Australian Politics

Albo is as strong as a bouquet of pansies, via Domain: Federal Labor Leader Anthony Albanese says the party is in “a diabolical situation” and foreshadowed “comprehensive” structural reform of the NSW branch following damning allegations it had covered up illegal donations.

Via The Australian: NSW ALP leader Jodi McKay has declared her party is in a ­“terrible state” and she “cannot fathom” how a ­donations scandal involving “bags of money being brought into Labor headquarters” had been allowed to fester for five years.

Via The Australian: China has told Australia to “stop hyping up” the case of arrested Chinese-Australian writer Yang Hengjun as concern grows in Australia over his detention and treatment in Beijing.

Bernard Keane at Crikey has a good idea: Short of towing the NSW Labor Party out to sea and sinking it, is there anything that can be done about persistent corruption in NSW?

This might be good or it might be bad.

So, let’s get through the daily Angry China update.

Paul Kelly appears to be going senile: The debate about religion is heading in a dangerous direction that, unless reversed, will leave permanent schisms in society and create serious problems for multiculturalism.

Nice scoop today from The Diplomat alumnus Hans van Leeuwen at the AFR with ScoMo on the trade war: “There are clearly challenges in the global economy, and that means there are conflicts and challenging issues to discuss.

Australia is fantastically ill-prepared for the historic challenge that is upon us.

Via Domain come a pack of &!@#$^ cowards: Pop star and activist Denise Ho has accused the National Gallery of Victoria of censorship after an event about the Hong Kong pro-democracy protests was cancelled.

There’s nothing like the smell of Green’s immigration hypocrisy.

Via Domain: In late July, the United States Studies Centre and YouGov polled 1,820 Australians and 1,800 Americans.

Blood sucking globalists unite!

Via the ABC: Chinese billionaire Huang Xiangmo gave $100,000 in cash to a senior Labor Party official, in breach of electoral funding laws, an Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) inquiry has heard.

Via the ABC: Foreign espionage is taking place in Australia at a greater rate than any other time in history.

There’s lot’s to recommend doing so.

Has it twigged?

It’s MSM China madness today and about time.

This is where we don’t want trade wars to go.

And it is this.

Yesterday the MSM finally tore the scab off the international students wound MB has been picking at for years.

It’s not often that the people get their revenge in this god forsaken land but today they did, at News: George Pell has lost his bid for freedom with his appeal against child sex convictions dismissed in court this morning.

Good grief.

Via The Australian: A confidential submission to the party’s post-election review from the Labor Environment ­Action Network, obtained by The Australian, expresses “anger and disappointment”, and also “grief”, over the party’s failure to win what was expected to be an unlosable election.

Here we go again.