GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG

ISSUE – NO. 773

8 May 2026

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The Latest

  • Nine Newspapers – not independent of publishing anti-conservative tosh

Nine’s newspapers – The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald – claim to be “Independent. Always”. Yet on any objective judgment, they are left-wing outlets.

As a former editor of The Age, Michael Gawenda, told the Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion, he can no longer get published in the paper he once edited. Why? Because he supports the right of Israel to exist within secure borders and has spoken out against anti-Semitism in Australia. That’s why.

Then there’s the Sydney Morning Herald. It appears that former Liberal Party prime minister Tony Abbott and former Liberal Party foreign affairs minister Alexander Downer will contest the soon-to-be vacant position of President of the Liberal Party of Australia. Both are well-qualified for the position.

Yet, on Friday 8 May the SMH led its Letters Page with the heading “Return of Abbott a recipe for disaster”. It ran seven letters on the subject – all of which attacked Abbott – one of which also blamed John Howard for Australia’s current housing crisis. Howard ceased to be prime minister in early 2007. Moreover, the letters were of the leftist sneering disposition, of the non-funny kind.

For example, a John Bailey of Canterbury commenced his (brief) rant with “A good wine will improve with age but the whine that is Tony Abbott is more likely to turn to vinegar”. Groan. The comrade from Canterbury supported his case by telling readers (if readers there were) that Julia Gillard and Paul Keating had criticised Abbott. Quelle Surprise!

Meanwhile John Payne of Kelso described Abbott as an “old political dog incapable of being taught new tricks”. This from Comrade Payne who needs some new clichés. While on the topic of clichés, Neil Reckord of Gordon in the Australian Capital Territory declared: “Tony Abbott is putting up his hand to be captain of the Titanic.” – apparently unaware that the RMS Titanic sank in April 1912. And all job applications closed over a century ago.

It’s not surprising that SMH readers send such literary sludge to the SMH. What is surprising is that the SMH’s Letters Editor publishes such tosh – while claiming to run a balanced Letters Page.

  • Quelle Surprise! The ABC AM program regards it as news that ex-ABC comrade Zoe Daniel is frustrated at the Liberal Party

As documented in last week’s Media Watch Dog, on Sunday 3 May the dominant view on the ABC TV Insiders program was that the Liberal Party and Nationals should preference the Teal candidate Michelle Milthorpe (who denies she is a Teal) ahead of the One Nation candidate in the Farrer by-election on 9 May. The case for Milthorpe was advanced by Lenore Taylor (the former editor of the leftist Guardian Australia) and Katina Curtis (of the West Australian). Neither Tom Crowley (ABC) nor presenter David Speers expressed a contrary view.

That was the morning of Sunday 3 May. On the morning of Monday 4 May, the ABC Radio AM program also covered the decision of the Liberal Party and the Nationals to preference the One Nation candidate ahead of Milthorpe in Farrer. Milthorpe says she is not a Teal but has received financial support this year from Simon Holmes à Court’s Climate 200 organisation. Climate 200 also financed Teal candidates in the 2022 and 2025 elections – including Michelle Milthorpe in 2025 and Zoe Daniel (re which see below) in 2022 and 2025.

ABC reporter David Sparkes covered the story for AM on 4 May. Let’s go to the transcript:

David Sparkes: There’ll be no Labor candidate in Farrer. But there will be an independent candidate, Michelle Milthorpe, who polled strongly with 20 per cent at last year’s federal election. Zoe Daniel is the former Independent member for the federal seat of Goldstein. She’s frustrated that the Liberals and Nationals have decided to put One Nation ahead of Michelle Milthorpe on their how-to-vote cards.

Zoe Daniel: The polls show that there is tight competition between One Nation and the Independent in Farrer. The issue that I have is that if the polls are as tight as we think they are head-to-head, the Liberal Party, the Coalition, federal Coalition, will deliver Farrer to One Nation on preferences. And not only will that cut out a really reasonable Independent, but it will also deliver One Nation its first official election win in the lower house.

How about that? Zoe Daniel, the former Teal MP for Goldstein, reckons that the Liberal Party and the Nationals should preference the Teal, Michelle Milthorpe, in Farrer. How frightfully interesting – but how unimportant. Who really cares that Comrade Daniel is “frustrated” about the Farrer by-election because she wants Milthorpe to win. Except for the comrades at the taxpayer-funded public broadcaster.

It would seem that the ABC Soviet interviewed one-time high-profile ABC presenter Zoe Daniel in order to support Milthorpe in Farrer. No one was interviewed from the Liberal Party or Nationals on the issue of preferences. That’s balance – ABC-style. Can You Bear It?

I note that ABC TV’s 7.30 took up the “Let’s get Michelle Milthorpe elected in Farrer” cause. This is how Sara Ferguson introduced ABC TV’s 7.30 segment on the Farrer by-election on Wednesday 6 May.

Sarah Ferguson: Also coming up – have the Liberals shot themselves in the foot in Farrer if preferences deliver victory to One Nation this weekend?

Now, Sarah Ferguson has never appeared to have the best interests of the Liberal Party at heart. Clearly, she wants the Teal Independent to win on Liberal Party preferences – and not One Nation. [As to the “shot themselves in the foot” cliché, perhaps you should bring back your (once hugely popular) “The Cliché in the Room: An Elephant’s Perspective” segment. – MWD Editor.]

  • ABC’s AM program plays down the Liberal Party’s victory in the Nepean by-election

While on the topic of ABC AM starring Melissa Clarke (who once led ABC TV news for finishing second – or was it third? – in a road race in Tasmania) and David Sparkes, it’s worth recording their response to the State by-election in the Victorian seat of Nepean last Saturday. Here is what the AM duo had to say:

Melissa Clarke: A strong result for One Nation in a Victorian by-election on Saturday has the Liberals and Nationals worried about their prospects in an upcoming federal by-election. The Victorian Liberals did hold on to the state seat of Nepean, about 100km south of Melbourne, but their share of the vote fell sharply, down to 38 per cent. David Sparks reports.

David Sparkes: Four years ago, the Liberals picked up 48 per cent of the vote in their seat on the Mornington Peninsula south of Melbourne, but at this by-election it fell to 38 per cent. Jess Wilson acknowledges her party needs to lift ahead of the state-wide election due in November.

What a load of absolute tosh. Look at it this way: the Liberal Party had a comfortable victory gaining 64 per cent of the two candidate preferred vote. The Independent, Tracee Hutchison finished second at 36.5 per cent. The One Nation candidate finished third. Sure, One Nation received 29.7 per cent of the primary vote to Hutchison’s 21.3 per cent. But Victoria has a preferential voting system for the House of Assembly – and Hutchison received more preferences than the One Nation candidate.

In view of the fact that the One Nation candidate and Hutchison polled well, the Liberal Party’s primary vote of 38.5 per cent was reasonable. Moreover, the Liberal Party scored a higher two-party preferred vote in the Nepean by-election than it did at the 2022 Victorian general election.

Certainly, the Liberal Party faces a big challenge to win the November 2026 state election. But One Nation would have been disappointed that it did not do better. A point completely lost by Comrades Clarke and Sparkes on ABC Radio’s leading current affairs program AM. Can You Bear It?

  • Four leftists lined up at Sorrento Writers Festival to discuss – wait for it – conservatism from Robert Menzies on

Ellie’s (male) co-owner never receives an invitation to writers/literary festivals even though Hendo has written some books, unlike some performers at these events. This is convenient since he does not have to go to the trouble of forwarding an RSVP in the negative.

However, your man Henderson does monitor the festivals – since they make great copy for Media Watch Dog.

So lotsa thanks to the avid Rosebud reader on the Victorian Mornington Peninsula (which is a long way, in socio-economic terms from Sorrento) who drew attention to this session at the 2026 Sorrento Writers Festival. It was titled “From Menzies to Pauline, Turnbull to Taylor: What is an Australian conservative?” and took place on Sunday 29 April 2026.

Great topic for Sorrento, eh? After all, the Portsea/Sorrento beaches on Port Phillip Bay are where the rich and famous Melburnians go on holidays. As would be expected of a high-society knees-up in Sorrento, individual donors to the Sorrento Writers Festival are listed in accordance with how much money they can kick in under the flags of “Principal”, “Cornerstone” [what’s that? – MWD Editor.], “Champion” and “Supporter”.

Lindsay Fox and Paul Little are in the first category, Michael Buxton and Janet Calvert-Jones in the second rank, Leigh Clifford in the third with Kate Baillieu and (the late) Susan Renouf bringing up the rear in equal fourth place. All are – or were – influential types and well equipped to listen to a discussion on the Liberal Party of Australia from its founder Sir Robert Menzies down to Angus Taylor.

So, who was the panel? – MWD hears avid readers cry. Well, step forward:

• Sean Kelly – a former Labor Party staffer to prime ministers Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard (a remarkable achievement in itself).

• Amy Remeikis – who works for the avowedly leftist Australia Institute and is the author of the error-ridden anti-Howard rant Where It All Went Wrong: The Case Against John Howard. See past issues of MWD for references to Comrade Remeikis’ howlers.

• Don Watson – a former Labor Party staffer who wrote speeches for Paul Keating.

The session was moderated by Brendan Donohue, a former journalist and former deputy director of the Premier Office Media Unit in the Victorian socialist-left led Labor government.

Not a conservative among this lot. Yet according to the Sorrento Writers Festival this panel was adequately equipped to discuss “the past, present and future of conservative policies in Australia”. Can You Bear It?

[No. Not really – now that you ask. Sir Robert Menzies would be rolling in his grave (as the saying goes) – if he had not been cremated nearly five decades ago. – MWD Editor.]

The Sorrento Four – Don Watson, Amy Remeikis, Sean Kelly & Brendan Donohoe

  • MWD – just asking about Nine’s Niki Savva

Niki Savva’s column appeared in Nine Newspapers again on 7 May. Comrade Savva is one of those Canberra-based journalists who will put up with a Coalition government provided it is led by someone like Malcolm Turnbull. Indeed, Savva and Turnbull seem to compete with each other as to who can be most critical of the contemporary Liberal Party.

On this occasion, Savva criticised the Reserve Bank Governor Michele Bullock for increasing interest rates. Savva seems unaware that Australia has the highest rate of underlying inflation among the OECD nations. Savva described the Coalition as “hopeless”. What’s new in a Savva column? Here’s what.

For some reason, Comrade Savva has decided to ask her readers questions. Here’s what Savva had to say about the Coalition and President Donald Trump:

Would it [the Coalition] welcome Trump, who cast aspersions on the bravery of allied soldiers in Afghanistan, sucked up to warmongers like Vladimir Putin, committed blasphemy, threatened to wipe out a civilisation, threatened to bomb Iran back to the Stone Age and in 2023 was ordered by a New York civil jury to pay millions in damages to a woman he allegedly assaulted? Just asking.

And here’s how she concluded her column:

To have any chance of making it to that point [Angus] Taylor has to deliver a budget reply overflowing with confidence and credible alternative policies. Otherwise, what is the point of a leader who says his party has to change or die, then follows in the footsteps of Peter Dutton on immigration and in condemning the booing of Indigenous welcomes to Country by neo-Nazis at Anzac Day ceremonies one day, then the next saying there have to be fewer welcomes? How did that work out? Just asking.

Which raises the question – why does Niki Savva ask questions of readers which she knows the overwhelming majority will not answer?

JUST ASKING. And here’s a genuine question: Can You Bear It?

A Ross Gittins Moment

Wasn’t it fun to see Ross Gittins, the Sydney Morning Herald’s economics editor, fanging capitalist economics – along with economists in his column on 6 May. It was headed “Customers not served by capitalism”.

In a socialist rant, Comrade Gittins condemned “economists” (despite the fact that he presents as one), “greedy businessmen”, and the “market economy”. Overlooking, for the moment at least, that he is employed by Nine Entertainment which operates within a market economy which exists within what is referred to as a capitalist economy.

Comrade Gittins referred to an OECD report that “competition has waned across the Australian economy over the past two decades” but said he “wasn’t told” about it. Really. Surely such discovery is the job of an economics editor. Here’s how the Gittins rant concluded:

It says our economy is becoming less dynamic rather than more – less able to adapt and innovate. Markets are becoming concentrated – dominated by a few really big businesses – and profit margins are bigger.

Really? Why wasn’t I told? Why wasn’t the media all over it? Why no sackcloth and ashes in the business district? Why hasn’t the opposition been blaming it all on that terrible Labor government? Why haven’t ministers been apologising and vowing to do better?

I can think of two good reasons why so little has been made of this disheartening news. For a start, it suits business to have higher profits and less competition. What’s happening is that our capitalist economy is being changed to suit the capitalists, not the consumers.

And second, the economists don’t want to talk about it. They don’t want to draw attention to the growing gap between their theoretical ideal and the real world out the window. Nor their failure to narrow that gap.

Your man Gittins overlooked the fact that over the past two decades the Coalition and Labor have been in office for around the same time. And it’s just bonkers to state that economists do not talk about economists. [By the way, Gittins’ article has been criticised by the RBA’s former head of economic research John Simon. See here – MWD Editor.]

In any event Comrade Gittins has done okay out of capitalism. He advised SMH readers in May last year that he has over $3 million superannuation. See MWD Issue 730, 30 May 2025. At 78 years of age, perhaps he could donate some of his moolah to the less well off – could it be, he seems somewhat, eh, greedy.

Verily, A Ross Gittins Moment.

Since ABC TV’s Media Watch program commenced in 1989 it has consisted of presenters laying down the (media behaviour) law as if they were a modern-day Moses descending from the mountain, commandments in hand. All of them have been left-of-centre types as befits a Conservative Free Zone. In over three decades, the taxpayer funded media “czar” has never had a conservative presenter.

  • Linton Besser – Tops for (intellectual) snobbery in sneering at suburbanites

Linton Besser, who commenced presenting ABC TV’s Media Watch in 2025, is very much a member of the left-intelligentsia. He is well educated and articulate and fits readily within the taxpayer funded public broadcaster which is a Conservative Free Zone.

Like so many sanctimonious “progressives”(as they like to be called), Comrade Besser believes that his morality is of a higher standard than those who disagree with him. And he is quite dismissive of those suburban types who do not live within a reasonable circumference of the ABC’s offices in inner-city Sydney (Ultimo) or Melbourne (Southbank).

This is how Media Watch commenced last Monday with a segment on the colourful businessman Adrian Portelli:

Hello, I’m Linton Besser, welcome to Media Watch. And first tonight, our most beloved of armchair pastimes, watching suburbanites wield power tools in the pursuit of fame, fortune, and in this case, the favour of colourful billionaire, Adrian Portelli:

How snobbish can an ABC presenter get? Clearly Comrade Besser has nothing but contempt for “suburbanites” who not only use power tools, but also are (allegedly) in the pursuit of “fame and fortune” – unlike ABC TV presenters, it seems.

Linton Besser fails to understand that he would not enjoy his current standard of living without the skills of tradies. He also seems to be blissfully unaware that men and women in the suburbs pay their taxes which help fund the taxpayer funded public broadcaster to the tune of over $1 billion a year. Including Besser himself and the Media Watch staff of around 10 for a program that runs for 15 minutes a week for about 40 weeks a year.

[Good point. Maybe you should have placed this in your hugely popular Can You Bear It? segment. By the way, perhaps you should have mentioned that Linton Besser’s use of the term “suburbanites” brings to mind Hillary Clinton’s “deplorables”. – MWD Editor.]

A Laura Tingle Moment

  • Laura Tingle goes to Jerusalem

As avid Media Watch Dog readers know, the ABC is a member of the Right to Know Coalition, dedicated to providing information to the media. But the taxpayer-funded public broadcaster is often secretive about its journalists. Particularly the well-known ones like Laura Tingle, now the ABC’s global affairs editor.

The ABC had refused to advise MWD whether Comrade Tingle had been to Israel, the West Bank or Gaza prior to being appointed global affairs editor. It was as if a national secret was involved here – a travel detail concerning which the Australian taxpayer has no Right to Know. [Interesting – it’s yet another example of ABC Communications being unwilling to communicate. – MWD Editor.]

Recently, Tingle herself reported that she was “stranded in” Dubai.(See MWD Issue 767) – even though others were travelling through the airport. And then, last Monday, she bobbed up in Jerusalem. Lotsa thanks to the avid reader who took this screenshot of the ABC global affairs editor in the Holy City appearing on ABC TV last Monday.

Certainly, La Tingle introduced her ABC News Online article on 4 May with this comment: “Hi, I’m ABC global affairs editor Laura Tingle and I’m in Jerusalem. This is our weekly update on what’s been going on in the Middle East and what to look for in the days ahead.”

The article was titled “Iran briefing. Details on Iran’s 14-point peace plan, a shift in Gulf power politics and eyes back on Gaza”. Comrade Tingle’s report contained no news. She appears to have done no interviews or any original research or to have moved outside Israel.

In view of the ABC’s “no comment” response as to whether Tingle had been to the Middle East before, it’s reasonable to assume that this was her first trip reporting from Jerusalem. But she could have done the same report from anywhere in Australia. The ABC is forever complaining that $1.2 billion a year from the taxpayer is not enough. Yet it has spent much moolah sending Laura Tingle to Jerusalem via Dubai.

Verily a Laura Tingle Moment.

[I note that Laura Tingle was back on ABC TV’s News Breakfast on Friday 8 May. Again with nothing fresh to say. – MWD Editor.]

Laura Tingle in Jerusalem (at last) on 4 May telling ABC TV viewers what she could have told them from her home city of Sydney

History Corner

  • Correcting Jacob Greber’s account of the Australia-Japan relationship & the end of manufacturing in Australia

As MWD readers are well aware, Jacob Greber, formerly of the Australian Financial Review, replaced Laura Tingle as 7.30’s political editor not so long ago. How’s he going? Well, he is not hostile to political conservatives like his predecessor in the position. But Greber could do with increased historical awareness. Here’s why.

On Monday 4 May, your man Greber covered the visit to Australia of Japan’s prime minister Sanae Takaichi. This is how his report commenced:

Jacob Greber: The Margaret Thatcher admiring Sanae Takaichi, welcomed by an Australian Prime Minister forged by left-wing Labor politics. From different sides of the ideological tracks, bonding over shared electoral and spousal connections. Prime Minister Takaichi’s visit came on the 50th anniversary of the Basic Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation…. It was initiated by Anthony Albanese’s political hero, Gough Whitlam, and signed in 1976 by Malcolm Fraser. As now, that agreement emerged amid the geopolitical turmoil of a global energy shock.

Well, that’s correct. Sort of. However, Greber gave the impression that the Labor Party’s (secular) “saint” Gough Whitlam was primarily responsible for Australia’s post-war friendly relationship with Japan. Not so.

The developing relationship between Australia and Japan is well described in Alan Watt’s The Evolution of Australian Foreign Policy: 1938-1965 (CUP, 1967).

First up, the Robert Menzies’ Coalition government in 1951 formally accepted what was termed a generous peace treaty with Japan that had been negotiated by the United States. This was opposed by Labor Party leader Bert Evatt – another Labor “saint”.

Then in July 1957, John McEwen – the Country Party leader and Australian Minister for Trade – travelled to Japan to complete negotiations for an Australia-Japan Trade Agreement. This was signed on 6 July 1957. In view of Japan’s actions in the Pacific War and its harsh treatment of Australian prisoners of war (POWs), the Trade Agreement was a remarkable achievement by the Menzies government. The 1976 Basic Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation simply built on the 1957 Trade Agreement – which was overlooked by Greber in his praise for Whitlam.

While on the topic of Jacob Greber as an historian, on 17 February 2026 he had this to say about the shadow ministry of the newly elected Opposition leader Angus Taylor.

Jacob Greber: There was much interest ahead of today’s announcement about where Taylor would place right-wing populists Andrew Hastie and Jacinta Nampijinpa Price. Hastie, who shocked many traditional Liberals this year with nostalgic calls to re-establish the same car industry that exited Australia under Tony Abbott’s watch, gets the manufacturing portfolio.

Not so. Here’s an account of the end of car manufacturing in Australia.

– On 23 May 2013, Ford Australia announced that it would cease manufacturing in Australia in 2016. Production ended in October 2016.

– On 11 December 2013, Holden announced that it would cease Australian manufacturing by the end of 2017.

– In February 2014, Toyota announced it would be ending Australian manufacturing by the end of 2017. The plant closed on 3 October 2017.

At the time of the first announcement by Ford Australia, Julia Gillard was Prime Minister. She was replaced by Kevin Rudd just over one month later, who went on to lose the subsequent election in September 2013. The Holden and Toyota announcements were made under Tony Abbott’s prime ministership. The actual closing of the plants happened under Malcolm Turnbull’s prime ministership.

It was understood in early 2013 that once one car company announced the end of manufacturing in Australia, the other two would follow due to the availability of car parts combined with the ongoing issues of high production costs, a shrinking market in Australia and the removal of Australian tariffs and government subsidies. This happened.

Greber’s claim that all of the car-making industry exited Australia when Tony Abbott was prime minister is simply false.

Ellie’s (male) co-owner thought that MWD readers would like to know this.

Documentation

  • Louise Milligan & The Monthly’s Erik Jensen fail to report that the case against Sister Green was dismissed by the NSW Supreme Court

In last week’s Documentation segment, it was reported that ABC journalist Louise Milligan had not succeeded in her attempt to win a Melbourne Press Club’s Quill Award for Feature Writing. She entered, after paying a $125 entry fee, her article in the February 2025 issue of The Monthly (editor-in-chief, Erik Jensen).

Last week’s Documentation segment dealt in part with Milligan’s attack on Sister Marietta Green. Milligan is one of those journalists who believes what they want to believe. She chose to believe a complainant, Albert Hartnett, who alleged that the Sister of Mercy nun had beaten him when he was a small child between 1992 and 1994 at St Ignatius Parish School, Bourke.

Milligan made the following comment in The Monthly:

Photographs of Green show a beaming, diminutive lady who looks like a storybook kindly nun. But Hartnett’s statement of claim creates a more disturbing picture. It says that on one occasion he was hit on the back with a ruler so hard that it broke. On another, it says Green took down his pants and hit him with the ruler on his bare bottom, unintentionally catching his penis.  “On occasions, Sister Green grabbed the Plaintiff by the ears, twisted his ears and dragged him,” it says. “On occasions, Sister Green made [Hartnett] stand outside under the sun for a prolonged period of time.”

Green has denied all the allegations made against her by Hartnett.

Milligan’s article in The Monthly was published in early February 2025. On 8 February 2025, Hartnett’s claim for damages for personal injuries was dismissed by Justice J. Campbell in the NSW District Court.

There has been no correction or clarification to Milligan’s article of February 2025 in The Monthly Online following Justice Campbell’s decision.

Hartnett appealed to the Supreme Court of NSW. As pointed out in last week’s MWD, the appeal was dismissed with costs. Chief Justice Bell’s judgment (with which Justices Kirk and Ball concurred) was delivered on 24 March 2026. This was too late for coverage in the April 2026 issue of The Monthly. But it was not reported in The Monthly’s May 2026 issue which came out earlier this week.

So there you have it. Louise Milligan and Erik Jensen made serious allegations against Sister Marietta Green brutalising her students when a teacher in the early 1990s. However, when these claims were dismissed by the NSW judicial system for not having been proved on the balance of probabilities, Milligan and Jensen chose not to let readers of The Monthly know of these decisions.

In a post on Twitter (now X) on 14 January 2023, the Melbourne Law School’s Professor Jeremy Gans wrote:

….It’s a recurrent problem with Milligan’s journalism. If there are facts that don’t help her argument, she doesn’t tell her readers. She just leaves them out.

In this case, among others, Louise Milligan has left out the fact that the civil case with respect to Sister Green was dismissed by the NSW judicial system.

The various errors in Milligan’s journalism, as indicated above, reflect the fact that she believes what she wants to believe. Media Watch Dog is not saying that Albert Hartnett told untruths about what he alleged had occurred at a school in Bourke over three decades ago. However, some people have clear “recollections” of events that never happened while others have poor memories. And then there is the matter of mistaken identity.

That’s why a professional journalist should report established facts and not act as a journalist version of a director of prosecutions. That was the problem with Milligan’s 2017 book Cardinal: The Rise and Fall of George Pell. As she acknowledged in an interview on ABC TV’s News Breakfast on 16 May 2017, the book was written “from the complainant’s point of view”. That’s not reporting – that’s activism.

This is the same problem with Milligan’s The Monthly article of February 2025. It is followed by a reluctance to admit to errors. With respect to the late Cardinal George Pell, Milligan believes all seven judges of the High Court got it wrong. With respect to Sister Marietta Green, Milligan believes that four out of four NSW judges got it wrong. Put simply, the ABC’s “star” journalist goes into denial when the evidence does not support her theories.

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Until Next Time.

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