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Scott Morrison

Nuclear White Elephants: Australia’s New Submarine Deal – » The Australian Independent Media Network

It does not get any messier or more chaotic than this. Since 2009, when Australia’s Future Submarine Program (FSP) known as Project SEA 1000, began to take shape, strategists and policy makers have been keen to pursue the next big White Elephant of defence spending. And few areas of an already wasteful area of public expenditure are more costly – often mindlessly so – than submarines. The Australian effort here is particularly impressive. Pick a real winner by signing a contract for a yet to be designed attack class submarine, supposedly necessary in an increasingly dangerous region. Ensure that this design is based on a nuclear model and remove that attribute, aptly described as “dumbing down a nuclear submarine by removing the whole basis of its superior capability, and then charging at least twice as much for a far less capable submarine.”

Source: Nuclear White Elephants: Australia’s New Submarine Deal – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Immigration, Uncategorized

International students are flocking to Australia, but the country’s infrastructure is not ready – Politics – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Students wearing mortarboards and gowns seen from above at a university graduation ceremony

Australia has taken in 525,000 international students this year, a 12 per cent increase compared to last year, itself a record.

Glen Searle, honorary associate professor in planning at Sydney University, said the Federal Government’s response to immigration so far has been “totally inadequate” and it now has a “moral responsibility” to deliver investment required by Australia’s immigration program.

“I would be strongly urging people to be considered when they look at these figures,” she said, “and not blame migrants, but rather hold politicians to account”.

Annual education exports in 2016-17 were valued at $28 billion by the ABS.

This equates to a profit where as ultra conservatives like Dutton, Abbott and right-wing  media men like Andrew Bolt call this an Immigration problem and expense and not an asset.

1) It’s a cover up of decades political inactivity, the failure largely of the LNP to invest in infrastucture. 2) It’s an opportunist conservative tactic to turn Immigration into a political strategy because the congestion is obvious immediate and easily felt while it’s cause needs time and not just sound bytes to be explained and that takes reasoned analysis that can easily be countered with News Corp support and anti- Immigration sloganeering and blame. (ODT)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

explained

  (ODT)

via International students are flocking to Australia, but the country’s infrastructure is not ready – Politics – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Uncategorized, wealth gap, Wealth Inequality

Time Past to Whose Benefit?

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