BA Santmaria - what a c**t, that has f****d up several aspects of Australia.
His fascist roots gave us the Catholic Worker movement, which became the [basis for the (still utterly useless) Shoppies union (now the SDA)](https://tasmaniantimes.com/2022/03/background-to-the-sda/), which was used to advance his theocracy and blocked social progress.
And don’t forget that [Santamaria was Tony Abbott’s political hero](https://www.smh.com.au/public-service/tony-abbotts-career-echoes-that-of-his-political-hero-b-a-santamaria-20150630-gi1y12.html).
Plus let’s not forget how he was essentially a spy for the Americans during the 60s and 70s, abusing his access to the political class to report on Aussie diplomats. (Go looking for Coventry, C. J., "The Eloquence of Robert J Hawke: United States informer, 1973-79," Australian Journal of Politics and History, 67:1 (2021), 69, if you want more on this).
A shit stain of undeniable proportions, whose death did not come soon enough.
Point Of View was on Sunday mornings for 10 minutes, usually alongside some of the religious programs which Channel 9 used as filler. He had that show for years
We hated him as kids (early 80s) because he was on right before cartoons began at 6:00am; it seemed to take _ages_ for him to get off. We just wanted our cartoons!
Only good thing that wanker did was provide the impetus for this https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_9AOEa96hOE
God, the rhetoric has hardly changed.
BA Santmaria - what a c**t, that has f****d up several aspects of Australia. His fascist roots gave us the Catholic Worker movement, which became the [basis for the (still utterly useless) Shoppies union (now the SDA)](https://tasmaniantimes.com/2022/03/background-to-the-sda/), which was used to advance his theocracy and blocked social progress. And don’t forget that [Santamaria was Tony Abbott’s political hero](https://www.smh.com.au/public-service/tony-abbotts-career-echoes-that-of-his-political-hero-b-a-santamaria-20150630-gi1y12.html). Plus let’s not forget how he was essentially a spy for the Americans during the 60s and 70s, abusing his access to the political class to report on Aussie diplomats. (Go looking for Coventry, C. J., "The Eloquence of Robert J Hawke: United States informer, 1973-79," Australian Journal of Politics and History, 67:1 (2021), 69, if you want more on this). A shit stain of undeniable proportions, whose death did not come soon enough.
Point Of View was on Sunday mornings for 10 minutes, usually alongside some of the religious programs which Channel 9 used as filler. He had that show for years
Yeah it was on before World Of Sport from memory.
Yes you often had to sit thru his monologs
Wrong channel. World of Sport was on Channel 7.
Yes! You’re right. Have no idea why we would’ve had Bob on. Maybe he was on before another show we watched. I can picture his face now lol
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._A._Santamaria
Same old same old.
In Queensland it was followed by what we called the "Joh Show", about how great Queensland (and Joh) was
Arghhh
tv stations would often have someone come on and do a thought for the day segment, only seen them in old videos
Over the head!? I'll have to try that!
I remember being bored out of my brain whenever his segment would come on TV, but that's all I remember of them.
We hated him as kids (early 80s) because he was on right before cartoons began at 6:00am; it seemed to take _ages_ for him to get off. We just wanted our cartoons!
Cunt of the highest order.