Australian Politics

Assistant Treasurer Michael Sukkar has labelled calls to disclose big business recipients of JobKeeper “outrageous”: Assistant Treasurer Michael Sukkar says inserting a clawback provision in the JobKeeper program would have “risked Australian jobs”, as he declares Labor’s attempt to reveal recipients of the wage subsidy “outrageous”.

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg in a speech today at the ANU Crawford Leadership Forum: During the Cold War, the ­Soviet Union was largely cut off from the rest of the world.

Careful what you wish for.

The Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) recently ruled that national cabinet was not a sub-committee of the federal government.

Former PM Keating today: The Morrison government is wantonly leading Australia into a strategic dead end by its needless provocations against China.

Queenslander!

In my experience, most pollies have a personality disorder.

Goldman with the note: Outbreaks in economies that vaccinated early such as Israel and new studies have raised doubts about the durability of vaccine protection and prompted booster rollouts.

The Morrison Government is starring down the barrel of an election wipeout according to the latest opinion poll from Roy Morgan Research [my emphasis]: ALP support has increased to 54.5% (up 0.5% points since mid-August) cf. L-NP on 45.5% (down 0.5% points) on a two-party preferred basis.

Queenslander! Anastasia Palaszcuk was magnificent yesterday: We must do everything possible to keep Queenslanders safe from Delta, especially our children. #covid19 pic.twitter.com/1kAJuibkWr — Annastacia Palaszczuk (@AnnastaciaMP) September 1, 2021 Exactly.

COVID apartheid is here and it’s no fun for anybody in the leprosy zone.

Will our psychopathic PM go to an early election in an attempt to ride out his pandemic blunders on a wave of optimism as lockdowns give way to living with COVID?

It’s over thankfully: The U.S.

COVID apartheid is tearing Australia apart.

As we know, the Morrison Government has launched another housing affordability inquiry – this time examining ‘supply-side impediments’.

Independent members like Drew Pavlou are exactly what the Australian parliament needs to pressure the corrupt Lib/Lab cartel.

The Morrison Government’s staunch refusal to disclose the larger companies that received JobKeeper, nor to make profitable companies repay those subsidies, does not sit well with the Australian electorate.

Fifteen years ago, the Australian Government agreed to implement the Tranche 2 global AML rules for lawyers, accountants and real estate agents in a bid to prevent laundering of illicit funds, especially into Australian property.

Queensland will go it alone and build a regional quarantine facility near Toowoomba at Wellcamp Airport.

Good luck figuring it out because it’s become polarised.