What could be nastier than unleashing a debilitating pandemic on the world? How about issuing friends with a dodgy vaccine that doesn’t work for propaganda purposes? See Seychelles COVID file: Seychelles is the most fully vaccinated country on earth. But 60% of its vaccines were from Sinopharm. And now it has re-entered lockdown as COVID
It’s not very well thought-through. It’s largely for domestic political consumption. And only accidentally in the national interest. But I’m loving the Australian sabre-rattling over Taiwan triggered by a desperate and dateless Morrison Government. After a few weeks of warmongering by top defence brass, the AFR joins in today with an interview with Taiwan’s foreign
I was reading this piece by Dr David Brophy, senior lecturer in Modern Chinese History at University of Sydney, at Domain and it was all going quite nicely: Morrison Government has talking up war in Taiwan for political purposes. Australians do not agree that we should join any war around Taiwan. Such a war could
The Morrison Government recently all-but destroyed its relationship with the female half of the electorate by mistaking a sexual assault crisis for a culture war. Now it is seeking to move on from that in a great hurry and push the agenda back to its safest territory: national security. The new Defence Minister, Peter Dutton,
Taiwan generated some serious angst over the weekend. Chris Joye is thumping the drums of war: The chance of a forced Chinese forced annexation of Taiwan is now above 50%. The probability of war is higher in the next five years than after because the CCP has closed the military gap. Australia will be bombed
Last September, the Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) released a report slamming the federal Department of Infrastructure (DOI) for purchasing land related to the Western Sydney Airport from a billionaire family for 10 times its market value in what ANAO called a “significant and unusual transaction” that “did not exercise appropriate due diligence” and “fell short
Via Bill Bishop’s excellent Sinocism: Australia ‘is sick’, needs to take medicine: China’s Foreign Ministry – Global Times China is not responsible for the current difficulties facing China-Australia relations. It is the Australian side that torn up the cooperation agreement between China and Australia, sabotaging normal exchanges and cooperation between the two countries, China’s Foreign
The knives are out over the Morrison Government’s abrogation of its constitutional responsibility for quarantine, which has forced the states to house returning travellers in unsuitable city hotels. The head of the WA Australian Medical Association (AMA) has stepped up its attack on the hotel quarantine system, once again describing it as “not fit for
It is becoming increasingly clear that the Morrison Government has no intention to follow through with its international commitment to stamp-out money laundering. The evidence is standing in plain sight. First, the federal government agreed to implement Tranche 2 anti-money laundering (AML) laws 15 years ago pertaining to real estate gatekeepers, including lawyers, accountants and
Newspoll has released its latest electoral polling with Prime Minister Scott Morrison enjoying a big rebound in support ahead of next month’s federal budget. Satisfaction with Scott Morrison’s performance rose by four points to 59%, whereas dissatisfaction fell three points to 37%. By contrast, Labor leader Anthony Albanese’s satisfaction fell three-points to 40%, whereas dissatisfaction
Various pundits have criticised last week’s cancellation of Victoria’s Belt and Road deal with China. The AFR editorial is typical: Dead little deals like BRI are irrelevant. We must engage China where we can. Defending values is aided by finding common interests. These are weasel words. The main reason Australia pivoted away from China was
There’s revolution brewing at the ABC. A fightback against the fake left editorial viewpoint that played a major role in destroying Australian worker’s living standards in the last cycle via its defence of unbridled immigration. In the last few months, ABC’s Ian Verrender has led on the issue. Now Gareth Hutchence has joined in: Morrison
This is pretty awesome from your ABC:
We know he can’t “read the room” owing to a personality disorder that inhibits empathy. But this is a whole new magnitude of expression for it. Welcome to Planet Morrison where it’s hot, entire countries sink from sight and we feed their drowning populations with scorn: PM Morrison told the Biden climate summit that Australia
Well, it was a bad time if not a long time: Three-quarters of NSW health worker’s appointments for vaccination have been cancelled. The AZ announcement is largely to blame. I imagine the cancellation rate will be just as high in the community, if not higher given the higher vaccine hesitancy. Now that everybody plus the
It’s the one area of national interest policy in which having a personality-disordered PM has paid handsome dividends. Morrison’s constant diplomatic blundering and habit of gaslighting every human he comes across has delivered Australia an accelerated Chinese decoupling. And thank dog for it! A few more years of sailing down the path of Gladys Liu’s
At the Boao Forum, Xi Jinping is having a field day: The world must great global economic integration. Multilateral institutions must be protected. No one country should impose rules on any other. Pretty ironic given China’s 14 anti-democractic conditions for trade with Australia. There will many, many more examples as the CCP imposes “Xi Jinping
More bad news for the lagging vaccine rollout today. First, we’ve taken out Nepal in our race with the Third World: Unfortunately, a series of revelations shows that there is little prospect of improvement. Indeed, most of the effort seems to be going into hiding the failure: The Government has new rollout targets but won’t
Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s bungling of COVID-19 vaccination and continued abrogation of responsibility to the states has seen a slim majority of Australians (51%) disapprove of his handling of the pandemic, according to new polling by Roy Morgan: The 51% of Australians that disapprove of Morrison’s handling of COVID-19 and related issues have consistently brought
It is a full-court press against the climate spoiler Morrison Government today. Leading us off are former PMS Malcolm Turnbull and Kevin Rudd united in anger. They say: The Biden administration has dramatically reset the climate agenda. US, Japan, Korea and Canada will announce new and deeper 2030 targets. Australia is doing nothing. Its targets
CCP mouthpiece, The Global Times, is up to its old tricks again today. This time it threatening an Australian invasion in the event that we interfere over Taiwan: Australia is geographically far from Taiwan. It serves more as an advanced base in the Asia-Pacific and a supply base for the US. US forces have deployed
Prime Minister Scott Morrison was on the hustings last night with more divisive rhetoric, this time on climate change, as the world moves toward the Biden administration climate summit: The Morrison Government has “all but” committed Australia to net zero emissions by 2050. “We need to change our energy mix over the next 30 years
The Australian vaccine rollout is all over the news again today and not in a good way. Rather than produce a thought-through strategy and adjust it as circumstances change, the Morrison Government is flailing around in public, telling different interest groups different things. In short, it continues to be politics over national interest: National cabinet
The UN has condemned the Morrison Government’s neglect of stranded Aussies. It will probably mean the personality disorder PM does even less: The #UnitedNations Human Rights Committee has today ruled that Australia “facilitate and ensure” the return of #strandedaussies. We will keep fighting until these travel restrictions are lifted and their #HumanRights are respected. https://t.co/ev3CbwR1dm
The Morrison Government vaccine failure continues today as Australia remains mired in the Third World: It will get worse, not better over the next six months costing “tens of billions”, said economists, probably quoting me. It is true. Having capitulated entirely to Gladys Berejiklian’s plan for mass vaccination centres, the Morrison Government now faces criticism
One of the most disturbing situations to arise from the coronavirus pandemic is the contempt shown towards Australians stranded abroad, abandoned by our politicians. More than one year on from the beginning of the pandemic and there are still an estimated 35,000 Aussies stranded overseas, shut out by limited flights and quarantine places, as well
Just to underline how stoopid the Morrison Government has been. Via Morgan Stanley: COVID-19 Vaccine: US on Track to Achieve Broad Vaccination by Mid-Summer Our updated simulations suggest that the US can vaccinate the entire eligible population (12+yo) by mid-summer, in-line with our prior estimate. Our increased confidence in the rate and supply of vaccinations
Perhaps the empathy training is working after all. Fresh from her Rapegate holiday, newly-minted Government Services Minister, Linda Reynolds, has decided against the proposed pursuit of NDIS lying cows: The Morrison Government had planned to cut costs in the NDIS. But, the rollout of “mandatory assessments” to catch disabled and infirm rorters has been postponed.
A new study today from Swinburne Univerity is unequivocal about the collapse in support for Morrison’s misogynists: Australian women’s support for the Morrison Government collapsed from 44% to 29% from Q4 20, Q1 21. Men’s rating was unchanged at 47%. This is the largest gender gap in the history of the survey (though that is
You have to hand it to Gladys Berejiklian. She may be attracted to toxic blokes but she knows how to handle them as well. To attract the attention of the personality disordered Australian prime minister, Berejiklian and friends spent the last week openly assassinating his government. First, there was the appearance of Brad Hazzard on
