Australian Politics

This is all to the good: United States President Joe Biden is reportedly dispatching one of his top officials to Solomon Islands as concerns grow over a soon-to-be-signed security pact with China.

Lots of election drivel today but some frighteningly poor analysis from AFR over the weekend that says it all: Their timing was accidental.

Wheelie Bin in Breakwater (Geelong) photographed 9 April 2022 Australia’s May 2022 election is a poisoned chalice for voters.

The Senate’s COVID-19 committee released its final report yesterday.

“Psycho” Morrison is not afraid, so says The Australian: Scott Morrison will run an offen­sive campaign and resist being locked in a bubble to avoid ugly confrontations with voters, as the government shifts its strategy ­towards winning more key seats off Labor to help offset expected losses.

Wow, this is a great read from Stuff.

The lack of planning and foresight to cope with the immigration deluge into Australia’s big cities never ceases to amaze.

Chinese intentions in the Solomons are all benevolent: China has denounced Australia and New Zealand for their ­“colonial mentality” in Beijing’s most detailed defence of its security agreement with the Solomon Islands.

Desperate to repair “Psycho” Morrison’s shattered image, LNP campaign strategists decided to take a risk and put him back in public.

This week has seen polls from Newspoll, Resolve, Essential and Ipsos all show federal Labor leading easily over the Coalition in the lead-up to next month’s federal election.

Inspired by a dramatic losing election hand, Chickenhawk Peter Dutton is launching press releases faster than a metal storm barrage.

The blows keep coming for PM Morrison from his own side of politics, which seemingly can’t wait to be shot of him.

Nepotism is running rampant within the corrupt Coalition with former Western Australian Attorney-General Michael Mischin one of six former Coalition MPs and advisers that Attorney-General Michaelia Cash has appointed to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal.

Labor has given little indication as to what changes it might make to industrial relations laws if it wins office, but some of the comments it has made regarding issues such as job security could be seen as an indicator.

Peter Hartcher has the bad news: Russia already is paying a heavy price for its wanton violence and still its success is not assured.

I have never seen anything quite like it in Australian politics.

As a risk analyst who has spent the better part of a decade fighting Chinese Communist Party encroachments, I am today forced to make a concession.

Yes, it gets worse every single day.

What is wrong with everybody?