511,10840],"class_list":["post-243330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-andrew-hastie","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-china","tag-donald-trump","tag-manufacturing","tag-news-corp","tag-protectionism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}