Tag: Dan Andrews

Media

Melbourne house prices: Labor MPs weigh Airbnb crackdown to tackle rental crisis

Short stay accommodation is booming along the Mornington Peninsula.

Costello’s headline in the Age attacks Dan with an “If and could” article on Air BnBs. Nothing, in reality, to be seen other than an opportunity to boost the LNP by useful scaremongering. How did mainland Australia become so ALP when 80%+ of our mainstream media concentration is the world’s most Blue? The answer it’s the least trusted. Long Live Independents and the ABC

Capping the number of nights Victorian landlords can list their properties on Airbnb, imposing a  “tourist tax” and empowering councils to charge owners higher rates are among the options on the table.

Source: Melbourne house prices: Labor MPs weigh Airbnb crackdown to tackle rental crisis

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Old Dog Thought- The Murdoch’s started in Australia fled to the UK and fled again to the USA fucking up the News wherever that went except China

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Victoria

Slaughter on Batman Avenue: Victoria gets election result three months early – Michael West

Slaughter on Batman Avenue: Victoria gets election result three months early – Michael West

If the Victorian election were a boxing match, the ref would have stopped the fight. Except that the election isn’t until November 26.

The fact that Melburnians suffered one of the world’s longest lockdowns under Covid won’t be enough to stop Premier Daniel Andrews gaining a third term.

Last weekend Andrews basked in the favourable publicity generated by his announcement of free university places for nursing students. As feelgood stories go, this was a ripper. Meanwhile The Weekend Australian proclaimed on its front page: ”The Andrews era to live on”. The paper’s Newspoll gave Labor a lead of 56-44 (two-party preferred) over the Coalition led by Matthew Guy.

The Liberals live in a world of pain caused by an internal scandal that has overshadowed Labor’s own internal scandals. Under Guy they ceded the plumb seat of Hawthorn in 2018, and now another stronghold, Kew, is likely to fall to a Teal independent.

Slaughter on Batman Avenue: Victoria gets election result three months early – Michael West
Conservative Media, Media, Media Bias, media distortion

Sikh Volunteers Australia Drove 34 Hours To Assist Flood-Affected Victims In NSW

Sikh Volunteers Australia preparing food deliveries

Peter Costello’s AGE spent yesterday attempting to smear Dan Andrews for his relationship with the Sikh Community in Victoria. They seemingly tried to suggest that a positive and progressive relationship  was nefarious and suspicious in nature the equivalent of what we have seen done in LNP’s rorts scandals. The Age was acting more as a PR agent in an effort of damage control for the shambles Matthew Guy and the Liberals had found themselves in. However, even Pr agents can be idiots and chose the wrong community and the wrong relationship to focus on even one one dating back to 2018.

But it’s during difficult times like these that Australians bond together to help each other out — and that can be seen by the efforts of Sikh Volunteers Australia, an organisation that aims to reduce distress in the community by providing free food to people in need. Sikh Volunteers Australia preparing food deliveries

Source: Sikh Volunteers Australia Drove 34 Hours To Assist Flood-Affected Victims In NSW

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Old Dog Thought- the “me” crowd don’t give a “fuck about us”, the delivery of universal health, or that Dan has 58% of the electorate behind him. The tail is trying to wag the dog. It’s where the fleas often gather

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Old Dog Thought-Morrison say the ABC an Independent Statuary body under our Constitution is a Nobody; Is introducing new Voter ID Laws to reduce voters when there’s no fraud. Soon to come non-compulsory voting? Australia your being Americanized

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ALP

‘No more caps, no more closures’: Vic dumps almost all virus rules

COVID-19

Why 60% Vic supports Dan.. He does what he says and it’s for the benefit of the “common good”

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has announced a widespread easing of virus rules from midnight Thursday, declaring “no more caps, no more closures” in the state. It came with Victoria poised to tick over 90 per cent of over-12s fully vaccinated on Saturday or Sunday.

Source: ‘No more caps, no more closures’: Vic dumps almost all virus rules

Informed Comment

‘There’s no other way’: Daniel Andrews urges Victorians to stay the course

Premier Daniel Andrews has urged Victorians to stay the course, saying “there is no other way” and vaccinations are “the only ticket out of the pandemic” as Melbourne teeters on the edge.

Source: ‘There’s no other way’: Daniel Andrews urges Victorians to stay the course

Murdoch Media

Murdoch press shows media bias towards Liberal COVID-19 strategy

A biased narrative from the Murdoch press has become unstuck as the NSW COVID-19 crisis worsens, writes Dr Victoria Fielding. IN FEBRUARY of this year, after Victoria headed into a proactive “short, sharp, circuit-breaker” lockdown, Herald Sun and The Australian “writer” Sophie Elsworth published a piece titled: ‘Why Premier Daniel Andrews needs to be more like NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian.’ This article started with the much-repeated trope that Victorian COVID-19 health restrictions were evidence of Daniel Andrews’ dictatorship, represented misuse of his power, were over-reactions and unnecessarily harsh:

Source: Murdoch press shows media bias towards Liberal COVID-19 strategy

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An Olddog thought- The IR Bill is certainly something to fight AGAINST

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Scott Morrison

Victoria budget: Victorian government steps in where federal government did not
Victorian Treasurer Tim Pallas hands down his budget.

Record fiscal stimulus of $25 billion over four years will capture the headlines. But what the Victorian government has done with it is perhaps the bigger story. Education jobs, a massive social housing build, support for the tourism sector – it’s by and large the right package for this recession.

Victoria budget: Victorian government steps in where federal government did not
ALP

Casuals due to get relief in Victoria, in lieu of national action – » The Australian Independent Media Network
Dan Andrews isn’t just a carping Michael O’Brien

“This isn’t going to solve the problem of insecure work overnight, but someone has to put their hand up and say we’re going to take this out of the ‘too hard’ basket and do something about it – and that’s exactly what we’re doing,” he said.

Casuals due to get relief in Victoria, in lieu of national action – » The Australian Independent Media Network
Coronavirus

Coronavirus Victoria: Poll shows Daniel Andrews’ support still strong but Liberal leader Michael O’Brien floundering
Virginia Fricker is so appalled by Daniel Andrews performance she is considering voting Green for first time.

Support for Premier Daniel Andrews remains solid, with just over half of Victorians backing his handling of the coronavirus pandemic despite months of tough lockdown restrictions and criticism over the failed hotel quarantine program.

Coronavirus Victoria: Poll shows Daniel Andrews’ support still strong but Liberal leader Michael O’Brien floundering
LNP, LNP Economic Management

The Australian Right Is Trying To Import Trump-Style Reactionary Populism

Victoria’s lockdown has provoked a self-styled rebellion that postures as defending freedom against the state premier, “Dictator” Dan Andrews. But once you scratch the plebian surface, the “movement” is led by right-wing activists and funded by Liberal Party money.

The Australian Right Is Trying To Import Trump-Style Reactionary Populism
Scott Morrison

Daniel Andrews is now Scott Morrison’s biggest threat
Andrews and Morrison could be crossing paths for years to come.
He spent $600,000 creating a job. giving the money to Corporations

The Victorian Premier has become the biggest challenger to Morrison’s agenda in a national debate over the pandemic. While Andrews puts a priority on shutdowns in the name of saving lives, Morrison puts a premium on opening up the economy.

Daniel Andrews is now Scott Morrison’s biggest threat
LNP, LNP Government, LNP Tactics

Morrison wants Victoria lockdowns over, says Andrews should open faster

Morrison who has no faith in science and readily cuts back on research prefers to get his political advice from God and his only son Lachlan. which miraculously appears on the front pages of Australia’s media. Wh would anyone intentionally sabotage Victoria’s lock-downs by sending 55 NZers across the border to simply flout the States efforts to save lives and then blame the State? Simply because he can and has Ruperts blessing (ODT)

The frosty relations between the federal government and Mr Andrews continued on Sunday, with Mr Morrison and his two most senior Victorian ministers – treasurer Josh Frydenberg and health minister Greg Hunt – saying the easing of rules needed to go further.

Morrison wants Victoria lockdowns over, says Andrews should open faster
LNP, LNP Government

Frydenberg’s Folly – » The Australian Independent Media Network

So why is this piece titled Frydenberg’s folly?. Because in one fell swoop he has morphed his image as a credible commentator on the nation’s accounts into just another partisan attack dog. He has replaced his reputation in the area of finance with what we have come to despise so profoundly. That is his folly!

Frydenberg’s Folly – » The Australian Independent Media Network
Scott Morrison

Has Scott Morrison forgotten that he’s Victoria’s Prime Minister, too?
Daniel Andrews and Scott Morrison.

Murmours of Andrews being a model of what a PM should look like has set Morrison and Frydenberg off against not just Andrews but Victoria blaming the State for everything they haven’t done. (ODT)

They need him to succeed on their behalf. The Prime Minister might find that destabilising the state government during a recession and a pandemic might not please as many Victorians as he thinks.

Has Scott Morrison forgotten that he’s Victoria’s Prime Minister, too?
Media, Uncategorized

Dan Andrews Strangulation
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Kevin Rudd

@MrKRudd

#ScottyFromMarketing wants a fall guy for 1st recession in 30yrs: Dan Andrews. Nothing is Scott’s responsibility: aged care failure; dodgy Covid app; slow stimulus when Covid first hit; no infrastructure plan to rebuild confidence. All aided by Murdoch’s Liberal protection racket
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ALP, Uncategorized

Victory for Andrews Labor Government as anti-wage theft law is passed

Anyone feel there’s a concerted effort to “Get Andrews” maybe because he’s doing a real job. (ODT)

The Wage Theft Bill, was viewed as a cornerstone promise in Premier Daniel Andrews’s state re-election campaign in 2018. It now sees guilty parties – such as business owners, managers, shopkeepers and accountants, or anyone connected to a business enterprise – who deliberately withhold award wages and related entitlements established under the Fair Work Act (2009) from their workers risk prison sentences up to ten years and face fines upwards of $198,264 for individuals and $991,320 for companies.

via Victory for Andrews Labor Government as anti-wage theft law is passed