Australian Politics

Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil says her predecessor Peter Dutton must take the blame for what she says is a broken immigration system.

Courtesy of the Evil Gas Cartel itself and Graeme Bethune’s Energy Quest, which is yet to criticise said cartel, in my experience.

Of all of the magnificent displays of data and analysis in Friday’s SoMP, one chart stands head and shoulders above all others.

I mean, for real, it would be funny if it wasn’t making us all poorer at the fastest rate in one hundred years.

Australian Transaction Reports & Analysis Centre CEO Nicole Rose says Australia’s money laundering laws (AML) need to be expanded to cover ‘gatekeepers’ such as real estate agents and accountants.

Including Albo himself, it apparently takes five ministers to change a light bulb: The federal government is debating whether to slap unprecedented price controls on gas companies through existing gas trigger laws as it urgently seeks a way to ease the burden of soaring energy bills confronting households and businesses.

Australia’s 130-pound wringing wet weakling PM has finally taken on the energy shock five months late: Anthony Albanese has vowed to broker short-term relief from soaring energy prices by consulting heavily with business and governments, but dismissed concerns Labor will shun a meaningful ­reform agenda in its first term.

There are some advantages to having a weak leader.

Australian Competition and Consumer Commission Gina Cass-Gottlieb just now: “We recommended a set of steps to make those commitments binding and enforceable.

Like individuals, you can get a read on a government very fast if you know where to look.

Analysis of public sector annual reports by The AFR shows that at least 24 public servants and executives of government-owned corporations received total remuneration of more than $1 million in 2021-22.

Recall that Treasurer Jim Chalmers announced on Budget night that the federal government would aspire to “build one million new, well located homes over five years from 2024”.

The Victorian Labor Party is under scrutiny over revelations regarding a fund-raising dinner which was attended by Immigration Minister Andrew Giles.

Albo’s ministers and premiers are running around like headless chooks: After being asked about the Victorian Premier’s call for an east coast reservation scheme, South Australia’s Labor Energy Minister, Tom Koutsantonis, said it was “interesting to see reservation policies being advocated by governments that don’t allow gas ­developments to proceed”.

And there you go: Visit Victoria has entered into a $15 million partnership with Netball Australia to run until June 2027, replacing the money the sport lost when Hancock Prospecting pulled its $15 million sponsorship deal last week.

It’s been so obvious for so long that it’s hardly worth repeating.

A few voices have started to pick up on this.

In the first days of the election campaign, an aspirant Albo was caught out by a cunning journo who asked him to name key economic data: At the time, much of the media rallied to Albo’s defense because everybody hated Scott Morrison.

Recall that Treasurer Jim Chalmers announced on Budget night that the federal government would aspire to “build one million new, well located homes over five years from 2024”.

If you don’t lead in a critical national crisis then the crisis will lead you.

You know you’re in trouble when the loony Greens make more sense than you do: Greens leader Adam Bandt, who appeared on ABC Radio immediately after the treasurer, again called for windfall profits tax.

I’ve warned Labor every day for five months.

Origin is thrilled: Origin Energy will continue to sponsor Netball Australia and the Diamonds as the company’s chief executive said he welcomes any athletes who speak out on climate change and other social issues – even if that could bring them into direct conflict with their employers or corporate backers.

Virtue signaling is to empathise with victims while doing nothing about their persecution.