Australian Politics

As China delivered Australia a list of 14 demands to end our democracy, Albo had this to say: Labor leader Anthony Albanese has sharpened criticism of Scott Morrison’s handling of the China relationship, suggesting he is unnecessarily causing offence, as the US and British governments both condemned Beijing over its smear of Australian soldiers.

I wanted to write about this one last week but lost the time.

Via Gottiboff: First, Australia needs to recognise that it is not all China’s fault.

Via The Australian: A union-commissioned poll showing the ALP faces the loss of two seats in its political heartland at the next election has prompted a senior CFMEU official to call on Labor to dump Anthony Albanese as party leader.

God help me, I agree with Innes Willox for once: A leader of a powerful business group has called for a better alignment of the nat­ion’s economic and strategic interests, urging Australian companies to resist bullying from China and for diplomats to get “their hands dirty’’ by helping to find alternative export markets.

Via CCP mouthpiece, The Global Times: The price of liquefied natural gas (LNG) has surged to record highs in recent tradings, with the weekly spot price assessment settled at an all-time-high price of $21.45 per million British thermal units.

Sir Fomo McSpruikerson is an expatriate billionaire and proud proprietor of The Strayan, a vanity media project designed to boost his assets.

Via Micheal Green at Foreign Policy: First, Campbell is widely recognized as an early and important architect of a strategy to build up alliances and partnerships to keep Beijing in check as Chinese power grew.

Who knows?

Today I posted an article which suggested that former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has been traveling the world acting on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party ‘day in, day out’.

Via The Australian: China has accused Australia of “weaponising the concept of ­national security’’ after a $300 million bid by a Chinese state-owned company to buy a ­construction company was scuppered by Josh Frydenberg.

Via SMH: The Australian and New Zealand Society for Immunology says the federal government should immediately pause the planned rollout of the AstraZeneca vaccine because it may not be effective enough to generate herd immunity.

Via REIA: Australia’s housing market recorded respectable growth over 2020 and with limited stock and strong demand, 2021 should see further price increases, REIA President Adrian Kelly said.

Australia’s own brand of loons are upset, at The Australian: Senior Morrison government ministers have slammed the silencing of outgoing US president Donald Trump by social media giants after the pro-Trump siege of the Capitol.

From Niall Ferguson at Bloomie: Major pandemics often coincide with religious or political contagions.

Via the ABC’s number one CCP sympathiser, Stan Grant: This week’s insurrection in Washington has been shocking but not at all surprising.

Let’s hope so.

Grab those pearls!

Your Assistant Treasurer (and Minister for Housing) looking pretty matey with someone who may have allegiances to another nation.

Sir Fomo McSpruikerson is an expatriate billionaire and proud proprietor of The Strayan, a vanity media project designed to boost his assets.

The local CCP apologists always see Bejing “playing the long game”, even when all it is doing is following the blundering dictates of an angry tyrant.

The latest 538 polls have the US Georgia senate runoff vote tightening: My thoughts on this are pretty grave.

Clearly Hugh White thinks he is losing the China debate, which is true, except at the treasonous ABC.