Australian Politics

NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet has admitted that his plan to replace stamp duty with land taxes is dead without the federal government providing funding assistance to facilitate reform: Mr Perrottet said federal tax policy settings punished states that tried to overhaul their own arrangements.

This is a classic personality disorder in action.

Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) analysis has found JobKeeper payments worth $38 billion went to businesses that did not suffer sustained downturns below threshold levels.

Paul Kelly is prostrate at the Coalition alter today: Scott Morrison misled Emmanuel Macron over the submarine issue and Macron’s fury has become a political tornado – it has driven Joe Biden into full-scale appeasement of the French and has become a damaging issue for Morrison over truth and trust.

For years we watched in dismay as the left-leaning Guardian defended Australia’s mass immigration program, arguing that immigration doesn’t suppress wages and doesn’t strain infrastructure, among other things.

The Australian is in full damage-control mode for the Liar from the Shire today: Notice that most of it is attempted deflection or blame-shifting not journalism.

Suddenly the world knows what it is like to be an Australian voter: President Emmanuel Macron says his Australian counterpart Scott Morrison lied to him on the submarine pact with the U.S.

In the decade leading up to COVID, the frequency of #SardineSydney stories in the mainstream media escalated as the city’s population swelled way above the capacity of the road, public transport and housing systems.

NSW’s vaccine rollout is well advanced with 86.2% of the state’s 12+ population already double-vaccinated and the 90% threshold expected to be hit this week.

Yesterday I reported how multiple public health experts have questioned the need to lock unvaccinated people out of services once 90% of Victorians aged 12-plus are fully vaccinated.

From Roy Morgan Research: ALP support has increased to 54% (up 1% point since mid-October) cf. L-NP on 46% (down 1% point) on a two-party preferred basis according to the latest Roy Morgan Poll on Federal voting intention conducted over the last two weekends.

Recall that Labor’s Bill Shorten promised to halve the capital gains tax (CGT) discount, aw well as restrict negative gearing to new builds, in the lead-up to the past two elections.

Public health experts have questioned the need to lock unvaccinated people out of services once 90% of Victorians aged 12-plus are fully vaccinated.

For years we have watched The Guardian defend Australia’s mass immigration program, arguing that immigration doesn’t suppress wages and doesn’t strain infrastructure, among other things.

Truth is dead and buried. It’s was killed by four blows to the head. The first and worst (also the best) is the internet which is the structural driver.

The Canberra Times’ Crispin Hull has comprehensively destroyed Australia’s cabal of mass immigration charlatans, which have shamelessly captured Australia’s political system: Several events in the past week neatly illustrate what is rotten in the state of Australian politics and policy-making.

Careful what you wish for.

The Morrison Government has been accused of ‘hiding’ information over the $660 million commuter car park fund, which Labor argues was “wholesale rorting”.

Labor and the unions have tentatively pushed back against plans to quickly reboot Australia’s immigration program, arguing that flooding the nation with temporary migrants will crush wage growth: Opposition immigration spokeswoman Kristina Keneally, citing Dr Lowe, said high levels of temporary migration had contributed to Australia’s sluggish wage growth.

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