Australian Politics

For years, MB lamented how decades of government outsourcing, waves of senior redundancies, and governments’ proclivity to seek advice from paid consultants had depleted Australia’s public sector.

To be clear, I will vote “yes” for the Voice if we get that far.

The Grattan Institute has joined the Victorian Liberal Party in calling on the Victorian government to pause the $200 billion Suburban Rail Loop (SRL) project, amid a review of federal projects.

Professor of Comms at UTS, Wanning Sun, published a piece in Crikey last week that got my goat.

The iMSM is up to its usual rent-seeking in the wake of the appointment of deputy governor, Michele Bullock, to the RBA’s top job.

Albo’s polling has fallen to its lowest level since the election and it is about time given how fantastically inept his government is: However, the votes are not going to Doomed Dutton.

On Thursday, I reported that the Andrews Victorian Government had grown the state’s public housing stock by only 74 dwellings in four years amid a 45% increase in the social housing waiting list.

Victoria’s (read Melbourne’s) population is growing like a science experiment via turbo-charged immigration.

Independent federal MP Rebekha Sharkie has asked the Auditor-General to investigate the first two round of funding under the federal government’s $200 million Community Batteries for Household Solar program, with Sharkie likening the scheme to the sports rorts saga under the former Morrison government.

The Groveller-in-chief has been advised to get off his face: “Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is considering delaying a highly anticipated trip to Beijing until next year as the government prepares the crucial appointment of a new ambassador to China”.

This is beneath contempt: Australia’s first national “wellbeing framework”, to be released by Treasurer Jim Chalmers within weeks, will provide about 50 indicators of how Australians are doing, that will then be tracked over time.

I can’t believe I used to like this guy: Former prime minister Paul Keating has branded NATO boss Jens Stoltenberg a “supreme fool” for seeking to deepen the alliance’s ties with Asia as Anthony Albanese heads to Europe to cement Australia’s blossoming relationship with the alliance grouping.

The iMSM was in uproar on the weekend at the Robodebt findings, quite rightly.

Doomed Dutton’s latest blunder: nuclear energy.

In the world of fake left policy, symbolism rules over substance: The Minns government is planning one of the largest overhauls of the NSW tenancy market in more than a decade, including the potential for new laws which would close a loophole allowing landlords to hike rents multiple times per year.

From the new Mandatory Gas Code of Conduct Fact Sheet: The price cap, initially proposed to be set at $12/GJ, will be subject to review and may be updated by the ACCC every two years.

One of Australia’s leading minds of the centre-left has taken up my banner at last.

Readers will be familiar with Professor Jame Curran, Professor of modern history at Sydney University and recidivist China groveller.

Honestly, how many ministers does it take to fix a light bulb?

The defining feature of woke is the preference for post-liberal fantasy over reality.

This is a much more scandalous headline than it appears.

I have been wondering lately if the liberal world has crossed some anthropological tipping point.

Can sanctions prevent the Taiwan war?