Australian Politics

I’m going to made a bold prediction: Victorian Health Minister Jenny Mikakos will be the scapegoat for Melbourne’s hotel quarantine disaster.

At the ABC: COVID-19 can cause worrying neurological symptoms like a loss of smell and taste, but Australian scientists are warning the damage the virus causes to the brain may also lead to more serious conditions such as Parkinson’s disease.

Via News: Daniel Andrews has just confirmed for the first time that Victoria’s next easing of restrictions on Sunday will go further than the original road map.

It’s not the fruitloop anti-vaxxers fault, either.

Via Sinocism: Comment: We still have only sketchy details of what was decided at the recent 7th Tibet Work Conference, but perhaps they decided to take some of the “successes” from Xinjiang and apply them back into Tibet?

Via China apologist “think tank” China Matters: Plenty of people in this country agree with some or much of what the CPC has done over the past 40 years.

Via ZDNET: The company responsible for the National Broadband Network (NBN) announced on Tuesday it was spending AU$700 million to create 240 “business fibre zones” that will cover 700,000 business premises.

Yep, he’s missing the empathy gene.

What a great idea.

MB usually has a pretty good view of, Adam Creighton.

Earlier this month, we reported how the Morrison Government’s JobKeeper subsidy has been an absolute boon for Australian business owners, juicing company dividends and profits.

Via Bloomberg: Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said Friday that the U.S.

Via The Australian: The Coalition has rebounded from a fall in popular support at the height of Scott Morrison’s border wars with the Labor state premiers last month, as Labor leader Anthony Albanese’s approval ratings tumble into negative territory for the first time.

Bloody awesome: The last piece of the puzzle is Victoria’s broken contract tracing system.

I don’t expect the virus psychos to listen but here is the chart, courtesy of Greg Jericho at The Fake Left: Sweden and EL Trumpo, hand in hand.

Via Roy Morgan: In Victoria support for the ALP is now at 51.5% compared to the L-NP on 48.5% on a two-party preferred basis according to a special Roy Morgan SMS survey on Victorian voting intention with a cross-section of 1,147 Victorian electors aged 18+ over the last few days.

Cruelty is a ScoMo specialty.

Burn you bastard.

This information is not new: The arguments put forward by the “whistleblower” have been around for six months: Some respectable virologists support this thesis.

Via the ABC: The Chinese Government has condemned allegations that Beijing tried to infiltrate Australian politics as a “malicious smear and slander,” after the ABC revealed police warrants connected China’s Sydney Consulate to the alleged plot.