First up, there are two lengthy and highly substantive new post beneath this one which I like to think warrant your attention: my own review of the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters’ newly published report of its inquiry into the 2019 election, and Adrian Beaumont’s concluding review of Joe Biden’s victory over Donald Trump.
So that the comments sections for those posts might remain on topic, I offer this post as the latest open thread. I’m not exactly sure what the imminent festive season means for the schedule of the pollsters – Newspoll might or might not have one last poll under its sleeve just before Christmas, and I’m pretty sure there will be an Essential Research next week, which should feature leadership ratings though not voting intention. We will also presumably get one of Newspoll’s quarterly geographic and demographic aggregations at some point during the silly season.
There is one poll that slipped through my net: the latest effort on Tasmanian state voting intention from EMRS, which continues to find Premier Peter Gutwein in almost as commanding a position as Western Australian Premier Mark McGowan, the other leader for whom COVID-19 has been nothing but good news. The Liberals are credited with 52% of the vote, down two from August, with Labor up one to 25% and the Greens up one to 13%. However, Gutwein’s lead over Labor’s Rebecca White as preferred premier has narrowed from 70-23 to 61-26. The poll was conducted by telephone from November 17 to 23 from a sample of 1000.
And who better to do “boring ,mindless , dirty jobs” than all those “brown people” , they are suited to such work eh Johannes ?
I see the privileged little News Corpse poonce, Johannes Leak, has received his riding orders to demonise KK with the crones and cronettes demographic that reads The Australian.
Good morning Dawn Patrollers
David Crowe looks at how Australia came through the challenges of 2020.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/our-national-triumph-by-numbers-2020-has-been-a-battle-shared-and-won-by-many-20201210-p56mgq.html
And The Australian’s Ewin Hannan says business is demanding a two-year delay to tougher new penalties for companies ripping off workers, increasing pressure from both employers and unions on the Morrison government to make changes to its industrial relations bill.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/employers-seek-wage-fines-delay/news-story/f6365a6b5a4b272eb822293a1d6845ed
Josh Butler thinks the government may back down on its IR laws as a union war looms.
https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/2020/12/10/industrial-relations-workplace/
Phil Coorey says that by picking at the scab of WorkChoices, the industrial relations bill gave Labor a stronger than anticipated end to the parliamentary year.
https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/fight-government-doesn-t-want-gives-albo-an-opening-20201209-p56m4o
“Who would have thought John Setka could be such a unifying force?”, asks Michelle Grattan.
https://theconversation.com/grattan-on-friday-who-would-have-thought-john-setka-could-be-such-a-unifying-force-151852
According to Jennifer Hewett, Scott Morrison conquers the ‘China’ virus, but China is a tougher threat.
https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/scott-morrison-conquers-china-virus-but-china-is-a-tougher-threat-20201210-p56mg2
Ben Butler writes that the boss of Australia’s biggest super fund, AustralianSuper, has questioned whether changes to laws governing the sector proposed by the treasurer, Josh Frydenberg, are genuinely directed at improving retirement savings.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/dec/11/australiansuper-boss-hits-back-at-politically-motivated-attacks-on-industry-super
The ACTU has criticised the Morrison Government’s attack on the superannuation system and is pushing for reforms, writes William Olson.
https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/supers-potential-should-not-be-superseded-says-actu,14606
Delivery giants Uber and Deliveroo are likely to be among well-known gig economy brands hauled before a Senate inquiry looking into the impacts of insecure or precarious employment.
https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/uber-deliveroo-to-face-gig-economy-senate-inquiry-20201210-p56mba
John Warhurst describes how our former prime ministers have had a big year in 2020. A good read.
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7047997/former-prime-ministers-in-2020-theyre-no-feather-dusters/?cs=14258
Nick Bonyhady explains the trouble Porter is in regarding his workplace legislation and trying to save face.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/government-rubbishes-turnover-test-for-below-award-pay-deals-20201210-p56mg8.html
Isabelle Lane tells us that critics are saying the Morrison government’s proposed Surveillance Bill could be used to target everyone from Black Lives Matter campaigners to underage kids illegally downloading movies.
https://thenewdaily.com.au/life/tech/2020/12/10/dutton-surveillance-bill-australia/
David Crowe writes that federal election rules would be overhauled to limit early voting and require Australians to show photo ID before they cast their ballots under a plan that has been labelled an “outrage” that deprives people of their rights.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/election-proposals-trigger-furore-over-voting-rights-20201210-p56mhv.html
Matt Johnson lines up the many big companies that continue to pay zero company tax.
https://thenewdaily.com.au/finance/work/2020/12/10/corporate-tax-big-business-zero/
Michael Fowler explains how the Andrews government is considering a plan where up to 23,000 students would return to Victoria by April and undertake 14-day quarantine in student accommodation.
https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/international-students-could-quarantine-in-hubs-from-january-20201210-p56mf7.html
Josh Butler reports that South Australian senator Stirling Griff was ducking outrage on Thursday, after his last-minute parliamentary backflip that allowed the government to extend the cashless debit card scheme in a marathon Senate sitting. He effectively voted for the card.
https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/2020/12/10/stirling-griff-cashless-debit-card/
Ian Henschke, who is the chief advocate at National Seniors Australia, tells us that elderly Australians are dying while waiting to receive government help
https://www.smh.com.au/national/elderly-australians-are-dying-while-waiting-to-receive-government-help-20201209-p56m0l.html
Associate Professor Matt McDonald provides three reasons meeting climate targets and dumping Kyoto credits won’t salvage Australia’s international reputation.
https://theconversation.com/3-reasons-meeting-climate-targets-and-dumping-kyoto-credits-wont-salvage-australias-international-reputation-151836
Samantha Dick explains the real picture about Australians’ attitude towards vaccination.
https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/coronavirus/2020/12/10/australia-coronavirus-vaccine-attitude/
Meanwhile, with US states frantically preparing to begin months of COVID-19 vaccinations that could end the pandemic, a poll has found only about half of Americans are ready to roll up their sleeves.
https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/world/us-news/2020/12/10/covid-vaccine-united-states/
There is no behaviour, it seems, that warrants scrutiny or disciplinary action if you are a member of the Morrison Government. This is because the government of the day, today, is in a league all of its own, says Michelle Pini.
https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/morrisons-anti-accountability-vaccine-gets-l-np-off-scott-free,14604
The hysteria over the Victorian government’s MoU with China’s Belt and Road Initiative shows a disturbing lack of understanding of the project by media commentators, academics and some MPs, writes Colin Heseltine.
https://www.michaelwest.com.au/australia-pays-high-price-for-megaphone-diplomacy/
The Berejiklian government is facing a $2 billion budget blow out on its health infrastructure program, with delays to the planned completion dates of seven major developments.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/delays-budget-overruns-forces-nsw-to-spend-an-extra-2b-on-health-infrastructure-20201210-p56mhf.html
A desperate horticulture industry has urged Scott Morrison and the states to agree at Friday’s national cabinet meeting to bring in Pacific Islanders quarantine-free, warning that the country is on track to meet a labour shortage of 26,000 people by March.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/coronavirus-growers-call-for-worker-bubbles/news-story/372ce524e4d1f41a442329dceaa9d730
Lisa Visentin writes that the ABC’s leading political discussion programs The Drum and Insiders lacked conservative voices in their 2019 federal election coverage, but a major review found the broadcaster met its impartiality standard. If the government wasn’t doing so many crappy things it might have looked different!
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/abc-shows-didn-t-have-enough-conservative-voices-election-review-finds-20201210-p56m8u.html
Jeff Sparrow opines that Australia must reckon with the fact the Christchurch terrorist developed much of his hatred here.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/dec/10/australia-must-reckon-with-the-fact-the-christchurch-terrorist-developed-much-of-his-hatred-here
Zoe Samios tells us that Australia’s competition regulator will closely scrutinise a pivotal lawsuit launched by the United States government against Facebook that could force the social media giant to sell photo sharing app Instagram and messaging service WhatsApp.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/significant-implications-worldwide-accc-to-monitor-key-lawsuit-aiming-to-break-facebook-apart-20201210-p56mh2.html
Dave Donovan farewells Mungo MacCallum.
https://independentaustralia.net/business/business-display/vale-mungo-maccallum–a-true-progressive-voice-gone,14605
China has slapped another new tax on Australian wine that all but extinguishes local producers’ access to the world’s largest market.
https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/australian-wine-hit-with-new-strike-as-offset-for-subsidies-20201210-p56me6.html
New research has found that poor job quality and poor working conditions are key reasons why restaurant employers have trouble attracting and retaining workers.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/workplace/restaurateurs-better-served-improving-conditions-than-complaining-20201208-p56lm4.html
The London Daily Telegraph’s Jeremy Warner explains that the choice is now between no deal and a very hard Brexit.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/markets/the-die-is-cast-the-choice-is-now-between-no-deal-and-a-very-hard-brexit-20201210-p56m81.html
Boris Johnson would only have himself to blame for a no-deal Brexit, explains Simon Jenkins.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/dec/10/boris-johnson-no-deal-brexit
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Let it escape no one that a very last act of 2020 Parliament will be cut to incomes of over 3 mill ppl with least including over 1 mill children. From 1 Jan, as others celebrate NYE, #jobseeker lifeline will be cut to $50 pd, then from Mar $40 pd. Shameful. ]
lizzie @ #NaN Friday, December 11th, 2020 – 7:46 am
What better way to force the unemployed into low paying jobs that don’t allow them to earn much more than that?
Thanks BK for the Dawn Patrol. 🎄🎅
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Thanks Cat (from the previous thread). Good on you. I am not as positive or motivated as you, at the moment. I have resigned myself to the knowledge that governance at a federal level is shot, aided by a largely pathetic media and an apathetic, ignorant public.
I am so jaded that when I saw Coorey’s piece above about ‘Albo gets an opening” I wondered whether Morrison’s people helped write that story to help keep Albo in the job. He’s a nice bloke, but he’s letting Morrison off the hook so often that this government’s antics and disregard for accountability is becoming the new norm.
Juukan Gorge Committee releases multiparty majority report
The Joint Standing Committee on the Northern Australia Inquiry into Juukan Gorge have today released a multiparty majority interim report with a range of recommendations including that Rio Tinto negotiate a restitution package for the destruction of the Juukan rock shelters with the traditional owners, the Puutu Kunti Kurrama and Pinikura peoples (PKKP) and ensure full reconstruction of the Junkanoo rock shelters.
“There is multiparty support for strong reforms within the mining industry and state and federal legislation, Senator Siewert said.
Mining companies, State Governments and the Federal Government are on notice. The world is watching. They cannot allow the wanton destruction of First Nations cultural heritage any longer.
This inquiry has laid bare the hypocrisy from mining companies who talk about investing in First Nations communities when they have required Traditional owners to sign gag clauses in agreements with them.
https://greensmps.org.au/articles/juukan-gorge-committee-releases-multiparty-majority-report
Anti-money laundering laws
The Government and Labor have again wasted an opportunity to include real estate agents, accountants and lawyers subject to mandatory reporting of money laundering.
“We have been waiting 14 years for this badly needed reform,” Greens Economic Justice spokesperson Senator Nick McKim said.
“Dirty money is flooding Australia’s property market, helping to push house prices even higher, and making owning a home even more difficult for too many Australians.”
“The Greens’ amendment would have forced the Government to introduce legislation to include real estate agents, accountants and lawyers in the mandatory reporting scheme.”
“Such measures have been introduced in all but six countries around the world and have been promised since 2006.”
“Labor promised this reform before the last election, but they have squibbed it at the first hurdle.”
https://greensmps.org.au/articles/anti-money-laundering-laws
Lynchpin,
Thanks for the reply to my reply to you. 😀
I reckon that it’s going to have to be up to the Australian people to throw the government out, not a particularly spectacular Opposition Leader, that so many crave and think is the only thing that will win Labor the next or subsequent elections.
I go by the maxim that, governments lose elections, oppositions don’t win them. So I guess we have to wait for the hubris and overreach of Morrison and the Coalition to work its way into the lived experience of everyday Australians and for Labor not to scare the horses and to keep themselves in the game within striking distance, as they seem to be doing.
Michael Pascoe bells the corruption cat in politics.
https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/national/2020/12/11/michael-pascoe-politics-evolved-in-2020-corruption-is-now-openly-accepted/
New Hampshire’s House speaker dies from Covid-19
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/10/politics/richard-hinch-new-hampshire-house-speaker-died-coronavirus/index.html
“Thanks Cat (from the previous thread). Good on you. I am not as positive or motivated as you, at the moment.”
***
It’s just a transparent facade – spin – or putting on a “brave face” if you will. It wasn’t long ago that the desperados from the Labor Right were telling everyone how disillusioned they were. Unless something changes, they know they are looking down the barrel of another term as the de jure opposition. The knives are already being sharpened. Poor Albo, who has completely forgotten how to fight Tories, must be getting a sore neck from looking back over his own shoulder.
The report labelled the episode of The Drum, aired on May 6, “one-sided” finding it was characterised by “not just a positive impression for policies identified with Labor’s platform but also at times a marked enthusiasm for a Labor victory”.
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Gave up on The Drum ages ago due to its bias.
I wonder who was on the panel that night. There are many contenders, would not surprise if old favourites like Jane Caro and Dee Madigan appeared on that episode.
Question
When are Labor going to learn to ask short sharp focussed questions that don’t allow the govt to duck and weave and not answer to point of the question?
Answer
We saw yesterday in QT that when it’s a direct question requiring yes or no, the Speaker disallows it, and Morrison simply waffles about something completely different.
Taylormade
It’s a pity you’ve “given up” on The Drum. They always have one solid representative of the conservative view, plus economists and scientists. They have also featured many First Nations voices. I suppose that makes them “biased to the left” in conservative eyes.
Rio’s chairman has delighted us long enough
The parliamentary inquiry into the destruction of Juukan Gorge is coming for Rio Tinto chairman Simon Thompson: his position looks untenable and he should resign.
The interim report refers repeatedly to “the culture and practices inside Rio Tinto”, deficiencies which “have not been fully grappled with”.
The report is a “difficult read”, sure, but “a lot of great work has been done” in a “remarkable year”, Jacques says in a message to staff written from a parallel universe.
Absent from his list of great works is Rio’s negotiations with traditional owners for two weeks after dynamiting the 46,000-year-old sacred rock shelters (and blowing up its own reputation) for a mining moratorium covering the rest of Juukan Gorge and elsewhere.
It’s up with Rio telling the inquiry that when Jaques told a Brisbane staff meeting his policy in dealing with “deadwood” employees was to tell them to “Fit in or f— off” that he was talking about safety breaches.
But reparations will be paid, Jacques assured staff, plus $50 million “to advance Indigenous leadership in our Australian business”.
Rio can afford this on its tax savings alone from selling Australian iron ore from its Singapore marketing hub. BHP was paying 17.5 per cent tax on its Singapore arm and has settled with the ATO. Rio pays 5 per cent in Singapore and tells the ATO, what tax problem?
Jaques himself could fund more than half the money for Indigenous management from his payout when he leaves in March, but that’s not happening.
Like Jacques, Thompson has delighted us long enough. So why is he still here, again?
https://www.afr.com/rear-window/rio-s-chairman-has-delighted-us-long-enough-20201210-p56me5
This deserves to be known as the “Trump amendment” – beloved of right wing politicians everywhere as a form of voter suppression and carried to extremes by Trump and the GOP.
Ah, Firefox. Still stereotyping.
And applying the stereotyping very badly, too. I’m not from the Labor Right, for example; I’ve consistently said Albo as a leader was a bad idea (had several arguments pre the last election with Rex or mundo, forget which, where I said that very clearly), so to label me as ‘a desperado from the Labor Right’ is incorrect.
I’m surprised that you, with your superior moral compass, would engage in stereotyping and misrepresentation, and that now it’s been pointed out to you, your higher standards of integrity and fairness will lead to an apology, or at least a denial that you were referring to me as part of that group.
The slur is also wrong when applied to C@, who (as far as I can recall), has never expressed disillusionment with the party* and has always been a staunch Albo supporter, so I think you owe her an apology too.
*To be disillusioned, of course, you had to have illusions to start with. As I entered the party disillusioned, perhaps I’m using the wrong phraseology. If so, apologies if that misled anyone.
** I’m really interested in seeing how a superior moral being behaves when an error is pointed out to them. It will provide me, as a weaker, frailer mortal, with an idea of what integrity, honesty and courage looks like.
The interim report on the Juukan Gorge inquiry can be found here. Love the title – Never Again. It doesn’t need to say anything else.
https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Joint/Northern_Australia/CavesatJuukanGorge/Interim_Report
Has someone forgotten to take their Barocca this morning?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-12-11/survey-says-most-australians-welcome-universal-basic-income/12970924
Trump’s election losses are up to 55 now, and Texas is shaping up to be another loss, the claim appearing to be based on a hotch-potch of QAnon conspiracy theories.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/george-conway-trump-texas-steal-election/2020/12/10/be38b1dc-3b0c-11eb-98c4-25dc9f4987e8_story.html
This made me almost choke on my cornflakes. Morrison and his government hate the public service (except their hand picked heads of departments).
zoomster,
It’s projection from Firefox. The desperadoes are The Greens. They are seeing their 30 year experiment dying on the vine and the ‘bastards’ that they have tried to replace, both in the hearts of the unions (and btw, where is Dean Mighell and his delusions of a Greens-aligned union movement these days? 😀 ) and the electorate, failing.
Too bad, so sad.
‘fess,
When I read about that I reflected that I thought it was The United States of America, with each State being virtually sovereign? Especially wrt matters of an election. Otherwise why have the Electoral College?
BK @ #3 Friday, December 11th, 2020 – 7:45 am
As I said, Labor might rue the day they did a dirty deal with the Liberals to bust a problematic union. At the very least, John Setka might have the last laugh over Albo …
The problem is that it is us who will be the biggest losers from Albo’s abysmal performance.
citizen,
Morrison will never give up on trying to wrench reality away from the minds of Australians and replace it with his fantasies for them to swallow via big doses of his execrable homilies. In the end, as I have been saying this morning, it’s got to be up to those same Australians being force fed this garbage to vomit it back up. Preferably all over him and his amoral and corrupt party.
C@t:
The article was written by George Conway who says it’s a fraud, a farce.
And besides that, aren’t Republicans supposed to be for states’ rights? 😆
Texas’s proposed complaint even has a claim that, given Trump’s middle-of-election-night lead in the defendant states, there was less than a “one in a quadrillion” chance that Biden should have won.
Did they show their calculations?
On the Climate Change virtual summit this weekend and Morrison not getting a speaking spot (Scomo can still attend if he wants; he is resentful of the refusal to give him a speaking platform for his views), his tantrum is really breathtakingly arrogant. Not using carbon credits dating back to Kyoto is not action, it is an end to denial. Australia’s federal government actions to meet Paris agreement targets remain at Zero. Only States are acting. Australia’s policy commitments remain less than many mid-wealth countries like Argentina and Mexico. We are an international pariah on this issue.
https://unfccc.int/news/record-number-of-countries-present-their-climate-action-progress-at-climate-dialogues
Also with the USA under Biden about to rejoin the Paris agreement, and even China acting to reach zero by 2060, Australia is now incredibly politically isolated, from its closest ally (USA), its major trading partner (China) and the rest of the world.
Steve777:
In a way 😆
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/12/09/trumps-effort-steal-election-comes-down-some-utterly-ridiculous-statistical-claims/
Confessions @ #NaN Friday, December 11th, 2020 – 9:06 am
Yes but, respectfully to George Conway and he probably knows it, that’s not the point. The point is to keep the meme of an illegitimate election fresh in the minds of the MAGAts. Which Trump no doubt has plans to parlay all the way to 2024.
Except it won’t work out that way. As this article explains:
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/12/10/trump-comeback-2024-not-happening-444135
It would be interesting to calculate what Donald Trump’s chances of winning the election in 2016 were. But he did it. With even less in the way of margins than Joe Biden. 🙂
C@t:
This whole fraud thing is also about raising much-needed cash for the Trump enterprise.
Great’s latest. It’s quite good. She clearly has the Australian government in mind with this bit:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/dec/10/greta-thunberg-we-are-speeding-in-the-wrong-direction-on-climate-crisis
She points out we have 7 years left before we blow the carbon budget on 1.5 degrees. But I think most of us have given up on that target already. I tend to prefer to say that we have 10 years left before we blow the budget on 2 degrees, because 10 years sounds like a time frame in which we might be able to do something useful. However, that is also probably quite hopeless. In case you missed the news, Australia is already 2 degrees hotter than average. Exactly where we will end up is a bit difficult to forecast. But it will definitely not be a good place.
Confessions @ #37 Friday, December 11th, 2020 – 9:32 am
It’ll be paying for lawyers in New York methinks. 😀
The just-in-time government.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-12-11/first-asylum-seekers-medevac-law-granted-visas/12969536
Why do Libs think our democracy should be ‘reformed’. If it ain’t broke…
Confessions @ #37 Friday, December 11th, 2020 – 8:32 am
Not just Trump. A big chunk of the cash goes to the GOP.
https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-usa-election-trump-fundraising-insigh/donations-under-8k-to-trump-election-defense-instead-go-to-president-rnc-idINKBN27R30B
Socrates says:
Thursday, December 10, 2020 at 4:07 pm
beguiledagain
My apology! It was indeed Joseph McCarthy who foreshadowed Peter Dutton’s tactics.
That being said, I make no apology for pointing out the rank hypocrisy for somebody as opposed to the protection of equal human rights as Dutton branding another citizen in a democracy an enemy of the state.
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Understandable mistake particularly since Eugene McCarthy’s middle name was Joseph.
I remember the evil McCarthy well from the Pogo comic strip in the 1950’s where the brilliant Walt Kelly eviscerated that demagogue as Simple J. Malarkey.
And on May 2nd, 1957, as I was driving from Norfolk, Virginia to Washington, I heard the announcement of Joe McCarthy’s death on the radio.
The analogy with Dutton is apt and recalls the famous putdown of McCarthy by Joseph Welch the counsel for the U.S. Army in the 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings:
“Until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness … You’ve done enough. Have you no sense of decency, Sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?”
So Morrison’s seething that he failed to get a speaking gig at this weekend’s virtual climate summit, blaming that other buffoon Johnson. Great! That will teach him that most of the rest of the world accepts climate science, opting for carbon-neutrality. And with the election of Biden, it’s only going to get worse; the smart alec photo-op with a lump of coal will come back to haunt him.
Mavis @ #45 Friday, December 11th, 2020 – 7:17 am
Does Australia have any friends left?
Brexit watchers
https://www.dw.com/de/brexit-deal-jetzt-hilft-wohl-nur-noch-ein-wunder/a-55889297
To paraphrase: Stepping into negotiations and accepting a dinner invite with a hard to read Johnson in order to promote a Brexit deal, was a mistake and handed EU president (von der Leyen) a rejection. She must finally see that she can’t offer further compromises. Even London can’t decide what Johnson wants. Are the red lines merely a way of forcing no deal?
Also noteworthy is that the EU have turned away from Britain and are more interested in the 27 member nations, that is if the prominence of this story (7th) is a metric. The EU appear focussed on budgets, Poland and Hungary, covid-19, covid-19, covid-19, covid-19, and only then on Brexit.
“I’m not from the Labor Right”
***
The delusion is strong with this one!
Sorry if the truth upsets you but you’re about as far to the right as it gets in Labor – you’ve got more in common with the Liberals than you do with the left (either the Greens or the Labor Left). You spend your days attacking the left, both inside and outside your party, and have an unhinged hatred of the Greens that is frankly really disturbing. You lash out at Greens like me in sheer bitterness and jealousy and seek to blame us for all of Labor’s own mistakes.
Oh and by the way, not every post I make on this blog is about you or directed at you as you seem to think. In fact, hardly any of them are. I realise that you are absolutely obsessed with me, but let me assure you, it isn’t mutual. To me, you are just another member of the establishment flock – just another victim who lashes out at the left to make themselves feel better. I do find it rather amusing that I seem to have developed a fanclub of sorts, but really ladies, you’re just making yourselves appear more and more desperate with every post.
“I’m not from the Labor Right”
***
The delusion is strong with this one!
Sorry if the truth upsets you but you’re about as far to the right as it gets in Labor – you’ve got more in common with the Liberals than you do with the left (either the Greens or the Labor Left). You spend your days attacking the left, both inside and outside your party, and have an unhinged hatred of the Greens that is frankly really disturbing. You lash out at Greens like me in sheer bitterness and jealousy and seek to blame us for all of Labor’s own mistakes.
Oh and by the way, not every post I make on this blog is about you or directed at you as you seem to think. In fact, hardly any of them are. I realise that you are absolutely obsessed with me, but let me assure you, it isn’t mutual. To me, you are just another member of the establishment flock – another victim who lashes out at the left to make themselves feel better. I do find it rather amusing that I seem to have developed a fanclub of sorts, but really ladies, you’re just making yourselves appear more and more desperate with every post.
Mavis says:
Friday, December 11, 2020 at 10:17 am
So Morrison’s seething that he failed to get a speaking gig at this weekend’s virtual climate summit, blaming that other buffoon Johnson. Great! That will teach him that most of the rest of the world accepts climate science, opting for carbon-neutrality. And with the election of Biden, it’s only going to get worse; the smart alec photo-op with a lump of coal will come back to haunt him.
Perversely, this will likely only improve Morrison’s standing among the coal-minded.