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Bill for NSW and Qld flood damage now at $1.2b and rising fast

The LNP government signed the country up for the equivalent  cost of x8 of these disasters and at the time claimed they were cheap. 8 Submarines at only $80Bn was nothing but now when the estimated cost of flood damage in two states is $1.2 Bn it’s a disaster. It’s the cost of a single sub. So shouldn’t that money be easy to find  just cancel one sub. After all delivery isn’t expected until 2040 and the flood damage could be attended to immediately. That National Disaster Fund is $4.5 Bn  only returns 5% interest or $200 M of which the L-NP are so proud. Cancel 4 subs the fund would have $9Bn at 10% the average rate of return of an Industrial Super fund they’d have almost a $1Bn to spend. So much for their money management.

Premier Dominic Perrottet will visit the devastated northern city of Lismore, with six people dead as a result of the NSW floods disaster and insurance payouts expected to soar into the hundreds of millions. The cost in NSW alone is now more than $240 million, according to the Insurance Council of Australia, while estimates taking in Queensland claims as well peaked over $1 billion on Friday.

Source: Bill for NSW and Qld flood damage now at $1.2b and rising fast

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Josh And The Incredible Economy And Other Just Not So Stories… – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Strangely, Mr Frydenberg’s broken promise wasn’t the front page of “The Herald-Sun” in Melbourne today. No, there was a much bigger one. The Independent challenging him for the seat has a secret. She doesn’t like the government and, even worse, she once declared her love for some Labor politicians on Facebook. Now, given that it came out that she was once a member of the Labor Party a few months ago, I wouldn’t have considered this front page news, but I guess that’s why I’m not likely to ever be asked to edit any of the Murdoch propaganda sheets.

I would have presumed that the announcement that Josh doesn’t intend to demonstrate his commitment to recycling by using the same car park policy that he took to the previous election would be an indication that he feels completely safe. However, when the papers feel the need to do a hit job on his opponent and not some Labor person in a marginal electorate, the polling must be closer than I thought.

Ok, well, it’s only a matter of weeks before Morrison has to either call the election or else we’ll all know that it’s on May 21st. Unless he really is intending to have a half-Senate election and hold off the House of Representatives so long that all the newspapers running Clive Palmer’s ads become viable businesses again.

 

Source: Josh And The Incredible Economy And Other Just Not So Stories… – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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Guns still point to China: Ukraine a backdrop for national security panic merchants – Michael West Media

The Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) is busy not so much with a conflict on the other side of the globe but finding a way to spin the misery of the people of Ukraine into anti-China propaganda. It’s just the kind of propaganda Scott Morrison wants, and the prime minister clearly thinks he needs, in the run up to a likely May federal election. For years ASPI has suckled at the teat of the weapons industry; but far and away the most generous of ASPI’s benefactors is the Morrison government.

Source: Guns still point to China: Ukraine a backdrop for national security panic merchants – Michael West Media

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Media Malpractice and Information War in Ukraine | The Nation

Press conference with President Volydymyr Zelensky

Scott Morrison announced “Ukrainians were automatically “refugees” and would go “straight to the top of the ladder” shows he;s a recist ethnicist and elitist. Iraqis , Aghanis, or Africans and definitely those who arrived by boat are different. They are “illegals”, first and even if “asylum seekers” they will never be settled here or even make it to Morrison’s ladder in total contravention to the International convention which we signed. Even the ACL the Australian Christian Lobby took umbrage at Morrison’s un Christian, Racist and Ethnicist announcement that suggested Ukrainians are somewhat an exception when it came to need. But that’s Scott Morrison who picks up a ukelele and can’t play. He  has a history of takink on jobs he simply hasn’t the DNA or capacity to do and it’s readily ovbious for all to see.

This double standard is all the more apparent in how prominent journalists have discussed the war. CBS reporter Charlie D’Agata apologized after describing Ukraine as “civilized” compared to places like Iraq or Afghanistan, but he is far from alone. Others have similarly expressed shock that a war could happen outside a “third world nation” to people who “seem so like us.” In response to such examples, the Arab and Middle Eastern Journalists Association released a statement condemning “orientalist and racist” rhetoric and demanded that newsrooms apply the same consideration to all victims of war.

Source: Media Malpractice and Information War in Ukraine | The Nation

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The “She’ll Be Right, Mate” Syndrome: Australia’s Doomed Koalas – » The Australian Independent Media Network

When struggling for answers, those in power find it best to defer matters to a committee or working group. Not wishing to buck this tendency, Ley announced that the Threatened Species Scientific Committee would be considering “the status of the Koala.” The language of the announcement was a jarring mix of promotion and doom, with the doom element – namely, declaring the koala as endangered in three jurisdictions – buried in over the rainbow promises of protection. “Together we can ensure a healthy future for the koala and this decision, along with the total $74 million we have committed to koalas since 2019 will play a key role in that process.” Such empty displays of political theatre are acts of distraction and denial. The koalas may have been offered “a nice new word,” huffed Deborah Tabart, veteran chairwoman of the Australia Koala Foundation, “but behind all the photo opportunities and political rhetoric they continue to approve the destruction of the koala habitat.”

Source: The “She’ll Be Right, Mate” Syndrome: Australia’s Doomed Koalas – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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Russia-Ukraine conflict: Australia will slap direct sanctions on Vladimir Putin. In fact, the Minister is seeking advice from the department

Marise Payne, Foreign Affairs Minister, speaks about Australia’s personal sanctions against Russian leader Vladimir Putin.

‘He has lied, deceived, fabricated’: Australia to slap direct sanctions on Putin

Let’s not take things at face value too quickly Marissa Payne. John Howard, along with Bush and Blair, lied, deceived, fabricated, and took us into Iraq. The Americans allied themselves with Osama Bin Laden to get the Russians out of Afghanistan and install a puppet government. Weren’t they doing what Putin is? Or is Putin doing what is the American norm. Under the Monroe Doctrine and the “Domino Theory”, they ” took care of their interests” anywhere on the planet?

Finland is a Socialist Democracy bordering Russia but is not declaring it wants to be a part of NATO. It’s not threatening or being threatened by Putin or being invaded. It too historically was once a part of the Tsarist Russian Empire. The Russians took missiles to Cuba and there was an immediate and imminent threat of nuclear war as a consequence America has sanctioned them for over 60 years.

What seems significant is that governments that aren’t “servants of their people” and lead from the top down all suffer the same disease the paranoiac fear of the personal loss of power. The very opposite of any real Social Democracy, any real democratization of power. When the shit hits the fan they then ask why didn’t the people do anything? Where do Morrison and Albo lie on that continuum of power, servants of or servicing Australian citizens?

Australia will look to impose direct sanctions on Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, while Australia’s top diplomat Marise Payne has left the door open to the possible expulsion of Canberra-based Russian diplomats. Senator Payne said Putin was being targeted because he was “personally responsible for the deaths and the suffering of innocent Ukrainians”. Marise Payne, Foreign Affairs Minister, speaks about Australia’s personal sanctions against Russian leader Vladimir Putin.

Source: Russia-Ukraine conflict: Australia will slap direct sanctions on Vladimir Putin. In fact, the Minister is seeking advice from the department

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Still under the bed? Red-baiting’s long history in Australian politics – and why it’s unlikely to succeed now

The Reds are back. Scott Morrison’s Liberal-National government has recently launched an offensive of “red-baiting”, a practice long thought consigned to the history books, in preparation for an anticipated May 2022 election. Last November, Defence Minister Peter Dutton hounded Shadow Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong, charging her with “not standing up for [Australian] values” in comments on the China-Taiwan dispute. This week, News Corp has targeted Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese after the Chinese Global Times offered him some backhanded compliments. A video also emerged of Albanese speaking Mandarin at an economic summit, and he was found to have participated in a forum for Tribune, newspaper of the defunct Communist Party of Australia. (This interview, it should be noted, was 31 years ago.) Such claims have long plagued the progressive side of politics. Since the first news of the Bolshevik victory in the 1917 Russian Revolution reached our shores, fears of Australia following Vladimir Lenin’s lead have been used and abused by conservative politicians for electoral gain. But, how successful have these “moral panics” been? And do they still pass muster with today’s electorate?

Source: Still under the bed? Red-baiting’s long history in Australian politics – and why it’s unlikely to succeed now

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Russia-Ukraine: How Scott Morrison will use crisis to shape 2022 federal election outcome

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison talking tough after Russia invaded Ukraine.

1% of the global sanctioning of Russia by Australia is a flea on an elephant’s back. The bellowing roar is however is for Morrison’s political sake folks. Our 1% only as a global emitter of CO2 was his excuse for doing nothing about being one of the biggest exporters of carbon. He wanted to be as quiet as a church mouse. That again has been for his donors interests and his domestic political sake. His even bigger silence at present is not to sanction but to reward Rupert Murdoch whose media org Fox is the biggest Putin lover and Russian propagandist in America and that silence is also for Morrison’s own political sake. Because as I write he’s dishing out a share of his current advertising war-chest of $680M on News Corp, Foxtel and Sky News. The Putin lover Murdoch’s are in fact the LNP’s media voice in Australia and he has the gall to call Albo “a Red under the bed”!

As Russia’s attack on Ukraine unfolds dramatically, Australia is in the choir stalls, not centre stage, when it comes to the West’s response. But Scott Morrison is determined its voice be loud. His denunciation of the Russian “thugs” and “bullies” has been cast in the most forceful language. After announcing sanctions on Wednesday, he assured Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal that Australia, working with its partners, was prepared to do more.

Source: Russia-Ukraine: How Scott Morrison will use crisis to shape 2022 federal election outcome

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Australia condemns Russia’s ‘brutal and unprovoked’ invasion of Ukraine | Ukraine | The Guardian

Scott Morrison

Not a word that Morrison’s media ally Rupert Murdoch is in America supporting Trump and Putin or that Morrison continues to follow GOP policies down the autocratic road. His cultural war on trans-gender children is straight from the GOP playbook. Meanwhile those he aligns with are actively supporting Russia.

The Australian prime minister has promised “further waves of sanctions” against Russians including hundreds of members of parliament as he condemned Vladimir Putin for the brutal and unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.

Source: Australia condemns Russia’s ‘brutal and unprovoked’ invasion of Ukraine | Ukraine | The Guardian

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Government advised to accept ‘sunk’ NBN costs

Remember the LNP and the “no interference in the “free market”. Now they expect us to pay for their mistakes. It’s called a INDIRECT SNEAK TAX don’t you think?

The Government has ordered NBN Co to recoup all of those losses through the subscription prices to the users. In the end, the NBN users are paying for party politicking that has been taking place over the last decade.

Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) chairman Rod Sims has mentioned during a recent Senate Inquiry that it would be “bad economics” to seek to recover “every last dollar spent” on the rollout of the National Broadband Network.

He clarified:

“Obviously, the NBN was built by the Government and now that it’s built, I think it’s appropriate to treat its costs as sunk — what matters for Australia is getting the best use out of the NBN.”

 

Source: Government advised to accept ‘sunk’ NBN costs

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Remember the Warringah Motion? Neither do the Liberal Party! – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Let’s not Forget

Ironically, the Warringah Motion was promoted as broadening the democratic processes within the Liberal party which in turn it was thought would boost branch membership, a win win it was suggested. The question is, when the executive of a political party are prepared to scrap their own democratic principles and processes to appease threats of blackmail from a person like Craig Kelly, is that the sort of party with which you would wish to associate yourself ?

Source: Remember the Warringah Motion? Neither do the Liberal Party! – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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Morrison humiliates Australia further with lowest economic freedom ever

Heritage Foundation has graded all countries on prosperity, security and freedom and given Australia a huge F for FAIL, as Alan Austin reports. AFTER THREE YEARS of incompetent and lazy mismanagement by Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Treasurer Josh Frydenberg, Australia’s global score on economic freedom has collapsed to an all-time low. This adds yet another item to the list of “worst ever” outcomes notched up by this inept administration. That list is now well above 50. Australia no longer a global leader Respected Washington-based think tank Heritage Foundation released its 2022 index of economic freedom last week, scoring 177 nations on 12 quantitative and qualitative factors. Heritage gave Australia the shameful score of 77.7 points out of a possible 100.

Source: Morrison humiliates Australia further with lowest economic freedom ever

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In key election battlegrounds, the Liberal party is nowhere to be seen | Liberal party | The Guardian

Environment minister Sussan Ley and prime minister Scott Morrison

There’s a new Coalition in town. It’s is the  L-NP- UAP. The Liberal Party has taken to protecting Craig Kelly and Palmer’s Donations to form the Morrison/JJoyce/Palmer The Liberal-National-United Australia Party.

Instead, this year, there’s no one. Kelly has renominated to run for the UAP, spending Clive Palmer’s money freely on newspaper and television advertisements, as have a handful of independents and Peter Tsambalas for the Labor party.

Source: In key election battlegrounds, the Liberal party is nowhere to be seen | Liberal party | The Guardian

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Dudded customers thrown on the political scrap heap as promises broken

It was a single recommendation: pass both bills. But in the dying days before the federal election, it was ignored, leaving victims of financial misconduct left high and dry on the political scrapheap in another week of political mudslinging and point scoring. The recommendation, released in a report this week by the Senate Economics Committee, was to pass laws to introduce a compensation scheme of last resort and a financial accountability regime.

Source: Dudded customers thrown on the political scrap heap as promises broken

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Coalition’s taxpayer-funded ads over played role in state infrastructure projects, auditor finds | Australian politics | The Guardian

Light traffic is seen on the M1 Pacific Highway during the morning peak hour in Brisbane,

Taxpayer-funded ads exaggerated the federal government’s role in infrastructure projects, while a plan to include former deputy prime minister, Michael McCormack, had to be scrapped for breaching advice, an auditor general’s report has revealed. The Australian National Audit Office made those findings in a report, released on Thursday, identifying “shortcomings” in the Building Our Future campaign, including material that was not always presented in an “objective and fair manner”. The audit examined the framework of government advertising, which is once again ballooning in advance of the 2022 election, and three campaigns conducted since 2019. Government advertising is subject to strict guidelines against party political material, but is often criticised for boosting messages favourable to the incumbent.

Source: Coalition’s taxpayer-funded ads over played role in state infrastructure projects, auditor finds | Australian politics | The Guardian

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Aged care still waiting for ADF support as homes close amid staff shortages

Some aged care providers are closing their doors as staff shortages worsen.

Morrison is at war and Peter Dutton is our Defence Minister. He sent our best ship to Tonga and it broke down now a week has gone by and he’s managed to deploy 129 personnel to aged care. This is a government that has surrendered not one that’s capable of keeping anyone safe let alone a Nation

More than a week after Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced that up to 1700 ADF personnel would be sent to help fill clinical and support roles in aged care homes, only a handful of the nation’s more than 2600 facilities have received military assistance.

Official ADF data shows there were just 129 personnel on the ground helping fill staff shortages in the sector on Tuesday, including 18 in NSW and 50 in Victoria.

Source: Aged care still waiting for ADF support as homes close amid staff shortages

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Morrison and Dutton are imperilling Australia’s national security to hang on to power | Katharine Murphy | The Guardian

Scott Morrison and Peter Dutton

Is it right for Scott Morrison and Peter Dutton to weaponise national security in the run-up to an election they evidently fear they could lose? If you ask the correct question, the answer is simple and clear. Malcolm Turnbull and Peter Dutton ‘Reckless and desperate’: Malcolm Turnbull savages Peter Dutton for claiming China is backing Labor Read more The answer is no. Unequivocally, no.

Source: Morrison and Dutton are imperilling Australia’s national security to hang on to power | Katharine Murphy | The Guardian

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PM seeks expanded powers to boot criminals

deport criminals coalition

If judges act according to the law and you don’t like their judgments. simply change the law. Further evidence the Morrison government has no regard for human rights. so if anyone is charged for civil disobedience say protesting against the government they can be deported if “foreign born” or “deemed a risk”. Morrison’s justification ” judges aren’t doing what Morrison wants”. Meanwhile Immigration in the past 8 years has become a total mess with a backlog of 330000 applications. We need to make sure we can “punt them out”. Given asylum seekers are already “deemed illegals” and aren’t of “Good Character”. It would seem Morrison wants no recourse for any appeals like the Biloela family detained for over 12 months.

Morrison’s Motive is clear however his definition of “objective laws” vague.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has called for the need for objective tests to be able to deport foreign-born criminals convicted of serious offences. The Coalition government is planning to reintroduce laws to parliament on Wednesday that would close a loophole to migration character test laws. Under the proposal, visas for non-citizens will be refused or cancelled if they’ve been convicted of a serious crime that’s punishable for more than two years in prison, served less than 12 months in prison or are deemed a risk to the community. Mr Morrison said judges in deportation cases had often handed down lesser sentences to get around existing character test laws to avoid people getting deported. “Judges are handing down sentences which enables people to get around this, and we need an objective test,” he told Sydney radio station 2GB. “We want to make sure we can punt them.”

Source: PM seeks expanded powers to boot criminals

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‘Self-censorship’: ABC veterans decry political interference

ABC funding

By the systematic robbing of a constitutionally formed, Independent Statutory Body, Our Public Broadcaster, of its power to do what it was chartered to do the ABC has been intentionally, and conspiratorially neutered by the LNP. Made beige for the LNPs singular political interest, and that of the IPA’s and Murdoch’s, in a quid pro quo funded arrangement that will continue until it’s dismantled or completely privatized as a News source and agency. SAVE OUR ABC

“Relentless attacks” on the ABC from the Coalition have drained up to $600 million in annual funding from the national broadcaster and blunted its criticism of the federal government, according to a report released on Monday. The report is co-authored by the Australia Institute’s Fergus Pitt and veteran ABC journalist and board member – and The New Daily contributor – Quentin Dempster.

Source: ‘Self-censorship’: ABC veterans decry political interference

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Matthew Guy: The greatest controversies of the Liberal leader

MattGolding Cartoons on Twitter: "Matthew Guy says there is no use trying to ignore the problem of 'ethnic gangs'. 'It is real and it is happening!' @theage #springst #AusPol #GangCrime https://t.co/Zy57iePax1" /

Matthew Guy is desperately trying to whitewash and rehabilitate a past that never happened. His teacher Scott Morrison who has been doing it for years. A one time leader of a political party who crashed like Tim Smith drunk on entitlement who not only believed he was born to rule but represented a small minority of like-minded Victorians who believed they were the only ones entitled to profit. Matthew Guy’s record speaks to his belief in that entitlement. However all his current advertising can’t hide his CV and personal history of scandals.

Returning Victorian Opposition Leader Matthew Guy carries significant baggage into his contest for government with Premier Daniel Andrews. In his time as planning minister in the Baillieu/Napthine governments between 2010 and 2014, and later in his role as party leader, he was caught up in a string of controversies involving Liberal Party figures, donors or donations.

Source: Matthew Guy: The greatest controversies of the Liberal leader

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Bringing the family to work – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Morrison is so predictable when in trouble he always blames others. When that doesn’t work he calls in his family to do what Brittany said he would “nothing”. Handballing it to the Jen Master and  photoshop is propaganda. He’s our Prime Minister Australia and the definition of an overpaid, underemployed spin doctor like we have never seen before who’s turned Democracy into a one party theatrical sideshow

Like everyone else, politicians have private lives. Unlike everyone else, increasingly they have been sharing these with us during the course of their work. Brittany Higgins made a powerful statement during her address to the National Press Club about Scott Morrison’s response to allegations that she was raped in a minister’s office. “I didn’t want his sympathy as a father… I wanted him to use his power as Prime Minister. I wanted him to wield the weight of his office to drive change.” Scott’s concerned dad persona wasn’t going to cut it.

Source: Bringing the family to work – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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Former Young Liberal Stefan Eracleous unmasked as neo-Nazi

Stefan Eracleous on the campaign trail with former prime minister Tony Abbott in 2013.

Who said that the New Young Liberals aren’t the New neo-Nazis? Tony Abbott was a Young Lib thug too and it took him all the way and back. And will again maybe??

These clues led to an Australian mobile phone number and an approximate home address in outer suburban Melbourne. Further data mining fully lifted John Dixon’s black mask: he is a Victorian man and former Melbourne University Young Liberals office holder named Stefan Eracleous.

Source: Former Young Liberal Stefan Eracleous unmasked as neo-Nazi

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“A massive movement of people into new jobs” or Josh joshing again? – Michael West Media

Australia jobs, unemployment

Economic Management of the LNP = Frydenberg = shrinking immigration,= Shrinking Workforce,= Drop in Unemployment = Economic downturn not upturn

Josh Frydenberg’s embarrassing take-down by the Senate this week over a bizarre plot to over-regulate proxy advisers has left this government with no economic agenda, indeed a record of failure on the economy. Alan Austin investigates the claim of “massive” jobs growth and finds it, like many of this government’s claims, does not stack up.

Source: “A massive movement of people into new jobs” or Josh joshing again? – Michael West Media

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Koala listed as endangered after Australian governments fail to halt its decline | Endangered species | The Guardian

A koala joey is sitting in a eucalyptus tree surrounded by leaves and twigs

The Australian government has officially listed the koala as endangered after a decline in its numbers due to land clearing and catastrophic bushfires shrinking its habitat. The environment minister, Sussan Ley, accepted the recommendation of the threatened species scientific committee that the koala populations of Queensland, New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory should have their conservation status upgraded.

Source: Koala listed as endangered after Australian governments fail to halt its decline | Endangered species | The Guardian

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Despite 566 deaths from COVID in aged care, Minister Richard Colbeck says the sector is not in crisis – ABC News

Richard Colbeck looks down while answering questions at a hearing inside parliament house

The LNP are making a feast of their ineptitude suggesting 60% of aged care deaths were in palliative care patients so that’s ok. Palliative staff needn’t be highly paid because are going to die anyway. This government treats them like “untouchables” outside of real society. So everything is well with the world and their political management of it. $0.77cents an hour is a generous bonus. A tip if of course they qualify. There’s no “crisis” according to Richard Colbeck. “Why is everybody picking on me. I’m doing what all LNP Ministers do. After all Scott Morrison went to Hawaii.

‘The last days of their lives’ The government knows just how politically devastating the aged care crisis is. Perhaps that’s why the Minister for Health, Greg Hunt, engaged in an insulting attempt to downplay the severity of the mounting death toll. In a briefing on Monday he volunteered some “important information”: He had been told that 60 per cent of those who died in aged care were palliative and “were in the absolute last days of their lives”.

Source: Despite 566 deaths from COVID in aged care, Minister Richard Colbeck says the sector is not in crisis – ABC News

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Barnaby Joyce: After 15 years in Parliament together, the Deputy Prime Minister finally has an opinion of Scott Morrison?

Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce and PM Scott Morrison in Parliament earlier this week.

Does anyone seriously believe the Barnaby Joyce-Scott Morrison mess ends here? That the Deputy Prime Minister can simply apologise for stating of the Prime Minister “he is a hypocrite and a liar from my observation and that is over a long period of time” and, just like that, we will all forget and move on?

Source: Barnaby Joyce: After 15 years in Parliament together, the Deputy Prime Minister finally has an opinion of Scott Morrison?

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Barnaby Joyce called Scott Morrison a ‘liar’ and ‘hypocrite’ in leaked text message sent to Brittany Higgins

The text message sent by Barnaby Joyce in March, 2021. Barnaby

Ms Higgins shared the message from Mr Joyce with the Herald and The Age after he called on Wednesday for an anonymous minister who made derogatory comments about Mr Morrison in a text message conversation with former NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian to identify themselves.

Source: Barnaby Joyce called Scott Morrison a ‘liar’ and ‘hypocrite’ in leaked text message sent to Brittany Higgins

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A proxy on the house: Frydenberg’s attack on advisers raises alarm

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg under fire over his overreach of proxy advisers

Our Harvard-trained Treasurer has been caught out acting as someone’s puppet and jumped into a stoush blindfolded. He’s tried to install a regulation while nobody was looking and thought he’d get away with it. All hell has broken loose and you know it has when even Murdoch’s Terry McCrann among other major conservatives have yelled Frydenberg’s gone a Fascist mile too far. Josh is all style and less polished looks with little attention to what it means when doing it. He’s managed to make Kooyong Victoria’s Warringah.

The biggest question is why spend so much political capital on such a small issue when it has such bigger issues – the global pandemic, the aged care crisis and a failure to create a federal corruption watchdog – and so little time given the impending election.

Source: A proxy on the house: Frydenberg’s attack on advisers raises alarm

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Australia is more corrupt than ever, but the media stays quiet – » The Australian Independent Media Network

 

Australia has a deteriorating global corruption ranking – and the mainstream media is ignoring it entirely. You won’t read about it in the mainstream Australian media. The story is missing from The Age and Sydney Morning Herald and a Google search reveals no coverage in any mainstream Australian media. What is it that gets so ignored? Just the news that Transparency International (TI)’s 2021 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) has put Australia in 18th place – the worst result Australia has ever received since TI’s new methodology in 2012. Since 2012 Australia’s score has dropped 12 points and our rank in the global index has plummeted 11 places (from 7th in 2012). Keen observers will note that in that period Coalition governments have been in power for eight of the nine years. In contrast to our performance Papua New Guinea is improving and New Zealand shares equal first place.

Source: Australia is more corrupt than ever, but the media stays quiet – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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Election issue: outer city areas are running out of GPs – Michael West Media

It doesn’t matter whether you live in Sydney’s west or Vaucluse, or Melbourne’s Broadmeadows or Kew, your health needs are the same, our politicians believe. In trying to bolster services to rural Australians, the government has neglected struggling suburbs of our big cities, Callum Foote reports.

Source: Election issue: outer city areas are running out of GPs – Michael West Media

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View from The Hill: Morrison a ‘psycho’ – now who would have said that?

Onselen also said “It was a Federal Member” Mind you Morrison has a history that runs parallel to this and has been sacked X2 before. There might be smoke but with his record, he’s a lump of burning coal

He said Berejiklian’s comments included describing Morrison as “a horrible, horrible person” who was “just obsessed with petty political point scoring” when lives were at stake. According to van Onselen, the other person condemned Morrison as “a complete psycho”, “desperate and jealous”, and said: “The mob have worked him out and think he’s a fraud”.

Source: View from The Hill: Morrison a ‘psycho’ – now who would have said that?

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How are you going to pay for it? – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Morrison is about to “give back ” the money he took away in the first place. A billion for Research however is going into private research and not Universities ( over the next 10 years) He took away $200 M peter and is now giving it to Paul. However not if it has ” Climate” or “renewables” attached to it. Is he going to give back the Billion taken from the ABC and redirect it to private and mainstream media?

With December’s MYEFO projecting net debt will peak in 2025 at $915 billion, it would be fiscally responsible for Labor to say now is not the time for this tax cut, which would then put their second term budget in far better shape than the Coalition’s. As the Coalition goes to an election promising to spend hundreds of billions on obsolete and inappropriate armaments and hundreds more on tax cuts for the wealthy, perhaps it’s time to ask them about everything else they promise… How are you going to pay for it?

Source: How are you going to pay for it? – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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Coalition defends slump in latest Newspoll

newspoll scott morrison

When the world judged Australia the best economy and Wayne Swan as the best treasurer the L-NP bellowed they were could do better. Now when world comparison shows an 8-year slide Barnaby Joyce makes out they are better managers. Barnaby Joyce who showed us he can’t manage his own personal life without lying let alone the nation’s is running point guard for Morrison who has a history of being sacked for bad management and inability to deliver. It’s time for his third sacking.

The opposition is ahead 56-44 on a two-party-preferred basis – the Coalition’s worst polling performance since September 2018 – according to the latest Newspoll survey conducted for The Australian newspaper. As the coronavirus pandemic drags on, Labor has increased its lead since the last poll on December 6 when it was ahead 53-47. Labor’s primary vote is up three points to 41 per cent while the Coalition has dropped two points to 34 per cent. For the first time, more voters surveyed thought Labor was better placed to steer Australia out of the COVID-19 pandemic (33 per cent) compared with the coalition (32 per cent). Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce said the pandemic made things tough but economic growth and a low unemployment rate were signs of good economic management.

Source: Coalition defends slump in latest Newspoll

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Booster rollout questioned as COVID aged care outbreaks surge

Aged care COVID-19

Aged-care residents are being forced to isolate in their rooms without visits from family members for “weeks on end” as COVID-19 rips through the sector. Government figures show more than 1100 aged-care homes are now battling active outbreaks, with 222 elderly residents dying of COVID-19 in the week to January 27. All the while homes are having to get by with fewer workers.

Source: Booster rollout questioned as COVID aged care outbreaks surge

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Political platitudes like ‘we’re in a good place’ won’t fill the cracks in Australia’s economy ahead of the election | Satyajit Das | The Guardian

People walk through the Brisbane CBD

All sides of politics, wary of becoming wedged into electorally damaging positions, avoid confronting these challenges. Emollient slogans – ‘we are in good place’ or ‘push through’ – cannot address these problems. These issues vital to Australia’s future may not even make it onto the election policy agenda.

Source: Political platitudes like ‘we’re in a good place’ won’t fill the cracks in Australia’s economy ahead of the election | Satyajit Das | The Guardian

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Richard Colbeck should have been sacked over this 2021 scandal – » The Australian Independent Media Network

“Colbeck declined to attend the Senate Covid-19 committee on 14 January. He cited the need not to divert health department officials from their “urgent and critical” work but it was revealed this week he attended three days of the Hobart Test from Friday 14 January to Sunday 16 January.”

Source: Richard Colbeck should have been sacked over this 2021 scandal – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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Rapid antigen test shortage makes Aussies instant millionaires | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site

Ms Campbell’s company has sponsored a Chinese RAT.

Australia’s insatiable demand for rapid antigen tests is turning importers into instant millionaires, with one company that operates out of a two-bedroom apartment in Elizabeth Bay securing a $26 million contract with the Department of Health. CEO and founder Austyn Campbell, 38, who set up the company Motion One less than a year ago, inked the massive deal with the Morrison Government to supply $26,290,000.00 in “medical supplies” this month.

Source: Rapid antigen test shortage makes Aussies instant millionaires | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site

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Federal election 2022: Australians will pay the price of politics for politics’ sake

Some say the pandemic sideswiped the Morrison government.

And it’s not as though the government was bristling with policy ideas that have had to be shelved. It did miss out on producing a budget surplus, but when the same thing happened to the Rudd government because of the global financial crisis, this was proffered by the Coalition as proof that Labor was unfit to hold office.

Unsurprisingly, the Coalition does not now make the same claim about itself.  Our national politics now seems so small.  Under Morrison, our national government has defined itself as chiefly a political operation. It’s designed to manage issues as they arise and otherwise do as little as possible. It’s a caravan that rumbles from election to election, waving problems away with slogans until it’s forced to take action.

Meanwhile, it throws small lumps of ideological red meat to its party base and media friends with such things as its constant undermining of universities, the ABC and industry super funds.

Source: Federal election 2022: Australians will pay the price of politics for politics’ sake

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Australian pharmacies take a loss under government scheme for concession card holders as RAT prices skyrocket | Health | The Guardian

Sign regarding rapid antigen tests for concession card holders

The Government’s mismanagement of it’s “free market ” policy is effectively screwing Pharmacies. They have demonstrated under Morrison that they are the greatest mismanagers we have seen to date with their 2022 slogan. “Vote for us because theALP would be worse.” When we faced the GFC we were the world’s best economy and Swam was the best Traesurer. Frydenberg has claims to nothing other that the world’s biggest economic bungee jump.

The shortage of tests across the country has driven up wholesale prices. The tests currently cost the pharmacies up to $17.50 each but the government is providing only a $10 reimbursement, the guild said.

Source: Australian pharmacies take a loss under government scheme for concession card holders as RAT prices skyrocket | Health | The Guardian

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Coal-based liquid hydrogen pivotal for green energy? The experts doubt it | Graham Readfearn | The Guardian

Suiso Frontier ship

Angus Taylor’s LNP Scam puts politics before science and the planet. Kowtowing to their donor class rather than the service of the nation.

The ANU’s Dr Fiona Beck says turning fossil fuels into hydrogen is always going to be dirtier than using renewables

Source: Coal-based liquid hydrogen pivotal for green energy? The experts doubt it | Graham Readfearn | The Guardian

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Barnaby acts as epidemiologist and coroner as Coalition ignores COVID deaths

IF YOU WERE in any doubt as to the ability of COVID-19 to shine a spotlight on societal inequality, Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce’s declaration on Monday morning that “people aren’t dying” of the virus should convince you. In an interview with the ABC’s Patricia Karvelas, Barnaby had to be reminded that people are indeed dying in Australia from COVID-19 after categorically stating they are not, as he attempted to compare his government’s alleged success at handling the virus with that of other countries. It’s grimly significant that the Deputy Prime Minister of Australia can’t be bothered to inform himself of the effects the pandemic is having on citizens, particularly when they are dying in record numbers. Only the privileged are fortunate enough to “forget” or “overlook” or simply not notice that people are dying from an illness elites consider “mild”.

Source: Barnaby acts as epidemiologist and coroner as Coalition ignores COVID deaths

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Trolling: Defamation experts reject Morrison government’s ‘anti-troll’ proposal

Scott Morrison and Michaelia Cash announced the defamation proposal last year.

Couple that with Dutton’s want for defamation cases brought by Government MPs to be funded by us the taxpayers. You then have a very privileged group who with power and access to money can say whatever they want but can shut down any criticism.  The simple act of threatening a court case to shut citizens up becomes available to them. Don’t be fooled that this government is protecting anyone other than themselves while knocking freedom of speech on the head. The efforts are to ban any form of criticism and reduce debate.

 Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Attorney-General Michaelia Cash announced in November that they would amend defamation laws, traditionally a state and territory responsibility, to provide an “easy and quick” way for people to complain to social media platforms and have allegedly defamatory material taken down.

Source: Trolling: Defamation experts reject Morrison government’s ‘anti-troll’ proposal

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Ripped off: NDIS users failed by clueless Coalition

This Government wants desperately to fund its history of financial mismanagement. So it turns to Welfare to pay. The negative consequences of LNP policies always seem to trickle up the positive down.

The National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013 was brought about to: ‘… support a better life for hundreds of thousands of Australians with a significant and permanent disability and their families and carers.’

It was not designed to pressure participants into fear-fuelled spending over claims that unspent funding results in irretrievable losses of funding that cannot be reallocated later according to changing needs.

It was not designed to inappropriately benefit the provider at the expense of the participant.

It was not designed for nefarious opportunists to help themselves at the expense of individuals already distrusting of the “kindness of strangers”.

These are but a handful of ways in which the NDIS continues to embed structural stigma into its delivery of services at large and in which the Coalition continues to ignore the humans floundering in the messes that ill-considered public policy maintains.

On this, I believe the Greens have it right — the Federal Government needs to #FixOurNDIS and fix it now.

Source: Ripped off: NDIS users failed by clueless Coalition

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The atrocity of indefinite and arbitrary immigration detention must stop – support Andrew Wilkie’s Bill – » The Australian Independent Media Network

In February last year, Andrew Wilkie introduced a Private Members Bill, seconded by Zali Steggall, calling for an end to the immoral, illegal, and extremely expensive practice of indefinite and arbitrary immigration detention. In presenting the Bill, Wilkie drew attention to the staggering cost of this irrational cruelty. It costs approximately $346,000 to hold someone in immigration detention in Australia for one year but it costs only about $10,221 for a refugee or an asylum seeker to live in the community. In fact, the budget for our offshore detention is still running at about $1 billion per year. These figures are breathtaking and almost unbelievable.

Source: The atrocity of indefinite and arbitrary immigration detention must stop – support Andrew Wilkie’s Bill – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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Treasury salary scandal deepens

The Department of Finance was warned by one of its own staffers that waiving a $41,000 debt owed by a senior official was likely illegal but it fully waived the debt anyway.

Source: Treasury salary scandal deepens

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Anyone See This Mad NSW Public Health RAT-Tsunami Coming! – » The Australian Independent Media Network

LNP Protectors or Bullies True colors revealed

Hello – Now the NSW government and Health resort to excessive measures and bullying, showing their true colours. Not grateful or supportive of nurses at all, but then we knew that already since they had to repeat it every day to the press in public briefings to convince themselves with their own lies, deceit and denials. NSW Health clearly is buckling and the government resorts to further excessive force on its own long–suffering workforce. So tell us where are those tens of thousands of nurses promised by Greg Hunt yesterday from the private sector? Where are they? Don’t these Liberal governments talk to each other at all? Would that not be supportive? Is that too hard for Mr Hazzard and Perrottet?

Source: Anyone See This Mad NSW Public Health RAT-Tsunami Coming! – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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Distraction: It’s Morrison’s only policy – » The Australian Independent Media Network

History has proven – going back decades – that the LNP are a pack of arrogant, self-appointed megalomaniacal narcissists who absolutely thrive on hate, division, conflict, fear and war! The LNP have dragged Australia back to the middle ages as a nation struggling under the jackboot of the absolute worst, most regressive, dangerously undemocratic and corrupt regime in our history! The Howard, Abbott and Morrison regimes have proven themselves to be nothing more than despicable, self-serving elitists who have not achieved a single thing that provides any benefit whatsoever to the lives of ordinary working- and middle-class Australians; a government whose only “talent” is their ability to lie, lie and attempt to deceive anyone and everyone – even lying about their lies – in order to maintain their grip on autocratic power.

Source: Distraction: It’s Morrison’s only policy – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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George Christensen sparks further outrage over anti-vaccine comments

George Christensen

Djokovic was silent but kicked out of the country. Christensen is vocal but untouched and allowed to play. That shows the quality of Morrison’s leadership

Rogue Coalition backbencher George Christensen has again intentionally undermined his government’s vaccination campaign, ignoring medical experts and stoking further outrage by saying parents should not get their children immunised against COVID. Health Minister Greg Hunt said anti-vaxxers had “lost the debate” in Australia, saying he disagreed with such sentiment even when it existed “in our own movement” in the Coalition. But Mr Christensen’s latest baseless claims may see him yet again escape any punishment from Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Nationals leader Barnaby Joyce. “Scott Morrison needs to put an end to this and take responsibility for the actions of his backbenchers,” tweeted Labor’s shadow health minister Mark Butler.

Source: George Christensen sparks further outrage over anti-vaccine comments

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ANTHONY KLAN: Josh Frydenberg caught out in salary scandal

Our Harvard Scholar and Treasurer belly flopped again.

Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) executive Chris Jose – a Morrison Government appointee – was was illegally paid for two public service jobs simultaneously, receiving $40,100 in overpayments. The details of the scandal are set out in a secret report detailing a year-long investigation conducted by the Office of the Commonwealth Ombudsman. The scandal implicates the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet (PM&C); the Department of Treasury; the Department of Finance; the National Competition Council (NCC); and staff at competition regulator, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC). For two years, until April 2020 – and at the same time he was being paid by ACMA in a full-time role – Jose was employed by the NCC in a part-time role, collecting a $20,000 annual salary.

Source: ANTHONY KLAN: Josh Frydenberg caught out in salary scandal

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Morrison Government records 50 worst economic outcomes

While Morrison and Frydenberg tell us how well we are doing and how globally admired we are economically the reality is hugely different. 8 years ago we were the world’s best and Abbott was Chicken Little screaming ” the sky was falling in”. 4 people died under the ALP’s Pink Bats scheme and we were spending far too much money to escape the GFC. History has shown that the Morrison/ Frydenberg LNP government has brought us to the worst position we have ever faced historically and had arrived there even before the pandemic. Their claims now are akin to those of Monty Python’s Black Knight telling us he was winning the battle. What’s worse Peter Costello’s Ch9 has printed a “poll” showing we still believe Morrison and Frydenberg are the “best managers”. Yes we do believe in fake news but then Gina made $9bn in two years didn’t she?

The Morrison Government’s tally of economic indicators which are the “all-time weakest” or “worst decline in the developed world” keeps climbing, reports Alan Austin. THE PROBLEMS THE Morrison Government has with mistreating women exist on many levels. Many economic outcomes which show impacts on men and women confirm female wellbeing has declined under this regime. 41. Lowest global ranking on gender gap since records began The world has advanced impressively in recent decades in closing the gap between men and women on education, job opportunities, wages and work conditions. Only one developed economy has gone backwards badly on this measure since 2014: Australia.

Source: Morrison Government records 50 worst economic outcomes