Australian Politics

Via Bill Bishop’s excellent Sinocism: Australia ‘is sick’, needs to take medicine: China’s Foreign Ministry – Global Times China is not responsible for the current difficulties facing China-Australia relations.

Newspoll has released its latest electoral polling with Prime Minister Scott Morrison enjoying a big rebound in support ahead of next month’s federal budget.

Various pundits have criticised last week’s cancellation of Victoria’s Belt and Road deal with China.

There’s revolution brewing at the ABC.

We know he can’t “read the room” owing to a personality disorder that inhibits empathy.

Well, it was a bad time if not a long time: Three-quarters of NSW health worker’s appointments for vaccination have been cancelled.

It’s the one area of national interest policy in which having a personality-disordered PM has paid handsome dividends.

At the Boao Forum, Xi Jinping is having a field day: The world must great global economic integration.

More bad news for the lagging vaccine rollout today.

It is a full-court press against the climate spoiler Morrison Government today.

CCP mouthpiece, The Global Times, is up to its old tricks again today.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison was on the hustings last night with more divisive rhetoric, this time on climate change, as the world moves toward the Biden administration climate summit: The Morrison Government has “all but” committed Australia to net zero emissions by 2050.

The Australian vaccine rollout is all over the news again today and not in a good way.

The UN has condemned the Morrison Government’s neglect of stranded Aussies.

The Morrison Government vaccine failure continues today as Australia remains mired in the Third World: It will get worse, not better over the next six months costing “tens of billions”, said economists, probably quoting me.

One of the most disturbing situations to arise from the coronavirus pandemic is the contempt shown towards Australians stranded abroad, abandoned by our politicians.

Just to underline how stoopid the Morrison Government has been. Via Morgan Stanley: COVID-19 Vaccine: US on Track to Achieve Broad Vaccination by Mid-Summer Our updated simulations suggest that the US can vaccinate the entire eligible population (12+yo) by mid-summer, in-line with our prior estimate.

Perhaps the empathy training is working after all.

A new study today from Swinburne Univerity is unequivocal about the collapse in support for Morrison’s misogynists: Australian women’s support for the Morrison Government collapsed from 44% to 29% from Q4 20, Q1 21.

You have to hand it to Gladys Berejiklian.