Australian Politics

Release the pork!

It is possible to argue that Albo the Disaster doomed his first term in its first week.

The gloss has come right off Albo the Disaster now: The states are demanding a new GST deal that would cost the Commonwealth another $5 billion a year, further straining Anthony Albanese’s claim that he would be better at wrangling the premiers than his predecessor Scott Morrison.

Following nine years of financial incompetence from the Andrews Labor Government, Victoria is drowning in debt with the nation’s lowest credit rating: Victoria has the nation’s largest state debt (Source: Alex Joiner).

It’s a marvellous spectacle as predictable as the sunrise.

For a party that markets itself on safeguarding the environment, the Greens’ silence on the federal government’s mass immigration ‘Big Australia’ policy is breath-taking, given there is nothing more destructive to Australia’s natural environment than extreme population growth.

The Economist wraps up the election victory of Geert Wilders nicely: A generation ago, merely including the hard right in a ruling coalition was enough to result in ostracism, as Austria discovered when its centre-right allied with the xenophobic Freedom Party of Austria (fpö) in 2000.

Albo the Disaster is finally registering with voters.

Australian voters continue to turn against the Albanese Labor government, with the latest Roy Morgan polling on federal voting intentions showing that Labor (49.5%) has fallen behind the Dutton-led Coalition (50.5%) on two-party preferred vote.

There are times when I get frustrated with Australia’s younger people.

Did Albo take up the harm done to Australia sailors by the Chinese navy with Xi Jinping?

Infrastructure Minister Catherine King last week revealed that the government would axe 50 road and rail projects and redirect around $7 billion in savings toward other projects, in response to the infrastructure review she commissioned in May.

Why did Xi Jinping spend the weekend crawling to Washington?

Some nice little sound bites from ALP insiders on the weekend: One long-time Labor figure questioned the PMs judgement in allowing the perception of detachment to fester.

This week, comedian and author, Simon Taylor, lamented that Melbourne has turned into a permanent construction site and asked “will this construction hell ever end”?

What do you call a country that sticks its dirty little nose into everything while doing nothing about anything?

On 18 December 2019, Anthony Albanese said the following on Twitter about former Prime Minister Scott Morrison: Fast forward to today, and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton could say the exact same thing about Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

Roy Morgan’s latest polling on voting intentions is further bad news for the Albanese Labor Government: Australian support for the Albanese government dropped 2% to 50% last week, and is now equal with the Coalition on 50% on a two-party preferred basis.

PM Anthony Albanese has stepped into the gaping breach left by his failing treasurer, and the result is incoherence.

In February 2016, Costello was appointed chairman of the Nine Entertainment Co, which owns mastheads like The SMH/Age and The AFR.

Fake left political suicide is taking shape.

In the post-GFC period, Treasurer Wayne Swan was named the World’s Best Treasurer by Euromony owing to his excellent stimulus package.

Reading the iMSM is like drinking from a mirage in the desert.

Infrastructure Victoria released a plan last month to double the number of medium and high-rise buildings in Melbourne’s CBD, proposing 130 new towering developments.