Author: peterimrich
But we won’t be opting for an improvement in wages, pensions or welfare in the long term and will keep a tight grip on any public sector union growth by privatizing and outsourcing and shrinking it in order to keep better worker conditions from rising. We will appoint politically biased department heads of our choosing along with government advisers and spin doctors at the highest wage levels to ensure our desired outcomes are met. The problem is Australians expect too much government action in their favor when 50% don’t even vote for us.
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg says his fourth budget will provide practical measures to ease cost of living pressures, as the government gears up for a federal election in May. While he was light on detail in a series of television interviews on Sunday, Mr Frydenberg said Tuesday’s budget will contain responsible and practical measures, and he does not expect it will add to prevailing inflation pressures. “There will be a number of measures in the budget that go to the heart of the cost of living issue,” Mr Frydenberg told ABC television.
Source: Budget to provide practical household help – Michael West Media
There are so many things that come to mind with that headline – like when Barnaby Joyce wrote off an $80,000 government Toyota LandCruiser wagon by driving it into a flooded creek on the way to his northern NSW grazing property. Or when he had unprotected extramarital sex with a staffer and got her pregnant. Or when he turned up drunk at work. Those are the sort of personal lapses of judgement you worry about with teenage kids.
Source: Barnaby Joyce is an idiot – » The Australian Independent Media Network
The Australian Government has done nothing and as such has been a coconspirator in a blatant act of wage theft. Any prosecution of participants in this criminal might lose them potential regional voters while the victims have no voice as they are ineligible to vote.
But it doesn’t appear to be a small cohort and it has been allowed to happen under the Australian government’s very own labour hire scheme. The government’s Seasonal Worker Program (SWP) sets no limit to the amount of money an employer can deduct from a worker’s pay for costs incurred as part of that employment.
Amazing how a ” positive, progressive action” conducted in 2018 can
1) Make it to the Front Page of CH9’s The AGE in 2022 and be declared “corrupt”.
2) How a Good progressive action can be twisted and turned on its head as if it were the equivalent of a LNP regressive vote-buying rort. Remind ourselves what the Sikh community has done for Victoria during Covid, the bush fires, and other emergencies and they have done it for nothing
3) The Age CH9 however is giving wind to a disgruntled female politician who happens to be Indian and is now claiming “bullying” by her party for having been dropped by the ALP. In a case of push back she has teamed with Adam Somyarek a proved to be corrupt politician also sanctioned by the ALP and facing legal action.
4) The Age is acting as a PR agency maintaing an equivalence exists with LNP rorts and that the ALP are acting as thugs in a State regarded as the most progressive in the country. Their bias is obvious.
Meanwhile, there’s a War going on in Europe, Covid is out of control yet Peter Costello’s Ch9 is running a point guard defensive distraction against Daniel Andrews why? Because Matthew Guy’s Liberals are falling apart at the seams in front of us. This is a flagrant example of a pathetic attempt at damage control. It’s not news but Mainstream private media acting as agents for the LNP in view of an advertising return come November and it’s another example of why we need to SAVE THE ABC.
Source: How the Premier’s local bottle shop owner claimed he won $30 million of projects
India has leapfrogged China as the number one country of origin for foreign students in Victoria, as universities and student accommodation providers report a better-than-expected return of internationals arriving to study in Melbourne. People from India make up a quarter of the 96,300 international student visa holders currently in Victoria, followed by those from China on 19 per cent and Nepal on 7 per cent.
Source: India overtakes China as international students’ top country of origin
Currently, the LNP is locked foot and step with the GOP American Republican Party. The Liberal Party has never been closer to Trumpster alt-right than it is today and they even echo their policies here in Australia as they haven’t any original ideas of their own. Public Service, Education, Health, Welfare Immigration, and Emergency Services have all become rapidly privatized or outsourced so much so they no longer function or are fit for purpose in emergencies. Chaos has reigned with Morrison at the helm and we’ve deteriorated on every social metric other than the profits made by their corporate supporters,who they have gifted handsomely. Our Democracy is under threat of drifting even closer to Mussolini’s ideal model of government, The Fascist Corporate State.
There is an opportunity to restore Australian Democracy, by addressing the core issues that Australians nominate as underpinning their growing sense of distrust and dissatisfaction. A Democratic Commission should play a central role in this effort. Failing to intervene in our democratic decline is a failure to appreciate Australian Democracy’s fragility, and its pre-eminence in underpinning our way of life. This is a mistake we cannot afford to make.
Testing the Waters for himself not the state?
“He will not be a help to Trump-endorsed candidates when he comes on Saturday,” the conservative commentator Martha Zoller told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution this week. “He will be negative and backward looking – and that’s not what voters want.” Some Republican pollsters said that while Trump’s endorsement was coveted, he had diluted his influence by reaching far down the ballot or supporting late-entry candidates with little public recognition or campaign apparatus.
Man-made climate change denialists can’t say that this event is purely “natural” and will begin to reverse. Meanwhile, Peter Dutton will continue to joke about the Pacific islands and water lapping at their doorsteps. Andrew Bolt might even return to Roy Spencer and argue that the planet is actually cooling or at least not warming at the rate “97% of Global Climate scientists say”.
There was a time we believed man-made events occurring on the other side of the planet never really affected us. Until we came face to face with WW2 but that now seems wasn’t a lesson learned. Pandemics haven’t done the job let alone the relationship between fossil fuels and climate change. While the rest of the world is convinced not Russia Australia or India are. However, we are sure as hell waking up to it today and have learned the consequences of the LNP ignoring it for over two decades.
Andrew Bolt even argues if the EU hadn’t been as active in transitioning to renewables Putin wouldn’t have “had to” invade Ukraine. His logic, if the EU hadn’t tried to act like irrresponsible globalists, “for the planet”, and remained dependant on Putin’s oil and gas he wouldn’t have been “forced” to invade Ukraine for its resources. Ergo the EU started the war says Bolt.
The Associated Press reports that the Conger/Glenzer ice shelf in East Antarctica has collapsed. The event was caught on satellite video, and it is the first such collapse known to have occurred on the east coast of Antarctica, which had been thought to be more stable and less affected by human-caused global heating than the west. The ice shelf was holding back two glaciers, Conger and Glenzer, named for American naval personnel who helped survey the area in the late 1940s. The glaciers collapsed along with the ice shelf.
Source: Human-Driven Climate Crisis: East Antarctica Ice Shelf collapses for First Time in Human History
Anti Climate Change Activist Murdoch is a heavy investor in Oil and its export . No surprise he employs the likes of Tucker Carlson a pro-Russian anchor echoed globally by clones like Andrew Bolt Chris Kenny etal in Australia who claim climate change advocates are the real warmongers and fossil fuel exporters the peacemakers. Andrew Bolt has been sucking off the News Corp teat his whole career.
In this long game, ironically, the EU, Japan, and the US are in the same camp as Putin’s current fellow travelers, China and India. All these countries are major oil importers who benefit from the cheaper prices that come from rapid deployment of clean energy in place of fossil fuels. Hence, if it is done well, a fiercely-fought oil and gas war could help Ukraine beat Putin and reunite the world community — leaving on the outside Russia, a rogue economy smaller than Italy’s and the Persian Gulf, and help substantially to save the climate along the way.
Source: Western embargoes of Russian gas offer a real shot at a post-carbon future | Salon.com
Less than a final solution given the Saudi- Qattar conflict. The final solution for Independence must be renewable energy and Germany is a tech leader.
Germany is making considerable progress in weaning itself off fossil fuel imports from Russia and could become virtually independent of the country’s coal and oil by the end of this year, said economy and climate minister Robert Habeck in Berlin. Natural gas supply poses the biggest challenge and it will likely take until mid-2024 for Germany to be able to forgo deliveries from Russia, said the minister. Significant expansion of renewables, reduction of consumption in all sectors, diversification and the ramp-up of hydrogen are needed for this.
While Russian propaganda claims “The Ukrainians destroyed Mariupol”
France is planning a humanitarian operation with Turkey and Greece that will defy Russia’s siege of the devastated southeastern Ukrainian port city of Mariupol.
Source: France, Greece, Turkey to mount mass evacuation of Mariupol’s survivors
If true, the deaths of so many generals, alongside more senior Russian army and naval commanders – in just four weeks of combat – exceeds the attrition rate seen in the worst months of fighting in the bloody nine-year war fought by Russia in Chechnya, as well as Russian and Soviet-era campaigns in Afghanistan, Georgia and Syria.
Source: Russian generals are getting killed at an extraordinary rate
Dutton and Abbott having a racist laugh with the weaselly Morrison whispering a warning ” the Boom is on, the boom is on”. When this event and picture exploded the truth about Abbott wanting Australia to be a part of NATO and not the PACIFIC. It was clear to the world he was America’s “Pillock” not the Pivot of the Pacific.
Dutton’s comments — reflecting a spectacular disdain for the existential threat many Pacific nations feel from climate change — came to mind on Friday. On morning television, he dismissed suggestions that the revelation that Solomon Islands was negotiating a security deal with China — which might eventually lead to a Chinese naval base being established in the small nation — meant the government had “dropped the ball” in the Pacific. “We have a fantastic relationship with the Solomon Islands and we’re there at the request of the government of the Solomon Islands at the moment
Yes, we all know that there’s only one poll that counts, and that’s the one taken next week when the Liberals all get together to work out if it’s too late to change leader.
Why Victoria is Progressive not because of Greg Hunt
“When Jack the Ripper died he saved the lives of women across London,” Bernie Dowling, Twitter.
So it was that Health Minister Greg Hunt threw a presser today in which Greg was in no arguing mood when his colleague the Member for Moncrieff Angie Bell praised him for saving 40,000 lives.
Greg Hunt saves 40,000 lives (not nurses, doctors, just Greg) – Michael West Media
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The Tactical Insertion of a Jen
Only the most hardened cynic would decry the appearance of Jenny Morrison in Sydney’s Daily Telegraph helping her husband Scott announce $58 million in funding for endometriosis. This debilitating illness affects 11% of Australian women and girls, of which Jenny is one.
It’s worth noting, however, that Mrs M did not come forward with her story when Health Minister Greg Hunt announced $20 million for endometriosis funding as a part of the $353.9 million in women’s health funding in the budget last year. Though of course, that was a full year away from an election.
The Tele spread is certainly another insight into the turbocharged media machine at the PM’s disposal as he chases every last vote.
Stunt of the day: Jenny, Scott’s window into women
My thought for the day On the NBN: The problem with designing a network to meet the needs of yesterday is that it denies you the ability to meet the needs of tomorrow. ( John Lord )
Can Kooyong do to Frydenberg what Warringah did to Abbott?
Victoria has accused Treasurer Josh Frydenberg of robbing more than $1 billion worth of GST a year from his home state and sending it to Western Australia – Australia’s richest jurisdiction – to shore up seats at the federal election.
Once upon a time Victoria was a byword for conservatism. Then it raised a Cain. Before you could say wine bars and Sunday trading, the state was skipping past the rest of the nation. And no matter how the nation votes, it is likely to remain a fortress for the anti-conservative forces this year. Mark Sawyer looks at political trends in the People’s Republic of Below Murray.
While the Australian Supreme Court decides Wind Farms are a hazard to health.
So there you have it. Even in a gas and oil state, customers are saving a billion dollars by switching to wind. That is the future, my friend. As for the gas and petroleum, most of it will become worthless and will stay in the ground as wind and solar costs continue to plummet.
Morrison declaring Ukranians refugees to be first in line in his Australia. Appealing to the racists in this country is nothing new when appealing for votes.
The problem of racism has roots throughout history and is sadly still alive in Western culture and politics, writes Bilal Cleland.
Can a leopard change its spots? My analysis of the Murdoch outlets’ recent flood coverage suggests not.
The Murdoch promise ” I’ll put it in a little bit if it hurts I’ll take it out”
Source: Is News Corp following through on its climate change backflip?
What’s even funnier is Andrew Bolt dreams of retiring on a barge in Amsterdam and writing a novel. Let’s never forget it’s just a dream to placate the guilt of being the most impotent of the above Three Amigos whose only thing in common is being able to talk with their heads up their clackers.
In the Herald-Sun, Andrew Bolt managed to blame the war in Ukraine on climate activism, saying “Vladimir Putin would never have dared invade Ukraine if the green movement hadn’t first made Europe look helpless.” The only surprise was Andrew Bolt didn’t also try to blame the Ukraine war on African gangs from Melbourne’s outer suburbs.
Source: The war in Ukraine has nothing to do with “wokeness”, you’re just a right-wing nutjob | The Shot
“Fossil fuels are the currency of despots, dictators, and warmongers. Our global reliance on oil and gas is not only killing our planet but also making the world a less safe and equal place.”
Source: ‘Ukrainian Blood on Their Hands’: Analysis Details How Big Oil Funded Putin’s War Chest
Morrison’s ART of the DEAL. Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
Senator Lambie wept in late 2019 as she voted in favour of repealing the laws. Prime Minister Scott Morrison refused to reveal at the time if there was a “secret deal” to allow the refugees to eventually resettle in NZ. He has repeatedly denied any plans to accept the offer – including while standing with NZ PM Jacinda Ardern in early 2019. “When it comes to the New Zealand arrangement … the Australian government has no plans to take up that arrangement whatsoever,” he said. On Thursday, Senator Lambie confirmed that a deal did exist – claiming that Mr Morrison had even told her she could go to jail if she revealed it.
‘Without truth, no democracy can stand’: why we are calling out the prime minister Today Crikey publishes an uncomfortable but important investigation that exposes the prime minister as a systemic, consistent and unremitting public liar.
Listed here are 50 Lies and Falsehoods attributed to Scott Morrison. 32 Lies and 18 Falsehoods
Source: Why we are calling out Prime Minister Scott Morrison
The LNP is determined to privatize, outsource and reduce the Public Service and leave behind a piecemeal Service incapable of offering anything in the face of emergencies. Their purpose is to prevent the most unionized sector from improving wages. They have given free rein to import cheaper labor, increase wage theft, and casualize the workforce while the cost of living has been increasing leaving the free choice of improvement through unionization in tatters. Better conditions aren’t as important to the LNP that banning the flying of the Eureka flag on government sights.
The list of Australian universities that have admitted to systematically underpaying casual employees is growing every month. The scale of the problem shows that these aren’t innocent errors — rather, wage theft is built into the core of casual work.
Source: To End the Epidemic of Wage Theft, Australian Universities Must Abolish Piece Rates
The King of Clowns,
Little by way of logistical or pricing detail was given. We know who benefits the most from this. A triumphalist Whitehaven Coal will supply it, and the cost to the Australian taxpayer will be in the order of AU$31 million. Given that Whitehaven Coal has been a Liberal Party donor – AU$98,000 has been given over the last five years – the whiff of something rotten in the land of coal is strong.
The Morrison government has made a habit of celebrating the announcement rather than the execution of detail. Mendacity and incompetence are twinned in this government’s insignia, and Ukrainian officials best ready themselves for disappointment.
Source: Weaponizing Coal: Australia Gives Ukraine a Gift – » The Australian Independent Media Network
If the Morrison government really wants us to believe it will ship 70,000 tonnes of Australian coal straight by the Russian navy in the Black Sea, bang through a war zone, it is proving very reluctant to share even the slightest detail of how it might accomplish this feat of ridiculousness. Callum Foote and Michael West report.
Source: Morrison’s madcap plan to send coal to Ukraine just another “announceable”? – Michael West Media
China seems to be streaks ahead of Peter Dutton in the Art of Diplomacy. When the far more Christian Nation of the Soloman Islands prefers to deal with China there’s a reason for it. For the past 9 years, the LNP government has 1) removed Radio Australia the once heartbeat of the Pacific, claiming everyone has a laptop and don’t need it. When they don’t. All for Abbott’s domestic attack on the ABC. 2)They then reduced Foreign Aid and turned it into a commercial enterprise a quid pro quo arrangement for profit. Well, the Solomon Islands no, the Pacific realized they had something to offer when the LNP created the vacuum.
They weren’t deaf either to Dutton’s racist Boomgate humor or the establishment of AUKUS. They saw Australia making transactional arrangements,screwing the French, in brazen disregard for other Pacific nations and knew that Morrison and Dutton were liars not to be trusted. So why shouldn’t they use their own leverage and do deals in their favor just as the LNP has? Who’s the dumbass to be laughed at now Dutton??
Australian officials are alarmed at Solomon Islands’ planned security deal with China with the defence minister, Peter Dutton, stating “we would be concerned clearly about any military base being established” less than 2,000km off the coast. Solomon Islands has signed a policing deal with China and will send a proposal for a broader security agreement covering the military to its cabinet for consideration. According to a copy of the draft security agreement circulating on social media on Thursday, it would allow China to base navy warships in the Pacific.
But something new seems to be happening, and Vladimir Putin is responsible. Don’t get me wrong. Democrats and Republicans won’t join hands and sing Kumbaya anytime soon. Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy will continue to ambush Democrats every chance they get. Expect bitter battles over background checks, immigration reform, civil rights protections and Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation to the supreme court. Trump won’t stop telling his big lie. Your Fox News-obsessed Uncle Bob will remain in his hermetically sealed alternative universe.
Russian State Media
The coastal city of Mariupol has been completely destroyed, pretty much wiped from the face of the earth. Drone footage just released shows the city of 450,000 in ashes and rubble. But for Putin’s sycophants in the Russian media this was evidence of Ukrainians killing themselves.
Threatened with Jail Jacqui Lambie can now speak up. That’s the nature of Scott Morrison’s bargaining powers he calls leadership.
A recording at centre of bullying claims Independent Senator Jacqui Lambie has lifted the lid on her secret deal with Scott Morrison to release over 400 asylum seekers from Nauru and Manus Island, revealing the Prime Minister told her she risked jail if she told the truth about it. But today’s announcement that New Zealand will receive up to 150 refugees a year, more than nine years after its offer to take them was first made, has freed her to tell the full story. The announcement applies to refugees in an Australian offshore detention facility on Nauru, as well as those currently housed in temporary regional processing centres.
In an exclusive interview with news.com.au, Ms Lambie said she kept the secret, and the Prime Minister kept the details of the agreement in a safe in Parliament House. She said it included a private agreement from Mr Morrison to accept the New Zealand offer.
“My demand was to ensure that by the time his term was finished, to make sure that everybody, unless they were a security risk, was off those bloody islands,’’ she said.
“I couldn’t tell the story of what had happened because otherwise the deal’s off. That means that people would have been still stuck there.”
WOULD THE REAL GUTLESS LEADER PLEASE STAND? Should the man who was, in fact, too gutless to face the victims of the flood catastrophe, who are still living in apocalyptic conditions, be pointing an appendage of any kind at others? As mentioned, the approach of using its own weaknesses to undermine the strengths of its opponents is an oft-employed and historically successful political tactic by the Coalition, dating back to the Howard era. In this way, any suggestion of a crack in the “enemy’s” armour, in this case, suggestions of Labor Party bullying, is amplified to such a degree that the spotlight moves away from bigger concerns, providing fodder for the willing media and creating a false sense of equivalency. Let’s not fall for it again.
Source: Morrison’s desperate attempt to weaponise the death of Senator Kitching
Andrew Bolt can “feel un-Australian He can “feel” Dutch when he’s not. He was born here. Bruce Pascoe. on the other hand, can’t according to Bolt “feel” Aboriginal because “feelings are coloured. So can Stan Grant ever”feel” Australian? Can he “feel” both Aboriginal and Australian? I suspect he can’t because he’s black and to be consistent if Bruce can’t Stan can’t but Andrew Bolt can. Even though Bolt never stepped foot in the Netherlands until he was 19. He’s exceptionally priviliged white man. As far as Bolt is concerned Australia only came into being in 1788 and is a Western White Christian Nation and there was notionally nothing only fauna here prior.
The problem is “feelings” are only legitimate facts when Andrew Bolt’s but not to Bruce Pascoe or Stan Grant. Andrew Bolt insists on that racist fact. Yes, Bolt “feels” Dutch “feels” he’s culturally and spiritually connected to Aalsmeer and he certainly has the mindset to prove it. Historically the people living there were noted the most anti-semitic hunters and killers of Dutch Jews during WW2. Jews who lived there were for mistaken “feeling” they too were Dutch citizens the town. According to Bolt’s ancestors they were Bruce Pascoe wrong!
The Bolts of Aalsmeer were racist and ethnicist too. Like Bolt they weren’t multiculturists. They supported Hitler with ” feeling”. However, they have been denying and trying to hide that since the end of WW2. Unfortunately in 1984 the Jews called them out for their pretense and rewrote Dutch history and shone a light on their racist denials.
Andrew Bolt also has that in common with the true Aalsmeerians as he too maintains he’s a friend of the Jews and counts them among his best friends simply because he says he “feels” they are. Yes, Andrew Bolt is an exceptional man who is entitled, allowed or privileged to “feel” Dutch and a friend of Jews when history shows a very different story. While Bruce Pascoe and the original owners of this country aren’t allowed to “feel” united as true Australians. Go fuck yourself Uber Furher Bolt.
Albanese is a communist. lIbErAlS aRe BeTtEr EcOnOmIc MaNaGeRs. The Labor Party is less cruel to refugees. We are compassionate, responsible global citizens above reproach, not corrupt, moral and fair. There was no genocide when Europeans arrived here. Allowing money to concentrate in the hands of the wealthy benefits us all. Coal can be clean. Voting 1 for minor parties or independents in a preferential voting system benefits the major party you don’t like. Minority governments don’t work. The bush is pure; the city elitist and latte sipping. Mateship and the fair go. Ned Kelly larrikins, chill as fuck. Young people can’t afford houses because of avocados, not an exponential increase in prices compared to wages. “Flexibility” is better than annual leave and job security. Have a go to get a go. Refugees are terrorists. If minorities could just shut up about everything, we’d all be fine. Et fucking cetera.
Source: The myth of Australia | The Shot
Morrison’s “experts” become later whistleblowers allowing the truth to unfold.Morrison simply said hasn’t the knack for any loyalty. People around him simply don’t bullshit as much.
Prof Andrew Macintosh says the system, which gives credits for projects such as regrowing native forests after clearing, is ‘a fraud’ on the environment, taxpayers and consumers
Morrison has proved he’s the worst judge of the character of any PM on record. His best friends who he employed and holidayed with were fanatical QAnon members. While Brian Houston, the corrupt leader of Hillsong, was up close and personal with Morrison who was trying to get him a ticket to Trump’s White House dinner. Scotty from Marketing was far closer to Trump than Biden and he totally pissed off the French President without a care. A totally transactional man our PM was cocked and ready to take the LNP to the right of Putin if it guaranteed him votes he needed to stay in power. He thinks Australia didn’t notice his fake empathy when televised through a very narrow security in Lismore when his security kept thosr damn people away .
For years Scott Morrison has publicly praised Brian Houston and cultivated links with Hillsong. Now that the Pentecostalist leader has been forced out in disgrace, the PM has nowhere to hide.
Source: Scott Morrison and Brian Houston: paying the wages of sin
Just as John Howard pitched to the right to attract One Nation voters, Australia’s Scott Morrison is cravenly trying to win over far-right voters today. The danger is that the tactic will backfire, fracturing the Coalition and encouraging a far-right movement.
Source: Australia’s Conservatives Are Cynically Courting the Far Right — and It’s Starting to Backfire
On what grounds do we put boots on the ground? Australian politicians have been mostly unwilling to cede control of declarations of war to parliament. When it comes to committing troops, our closest security partners have moved towards parliamentary votes, but in most cases the leadership reserves the final say, writes Zacharias Szumer.
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As Russian autocrat Vladimir Putin wages a brutal war against Ukraine and its people, the Kremlin has made a point to single out Fox News for praise. Russian state media and government accounts have promoted commentary from the network and its personalities; a leaked memo even instructed such outlets that it was “essential” to feature programming by Fox host Tucker Carlson.
Source: Fox News is Kremlin approved | Media Matters for America
Israel not only refused to sell its Iron Dome missile defense system to Ukraine, but also blocked the U.S. from sending Iron Dome batteries owned by the U.S. Army to Kyiv.
Source: Why Israel Refused to Help Ukraine Defend Itself From Russia
Australians say Scott Morrison is the nation’s least trustworthy politician, as new figures show he is presiding over a nation losing trust in the Prime Minister but also government more broadly. The role Mr Morrison has played personally in attracting public criticism, but also the way in which his polarising leadership has changed the way many Australians view politics is outlined in new Roy Morgan research released this week. Contained within a wider analysis of public sentiment to government, the study showed which MPs are least trusted by Australians. Many are on the Coalition leadership team. Prime Minister Scott Morrison is the nation’s most distrusted, with Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce in second and Defence Minister Peter Dutton rounding out the ‘winner’s’ circle. Labor, by contrast, dominated most trusted in the snap survey, taken by Roy Morgan in March. South Australian Senator Penny Wong came in first. Party leader Anthony Albanese is now in second place, up from eighth in 2020 research.
Source: Australians’ distrust of Morrison turning them off government
My thoughts for the day With the budget coming up in a few days, something has been on my mind for some time. My wife and I, together with other welfare recipients, would like to apologise to Joe Hockey for being such a burden on him in the 2014 budget. When drafting a budget for the common good what should your priorities be? ( John Lord )
Source: Brands Liberal/National are on the nose – » The Australian Independent Media Network
Proud graduate Captain Stuart Robert MP of Australia’s Noted College of Bastardisation and Sexual Abuse became the promoter and overseer of Australia’s worst-ever Social Welfare debacle ROBODEBT. He is now Minister in Charge of Education and blamed “dud teachers” in our government schools of dragging Australia down when compared with comparable results in the rest of the world. One can only suggest Robert was talking about himself having attended that now famous Government College known as Duntroon. The “dud teachers” of Duntroon it seems resulted in his ranking as the most corrupt MP among current LNP ranks and possibly the decade if not longer.Robert it seems was trying to explain why he’s such a corrupt and incompetant shithead.
Robert has a history of foot in mouth disease that is legend and ranks as the most self-serving and incompetent MP’s in LNP ranks standing shoulder to shoulder in that competition with ex-cop Peter Dutton. Dutton wins simply because he’s been there the longest.
The acting federal Education Minister Stuart Robert surely assumed he was chatting confidentially among friends last week when he told a private schools conference the sustained decline in the academic results of Australian 15-year-olds relative to their international peers is because of “dud teachers” in government schools. The “duds” were defined as the “bottom 10 per cent of teachers” who graduate from initial teaching courses notwithstanding they “can’t read and write”. But private schools are dud-free zones, the acting minister purred to his audience, because principals have the power to hire and fire and are naturally intolerant of dud educators, and if the government could only “bottle” the success of these schools, the nation’s youth would rise beyond mediocrity.
Source: School students tripping up on Australia’s uneven playing field
A reminder of a very tainted history of a Senator currently not raised by the LNP who are tripping over themselves to make K.Kitching look like a saint the victim of ALP thugs. The ALP on the other hand has nothing to defend Kitching’s well-documented past reveals who she was. Albo’s right Kitching herself issued “no formal complaint”. So it leaving Morrison standing naked in front of the cameras showing who he really is. The three amigos in fact Scott Morrison Tim Stewart and Brian Houston all naked.
Federal parliament reaches a new low with the appointment of fraudster, thief and former bankrupt Kimberley Kitching to replace the retiring Senator Stephen Conroy. Kitching is so disliked in her own party she has failed on at least 3 other attempts to become a federal politician and that was even with the support of Bill Shorten.
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