Australian Politics

The trolls of Holt St are tying themselves in knots to find a positive angle to this week’s Newspoll: The Coalition has clawed back support among conservative ­voters as the leadership contest between Scott Morrison and ­Anthony Albanese narrows to its tightest margin since March last year.

COP-out 26 has held onto coal: …the agreement established a clear consensus that all nations need to do much more, immediately, to prevent a catastrophic rise in global temperatures.

On Wednesday I reported testimony from the head of Transparency International Australia (TIA), Serena Lillywhite, to the Senate committee examining money laundering.

Yesterday I reported how the Victorian Bar – the professional association of barristers – has urged the state government to reconsider its controversial new pandemic laws which would grant the Andrews Government “unlimited, unreviewable power” that “authorises extreme limitations of basic liberties of all Victorians and confers enormous powers on the executive”.

Labor frontbenchers Kristina Keneally and Julie Collins have criticised the federal government’s new agricultural visas, which will enable farmers to address a labour shortage by recruiting foreign workers.

Polls show Australians want “lower immigration” than what both major parties have been pushing, according to economist Dr Cameron Murray.

Australia-China Relations Institute (ACRI) director James Laurenceson has warned that Australia’s education export sector could take another hit if the federal government cancels Landbridge’s 99-year lease for the Port of Darwin.

The Victorian Bar – the professional association of barristers – has urged the state government to reconsider its controversial new pandemic laws which would grant the Andrews Government “unlimited, unreviewable power”.

From Roy Morgan Research: ALP support is now at 53.5% (down 0.5% points since late October) cf. L-NP on 46.5% (up 0.5% points) 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 the Morrison Government tried to privatise Australia’s visa system with a proposal to allow the private Australian Visa Processing consortium spearheaded by Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s friend to take over visa processing.

The federal government’s Assistant Treasurer ­Michael Sukkar has rejected allegations raised in the media over the weekend that he was aware of the misuse of taxpayers’ funds by his office.

It is a breakthrough technology.

Recall that the Victorian Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission (IBAC) is currently investigating the branch-stacking activities of Adem Somyurek and his allies within the Victorian Labor Party.

The election is set for May, 2022: The federal election is most likely to be held in May next year, with the Morrison government preparing to fight the poll on an expected economic bounce-back from COVID-19.

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.