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Qantas first, daylight second, taxpayers a distant third – Michael West

Qantas first, daylight second, taxpayers a distant third

Yes, it appears that the airline negotiators appear to have walked out of their latest meeting with politicians toting a taxpayer subsidy of roughly $1,200 per seat per flight. And yes, this does seem rather a lot of money, given that it is on top of what the airlines are already charging their customers, say the routine $190 a ticket from Sydney to Melbourne.

Nevertheless, it would be fractious and irresponsible to presume that just because Deputy PM Michael McCormack started work at age 17 at the Wagga Wagga Daily Advertiser and stayed there for 20 years … and just because Alan Joyce, the CEO of Qantas for 12 years, studied mathematical modelling, statistics and numerical algorithms at Trinity College Dublin – and then worked at Aer Lingus in IT and revenue planning – that McCormack and his advisers walked out of the negotiation nude.

The numbers however do appear to corroborate that view.

via Qantas first, daylight second, taxpayers a distant third – Michael West

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Australia’s Morrison Wants Pensions to Fund Company Bailouts – Bloomberg

Scott Morrison

These funds already invest some money in the corporations Morrison is bailing out like Virgin. Now Morrison has turned into a dodgy financial advisor. It sounds as if he’s demanding to invest, no give money to businesses that were already on the brink before COVID-19. Virgin for one.

Virgin wasn’t asking for a loan as much as a buyout. saying if they don’t repay in two years the government can have them. Morrison seems to be handballing companies like Virgin to the pension funds for an apparent commission of making the LNP look good but it simply makes him look dodgy by calling them weak.(ODT)

Australia’s Morrison Wants Pensions to Fund Company Bailouts – Bloomberg

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After COVID-19, a change is overdue

You cant privatise a pandemic Scott Morrison (ODT)

It will be difficult for Morrison to backtrack on measures already put in place to cope with the economic effects of the virus and more government financial assistance can be expected before we are out the other side. The fragility of the economy will require nurturing by the State for some time to come. The funding of childcare, universities and the increased funding of Newstart will not be easy to reverse even when the economy is stronger given likely voter resistance. It will give the Labor Party a platform.

via After COVID-19, a change is overdue

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Lest we forget – » The Australian Independent Media Network

After active opposition to action on climate change, rorting on a grand scale in water management, no long term national drought strategy, and a woeful response to the bushfires, ScottyFromMarketing (SFM) is now positioning himself as some sort of crisis leader.

In actual fact, he is finally being led by advice from experts, and luckily able to share the burden with the Premiers, or pass the buck where necessary.

via Lest we forget – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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Climate, economy, drought, bushfires and the election made 2019 a big year in fact checking – Politics – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Angus Taylor on a spooky movie background with a quote. A hand holding a gold pendant labelled "The Golden Zombie" to his right.

via Climate, economy, drought, bushfires and the election made 2019 a big year in fact checking – Politics – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

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Boomers vs Millennials: the gig economy breaks & enters the Australian Public Service – Michael West

The Australian Public Service and the gig economy.

Casualisation of the workforce disproportionally affects younger generations. From Amazon’s big MEL1 sweatshop to even the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT), the gig economic proliferates. Millennial lawyer Geordie Wilson reports that even the Australian Government is casualising its workforce at an astounding rate. In this, the first of our series Millennials vs Boomers, Wilson says illegal workplace practices appear to be rife even in the public service. It is something the Baby Boomers generation would hardly have even contemplated as, back in the day, they sought secure government jobs and the protection of the law.

via Boomers vs Millennials: the gig economy breaks & enters the Australian Public Service – Michael West

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Collateral damage in the time of COVID-19

News Corp has certainly been fuelling Sinophobia as it did Islamophobia and anti African sentiments yet we have Racial vilification laws and the goverenment simply stands by and watches. (ODT)

Here are some recent examples of racism outbreaks:

people who appear to be Asian in origin being abused at supermarkets;
a Malaysian student being denied rental accommodation;
the Chinese being blamed for the virus;
Chinese restaurants seeing a marked drop off in patronage;
students at some schools being mocked as “Coronas” in the playground (my son has witnessed this personally);
my niece – of Indian ancestry – and another young girl being abused on a train in Melbourne — the abuse was about them “being the problem” that led the abuser to have to take his children out of school;
snide remarks being made to people of general “Asian” appearance; and
talkback hosts allowing these comments to go to air without regard for community outcomes.

via Collateral damage in the time of COVID-19

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Testing, testing, by James Thompson – The Unz Review

Since posting that on 26 February much has changed. Country after country has been set the IQ test, and the results have varied. China, Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea and Japan are well ranked, though China may have cheated. Italy and Spain are towards bottom of the class. Sweden’s results are still being marked, but very much worth watching. Holland has also tried an intelligent, adult approach, with many shops open, but as death rates rise may move to more severe lockdown. The US is a new arrival to the class, and will be evaluated in a few week’s time.

If you don’t have tests, or treatments, you have to use social distancing. Social distancing works if everyone does it, but if only 10% cheat, then the effect is blunted.

On a broader front, this pandemic raises the question: how much of our economy is strictly necessary? The essentials of food growing, processing and distribution probably account for no more than 4% of the working age population. Power generation and basic utilities perhaps another 4%. Perhaps the remnant 92% will all be bloggers.

via Testing, testing, by James Thompson – The Unz Review

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The state and the economy – » The Australian Independent Media Network

It is welcome then that this federal government, intrinsically reactionary, prone to lassitude, ignorant, arrogant in its ignorance, has turned on the sluice gates. For lack of grounding, it is forced into the ultimate in pragmatism, dependent on a federal Treasury out of its depth.

But will it change its ways after this crisis relents? There’s no evidence, as there is no evidence of such to date in any other country. With a nasty budget black hole, that ‘bigger role’ will, in all likelihood, not be turned to permanently enhancing Newstart or abolishing Robodebt siphoning but to further tightening the screws.

via The state and the economy – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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How the NDIS has failed under a Liberal government

This was the state of play and it certainly hasn’t improved and it’s worse for the Mentally ill. Are there are no experienced mental health practitioners in the NDIA? Doesn’t anyone understand that “Transition” to Independent Living doesn’t mean the consumer needs less care but more? As elderly parent/Carers, we have saved the government hundreds of thousands of o dollars. When the caring framework needs a change NDIA put up barriers with no visible gates or even a desire to assist.   (ODT)

How the NDIS has failed under a Liberal government

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Scandal-magnet Angus Taylor fails to disclose Virgin and Qantas freebies – Michael West

Qantas Chairmans Lounge

Federal Energy Minister Angus Taylor, who has a history of disclosure failures and being embroiled in scandals, yesterday updated his pecuniary interests register to reflect thousands of dollars worth of gifts from Virgin Australia and Qantas. These disclosures were made only after questions for this story. Taylor’s office points the finger at alleged co-offenders in the ALP but just how many Coalition MPs have failed to report largesse from the nation’s two major airlines, both of which are now demanding the Government support them with billions in public money? Anthony Klan reports

Scandal-magnet Angus Taylor fails to disclose Virgin and Qantas freebies – Michael West

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Neoliberalism, COVID 19 and Priorities: Hypocrisy Exposed – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Remember when the Surplus was Everything (ODT)

Both of these facts around this part of the government’s response expose the brazen hypocrisy at the core of Neoliberalism. The takeaway is this: these governments have the money for increased social safety net programmes and infrastructure, but they choose to not invest in these things. To put it crudely, the issue is not ‘we can’t afford these programmes’, you fuckers are just unwilling to pay for them! A blank cheque and the keys to the treasury for the political donor class with crumbs and scraps for the serfs! As the Irish poet W.B. Yeats said ‘the centre cannot hold’.

via Neoliberalism, COVID 19 and Priorities: Hypocrisy Exposed – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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Old Dog Thoughts- LNP search the globe for ogiginality again

Fighting Fake News with REAL 1/4/20; Locked Up Humour; LNP- never say never change in a day; Quid Pro Quo it’s true meaning revealed again;

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Government to unveil coronavirus wage subsidy for businesses, workers – Politics – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Josh Frydenberg wearing a navy suit with a maroon and blue tie and an Australia pin.

Keeping people at work seems counterintuitive if there is no work to keep them there for. Give the money to the workers not the businesses alone. The record of wage theft has been clear and evident. (ODT)

via Government to unveil coronavirus wage subsidy for businesses, workers – Politics – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

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Our greatest failure has been the decline of our democracy – » The Australian Independent Media Network

via Our greatest failure has been the decline of our democracy – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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The battle over how to fight coronavirus has a fault line — and this week it deepened – Analysis & Opinion – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

A composite image of Scott Morrison and Jacinda Ardern

via The battle over how to fight coronavirus has a fault line — and this week it deepened – Analysis & Opinion – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

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Government response to crises is shameful

Compare and Contrast two Governments and two Crises (ODT)

Throughout various crises, including the COVID-19 pandemic, our Government has shown negligence towards the good of its people, writes Grant Turner.

Government response to crises is shameful

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New Zealand is in total lockdown. Why aren’t we?

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern: occasionally stern but always warm and compassionate.

via New Zealand is in total lockdown. Why aren’t we?

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The great awakening – » The Australian Independent Media Network

The most striking reversal of LNP ideology though was the government’s decision to double the Newstart allowance and extend it to others. Hoping that voters would not see that as tacit acceptance of the repeated advice of countless social advocates, as well as hard-nosed economists, they ditched the name ‘Newstart’ in favour of the more benign-sounding ‘Jobseeker Allowance’. It was obvious to all that the LNP was devoted to the belief that Newstart recipients were bludgers, ‘leaners’ rather than ‘lifters’, people who ought to be out getting a job. It must have been a hard pill to swallow to accept that increasing Newstart would have large economic benefits, as so many have been telling them for months.

Morrison and Frydenberg have been given praise for their package, bordering on lavish from their media set. But we have to ask why it took a crisis the magnitude of the coronavirus pandemic to bring about their awakening.

via The great awakening – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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Coalition, conservatives and the great unwashed PR campaign

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The party whose benefactors hold them to ransom must always put the needs of the rich first. This same pattern of behaviour may be seen in the responses of Tory governments everywhere.

This all adds up to the inescapable conclusion that conservatives will do the right thing but only when a more profitable choice fails to materialise. It is about pushing survival of the fittest, one hand-wash at a time.

The grossly inadequate and slow response from Australia has been primarily only about washing hands. It has not been about stringent quarantine procedures, the production of testing kits, investing in cures or vaccines.

Today they are telling us to wash our hands while they wash their hands of the great unwashed.

via Coalition, conservatives and the great unwashed PR campaign

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The Club: will Virgin Australia’s political influence deliver taxpayer subsidies for its foreign shareholders? – Michael West

Virgin Australia boss Paul Scurrah and his predecessor John Borghetti have, over the past two years alone, personally handed Scott Morrison, Josh Frydenberg – and at least 52 other current Coalition MPs – “gifts” worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. Already, the Prime Minister and Treasurer have given Virgin taxpayer support – part of the $715 million fees and charges waiver – but Scurrah is chasing more. Does the Government bail-out a company which is 91% foreign owned and which pays no tax? Anthony Klan reports on a classic case of political influence.

via The Club: will Virgin Australia’s political influence deliver taxpayer subsidies for its foreign shareholders? – Michael West

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Scott Morrison’s coronavirus stimulus package shows he has finally learnt to love deficits – Business – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Morrison looks pensive in front of a flag

It used to be called nationalisation; a term once considered abhorrent for any Liberal leader. But these aren’t normal times.

via Scott Morrison’s coronavirus stimulus package shows he has finally learnt to love deficits – Business – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

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The IPA has captured the Liberal Party

IPA?Murdoch/LNP the triumvariate of an unhinged and diminished Democracy (ODT)

What are some of the things they succeeded in?

Many of the items can be ticked off, as having been completed, or at least attempted. Most, if not all of them, as reactionary, elitist and nasty:

Repeal the carbon tax, and don’t replace it;
Abolish the Department of Climate Change;
Cease subsidising the car industry;
Repeal the mining tax;
Devolve environmental approvals for major projects to the states;
Cease funding the Australia Network; and
Privatise Medibank.

It seems like the sort of list that very young, privileged brats would produce before they actually encountered some real life. Let us just say it is a work of stupendous lightness and the Liberal Party has been captured by it for nearly eight years now.

There isn’t one thing that would materially improve the life of a single citizen. It is all self-aggrandisement writ large, with not a thought for the weak or the helpless. We have been blaming Abbott, Hockey, Scott Morrison and Peter Dutton for a long time, but they are just dupes of three would-be intellectuals, who wouldn’t know what the words mutual obligation meant.

The IPA gave Abbott a plan for Australia and he bought it.

via The IPA has captured the Liberal Party

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Neoliberalism in a time of coronavirus

via Neoliberalism in a time of coronavirus

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Josh Frydenberg to learn if he’s ineligible to sit in the Australian parliament | Australia news | The Guardian

The treasurer Josh Frydenberg

via Josh Frydenberg to learn if he’s ineligible to sit in the Australian parliament | Australia news | The Guardian

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Climate Vse Corona Virus – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Corona Virus has made a mockery of the economic excuses. When the bell tolls for the powerful no level of economic sacrifice is too great, but when it comes to economic realignment to stem climate change, our children and grandchildren can quite literally burn in hell.

via Climate Vse Corona Virus – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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Coronavirus will prove Morrison’s nemesis. – » The Australian Independent Media Network

In these ways, the coronavirus health and economic crisis will be Morrison’s nemesis as it will his mentor Donald Trump. As Bret Stephens concludes

It should not have had to take a deadly virus to expose this presidency (or prime ministership) for what it is. But it’s fitting that it has. A man who thinks he can twist every truth to suit his needs has at last discovered that he cannot twist the truths of nature and of one of nature’s gods. Her name remains Nemesis.

via Coronavirus will prove Morrison’s nemesis. – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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How the PM’s refusal to isolate puts everyone at risk – » The Australian Independent Media Network

UPDATE:

Instep and doing the Trump our PM believes Prayer will save him (ODT)

Update

Peter Dutton has just admitted in a radio interview that he became symptomatic on Wednesday, not Friday as he stated in his press release. This means anyone in contact with him on Tuesday must self-isolate.

via How the PM’s refusal to isolate puts everyone at risk – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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Morrison Government soft on international war crimes

It’s actually worse than that. Australia has waited until the end of the game, seen the result and is trying to have the game and umpire declared invalid so a result is not declared.

Under a Morrison Government, we have become a nation that is content to see an innocent family locked up indefinitely in a detention centre on Christmas Island while using self-made loopholes to try and block the prosecution of international war criminals.

What is even more tragic is that hardly anyone raises an eyebrow.

The ICC is still determining whether it has jurisdiction to prosecute. Let’s hope justice is done despite the Australian Government.

via Morrison Government soft on international war crimes

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Coronavirus and the NBN: will your broadband be up to speed if you have to work from home? | Technology | The Guardian

A woman with a laptop on a sofa

The Coronavirus will Test the LNP NBN and those working from home (ODT)

via Coronavirus and the NBN: will your broadband be up to speed if you have to work from home? | Technology | The Guardian

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Coronavirus forces closures around the world, markets react to Donald Trump address, live updates – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Our Politicians are far from leaders but followers. Albo leads from behind calling for a bipartisan plan to tackle Covid-19. However the decision to cancel the GP was made by “The FIA and Formula 1, with the full support of the Australian Grand Prix Corporation (AGPC) have therefore taken the decision that all Formula 1 activity for the Australian Grand Prix is cancelled.”  It seems the LNP really only sees this as a political performance for Scotty from marketing. Event decisions are still left up to individual organisations. Meanwhile chaos and confusion reign. (ODT)

via Coronavirus forces closures around the world, markets react to Donald Trump address, live updates – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

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Australian Grand Prix Amid Coronavirus: Lewis Hamilton Slams F1 For Still Holding Event | HuffPost Australia

McLaren Withdraws From Australian Grand Prix After Positive Coronavirus Result

via Australian Grand Prix Amid Coronavirus: Lewis Hamilton Slams F1 For Still Holding Event | HuffPost Australia

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Scott Morrison’s spread of fear has turned Australians from the public good

The Grand Prix, The Football, all come first and we are like children looking to America to lead us out of the bewilderness (ODT)

Through poor leadership and a media who loves to sensationalise, our government is turning Australians against those truly in need, writes Noely Neate.

via Scott Morrison’s spread of fear has turned Australians from the public good

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Brothers-in-Arms: the high-rotation revolving door between the Australian government and arms merchants – Michael West

weapon merchant

via Brothers-in-Arms: the high-rotation revolving door between the Australian government and arms merchants – Michael West

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Scotty Morrison and Scotty Cam scam the taxpayer

via Scotty Morrison and Scotty Cam scam the taxpayer

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Governments shift attention away from koala plight

via Governments shift attention away from koala plight

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A government reeking of corruption hits the panic button. – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Coronavirus-panic sweeps the nation. There’s barely a bottle of Dettol hand sanitizer left on a metal supermarket shelf across the land. Panic buying of toilet paper, pasta and rice turns ugly. A fight erupts in a Western Sydney Woolworths. Two Bankstown women, aged 23 and 60 are charged with affray.

Whilst no injury seems to have been sustained, the same cannot be said of the Morrison government which ends the week reeking of corruption after misleading the senate over changes to its rorted sports grants after it had entered caretaker mode 11 April 2019, whilst former Sports Minister Bridget McKenzie departs from the script by insisting she knows nothing of changes made in her name after caretaker mode commenced.

Sport Australia has refused to answer forty questions, which officials took on notice, effectively denying a senate committee request and failing to meet its Friday deadline. Former Health Department Head, Glenys Beauchamp, did comply but she’s destroyed all of her personal notes following her resignation in January. Genius.

Adding injury to insult, Attorney-General Porter has to be corrected by his own department on his misunderstanding of his own paper tiger DIY federal anti-corruption body he’s been drafting since 2018. Then, from up shit creek, there’s a hullabaloo about all that bushfire crisis money being as scarce as rocking-horse poo. Labor’s Murray Watt makes a convincing case that Scotty’s $2 billion dollar fund doesn’t even exist.

But you can be sure the virus will be made to take the blame for four years of its own, woeful, economic mismanagement. And the welfare of business mates and wealth creators will matter far more than that of households or pensioners or wage and salary earners. And we’ll never stop hearing about how wonderful it is.

And it’ll be no good asking about sports rorts corruption and illegality or anything unconstitutional because the PM’s presser will always be about something else.

via A government reeking of corruption hits the panic button. – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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Slush: how the Coalition ramped up grants rorts while freezes and funding cuts hit Australia’s needy – Michael West

Community Development Grants

via Slush: how the Coalition ramped up grants rorts while freezes and funding cuts hit Australia’s needy – Michael West

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I am proud to be a Socialist – » The Australian Independent Media Network

When you look back through the ignominious history of the Republican movement and the LNP, there isn’t a single right-wing MP worth a dime. Every commitment made to a vile, nasty off-shore war (such as Korea, Vietnam and the horrendous genocidal Iraqi war) has been under a Republican/LNP government who consistently use war, terror, hatred and fear to divide nations. When things look bleak in the polls, the war-mongering right-wing are always prepared to stoop to using war as the last resort to cling onto power with bloodstained fingers – ready and willing to sacrifice millions of lives and spend billions to distract focus from their horrendous policies and/or use hatred and division for their own political agenda. It is always a hate-filled, xenophobic right wing government that drags us into war and it always takes a left-wing, socialist government to get us out of it!

I am proud to be a Socialist – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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Scott Morrison is facing two important challenges, but coronavirus may offer the easiest political solution – Analysis & Opinion – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Scott Morrison standing in front a large infograph about coronovirus

via Scott Morrison is facing two important challenges, but coronavirus may offer the easiest political solution – Analysis & Opinion – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

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Record underemployment as Government braces for volatile week, slew of new data – Michael West

Australia now has a record number of underemployed workers, and total hours worked per person per month are also at an all-time low. Alan Austin reports on the latest jobs data ahead what many believe will be a dreadful week for the Government as a slew of economic data is about to be released and two-year bonds have just halved, hitting a record low yield of only 0.4 per cent.

via Record underemployment as Government braces for volatile week, slew of new data – Michael West

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Angus Taylor to announce shift in climate investment away from wind and solar | Australia news | The Guardian

Australia’s emissions reduction minister Angus Taylor

Their argument seems the antithesis of rationality and based purely on ensuring a political difference only. (ODT)

via Angus Taylor to announce shift in climate investment away from wind and solar | Australia news | The Guardian

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Holocaust denialism and far right on rise in Australia, says Frydenberg | Australia news | The Guardian

treasurer Josh FrydenbergAustralia's home affairs minister Peter Dutton

 Holocaust denialism and far right on rise in Australia, says Frydenberg | Australia news | The Guardian

 

and

Peter Dutton’s response to a far-right threat shows how little has changed since Christchurch

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Australia needs to commit to target of net-zero emissions by 2050

via Australia needs to commit to target of net-zero emissions by 2050

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Nuclear lobby takes aim at Victoria to tackle prohibitions – Michael West

Having dithered on real action to tackle global warming, some in the Coalition are now taking a keen interest in solving it — by going nuclear. Noel Wauchope investigates what’s behind the sudden push to overturn legislation prohibiting the exploration and mining of thorium and uranium and puts a definitive case against a nuclear industry in Australia.

via Nuclear lobby takes aim at Victoria to tackle prohibitions – Michael West

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Carbon pricing: it’s a proven way to reduce emissions but everyone’s too scared to mention it

 

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When Politics gets in the way of rationality (ODT)

via Carbon pricing: it’s a proven way to reduce emissions but everyone’s too scared to mention it

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Dangerous new coal virus rampant in Canberra

via Dangerous new coal virus rampant in Canberra

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Morrison Government fails to stop boats, despite coronavirus

via Morrison Government fails to stop boats, despite coronavirus

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Australia lurches from one crisis to another

For example, in 2020 our gas output will probably outstrip that of Qatar which gets $26.6 billion in tax while Australia gets only $600 million. ExxonMobil Australia has a total income of $42.3 billion over the past five years. It has not paid one cent in income tax in this country. 

via Australia lurches from one crisis to another

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The government’s sudden passion for climate technology is newfound and insincere | Simon Holmes a Court | Opinion | The Guardian

CO2 emissions from power plant

This passion for technology is newfound and insincere. In truth, our government has a long history of undermining climate technologies.
In the three years to 2016, the government ripped just shy of $1bn from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (Arena), the body charged with helping early stage technologies through to commercial launch.

The funding of a feasibility study for a coal power station in Collinsville and the foreshadowed gift of $11m to extend the life of the 42 years old Vales Point coal power station in the Hunter, demonstrate just how reluctant the Coalition is to let go of last century’s energy technologies.

One of the most promising and critical new technologies is the rapid maturation of the electric vehicle, but who can forget the government’s pushback against EVs during last year’s election?

The government’s sudden passion for climate technology is newfound and insincere | Simon Holmes a Court | Opinion | The Guardian