As reported in The Australian, the latest fortnightly Newspoll records no change for either major party on voting intention, with Labor retaining a lead of 55-45 on two-party preferred and 41% to 35% on the primary vote. For the minor parties, the Greens are down a point to 8%, One Nation is steady on 3% and the United Australia Party is down one to 3%, with all others up two to 10%. Anthony Albanese has drawn level with Scott Morrison on preferred prime minister for the first time since Morrison’s post-bushfires nadir in February 2020 at 42-42, after Morrison led 42-40 last time. Morrison’s approval rating is down two to 41% with disapproval steady at 55%, while Anthony Albanese is respectively steady at 44% and down one to 42%. The poll was conducted Wednesday to Saturday from a sample of 1520.
Don Key @ #592 Monday, March 14th, 2022 – 10:07 pm
Great link thanks. Neoliberal god-bothering rationalisations from the mouths of the uncaring and incompetent.
clem attlee @ #599 Monday, March 14th, 2022 – 10:12 pm
I agree. Except the problem is Victoria is in Victoria.
Did Scomo actually say that since the LNP got into power “Australia is becoming a harder place (in which) to live..”
Must be the first time ever a Liberal (accidentally?) told the truth!
🙂
@Brissy – exactly.
Yes, the right over-performs in terms of Federal MPs. At the state level, it’s a pretty even split, with the left, I dare say, as the ascendant.
So the Howardesque “Relaxed and comfortable” is no longer part of Liberal Party rhetoric?
Bludging at 9.39am re Labor and Qld seats…
I’d like to venture some tentative signs of hope regarding Qld.
1) As we know, Labor doesn’t need to win a majority of seats there, just picking up four would be excellent
2) I’ve posted previously that (IIRC) when Albo nominated for leader in 2019, Bob Katter (of all people) said something like ‘You can have a beer with Albo’. If Bob doesn’t hate Albo, that probably gives Albo some sort of chance in regional Qld
3) Albo was Infrastructure Minister. He’s probably met and had constructive dealings with more local govt officials than any other MP – all in the context of efficiently delivering large numbers of infrastructure projects. I’ve no idea how many projects were in Qld, but one that SE Qlders could be reminded about is funding the Pacific Highway to four lane standard all the way to Sydney.
4) NewsCorp doesn’t seem to hate Albo – certainly not like Shorten.
All of these non-statistical factors might make some Qlders prepared to give Albo’s Labor a go.
Rakali @ #603 Monday, March 14th, 2022 – 10:20 pm
He didn’t mean it that way, of course he didn’t. He’s blaming Australia, norty norty Straya getting harder to live in, even warming its oceans up, and making big floody woddys.
Newscorp doesn’t seem to hate Albanese?
Wait a few weeks till the election is called.
@Rossmcg – the problem is for the LNP, as I mentioned before, you can’t wait until the election campaign begins to start the campaign against the Opposition Leader.
NewsCorpse will have to try – but it will be interesting to see hard they end up going.
Rossmcg re NewsCorp and Albo…
To be clear, I despise NewsCorp.
I recall applauding Shorten’s declaration three years ago that he wouldn’t be dining with Rupert.
Albo has been pragmatic. Hence, not everything NewsCorp runs about him is negative. Maybe that will change – we’ll see. Maybe NewsCorp going full attack after hosting some Albo puff pieces and other stuff comparing him favourably with Coalition stuff will actually generate some cognitive dissonance among their readers.
Can you remember anything in NewsCorp that wasn’t negative about Shorten?
Snappy Tom says:
Monday, March 14, 2022 at 10:23 pm
Bludging at 9.39am re Labor and Qld seats…
If Albo can succeed in QLD he will win the election. It will be possible to win without QLD, albeit difficult. The LRP cannot win without holding QLD.
Snappy Tom
Haven’t looked at a Murdoch publication in years.
All the info I have on what they publish is secondhand.
Seriously though, is that “womens” logo thing for real, or something out of the Betoota Advocate?
I can’t believe it, but then I’ve been out all day.
Fulvio Sammut @ #426 Monday, March 14th, 2022 – 7:58 pm
All indications are that it is real.
@Fulvio
It’s very real… but it’s also not new. I would imagine the Women’s Network (and their SES lead), PM&C comms and the Secretary will have some awkward explanations to give about something Ministers usually don’t have any say over, lol.
How pathetic that the possibility of something as disgustingly ludicrous as this being factual can be the subject of plausible concern and discussion in today’s Australia.
Hey those greens sure know how to look after you.
It’s nice to know they care………NOT
In an interview reflecting the moral pressure Germany is under to do more, Germany’s Green economics minister, Robert Habeck, admitted Europe in the past had fed Ukraine false promises, but said Germany could not afford “the loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs” that a full energy embargo would require. He said Germany at best could be freed of Russian coal by the autumn, of its oil by the end of the year, but could set no date for ending German reliance on gas.
Some greens all talk but no action
Fulvio in an Australia where a PM washes someone’s hair and pulls a viser down when welding to get a photo I’d say that’s the Australia I’m living in. People are now using similar against him. I’m ambivalent about it because there are a lot more important topics but as Billy Joel sung
I didn’t start the fire…
I was at a branch meeting tonight for our federal ALP candidate update. Suffice to say when I bought up that at the last election that 40% of the Greens preference votes went straight to the Nats then there was some language to make Bludging blush. It was fun.
A few new people turned up offering help. In our electorate that you are only offering joining the fight for a cause that’s no small thing. Gave me an emotional lift that in an extremely conservative seat that people are starting to come out.
The Coalition Government are in trouble. With two months to go and the trend against struggling to peak, it is a hard road home. If they manage it, it is a reflection of Australian society. I am slightly optimistic. Will a change in government set all the wrongs aright? No. Will it steady our social slide awhile? I am hopeful.
Morrison was totally in his element on Sky News tonight.
Chris Kenny, Joe Hildebrand, bloke with ‘I love Trump and I won’t apologise for it’ t-shirt – all in the audience swooning.
The West Australian is teasing with a report that Morisson will commit $4.3 billion to building a dry dock at the Henderson shipyard precinct south of Fremantle as first highlight of his four day visit to WA.
No mention of when.
Given his record for announcements even if the LNP is returned work probably won’t start anytime soon.
So Mr Morrison had this to say about the recent weather disasters, “Australia is becoming a harder place to live.” It’s a line that Shaun Micaleff could use, alongside a photo of Morrison in an uncomfortable pose. However,
https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/politics/federal/lessons-have-not-been-learnt-royal-commission-being-ignored-experts-say-20220314-p5a4hz.html
The article includes criticism of State governments, but only NSW is mentioned by name. And there is plenty of direct criticism of the Morrison government, which can be summed up as too little, too late.
Mr Morrison is running out of time before the election to fix the damage he allowed to happen. The floods alone will take years of work. People will remember. And people are still talking about the fires and Mr “I don’t hold a hose.”. And he had years to fix that one. And that’s also why “resilient” might be an inspiring idea, but from Mr Morrison it’s an insult.
ParkySP:
Yeah, really? 40% of Greens voters in your electorate had the Nats at #2, eh? Let’s have a look.
From the AEC results page, here’s the % of Greens preferences that went to the Nats in all the seats they won. (Since you say “Nats” instead of “LNP”, I’m assuming you’re in NSW or Vic.)
Calare: 25.68
Cowper: 22.62 (Nat v Oakeshott 2cp)
Lyne: 25.27
New England: 21.85 (Nat v Ind)
Page: 16.07
Parkes: 36.73
Riverina: 33.37
Gippsland: 24.73
Mallee: 27.66
Nicholls: 29.27
I’m gonna have to assume you live in Parkes – 36.73 looks a bit like 40 if you squint. The Greens came last there, so it’s easy to see all their #2 preferences:
45.4 ALP, 19.48 Landers (ind), 19.1 Nats, 9.92 LDP, 6.1 UAP.
So there you go.
I guess it felt nice to rile up a bunch of country ALP members against their one true enemy, the Greens? As you said, “it was fun”.
@BeguiledAgain
To answer your question about charging cost. If I arrived at a hotel with 0% battery (which is actually possible as Tesla does have a small ‘reserve’ and at 0% still has maybe 10km range) then if you assume an electricity tariff of 30c/KwH then to charge my model 3’s 60KwH battery would cost $18 – significantly less than ~$100 for a tank of petrol. However the hotel probably has time of use tariff so a significant portion of that charging would be shoulder/off-peak so cost would be more like $12
However in most cases you wouldn’t be arriving at 0%, especially with the growing prevalence of fast chargers. Another factor is the slow rate of charging from a standard 10amp GPO. In your scenario I would probably limit the rate of charge to 8amps to ensure I don’t overload the circuit,which means you’re charging at about 2KW and it would take 30 hours to charge back to 100%.
A real world scenario: I’ll be heading to Sydney soon for my sister’s wedding. Leaving Coffs at 100%, I’ll probably supercharge near Port Macquarie for 5-10 mins to get back up to 80/90% (charge rate slows down past 90% to protect the battery), and again at Heatherbrae probably for 15 mins, then continue on to our Airbnb on the northern beaches. Would expect to arrive with roughly 50% battery. I have already discussed charging the car with our Airbnb hosts and will be giving them an extra $10 to cover the power used (likely a small profit for them).
The whole return trip will probably cost around $50 worth of supercharging plus the $10 at our accommodation. Same trip in our ICE vehicle (a Toyota Kluger) would easily cost $150 or more in petrol. Supercharging costs around 50c/KWh
If you wanted to there are free charging options like the NRMA charging network, but these are relatively slow chargers at max 50KW compared to the 120KW Tesla gen3 superchargers so would double the charge times, and the NRMA chargers generally aren’t as conveniently located, but would be a great option if you’re not in a rush or just slowly touring. Our upcoming Sydney trip will be a bit of a flying visit (down Friday afternoon after work, wedding Saturday arvo, home Sunday morning) so we’re happy to pay the money for supercharging
Bird
Sorry. I’ll be specific. 26.45 to the Nats and 13.67 to the UAPP as first out. Hope that makes you feel better that they didn’t all go to the Nats (well they kind of found their way there though eh).
We know who the enemy is we need to beat. We know all of them.
Are there any state by state breakdowns on this latest newspoll ?
I’ll be very surprised if fuel excise isn’t cut. Liberals (and definitely Nationals) only care about the cost to the budget bottom line when an election isn’t imminent. And besides, can they afford to alienate their regional and rural male constituency not doing anything in response to petrol prices continuing to rise?
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/scott-morrison-flags-tax-relief-as-petrol-hits-record-highs-20220314-p5a4cr.html
https://www.smh.com.au/national/five-years-on-snowy-2-0-emerges-as-a-10-billion-white-elephant-20220310-p5a3ge.html
Sounds like Turnbull’s Snowy 2.0 is like Trump’s Border Wall. From memory there were a few people here at the time who said this would be an expensive white elephant, likely to cost taxpayers more than forecast and increase electricity prices. And so it has come to be.
Assange running out of options.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-03-15/wikileaks-julian-assange-denied-permission-to-appeal-extradition/100909860
Turnbull was great at grand proclamations that turned to ashes in his mouth
*cough* The NBN
C@t:
And what’s worse is that neither him nor Berejiklian are in office and able to be brought to account for the mess of Snowy 2.0. The environmental damage alone is unjustifiable much less the waste and mismanagement.
And that’s what the Liberals are great at. Getting rid of lemons and replacing them before the electorate can serve them their just desserts at the ballot box. And thus they eke out another term. And on it goes.
Like now. With Morrison. Completely ignoring that the person who replaces them has been a top dog in the replaced leaders Cabinet, so…same same but slightly different.
And the ecological damage that has been done! They don’t care. It’s another theme with the Coalition. Invoke a time worn metaphor, like ‘A land of drought and flooding rains’ to cover their inaction wrt Global Heating, and ‘The Man From Snowy River’ to keep allowing Brumbies to destroy the Kosciusko National Park. And that’s before we get to Snowy Hydro 2.0 Which is still being advertised by the miscreant Morrison government in their ‘Positive Energy’ misleading on a massive scale, ads!
Harrumph!
ItzaDream says:
Monday, March 14, 2022 at 10:25 pm
Rakali @ #603 Monday, March 14th, 2022 – 10:20 pm
Did Scomo actually say that since the LNP got into power “Australia is becoming a harder place (in which) to live..”
Must be the first time ever a Liberal (accidentally?) told the truth!
He didn’t mean it that way, of course he didn’t. He’s blaming Australia, norty norty Straya getting harder to live in, even warming its oceans up, and making big floody woddys.
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He seemed to be really saying, in the remarks that followed the ones quoted – so you can’t expect government to come in and solve these problems for you. That is, the problems that we’ve known about for decades, and that (mostly) right wing governments have been not only ignoring, but exacerbating.
The SMH going hard on Albo for targeting marginal seats, amplifying LNP calling it hypochracy FFS!
“ The Herald and The Age asked Labor to name the program that would fund the promises, disclose the total sum promised so far and explain whether it was trying to gain votes with pledges that favoured marginal and Labor seats.”
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/labor-spending-blitz-appears-to-favour-marginal-electorates-20220314-p5a4jt.html
And goodness me…Mrs Starc’s little boy did well didn’t he?
High petrol; prices will speed up the transition to electric cars and to a road usage charges ( which Victoria has already introduced, with much noise from the Greens and Liberals).
If the tax on petrol is reduced, there will be a reduced charge on petrol cars for road use. Is that really the way to go?
Typical double standards of the media. The Coalition does something egregious, eg Car Pork Rorts and Colour-coded Marginal Electorate spreadsheets, and the Labor Opposition get held to account for it! 😡
ParkySP says:
Tuesday, March 15, 2022 at 5:26 am
Bird
Sorry. I’ll be specific. 26.45 to the Nats and 13.67 to the UAPP as first out. Hope that makes you feel better that they didn’t all go to the Nats (well they kind of found their way there though eh).
We know who the enemy is we need to beat. We know all of them.
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Assuming “we” is the ALP then I’m pleased to hear it. Presumably that means the ALP has learned its lesson and would no longer be instrumental in electing Family First senator Steve Fielding over a Green in the 2000s? Or perhaps it’s the Greens who are your “enemy” you “need to beat” and the conservative religious right is your “friend”. Your prerogative of course but Family First and its ilk is no friend to me.
Speaking of EVs. I think I found mine, the VW Kombi re-imagined as an EV 🙂
https://www.treehugger.com/volkswagen-microbus-back-ev-id-buzz-5221663
Today we have an “exclusive Newspoll conducted for The Australian” claiming “voters don’t know who they can trust”.
This so called poll is carefully constructed to pour water on the less than complimentary Newspoll printed the day before. I won’t bore bludgers with the details….paints the picture of voters not keen on either Scomo or Albo particularly.
Who did the poll again ? “The Australian polled voters on a range of attributes considered to be important to informing their choice.”
Anyway, Mr Benson concluded that –
“Voters still regard Scott Morrison as a more experienced and decisive leader than Anthony Albanese but consider the Prime Minister to be less caring and more arrogant and significantly more out of touch with people”
I don’t think The Australian journo’s needed to conduct a “survey” to come to the conclusion that Scomo is less caring, more arrogant and significantly more out of touch with people”. Well, Duh !!
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/newspoll-voters-dont-know-whether-to-trust-scott-morrison-and-anthony-albanese/news-story/6983b37e60aa424d4d8d67885956dc9e
$10 billion plus for snowy? ready in 2026?
And they press went nuts over the blowouts on the $2.5b Royal Adelaide Hospital.
And…. isn’t SunCable, including the 10GW solar farm and 30GWh battery, estimated at $16b?
Good morning Dawn Patrollers
Labor leader Anthony Albanese has promised a spending blitz on projects such as sporting clubs, pools and roads in a campaign that appears to favour marginal seats just two years after the national audit office slammed the Coalition for doing the same, writes David Crowe.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/labor-spending-blitz-appears-to-favour-marginal-electorates-20220314-p5a4jt.html
Broader tax relief and a freezing or cutting of petrol excise are options being considered by the federal government in this month’s budget to defuse voter anger over the rising cost of living, writes Phil Coorey.
https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/tax-relief-and-excise-cuts-on-the-budget-table-20220314-p5a4eh
Frank Bongiorno searches for a Morrison government legacy but comes up relatively empty.
https://theconversation.com/tax-cuts-covid-management-on-the-search-for-the-morrison-governments-legacy-so-far-176678
The faith that has sustained the morale of Scott Morrison through many a dark period of his life is in for some further testing over the few months that will bring an end to this term of government, writes Jack Waterford who says Morrison is awaiting his miracle.
https://johnmenadue.com/morrison-awaits-his-miracle/
Public servants at the Prime Minister’s Department have received training encouraging “strategic” delays in answering questions at Senate estimates hearings. A newly released document reveals training for public servants tasked with preparing officials for hearings recommended taking questions on notice as a “tactic on the day” and a “trick of the trade”.
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7652971/tricks-of-the-trade-estimates-training-advises-strategy-and-tactics/?cs=14264
The ABC continues to violate its charter by boosting one side of politics with false information, as Alan Austin reports. He says the ABC’s current flagship current affairs program, Insiders, included an intriguing exchange on Sunday 6 March. This helps explain why most Australians, according to opinion polls, erroneously believe the Coalition manages the books better than Labor.
https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/insiders-leads-coalitions-election-campaign-on-economic-supremacy,16146
Crispin Hull laments that governmental paralysis and lack of public initiative is depriving Australia of enormous economic and social benefits who says the standouts are childcare; education; health; energy, and tax.
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7657360/its-time-our-political-leaders-stopped-tip-toeing-around-the-issues/?cs=14264
Josh Frydenberg warned businesses against forcing through opportunistic price hikes as a leading retail analyst said shoppers faced increases of 10 per cent-plus on a range of goods in coming weeks.
https://www.afr.com/companies/retail/josh-frydenberg-warns-on-opportunistic-price-hikes-20220314-p5a4ir
Meanwhile, Australia’s soaring cost of living is outstripping wage increases, leaving the average worker more than $800 worse off in 2021, the steepest cut in real terms for more than 20 years, according to Australian Council of Trade Unions president, Michele O’Neil.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/mar/15/average-australian-worker-went-backwards-by-800-in-2021-says-actu-chief-michele-oneil
Former New South Wales deputy premier John Barilaro directed millions of dollars in grants to Coalition electorates, many of them at-risk National party seats, from a discretionary pool of funds which have almost no departmental oversight. An analysis of discretionary grants handed out by Barilaro during the past three years shows that 70% of the $3m spent went to Coalition seats, reports Mark McGowan.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/mar/15/hows-100000-sound-john-barilaro-directed-grants-to-marginal-seats
Russia’s war on Ukraine is driving up wheat prices and threatens global supplies of bread, meat and eggs, explains economist David Ubilava.
https://theconversation.com/russias-war-on-ukraine-is-driving-up-wheat-prices-and-threatens-global-supplies-of-bread-meat-and-eggs-178879
The banking royal commission revealed the danger of linking sales targets to staff remuneration. Now, these targets are creeping back, writes Charlotte Grieve. This is crook!
https://www.smh.com.au/business/banking-and-finance/all-about-sales-nab-sales-targets-risk-customer-welfare-20220310-p5a3jt.html
Facebook has made no commitment about how quickly it will act on false political claims that go viral on its platform during the federal election campaign, saying it will be left to independent fact-checking units to determine the time frame for debunking misinformation online, writes Lisa Visentin.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/facebook-s-independent-fact-checkers-to-determine-how-quickly-false-claims-are-scrutinised-20220314-p5a4cz.html
Cutting the excise on petrol – if passed on to consumers – may solve a short-term political problem for the government, but it will also eventually create another economic challenge for the federal budget, proclaims the SMH editorial.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/consumer-affairs/fuel-tax-cut-not-a-long-term-fix-for-cost-of-living-pressures-20220314-p5a4ep.html
Key findings from the natural disasters royal commission have been ignored and not put into practice, according to former emergency services chiefs, who say the federal government must take a more active role in preparing the nation for greater damage under climate change.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/lessons-have-not-been-learnt-royal-commission-being-ignored-experts-say-20220314-p5a4hz.html
Five years on, Snowy 2.0 is emerging as a $10 billion white elephant, argues former energy CEO, Ted Woodley. Read it and weep!
https://www.smh.com.au/national/five-years-on-snowy-2-0-emerges-as-a-10-billion-white-elephant-20220310-p5a3ge.html
Scott Morrison has said the Coalition wants Australia’s coal power stations to “run as long as they possibly can”, vowing to support the coal industry if re-elected, reports Paul Karp.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/mar/14/scott-morrison-says-coal-power-stations-should-run-as-long-as-they-possibly-can
Victorian Deputy Premier James Merlino was warned in 2016 about staff shortages at the state’s triple-zero call agency – more than five years before an explosion of call delays was linked to 12 deaths.
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/government-warned-of-triple-0-problems-years-before-deaths-20220314-p5a4d1.html
Electoral Commissioner Tom Rogers knows he has taken a big risk. He doesn’t see his agency’s social media posts before they go online. The Australian Electoral Commission’s increasingly popular Twitter account dishes out facts and humour in a seemingly endless battle with false information and wild conspiracies, explains Olivia Ireland.
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7654472/its-a-huge-risk-how-the-australian-electoral-commission-is-taking-on-twitter-wars/?cs=14264
It’s whine time for Gerard Henderson. This time it’s Julian Burnside that has upset him.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/media-watch-dog-julian-burnside-takes-to-twitter-to-shame-restaurant-for-cancelling-his-reservation/news-story/77b030646a07914c65d029bafd95b1e3
The state-owned Forestry Corporation suffered a $20 million loss last year, with NSW taxpayers forced to pay $441 per hectare to log critical native forests.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/20m-loss-native-forest-logging-last-year-cost-nsw-taxpayers-441-per-hectare-20220314-p5a4g1.html
One guy prosecuted for allegedly running a company while bankrupt, ten Crown directors off scot free for washing $70bn through casinos for Chinese Triads, drug and sex traffickers and other assorted criminals. One rule for rich and powerful, another for the rest. Michael West reports on the world of deluxe double standards.
https://www.michaelwest.com.au/crown-v-shannon-bigwigs-off-the-hook-small-fish-fried/
Michaela Whitbourn reports on another bad day in court for Ben Roberts-Smith. This time, former elite soldier has told the Federal Court he saw him drop a man to the ground in Afghanistan and machine-gun him in the back, prompting the soldier to turn to a comrade and ask if they had just witnessed an execution.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/did-we-just-witness-an-execution-former-sas-soldier-describes-alleged-killing-by-ben-roberts-smith-20220314-p5a4dp.html
In this op-ed, opposition leader Matthew Guy says that Victoria can be strong again with proper financial management.
https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/victoria-can-be-strong-again-with-proper-financial-management-20220314-p5a4e5.html
With fuel prices soaring as a result of Russia’s war against Ukraine, there has never been a better time to end our reliance on fossil fuels, writes Sonali Kolhatkar.
https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/as-fuel-prices-surge-now-is-the-time-to-go-green,16150
Mike Foley reports that a funding injection of $128 million for controversial environmental reforms to cut green tape will be made in the upcoming federal budget.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/funding-boost-for-single-touch-environment-approval-regime-20220314-p5a4j0.html
The Guardian says this is not being received well by environmental groups.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/mar/15/coalition-to-allow-some-mining-projects-to-bypass-federal-environmental-approvals
While good people are offering help, accommodation and free rides to desperate Ukrainians fleeing war, others, like human traffickers, are trying to take advantage of their misery.
https://www.theage.com.au/world/europe/human-traffickers-target-ukrainian-refugees-arriving-across-borders-20220314-p5a4gj.html
The US Fed has been slow to act and is now playing catch-up. When it meets this week, it’s going to have to choose between allowing inflation to rage out of control or risking a recession, writes Stephen Bartholomeusz.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/banking-and-finance/no-win-situation-the-fed-is-paying-the-price-for-dragging-its-feet-20220314-p5a4d0.html
High school student, Ari Katz, is concerned that vaping has become a constant craving for too many of his school friends.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/vaping-a-constant-craving-for-too-many-of-my-school-friends-20220314-p5a4dv.html
A three-year-old boy accidentally shot his mother dead as the family sat in their car in a parking lot at a supermarket in a suburb of Chicago. Only in America!
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/14/boy-3-accidentally-shoots-mother-chicago-suburb
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Andre Dyson
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From the US
Sorry but conflating the egregious and sly corruption of formal grants programs in government with marginal seat targeted spending of an opposition is itself quite disgraceful shilling. Journalistic corruption
High petrol; prices will speed up the transition to electric cars and to a road usage charges
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There is some delay in getting some models. I have been told by a friend they ordered a big standard hybrid (not even a plug in) back in October. And I have read there are significant delays on Tesla’s.
Simon Katich says:
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There is some delay in getting some models. I have been told by a friend they ordered a big standard hybrid (not even a plug in) back in October. And I have read there are significant delays on Tesla’s.
There is a delay on everything. Pity we don’t build cars any more. or have our own fuel reserves. The depth of the Liberal party screw up is very very deep.
Thanks so much BK.
A free kick coming for Albo – when he is questioned on the localised spending promises, he can:
– outline the benefits to those communities who have missed out
– compare with the rorts and colour-coded spreadsheets of the Liberals
Quite a few organisations and their boosters appreciate these election handouts, it has ever been thus. At worst, a scoreless draw.
FFS call the election – this lot have not been governing for years and are in full election mode.
Country deserves better.
Saw Birmingham get all shouty on News Breakfast. “Budget is in two weeks! two weeks!”
Perfect slogan for them : Vote Liberal – Help is only two weeks away.
Tax relief!?! What about if the only tax you pay is the GST? And there is never any relief for the higher prices at the supermarket.