Australian Politics

As usual, the truth is lost in Australian undebate and irrationality: Speaking to the ABC’s 7.30 program last week, Mr Keating described the self-governing island of Taiwan as “Chinese real estate”, in remarks Taiwanese officials called “incorrect and dangerously misleading”.

As expected, Treasurer Jim Chalmers was quick to spin Wednesday’s poor wage growth data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) as a resounding success: The reality is that annual real wages have fallen for two consecutive quarters, tracking 7.2% below their June 2020 peak: Australian real wages are now tracking at mid-2010 levels.

What kind of nation is it when one-half of politics arcs up over a birthday party for a corporation while ignoring that the same is raping every Australian east of WA?

Albo’s horror winter electricity shock just peaked at $193MW/h QMA: That it passed virtually without comment from the MSM tells you how stupid this country’s media is.

A pox on both your houses.

If you thought Paul Keating’s China grovelling was bad, spare a thought for the Albanese government, which is now so infected with ‘Xi Jinping thought’ that it is willing to wreck the entire economy to protect China.

Senior Labor minister Clare O’Neil once proclaimed that “truckloads” of immigration is the solution to many of Australia’s challenges: “Immigration has been the special sauce in our national history”.

He’s the orator of the century: Former Labor prime minister Paul Keating has lashed out at the current government, once again criticising the endlessly-debated AUKUS defence pact.

Like most Aussies, I love sport.

Adding to its recent string of economic propaganda lies, Team Albo has released a new album of Greatest Lies: Let’s run through the lies being sung online.

Last month, we learned that the militant CFMEU had used stand-over tactics and intimidation to win work on Victorian government construction contracts.

Here it is in black and white: The RBA is refusing to accept Treasurer Jim “Chicken” Chalmers’ attempt to hide the energy shock with bill rebates: In the RBA’s view, either the Albanese government addresses the core driver of the energy shock, the gas cartel, or inflation is not coming down.

The past week or so has seen Prime Minister Anthony Albanese bald-faced lie or mislead Australians on the state of the economy and Labor’s performance.

Victoria’s Suburban Rail Loop (SRL) wins the award for Australia’s worst-ever infrastructure project.

As noted many times, the US is doing a far better job of decarbonising its economy than Australia.

While Straya celebrates a per capita medal tally so high that it disgraces the nation, the power it produces has taken gold for highest cost anywhere.

In March, Treasurer Jim Chalmers told the nation’s corporate leaders that Australia’s economy is “not productive enough, not competitive and not dynamic enough” and that this situation is “not acceptable to me or to the government that Anthony Albanese leads”.

For years, Victorians have displayed Stockholm Syndrome regarding the state Labor government.

Albo energy disaster rolls on today with gas still sitting comfortably above his $12Gj price floor: While wholesale electricity prices march higher in the highest ever winter prices outside of wartime: Albo has doubled the average wholesale price of electricity in 2.5 years.

Buried deep in The Australian today is Jenny George demanding gas reservation: The recent headline “Gas shortfall expected to hit east coast in 2027” sounded an ominous warning.

The BBC of all places has tackled the prickly issue of the rise in Australian homelessness: “[Mary] is one of the roughly 122,000 people who are homeless in Australia on any given night, according to data from the country’s bureau of statistics”.