Australian Politics

This is something that I just can’t understand.

With crisis comes opportunity.

God, what a schmozzle. After PM Morrison yesterday reassured Australians that there was no reason to suspend the Astra Zeneca vaccine, the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI) has come down with recommendations of the complete opposite: 4-6 people per million will suffer thrombosis triggered by the AZ vaccine.

Precisely as forecast at MB, China’s trade war on Australia is really upon itself.

More lies and drivel from Prime Minister Morrison yesterday.

Courtesy of Bernard Keane at Crikey: Scott Morrison’s story on why the vaccine rollout is a disaster keeps changing. And it has nothing to do with 3.1 million vaccines doses held up by Europe (a claim the EU denies, in any event).

The global vaccine rollout is going swimmingly for competent nations.

Morrison Government smut covers Australia in infamy worldwide today as the truth comes out at Bloomberg: Few believe Morrison knew nothing of the smut scandals.

As we know, Prime Minister Scott Morrison “doesn’t hold the hose, mate”.

There’s some serious scuttlebutt around Labor’s position on negative gearing reform today.

Ah Labor, the CCP’s favoured party Downunder: Shadow foreign affairs minister Penny Wong has succeeded in preventing the Labor policy platform from condemning Chinese “genocide” in Xinjiang.

From Liberal Party insider Niki Savva: Keeping tarnished MPs will cost the government.

Australian Academy of Science: Full report here.

It’s tiny, backwards, gap-toothed, corrupt and failing abysmally in its vaccine rollout.

Lordy, Canada has banned the use of Scott Morrison’s politically-connected Astra Zeneca vaccine for under 55s.

The news today is the Morrison Government’s marriage of bloke and woke has been comprehensively destroyed by Australia of the Year, Grace Tame: Morrison engaged in distractions without solutions.

The terrible vaccine rollout of the Morrison Government has a new problem today.

In late 2019, Australia’s union movement lashed Labor (here and here) for waving through several wage-crushing with Indonesia, Hong Kong and Peru. The union movement claimed that the trade deals breach Labor’s national policy platform, which outlawed deals with investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) clauses and mandated labour market testing.

The new Essential poll is both depressing and uplifting for Australian and the Morrison Government, but for opposite reasons.

Roll up for the showbusiness wedding of 2021.

I have been pretty sanguine about this to date.

Newspoll today is both a little reassuring and quite unsettling for the Morrison Government.