Australian Politics

The rush to Paris is well worthwhile: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese took a sly dig at Scott Morrison as he vowed to fix Australia’s relationship with France in the wake of his predecessor’s leaked texts scandal.

The Victorian Andrews Government will reshuffle its frontbench ahead of the state election in November, after four senior cabinet ministers advised that they will retire from politics.

The Albanese Government has wasted no time in replacing Coalition-linked senior public servants and department heads.

It’s clear that the Dutton opposition is deeply confused by its own energy ambitions: Speaking to the ABC at the weekend the opposition leader, Peter Dutton, was asked repeatedly if he would support the Albanese government’s target of a 43% cut by 2030.

Roy Morgan’s latest polling has the Albanese Government leading the Coalition (L-NP) by 6% on a two party preferred basis.

Via Sinocism.

From the ABC.

A few weeks ago we saw the Origin profit warning.

Chris Bowen is buying time: “This is the system working.

It’s painful to watch as Australia’s energy establishment descends into the same old Aussie uselessness that dogs macro-economic policy these days.

There is an inconvenient truth in the Albanese Government’s refusal to fix the east coast energy crisis.

Cowardly Albo is out defending the gas cartel again today: “WA got it right all those years ago,” Albanese said of the state’s gas reservation policy that quarantined 15 per cent of its gas reserves for domestic use.

Albo’s energy chaos is palpable: The Australian Energy Market Operator says its shutdown of the National Electricity Market has significantly improved its ability to run the power system, but has refused to signal when normal operations will resume.

The first Guardian Essential poll since the election shows 59% of voters approve of the job Albanese is doing as Prime Minister compared with 18% who do not.

Australia’s east coast energy markets have failed.

Energy Minister Chris Bowen has no idea what he is doing.

The Australian property market is worth $10tr.

As it turns out, the only problem with the last election result is that Labor got too much of the vote.

In 2006, Australia signed a global agreement with the Financial Action Taskforce (FATF) to implement ‘tranche 2’ global anti-money laundering (AML) rules pertaining to non-financial assets (including property).

Labor Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus has confirmed that the Albanese Government will implement a robust national corruption watchdog by mid next year.