Australian Politics

Why I am the only person in Australia to write about gas today is a mystery I will leave to you.

As everybody celebrates the budget, the gas cartel is busy in the background cutting every sinew in it.

Westpac with a balanced take on the Budget.

Amazing stuff as the evil gas cartel takes the moment of distraction posed by the budget to break both price caps and the Albanese Government.

The Greens are continuing to oppose the Housing Affordability Future Fund (HAFF) in its present form, despite the federal government having agreed to some concessions.

Rod Sims slams Jim “Chicken” Chalmers today for his frightened little gas tax.

Professor Ross Garnaut has delivered simple and eminent policy sense, something that has no place in Mad Albo’s Labor.

An immigration revolt is brewing that risks bringing down the Albanese Government.

Gas cartel groveller, the AFR, reports: Several large east coast gas producers look set to defy the Albanese government and will not submit gas supply commitments by Monday’s deadline as they wrangle with proposed price control rules that they regard as unworkable.

Treasurer Jim Chalmers is tipped to announce an increase in JobSeeker payments for people over the age of 55 in the budget, with Chalmers saying that this age group finds it hard to get a new job, even when unemployment is just 3.5%.

All that hard work diversifying away from China by Aussie exporters being undone at pace thanks to Albo’s China groveling: We know the strings that come attached.

From Malcolm Turnbull to Peter Fitzsimmons, why are prominent Republicans such wankers?

Well…if you have nothing but cartels and white shoe brigade politicians what do you expect?

Bonfire of the vanities or what?

I’m not talking about hating poverty, as we all do.

Mwahaha.

Last week, the Albanese Government used its cherry-picked Migration Review to cement the ‘Big Australia’ mass immigration policy.

Great video here on contemporary politics and the “woke mind virus” with Bill Maher and Elon Musk: I only dispute Musk’s representation of “left” versus “right” viewpoints.

Have a listen to bully boy Ray Hadley push around “doomed” Peter Dutton yesterday.

The Albanese Government is facing growing pressure from within its own ranks to increase the JobSeeker payment in the budget on 9 May.

Dictator Dan has already come and gone, getting up to god knows what given his media ban.

There is no good news for opposition leader Peter Dutton in the polls.

Amazing stuff from the AFR, the gas cartel tabloid: After months of secretive negotiations – during which the nation’s top gas executives were forced by Chris Bowen’s energy department to sign “unprecedented” non-disclosure agreements – Labor has detailed its plan to effectively commandeer the east coast gas market.

I noted last week how Victoria’s Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission’s (IBAC) report on Operation Daintree concluded that Andrews Government staffers had acted against the public interest in awarding public contracts to the Health Workers Union prior to the 2018 election without a competitive tender process.