Australian Politics

In a few years, or perhaps months, Australia is going to look back upon this period in our politics with hushed embarrassment.

An apology is a very useful thing.

The “Psycho” Morrison sectarian sleaze cult (PMSSC) attack on the Liberal Party continues: …the growing anger suggests the factional tensions in the Liberal Party’s most powerful state are teetering on open conflict.

The Liberal Party of Australia is now taking the lead in destroying its own government.

It’s amusing to watch, in the usual dark way, as the Liberal Party of Australia gives all Australians a wonderful lesson in how not to run an organisation and nation.

The worst kept secret in Australian politics is out.

As we know, Victorian Premier Dan Andrews has been pushing national cabinet to mandate vaccine boosters.

Some significant wins as the NSW Liberal Party faithful fight Morrison’s army of evil: An attempt to endorse three prominent sitting Morrison government MPs without the need for plebiscites has been rejected by warring factions of the NSW Liberal party, dramatically increasing the prospect of federal intervention.

Back in December 2015, then Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull launched his $1.1 billion National Innovation and Science Agenda under much fanfare.

Bernard Keane at Crikey: Hundreds of Australian aged care residents died miserable deaths in January as a consequence of the Morrison government’s staggering failures on aged care regulation, the rollout of booster shots and its refusal to address the aged care workforce crisis.

Yes, it’s fantasy and that’s the point.

Hoocoodanode that failing catastrophically to manage a pandemic that is killing your base supporters would hurt a government?

The Morrison Government is under growing pressure to hold a royal commission or official inquiry into the handling of the nation’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

It’s amusing to watch, the usual dark way, as Scott Morrison’s ineptitude crashes his government.

Albo is clearing the decks on China: “Whoever’s in government, it will be a difficult relationship,” Albanese said.

Transparency International (TI) has released its latest corruption index, which reveals that Australia scored its worst ever rating in 2021 and has suffered a massive 12 point fall over the past decade.

Yesterday it was all the way with the CCP for AO.

Albo will today declare his mission statement: “If I’m successful, that future will be clear to Australians by the end of Labor’s first term,” he will say.

PM Morrison lying again: …when the retailers went public telling customers what they were told – that their tests were going to the government – the Prime Minister and the Health Minister threatened the companies with huge penalties.

Marvelous: The Australian Open tennis tournament has been overshadowed by protests for a second time this year after Tennis Australia ejected two spectators for wearing T-shirts in support of Chinese player Peng Shuai.

The Saturday Paper has a terrific expose on how PM Scott Morrison crashed the economy: As 2021 was drawing to a close, private pathology providers across Australia were counting up billions of dollars in profit, having met unprecedented demand for laboratory results during the Covid-19 pandemic.