Roll up for the showbusiness wedding of 2021. The red carpet will glitter. The paparazzi mosh pit heave. The women’s magazines bid furiously. The gltiz. The glamour! Morrison’s cabinet reshuffle has promoted two new women to the cabinet so they now make up seven of 23 spots! Nobody has been dropped so Morrison will carry
I have been pretty sanguine about this to date. But some of the activity by the Chinese military is pretty out there in terms of regular Cold War “buzzing“: 20 Chinese aircraft violated Taiwanese airspace over the weekend. A Taiwanese source said that it was simulated an attack on US warships. The US is getting
Late last year, the CEO of AUSTRAC – the government agency tasked with detecting, deterring and disrupting criminal abuse of the financial system – called on the federal government implement anti-money laundering (AML) laws pertaining to real estate gatekeepers, warning that lawyers, accountants and real estate agents were being used to launder illicit money through
Newspoll today is both a little reassuring and quite unsettling for the Morrison Government. The TTP result was stable at 52-48 which could certainly be worse: And the primary vote even lifted a touch though the margin of error is an issue on such small moves: The big move was for the PM himself: Normally
The media line-up of condemnation for Prime Minister Scott Morrison on the weekend was, once again, overwhelming. There is a very simple theme developing in all coverage. The smut crisis began as an alleged specific assault on one woman. The failure to deal with it decisively, humanely and in terms of justice – that is,
The daily insults visited upon Australia from China are not even worth covering these days. The muckraking is typical of a paranoid communist regime with a glass jaw. It is obviously counter-productive to its Australian interests but that’s how these bullying regimes work. As Australia’s Ambassador to China, Graham Fletcher, says today: China has lost
Sir Fomo McSpruikerson is an expatriate billionaire and proud proprietor of The Strayan, a vanity media project designed to boost his assets. Flood-damaged Western Sydney houses snapped up by savvy investors House prices in Western Sydney have sky rocketed the past week, after flash flooding destroyed parts of the city and left a trail of
Last year, NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian gave evidence to the state’s Independent Commission Against Corruption inquiry, whereby she admitted she’d been in a “close personal relationship” with former Liberal MP for Wagga Wagga, Daryl Maguire, between 2015 until August 2020. Maguire was forced to resign from the Liberal Party and parliament in on 13 July
I can’t take another day of writing about Morrison Government smut. Having to take a shower after every post on Liberal Party filth is debilitating. So, here’s the Crikey update on a bright and clear Friday morning: Liberal backbencher Andrew Laming has issued an apology in parliament following a 9News report into allegations he engaged in digital harassment of
It’s ceaseless and there is no stopping it. Yesterday afternoon continued the ruination of the Liberal Party as Eric Abetz entered the fray. Tasmanian MP Sue Hickey accused him of telling her: Not to worry because Christian Porter’s accuser is dead. On Brittany Higgins “anybody who is so disgustingly drunk, who would sleep with anybody,
March is set to record Sydney’s strongest rise in dwelling values in 33 years, according to the CoreLogic daily index. As at 24 March, and with one week to go before the end of the month, Sydney’s dwelling values have risen by 2.96%. And if the current pace of growth is maintained, Sydney could record
More scuttlebutt on the poorly executed Morrison Government vaccine rollout today. The Guardian notes that logistic problems have multiplied: Vials arrived without needles. Complaints of undersupply and failed deliveries are rife. The vaccine booking website is allowing second shots days after the first when it should be three months. The rollout schedule is now something
God knows, I don’t want to write another post on this but what choice have I? The Morrison Government is imploding before our eyes. Having delivered his empathy rebranding speech yesterday, PM Morrison then launched into a diatribe against Newscorp for having its own sexual harassment scandal. The only problem, he made it up: In
Prime Minister Scott Morrison was moved to tears yesterday as he waded through the bottomless pit of smut formerly know as the Liberal Party. If you want to read the gushing of fake contrition then it is available in full at the ABC. There was nothing in it that should persuade anybody. This is the
I have recorded at length the sad and sorry policy process that led the Morrison Government to hang its hat on the Astra Zeneca vaccine, which included politically driven timelines and dubious Liberal Party connections, mistakes and questionable data at the trial stage, and failure to anticipate all kinds of logistical challenges including for doctors.
The Morrison Government is drowning in smut, rape and cover-up as another horrifying day of media unfolded late yesterday. It began with new revelations that at least one Liberal Party staffer has been sacked after being caught sharing video of himself masturbating over a female colleague’s desk in Parliament. More are rumored to follow given
If you have ever wondered why Australia’s politicians never implement genuine policies to improve housing affordability, you only need to follow the money. Genuinely improving housing affordability necessarily means that dwelling prices must fall. But with the majority of Australian households being homeowners, any decline in home values also means a reduction in value of
Some better news for Australia’s troubled vaccine rollout over the weekend. German and Norwegian scientists have isolated the links between the Astra Zeneca vaccine and blood clotting: In rare cases, an autoimmune response can trigger thrombosis in the brain. It is easily treatable with existing drugs. Germany and France resumed their rollout but the Nordic
After twenty years of believing in Chinese liberalisation, or at least giving it the benefit of the doubt, the US left has realised that much of it was bull. Via the FT: The Alaska summit was acrimonious. The US attacked China for violating the rules-based order in HK, Xinjiang Taiwan and Australia. China attacked the
Sir Fomo McSpruikerson is an expatriate billionaire and proud proprietor of The Strayan, a vanity media project designed to boost his assets. Xi Jinping announces CCP will hold 6th plenary session in Perth in 2021 The Chinese Communist Party has announced that it’s 5th plenary session will be held in Perth, Western Australia after the
Humans are predictable creatures. Take something away from them that they like then they will get their payback later. In economics, this is called pent-up demand. In the US, where vaccine coverage is fast approaching critical herd immunity levels, the unleashing of pent-up demand has begun in the most singularly crushed sector of any by
It is almost sad to watch the slow dawning in conservative media that its leader is not up to the job. Prime Minister Scott Morrison is quickly sliding from electoral saviour to damaging and disordered human being. At the AFR: Anger at the treatment of women is rising amid the “quiet Australians”. The Coalition knows
LNG imports are stupid. We all know it. But it is a mistake to think that they are not a better idea than what we have. The deep corruption of the Morrison Government by the gas export cartel makes LNG imports the only way to break the stranglehold for gas consumers of scale. The AFR
It was only a few years ago that one vote on the cross-bench killed Malcolm Turnbull’s horrific Trumpian corporate tax cut as the indomitable Senator Tim Storer refused to bow to absurd trickle-down economics. History is repeating today. This time it is Stirling Griff that has the bit between his teeth and won’t let go,
Malcolm Turnbull penned an excellent piece in the Nikkei yesterday on the history of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, or “Quad’ as it is known. It is the developing security mechanism that brings together India, Japan, US and Australia, four Indo-Pacific democracies: The Quad was the initiative of Shinzo Abe in 2007. It engaged in one
On Monday, Newspoll gave Federal Labor an election-winning lead. Essential and Bludgertrack gave a similar assessment yesterday. Now RoyMorgan has released its own poll that has The Australian Labor Party (ALP) (50.5%) holding a two-party preferred lead over the Coalition (49.5%) on the back of strong strong female support following various rape scandals: The advantage
The Morrison Government’s hapless vaccine rollout hits a bunch of new hurdles today. Not that you would know about them if it was up to the PM. Via the AFR: Doctors concerned over questions about the AstraZeneca vaccine procured by the Morrison Government have been threatened by the Therapeutics Goods Administration (TGA). They are not
The weekend saw the Colation cease to exist in WA state elections. Newspoll gave Federal Labor an election-winning lead yesterday. Essential Poll today delivers more bad news for the Morrison Government as the polity swings to large majorities against PM Morrison’s handling of the situation on very front: Bludgertrack’s aggregate polling has a strong
Oh dear. The Morrison Government’s vaccine strategy is on verge of collapse today as government MPs jump like rats from a sinking ship. Senator Matt Canavan has called for the rollout to be suspended. This follows last night’s news that both France, Germany and Spain have canned their rollouts. As noted yesterday, the European polity
A few in the press today describe Scott Morrison as having a “tin ear” following yesterday’s latest installment of the meltdown of his government. Christian Porter is sueing the ABC and will come back to work to do half of his job. Morrison himself refused to attend the rallies destroying his government and then dropped
