Australian Politics

For years MB lamented how Australia’s public service has been stripped raw by decades of government outsourcing, waves of senior redundancies, and a preference for governments to seek advice from paid consultants.

Is Australia even capable of defending itself?

Here’s the draft agreement: With Parliament due to sit in Honiara (and the existing security concerns which led to a RPNGC deployment to Solomons) it will be interesting to see whether the agreement is raised by the Opposition. 2/6 pic.twitter.com/pQ96MFHLi2 — Dr Anna Powles (@AnnaPowles) March 24, 2022 Article 1 refs China’s “own needs”.

Here is the news: A draft security co-operation agreement between China and the Solomon Islands would allow Chinese military forces to be ­deployed in the Pacific Island ­nation and could pave the way for the establishment of a People’s Liberation Army base.

Roy Morgan surveys on ‘Trust’ and ‘Distrust’ of government show that voter’s distrust soared in the second half of 2021 after the Delta waves swept through NSW and Victoria and allegations of sexual misconduct swept the Morrison Government.

The loony bin formerly known as the Liberal Party of Australia continues to burn to the ground today.

Economist Dr Cameron Murray delivered a lecture at the University of Queensland entitled “Why politicians must pretend to want cheap housing”, which explains why the contemporary debate about housing affordability is a “distraction promoted by vested interests and reinforced by political incentives”.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has strongly hinted that the Coalition will cut fuel excise in next week’s federal budget: Mr Morrison dropped an unmistakeable hint on Monday that the government would proceed with a cut or delayed rise to petrol duties, currently set at 42 cents a litre.

More bad news for the “Psycho“: Voters are underwhelmed by the Morrison government’s response to recent catastrophic flooding in New South Wales and Queensland, and a majority fear disasters will be worse in the absence of significant action to address climate risks, according to the latest Guardian Essential poll.

The same names.

The “Psycho” is doing it the only way he knows how: Last week, New South Wales Premier Dominic Perrottet secured a “handshake agreement” with Prime Minister Scott Morrison that they would do “whatever is required” to support residents devastated by floods in the Northern Rivers region.

I’ve never seen anything like this in Australian politics.

In the lead up to the last federal election Prime Minister Scott Morrison promised a national anti-corruption commission.

That’s “Psycho” Morrison for ya: A Liberal upper house MP is resigning and a Northern Rivers mayor has gone to the Governor-General over concerns about perceived favouritism in the allocation of federal flood assistance.

It’s marvelous to behold.