Australian Politics

As Australia’s abject vaccine failure lingers, with new lockdowns in Victoria, Qantas may step in where the Morrison Government fears to tread: Qantas is mulling free vouchers for or frequent flyer miles for the vaccinated.

Via Crikey: According to Guardian Australia, Scott Morrison and then-special minister of state Alex Hawke were both represented at an April 2019 meeting about dismissing the Liberal staffer who Brittany Higgins had accused of sexual assault.

As usual, Australian discussion around the political economy is more gawking than it is intelligence.

I guess if a personality disordered fruitcake can become PM then why not a jellyfish?

A dossier prepared on our personality disordered PM by Crikey.

As we know, the Morrison Government has locked itself into a high immigration future by declaring open war on Australian workers via: Abolishing labour market testing requirements.

Sadly, the Morrison Government’s appalling Rapegate scandal has returned.

It has been fun to watch PM Morrison’s ceaseless gaffes in foreign and strategic policy drive an accelerated China decoupling.

Federal Labor is reportedly in civil war over whether to support the Morrison Government’s inequitable Stage 3 Tax cuts targeted at high income earners.

Earlier this month, the Ardern Labour Government of New Zealand vowed to end low-skilled, wage crushing migration via a “once-in-a generation” reset for New Zealand’s immigration system.

The Australian Labor Party (ALP) is once again soul searching after the weekend’s disastrous Hunter Valley state by-election, which was comprehensively won by the Nationals.

I have pointed out the inherent anti-Americanism of James Curran, Professor of Modern History at Sydney University, a few times before.

After the weekend’s Hunter Valley state by-election won by the Nats, PM Morrison is cock-a-whoop.

Earlier this week, the Grattan Institute released a report, entitled “Megabang for megabucks: driving a harder bargain on megaprojects”, which roasted the Victorian Government’s infrastructure waste: A market-led proposal involves private-sector proponents developing a project proposal and then lobbying government to invest in it.

As we know, the Hayne Banking Royal Commission’s first recommendation was to maintain responsible lending laws: The Hayne Royal Commission came to this recommendation after observing multiple cases of predatory lending over its 12 month deliberation.

The bumbling of the Morrison Government is something to behold.

Everywhere in the press, it is the same refrain every day.

This morning I gave a comprehensive interview (below) with Radio 2GB’s Michael McLaren discussing New Zealand Ardern Government’s immigration reforms, which would see a much smaller volume of high quality, high skilled and highly paid migrants that fill genuine skills shortages.

In January 2003, the day before the bushfires engulfed Canberra, I departed Melbourne with my girlfriend (now wife) to commence a job at the Australian Treasury as a graduate economist.

Australia’s personality disordered PM is up to his old tricks today.

I long ago ran out of pejorative adjectives to describe the Morrison Government machete hacking into the Australian energy market.

The Australian Labor Party has a unique opportunity to seize government.

There is only one thing worse than the Morrison Government under-investing in the economy to meet some political goal of budget austerity.