The LNP job Keeper and Seeker schemes give $$ to companies not individuals so don’t allay anxiety and the need to work. A universal stimulus package would take that pressure off families allowing individuals to confidently comply. The uncertainty of the LNP benefits and support schemes does the opposite. So Victoria’s economic success story jobs jobs jobs now make it it’s own worst enemy in a pandemic. Jobs remain a necessity but are an increased uncertainty for families and with borders locked puts added pressure on the individuals supporting them. As Job Keeper doesn’t go directly to them and seeker isn’t enough. Contagion and the unseen and unknown risk is not as an immediate compliance stick as the need to work is. With the guarantee of a universal benefit scheme, we would not see what’s currently happening (ODT)
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The “New No Experts but Me” Pandemic Press conference was a lies and “gunna fest once again, “Dr Brix is here she’s outback” Why is this televised? (ODT)
In Trump’s words “we have to get them back to work somehow” Forget the fact the jobs aren’t there so punish and blame the unemployed. Trump’s been doing that privately for years blaming his workers, employing undocumented labour etc etc,(ODT)
via Unemployment Benefits Have Saved the US From Economic Calamity. They Expire at the End of the Month.
Frydenberg comes with hat in hand (ODT)
It seems that nationalism has a price. It also seems we aren’t necessarily ready to accept the price. To demonstrate the point, consider this
This week, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg called on industry and retail superannuation funds to invest more in Australian businesses, saying he “would like to see them both put to work on domestic infrastructure assets more than they have been”.
With most super funds carrying about 20 to 25 per cent of their investments in Australian companies, the Future Fund’s latest report on March 31 has it looking decidedly lean with only 6.1 per cent, or $9.87 billion, held in Australian shares.
One senior investment analyst — who asked not to be named — told The New Daily Mr Frydenberg should be asking Mr Costello “when is the Future Fund going to join Team Australia?”
The Future Fund holds more than $44 billion in global and emerging markets, while holding a cash balance of $15.59 billion or 9.6 per cent, and a similar amount in easily converted debt securities.
Its assets are designed to provide long-term investment in infrastructure, education, disability services, medical research and Indigenous services.
The Future Fund is Australia’s sovereign investment fund. Former Coalition Treasurer Peter Costello is the current Chairperson.
via Nationalism really isn’t easy – » The Australian Independent Media Network
Its complex difficult job doesn’t cut it when the real question was why were we there in the first place? We don’t like Iran, Nth Korea or Cuba but we aren’t invading them. (ODT)
via New SAS War Crimes Revealed as Australia Braces for Report | The Smirking Chimp
The Morrison Government have been do-nothing -followers since Morrison became PM.
Days after the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) hit out at the Morrison government for not having a vision to reinvigorate the nation’s economy through a jobs-creation strategy, they unveiled one of their own on Monday.
The money should be there to secure individuals not zombie companies that employ force people to stay in businesses they know will go broke. Job Seeker is not the fault of the Seeker but the meanness of a Government who assumes 100 applicants for one job is their fault. Why do Frydenberg and Trump sound so alike? (ODT)
106 DAYS TO GO
1) Create Cultural Divisions by scapegoating
2) Control all the information on COVID-19
3) Suppress voting in any form possible
4) Control the Media wherever possible contract FOX, Sinclair, OANN,
In comments from the Oval Office on Monday, President Donald Trump intensified rising fears that his administration will deploy federal agents to Democrat-led cities across the country to replicate a widely condemned crackdown in Portland, Oregon that critics charge is not only authoritarian but part of the president’s effort to win a second term by stoking division and chaos.
All the data will no longer go to the CDC, or Fauci’s Dept of National Health but the White House to be politically sanitized. Trump is about to disappear COVID-19 from America before November.
via Coronavirus: Trump to resume briefings as US COVID-19 cases surge
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Will Morrison say “Like the ABC we didn’t cut anything this was the normal result of an Efficiency Review? (ODT)
Of course, they won’t Frydenberg refused to call it a cut it’s an “extension” an “efficiency measure”. This government hates individuals and prefers organisations
even zombie organisations to give money to. Giving money to employers doesn’t guarantee to make the staff feel any more secure.
Giving organisations the opportunity to increase their debt even less so. Wher is the “giving”? (ODT)
No LNP Transperancy. Another Morrison On the Water Matter
A landmark review into Australia’s national environment laws has called for a major overhaul, including establishing an “independent cop” to oversee them.
Key points:
- The 124-page interim report comes 20 years after the laws were first implemented by the Howard government
- The report’s author has called for a “strong, independent cop” on the environment beat
- The Federal Government has accepted some recommendations, but rejected the report’s call for an independent regulator
“The foundation of the report was that there is too much focus on process and not enough focus on outcomes and that should be changed entirely,” Graeme Samuel, the review’s independent author, said.
He concluded that Australia’s environment was getting worse under the laws designed to protect it.
How incompetant is the ATO ?
The tax paid by superannuation funds on their earnings is often less than 10%, much lower than the headline rate of 15%, according to research by the University of Technology Sydney. And in an industry worth $2.7 trillion, this means a huge difference in the tax take for government. Callum Foote reports.
via Australia’s super funds pay up to 33% less tax than advertised
Morrison takes the credit for growing Small Business Debt and calling it a Stimulus (ODT)
via Tottering small businesses need more than another loan guarantee scheme
Statues are LOCAL PROPERTY not FEDERAL Trump needs a WAR so why not a CIVIL WAR (ODT)
via Trump Plans to Expand Federal Invasion of American Cities – Mother Jones
Trump’s Democracy Civil War
The world’s highest incarceration rate is the USA.
“Policing is just one way to reduce violent crime,” Sierra-Arévalo said. “And we know that it also creates tremendous negative impacts. It’s the most blunt instrument for reducing crime, and it’s the one we keep relying on.”
via Don’t Blame Protesters For The Rise In Violent Crime | HuffPost Australia
Mary Trump’s proof the Interview
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A Henty speaks with pride:
We have the opportunity to address the violence of colonial systems. To ignore this opportunity is to perpetuate the actions of my forefathers
There aren’t any easy answers here, but let’s at least be honest about the problem. If we’re going to talk about political correctness, let’s start with the truth about the kind of PC that matters most: the political correctness that is literally killing us.
The Gestapo has arrived and is disappearing Americans at the direct orders of Trump. (ODT)
“Usually when we see people in unmarked cars forcibly grab someone off the street we call it kidnapping — what is happening now in Portland should concern everyone in the US,” the civil rights group said in a statement. “These actions are flat-out unconstitutional and will not go unanswered.”
They’re all Antifa and Trump says arrest them particularly in Portland (ODT)
via BlueLeaks Shows Worry About Masks and Facial Recognition
“One person involved in the talks said Senate Republicans were seeking to allocate $25 billion for states to conduct testing and contact tracing, but that certain administration officials want to zero out the testing and tracing money entirely,” the Post reported. The relief bill is being written in Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) office and formal negotiations are expected to begin next week, when senators return from recess.
According to the Post, the administration is also aiming to “zero out $10 billion in new funding for the CDC in the upcoming bill” while simultaneously seeking the inclusion of money for a new FBI building.
Massive Tax cuts and Corporate welfare is ok for weed, coke and other legal and illegal drug users. Users that actually spend the money that drives the illicit industry and legal drug industries. So basically Murdoch media loves the poor they are the target of their attention which doesn’t hurt their advertisers and their consumers. The functional drug takers of America (ODT)
Trump’s war on Graffiti,
via Federal officers are using unmarked cars to arrest Portland protesters | Portland | The Guardian
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