{"id":3524,"date":"2010-06-09T20:02:55","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T12:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/?p=3524"},"modified":"2010-06-25T11:50:29","modified_gmt":"2010-06-25T03:50:29","slug":"rspt-protest-demographics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2010\/06\/09\/rspt-protest-demographics\/","title":{"rendered":"RSPT protest demographics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Notice anything interesting about the photos in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/business\/kevin-rudd-defends-resources-super-profit-tax-in-wa\/story-e6frfm1i-1225877493525\">this news article<\/a> covering a protest rally against the Federal Government&#8217;s proposed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.futuretax.gov.au\/documents\/attachments\/10_Fact_sheet_Resource_Profit_Tax_Final.pdf\">Resource Super Profits Tax<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a screengrab for reference:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/rspt_protest.jpg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"3525\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2010\/06\/09\/rspt-protest-demographics\/rspt_protest\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/rspt_protest.jpg?fit=480%2C384&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"480,384\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"rspt_protest\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/rspt_protest.jpg?fit=300%2C240&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/rspt_protest.jpg?fit=480%2C384&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/rspt_protest.jpg?resize=480%2C384\" alt=\"\" title=\"rspt_protest\" width=\"480\" height=\"384\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/rspt_protest.jpg?w=480&amp;ssl=1 480w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/rspt_protest.jpg?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 85vw, 480px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a bunch of old rich people wearing suits or corporate uniforms and carrying professionally manufacturered signs. This looks more like a well-funded advertising campaign than a grassroots movement.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/stories\/2010\/06\/09\/2922786.htm\">ABC News report<\/a> on the protest suggested that mining magnates and Liberal party politicians joined the protestors. I&#8217;m sure that it was the other way around.<\/p>\n<p><em>Please don&#8217;t tell me that those condescending advertisements have actually worked.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Notice anything interesting about the photos in this news article covering a protest rally against the Federal Government&#8217;s proposed Resource Super Profits Tax? Here&#8217;s a screengrab for reference: It&#8217;s a bunch of old rich people wearing suits or corporate uniforms and carrying professionally manufacturered signs. This looks more like a well-funded advertising campaign than a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2010\/06\/09\/rspt-protest-demographics\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;RSPT protest demographics&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paLsRH-UQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3524"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3524"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3753,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3524\/revisions\/3753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}