Australian Politics

Australia is set to resume negotiations with India with regard to a free-trade agreement (FTA).

The answer is yes.

The Grattan Institute’s Transport and Cities Program Director, Marion Terrill, has lashed the Dan Andrews Victorian Government’s botched West Gate Tunnel Project.

Gladys Berejiklian is about to become the most hated person in Australia.

From The Guardian comes some sort of sense: Former Australian prime ministers Malcolm Turnbull and Kevin Rudd have urged the federal government not to ramp up rhetoric against China for domestic political purposes, arguing it could harm social cohesion.

In 2017, Daniel Andrews’ Victorian Government agreed to an unsolicited bid from toll giant Transurban to build the West Gate Tunnel Project – a four kilometre toll road currently under construction in Melbourne to link the West Gate Freeway at Yarraville with the Port of Melbourne and CityLink at Docklands.

Legislation to enact new COVID-19 financial support payments for workers and businesses will go back before the Senate on 9 August.

Since late 2019, the question dogging Canberra politics is whether or not Australians prefer Prime Minister Morrison go away to Hawaii during moments of national crisis and leadership, or to keep him at the helm.

Bravo Marise Payne, Minister for Foreign Affairs: “We have been advised by China that they will only engage in high-level dialogue if we meet certain conditions.

Why would he?

Fairfax’s senior economics writer, Jessica Irvine, wants another housing affordability inquiry chaired by former Treasury secretary Ken Henry: [We need] a high-level Treasury review, of the ilk of the Ken Henry tax review… So, I texted Henry to see if he’s up for it.

The debate is raging.

A series of organisations with a tradition of supporting Australian workers have labeled the dramatically shrunken Albanese Labor opposition “the enemy“: The nation’s peak organisation on affordability and secure housing for Australians on low incomes has accused federal Labor of rejoining a “list of enemies” against increasing home-ownership in favour of benefiting wealthy landlords.

My sources are telling me Sydney is in lockdown for another two months at least.

This may seem like a cheap shot.

The propertocracy has won another round in the policy fight.

From the beginning of the pandemic, Morrison Government vaccine procurement policy has been written by either carpet-baggers or idiots.

Labor announced yesterday that it will not make changes to the stage three income tax cuts if it wins the upcoming federal election.