Dutton says he’ll get it right if voted in. He just showed 10 years of failure to be his best
Australian governments are taking a “business as usual” approach to Indigenous policy and risk making disadvantage and discrimination worse.
Source: ‘Business as usual’: Closing the Gap efforts inadequate
Australia’s largest Carbon Capture and Storage project has failed on all fronts. Is CCS simply a fraud, a sneaky way for the Coalition to subsidise its large fossil fuel donors with public money? Callum Foote reports on the Gorgon failure, the global failure of CCS and the latest government hand-outs for a technology which is not commercial.
Source: Carbon Capture’s Epic Fail: giant Gorgon gas plant goes ‘phut’ – Michael West
He says people shouldn’t expect help after flooding and the army is not waiting just around the corner to help them.
It’s like he doesn’t want to be PM anymore?
He seems bent on pissing off every sector of the Australian populace.
He is a do-nothing leader!
He cannot lead because he is not a leader.
Perhaps he wanted the job so he could swan about with world leaders and travel the world at the taxpayer’s expense.
He and his wife refer to The Lodge and Kirribilli as “their home”.
He claims people want less government or small government and he does so at a time when nature, climate inaction and science are all proving that what every country needs is a big government that takes effective charge and acts on behalf of all citizens and at scale so no one is left behind.
He is simply not up to the job!
Source: Scott Morrison is the gift that keeps on giving – » The Australian Independent Media Network
Foreign Minister Marise Payne said today all Afghan citizens who were in Australia on a temporary basis would be supported by the government, adding no Afghan visa holder will be asked to return to Afghanistan at this stage. The words “at this stage” fall well short of Australia’s moral and legal obligations to Afghan refugees, and provide little comfort to temporary visa holders. With a range of options to expand protection for people at risk both within and outside Afghanistan, the Australian government must stop attaching qualifiers to its response, and start acting decisively and with humanity.
Source: Afghan refugees can no longer wait — Australia must offer permanent protection now
A Martian or some other extra-terrestrial being who dropped into federal Parliament’s question time on Monday would believe that Australia’s vaccine rollout is world beating and our reduction of greenhouse gas emissions is similarly spectacular. Sparking the government’s bravado was the need to address growing concerns in the nation over the pandemic. Concerns that clearly contributed to the continued collapse in support for the government, as shown in the Newspoll and the severe marking down of the Prime Minister Scott Morrison to levels not seen since his tin-eared handling of the Black Summer bushfires.
Source: The government doesn’t like the story the Newspoll is telling
Australian politicians and companies are being urged to abandon plans for new coal power, gas and oil investments after a major report by the world’s leading energy agency found fossil fuel expansion must end now if the planet is to address the climate crisis. The International Energy Agency (IEA) found a “narrow and extremely challenging” pathway to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 – a target set by more than 100 countries, and which the Morrison government says it would “preferably” like to achieve – would require advanced economies such as Australia to have a zero-emissions electricity grid by 2035.
The conflicting, contradictory pressures on Scott Morrison’s government and his grasp on the prime ministership were graphically displayed these past seven days.
This week was indeed a long time in politics.
Morrison started his latest horror stretch by losing control completely of his signature, self-styled “one job” for 2021 – the seamless, successful and rain-making rollout of the coronavirus vaccine.
After deploying the usual suite of absurdist over-promising, self-congratulatory, look-at-me promises and targets, Morrison was left without a feather to hide his immodesty, let alone fly with, as everything that could go wrong did go wrong.
Source: Dennis Atkins: Scott Morrison’s myriad messes put re-election in jeopardy
Ben breaks down the Morrison government’s failure to create jobs while more jobs are destroyed but billions are go out the door in tax cuts… Van explores ugly attacks on Australians of Chinese heritage in a senate committee… and – after 100 days of lockdown – it turns out Victoria is a better place to be than Paris!Also, our dog Germanicus bumps into stuff. A lot.
Productivity has tanked under this Government and Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg, is floundering. Result? Australia is providing a classic study in how not to build a productive economy. Alan Austin reports.
The way forward
The critical issues Australia must address in light of its glaring productivity failures include:
Australia a classic study in how not to build a productive economy – Michael West
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