For many Liberal Party members, guilt by association with the Morrison years will forever remain a dead weight they must lug around with them for the remainder of their political careers, writes Belinda Jones.
Source: No surprise Libs are on life support after malignant Morrison years
The countdown is over! Number 1 goes to Dr Jennifer Wilson for this article from February 2021 on what would be one of the biggest stories – and one of the biggest scandals – of the year. Congratulations, Jennifer. The Morrison government is a sewer.
Source: Number 1 for 2021: The Morrison government is a sewer – » The Australian Independent Media Network
I keep reading that the Coalition will play to their strong points in the upcoming campaign which, according to some, are national security, the economy, cost of living, and something that hovers around vaccine rollout/post-pandemic recovery/getouttamyface freedom.
Source: Strong points? I don’t think so – » The Australian Independent Media Network
If there is proof that Morrison leads a do-nothing Government surely this is it
An important step in the battle between corporate tax lawyers constant innovations around Australia’s tax regulations. The report also reveals that roughly a third of all the companies analysed have paid zero tax, a metric consistent with previous years and one which Saint did not think would change substantially, even leading into the 2020-21 pandemic year.
While the Pandemic shellacked many businesses, the $90bn in JobKeeper subsidies propped many of them up, and some $20bn of it was wasted on companies which enjoyed rising revenues. Another $20bn went to corporations which did not need it, much was spent of executive bonuses and dividends to shareholders.
This time next year will will get a better idea of whether the corporate culprits which snaffled the massive JobKeeper subsidies paid their fair share of tax.
This occurs through Murdoch media’s relentless ramming of Liberal Party propaganda into our eyeholes. Through the ABC’s enthusiastic embrace of the false balance doctrine – “tonight on Q&A, a climate scientist and a psychopath from the IPA!” – and sucking Sydney off whenever it can. Through NineFax’s desperate and overwhelmingly successful race to be worse than it used to be. All of this adds up to a horseshoe to the part of the skull containing our grasp on reality, an intravenous drip of dickhead. For next year to be better than this year, everything needs to change. The collision of a once in a 100-year global pandemic, historic levels of wealth inequality, climate collapse, rampant misogyny, and the corrupt, uninterested political leadership that inevitably emerged at the ass-end of neoliberalism’s upwards wealth redistribution project has been a fucking nightmare to behold. The hope we must cling onto is the fact real, objective reality has become so obviously discordant with the version of reality spun out of Canberra people are starting to notice.
Source: Australian politics is unequivocally fucked | The Shot
In a world where developed democracies such as Canada, the US and Europe are opening their arms and creating paths to citizenship for hundreds of thousands of Afghan refugees (after all we all helped to create the current situation) – Australia says ‘not our problem’ apart from a token airlift. It beggars belief. We can and should be doing much better than this. What do you think?
Source: We should be better than this – » The Australian Independent Media Network
Morrison’s Evacuation
This is far too good not to share, and a big hearty thank you to Jaqueline for giving us the opportunity to do so. Let’s help this go viral. PS: Play video with sound turned on.
Source: Australia: To where are we advancing? – » The Australian Independent Media Network
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