Australian Politics

Kevin07 continued his rewrite of Australian history in another oration late last week: If humanity is to avoid a bloody war over Taiwan, we all need a clear understanding of what such a confrontation might actually look like.

Last week, lowly Mozambique, one the poorest nation’s on earth, began LNG exports: Mozambique flagged off its first shipment of liquefied natural gas, exports that could help ease Europe’s energy crunch as Russia squeezes supplies.

Here is my response to the Office of Kevin Rudd’s rebuke of my recent article arguing that it is time Labor acknowledge that the Morrison Government China stance was not (only) about domestic political wedging.

Find below a response from the Office of the Hon Dr Kevin Rudd AC 26th Prime Minister of Australia to this post.

This is right: He’s the million dollar-a-year man running the Reserve Bank that sets interest rates who is now urging workers to cop it sweet on falling real wages amid soaring inflation for the good of the nation.

Earlier this week, The Age published an article featuring a range of infrastructure experts deriding the Andrews Government’s billion Suburban Rail Loop (SRL): The Loop’s costings have already blown out from the initial $50 billion to $125 billion, a figure the government disputes.

We’re all waiting with bated breath for the energy solution.

Opinion polls have tightened ahead of this weekend’s Victorian state election, with Labor and the Coalition now neck-and-neck on primary vote.

Good old Kevin07.

So says Japan: Japan warns that global competition for liquefied natural gas is set to intensify over the next three years due to an underinvestment in supply.

Aside from me, Ian Verrender at ABC is the only other media voice that makes regular sense on energy.

Greg Sheridan wrote a nice piece on the weekend: Anthony Albanese’s meeting with Xi Jinping at the G20 summit in Bali, the first between Australian and Chinese leaders in six years, will burn itself into the history books.

The Housing Industry Association (HIA) expects detached housing starts to total 123,370 in 2022, which is 17% lower than in 2021.

Australia is caught in its worst living standards crisis in a century but the government has gone to Hawaii.

As described yesterday, this is the reality of China’s olive branch to Australia: Beijing has said the “most difficult time for China-Australia relations has passed”, but told Canberra to improve the relationship the Albanese government needs to reduce hurdles on Chinese businesses.

You couldn’t write a worse script for the Albanese Government.