Australian Politics

Hugh White normally writes for the AFR.

PM Morrison declared Australia shut for good over the weekend as he launched his prison island election bid.

Recent Morrison Government warmongering took a breather yesterday after the CCP struck back by suspending the China-Australia Strategic Economic Dialogue.

What could be nastier than unleashing a debilitating pandemic on the world?

It’s not very well thought-through.

I was reading this piece by Dr David Brophy, senior lecturer in Modern Chinese History at University of Sydney, at Domain and it was all going quite nicely: Morrison Government has talking up war in Taiwan for political purposes.

The Morrison Government recently all-but destroyed its relationship with the female half of the electorate by mistaking a sexual assault crisis for a culture war.

Taiwan generated some serious angst over the weekend.

Via Bill Bishop’s excellent Sinocism: Australia ‘is sick’, needs to take medicine: China’s Foreign Ministry – Global Times China is not responsible for the current difficulties facing China-Australia relations.

Newspoll has released its latest electoral polling with Prime Minister Scott Morrison enjoying a big rebound in support ahead of next month’s federal budget.

Various pundits have criticised last week’s cancellation of Victoria’s Belt and Road deal with China.

There’s revolution brewing at the ABC.

We know he can’t “read the room” owing to a personality disorder that inhibits empathy.

Well, it was a bad time if not a long time: Three-quarters of NSW health worker’s appointments for vaccination have been cancelled.

It’s the one area of national interest policy in which having a personality-disordered PM has paid handsome dividends.

At the Boao Forum, Xi Jinping is having a field day: The world must great global economic integration.

More bad news for the lagging vaccine rollout today.

It is a full-court press against the climate spoiler Morrison Government today.

CCP mouthpiece, The Global Times, is up to its old tricks again today.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison was on the hustings last night with more divisive rhetoric, this time on climate change, as the world moves toward the Biden administration climate summit: The Morrison Government has “all but” committed Australia to net zero emissions by 2050.