Australian Politics

A new report from the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) claims that a 10.3% increase in workers’ productivity since the Coalition government won office in 2013 has not been reflected in wages growth.

She’ll be right.

March’s Federal Budget extended its minimum pension drawdown requirement for a further 12 months, thus enabling affluent retirees to keep their superannuation balances without needing to sell their assets.

Friday’s coordinated attacks on PM Morrison from Beijing and Honiara said it all.

PM Morrison is being humiliated across the Pacific today: …“What right do these countries have to tell China what to do?

With the annual inflation rate of 5.1% now more than twice the rate of wages growth, and the average Australian worker’s wages are going backwards in real terms, Indigenous Australians Minister Ken Wyatt has called for federal politicians to be given a pay rise.

Matthew Davies has compiled a comprehensive list with references of over 1,000 instances of Coalition corruption over its eight years in office.

Liberal MP Gladys Liu appeared in a car crash interview on the ABC yesterday including this little pearler on an integrity commission: https://t.co/fwTzMdEyFh — Phillip – 交通工程师 (@pyap001) April 28, 2022 Hoocoodanode Ms.

Former ASIO, ONA and RAMSI head, Nick Warner, today: It’s not that no attention was paid to the South Pacific.

For years MB lamented how Australia’s public service has been stripped raw by decades of government outsourcing, waves of senior redundancies, and a preference for governments to seek advice from paid consultants.

Having a sore throat and an effective muzzle has delivered Albo his best week of the campaign so far.

He doesn’t hold the interest rate lever, mate.

The Guardian is going me pretty good at the moment, which I thoroughly welcome.

The Coalition’s Agricultural Visa program came into effect in October and provides pathways for permanent residency for workers from 10 South-East Asian nations provided they pledge to become indentured with an employer for at least three years.

More gasbaggery from Australia’s weakest national security government in a generation: Scott Morrison says a “red line” for Australia would be China building a military base in the Solomon Islands.

Whether it is fake warmongering or fake trans debates, fake gotcha moments or fake policy, PM Morrison’s desperate attempts to gaslight his way back into power to continue the LNP’s rapey rort have so far failed to gain traction.

As ANZAC day 2022 is upon us Australia faces twin crises enough to make the most hardy digger’s toenails curl.

Business groups and epidemiologists are generally supportive of the Victorian government’s decision to scrap most COVID-19 restrictions from 11.59pm on Friday. However, the requirement for most workers to be vaccinated will remain in place, despite chief health officer (CHO) Brett Sutton advising that vaccine mandates should now be at the discretion of individual workplaces.

This is the bottom of the barrel for the failed regime of PM Morrison and the warped media reporting it: Scott Morrison has accused the federal opposition of advocating for China, following deputy leader Richard Marles’ assertion that Pacific nations are free to engage with Beijing however they choose.

As things stand, Washington cannot rely on Canberra to secure the South Pacific.

Leading us off is Chickenhawk Peter Dutton: Defence Minister Peter Dutton has defended the federal government after Labor’s Penny Wong slammed China’s security pact with the Solomon Islands as the “worst failure of Australian foreign policy in the Pacific since the end of World War Two”.