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Michael Pascoe: Time to chill about election – we’re regaining balance

This election was simply about the arrogance and corruption of the Morrison Government and its backers. As long as Morrison,Dutton, Ley Taylor Cash, Tudge, Hawke,and Robert remain in the Liberal Party it will never be regarded as anything but, a bunch of arrogant and corrupt maggots who dislike each other.

It was the Morrison government’s arrogance that it thought it could simply dictate to the electorate what the Liberal and National parties’ sponsors wanted it to be, along with buying votes through unprecedented corruption and abuse of power.So don’t panic even if you’ve drunk the Kool-Aid about a Labor government being a threat to civilisation. In the end, the centre wins.

Source: Michael Pascoe: Time to chill about election – we’re regaining balance

Michael Pascoe: Morrison gone, Frydenberg trying to save the furniture

Scott Morrison is gone. Anthony Albanese will win the election. Josh Frydenberg is fighting to save some of the furniture. There, it’s been said. The commentariat generally is too scarred from getting the 2019 election wrong to call it, carefully hedging their collective bets. Something similar happened in 1996 after Paul Keating’s surprise 1993 “true believers” victory, but the polls and the national mood have had enough of the Morrison government in 2022 as they had had enough of the Keating government in 1996. The majority of the electorate perceives the Coalition as tired, cynical and short of talent after nine years in power – not fit for purpose.

Source: Michael Pascoe: Morrison gone, Frydenberg trying to save the furniture

Is News Corp following through on its climate change backflip?

Can a leopard change its spots? My analysis of the Murdoch outlets’ recent flood coverage suggests not.

The Murdoch promise ” I’ll put it in a little bit if it hurts I’ll take it out”

Source: Is News Corp following through on its climate change backflip?

Paul Bongiorno: Scott Morrison isn’t facing Malinauskas, but it won’t matter

The shellacking the South Australian Liberal government suffered at the weekend shattered myths that have dominated the past three years and it spells big trouble for the Morrison government in Canberra.

Source: Paul Bongiorno: Scott Morrison isn’t facing Malinauskas, but it won’t matter

Alan Kohler: Welcome to Australia’s economic Fight Club

Alan Kohler: Welcome to Australia's economic Fight Club

The two men running the Australian economy are completely at odds, fighting each other while saying they’re not. The one who is right is powerless, and the one with the power is wrong. Philip Lowe, the Governor of the Reserve Bank, is trying to get wages up, but he can’t. Prime Minister Scott Morrison could get wages up but he is so deep in the habit of suppressing them that it’s an addiction.

Source: Alan Kohler: Welcome to Australia’s economic Fight Club

Paul Bongiorno: Not being Scott Morrison gets better for Anthony Albanese

Scott Morrison PM was asked, some 18 months ago, what his over 30 year relationship with the Stewart family amounted to? Tim Stewart and his son Jesse are central and religiously active Pentacostalists and active members of the radical extreme-right global internet conspiracy group QAnon. Tim Stewart has even been banned from Twitter and other social media sites. He has even hosted activist members from the US and Gold Coast at his home. It was suggested his wife didn’t know her husband and son were members of QAnon while living with the discussion group in the house.

Morrison our PM has strict security, bodyguards and so are we meant to believe that neither the AFP or ASIO even knew or warned him? That Morrison didn’t simply shrug their concerns off? Questions were tabled at a Senate Estimates Comittee by Penny Wong some 18 months ago and were put on record by Matthias Corman but have never been answered. In fact, refused to be answered despite Tim Stewart boasting about his influence over his bestie Scott Morrison the PM to QAnon. How his words “ritual abuse” were going to be included in a Morrison address as proof, and sure enough they were.

Morrison today has the gall to suggest Albo is influenced by the Chinese  who have him in their pocket. Compared with QAnon, whose involvement in the Jan 6th riots in the US was plain to see. Their insane conspiracies pushed globally and Morrison’s personal, up close relationship with two of their most radical members who knew beforehand what was in his speech speaks to the fact we can trust Anthony Albanese blindly but can’t trust Morrison in the slightest. Albanese is an open book Morrison is totally closed with only a photo-manufactured veneer. He’s even got a trail of non disclosure agreements as part and parcel of his history,

The latest Newspoll is merely confirmation of the feedback they are getting in their electorates, best summed up by the comment “Morrison’s lost the mob. They have given up listening to him”. Labor has had an extraordinary run in the poll this year. It has led all four by 10 points or more – landslide territory if repeated at the election. Of course, borrowing from Italian opera, it’s not over until the fat lady sings, or more pertinently, till the last vote is cast.

Source: Paul Bongiorno: Not being Scott Morrison gets better for Anthony Albanese

Old Dog Thought- For Scotty from Marketing it’s all Style over Meaning

The effect of Right-wing bias in Australia's media

Fighting Fake News with REAL 1/12/20; Right Wing & the Australian Media; Attacking the ABC and Friends;