I note that the front page of the Roy Morgan website has some detail on the federal voting intention numbers in which its weekly update video typically provides on the two-party preferred, though I’m not sure if this is new or unusual. The latest result has Labor leading 57-43, in from 59-41 last week; the primary votes are Labor 37.5%, Coalition 33.5%, Greens 11.5% and others 17.5%; and the field work dates were January 23 to 29. However, no detail on sample size or survey method is provided.
Other than that, an Ipsos poll of 300 Indigenous Australians released by pro-Indigenous voice group Uluru Dialogue last week found 80% support for the proposal, including 57% who were very sure and 21% who were fairly sure, with only 10% opposed.
Ha, ha, ha…. Johannes Leak rabid anti-republican cartoon. Hey, Joh, read here:
“The poll, taken by the Sydney Morning Herald, found that 40 per cent of poll participants were in favour of leaving the Monarchy, with 22 per cent saying they strongly agree Australia should become a republic and 18 per cent were somewhat in favour.”… Of course, then there is a group of undecideds… so the support for the Monarchy is obviously not 100-40 = 60…..
27 January 2023
Thanks, BK.
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cool wind
full sun
Thanks for the epic Dawn Patrol BK.
This exchange with Mr West from PWC is extraordinary:
https://twitter.com/strangerous10/status/1621425602896203776
The look on Greggery’s eyes like “wtf?” is not to be missed. Holmes gives him the “Now’s your chance to explain yourself”. Thats going to receive special treatment in findings methinks.
Bandt’s constant appeasement of Thorpe is going to blow up in his face.
‘wranslide says:
Saturday, February 4, 2023 at 9:07 am
The voice referendum is very much an individual decision to be made at the ballot box. I am surprised that many on here seem to think that a Greens position will be decisive or to be frank all that important?
Are we heading in the direction where endorsements are seen as automatically carrying a particular outcome? Which in the US shows is simply not the case.
Its obvious there are differing and quite legitimate views with the First Nations communities. It is inevitable that some of that will leak into the debate so there is not one single homogeneous position.
I think it is perfectly reasonable for Thorpe and Bandt to adopt differing positions on the voice because I am comfortable that they both come from the legitimate starting position of improving first nations lives and recognition. How we get to that goal is always going to lead to some differences which no more reflect the community.’
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Bullshit.
The No case depends on FUD. Dutton and Bandt have both been feeding FUD full bore for months. They are still at it.
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Oliver Suttonsays:
Saturday, February 4, 2023 at 6:22 am
Chalmers, per Alpo:
“And since 2008, the mental models for most economic decision-making have been changed.”
Indeed. US Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, testifying to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform in the aftermath of the GFC in 2008:
“I discovered a flaw in the model that I perceived is the critical functioning structure that defines how the world works. I had been going for 40 years with considerable evidence that it was working exceptionally well.”
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2008/oct/24/economics-creditcrunch-federal-reserve-greenspan
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When I watched the movie”The Big Short “, my Jaw dropped and hit the floor so hard it is hurting even after so many years.
That day I knew Wall Street has consumed Main Street and that country decline has started.
That country now has 31.4 Trillion US dollars public debt. So we don’t know what the private debt is. The derivatives hide that in a profound manner. GFC happened because of that and it is not fixed and nobody is prosecuted and put in Jail for doing so.
Bernie Madoff was jailed because he cheated his fellow Jews. If not, he would not have suffered the fate he had.
IMF and World Bay Chiefs are appointed with the approval of US. They go around the world and harass powerless small countries (like Australian government did in Robodebt) but won’t say anything about US 31.4 Trillion US dollars public debt.
UK Cartoons:
Peter Brookes on gas meters fitted by force #RishiSunak #BritishGas
Ben Jennings on gas meters fitted by force
Martin Rowson on gas meters fitted by force
Graeme Keyes on Shell’s record-breaking profits
Andy Davey: #Ursula promises #EU will stand with Ukraine – ideally from inside a tank, talking #sanctions. Meanwhile, outside
Matt on #NicolaSturgeon #trans
Graeme Bandeira on #RishiSunak #ToriesUnfitToGovern #RishiSunk
Steven Camley on #DonaldTrump and his Scottish golf courses have posted a £15m loss for 2021
Andy Davey on #JeremyHunt #StrikeAction #CostOfLivingCrisis
Martyn Turner on Shell’s record-breaking profits
Finally Dave Brown’s #RoguesGallery cartoon, after #JamesGillray… #RishiSunak #DominicRaab #Bullying #RaabTheBully #Bullygate
The original James Gillray – The King of Brobdingnag and Gullivar:
Ven says:
Saturday, February 4, 2023 at 9:44 am
”
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Bernie Madoff was jailed because he cheated his fellow Jews. If not, he would not have suffered the fate he had.
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Madoff is in jail because he is crook. Implying that Jews are secretly running the US and that Jews decide who goes to jail is, IMO…
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The Robodebt Royal Commission is hearing damning evidence of public sector dysfunction. Now it must probe the question of culture, writes Laura Tingle in a long examination.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-04/robodebt-royal-commission-evidence-public-sector-dysfunction/101928428
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It appears the culture of PS is to protect LNP politicians because they may think why bother to be objective when the chances of LNP government are 20 out of 26. That is mindset that needs to be changed. For that ALP needs to win atleast 3 terms.
Boerwar says:
Saturday, February 4, 2023 at 9:52 am
Ven says:
Saturday, February 4, 2023 at 9:44 am
”
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Bernie Madoff was jailed because he cheated his fellow Jews. If not, he would not have suffered the fate he had.
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Madoff is in jail because he is crook. Implying that Jews are secretly running the US and that Jews decide who goes to jail is, IMO…
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+1
Ven @ Saturday, February 4, 2023 at 9:44 am
“GFC happened because of that and it is not fixed and nobody is prosecuted and put in Jail for doing so.
Bernie Madoff was jailed because he cheated his fellow Jews. If not, he would not have suffered the fate he had.”
Not cool, Ven. I’m hope this isn’t coming across as you intended.
Bernie madoff died in jail in April 2021.
Had he been an Australian corporate crook our regulators would likely have still been gathering evidence and deciding whether to prosecute.
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Late Risersays:
Saturday, February 4, 2023 at 9:17 am
With respect to Wong’s message to the UK, the more resilient a relationship the blunter you can be about your consideration of that relationship, in fact you owe it to the relationship. Hiding relationship issues is never healthy. The people upset about the foreign minister’s message are cringeworthy.
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+1
I am astonished by the number of surprises thrown up by this Royal Commission. I thought the Shane West evidence was just going to fill in gaps but, my dog!!
Picture this.
A private consultant is hired, by decision at the highest level, to investigate the end-to-end process by which a huge amount of money is reefed off from some of the most vulnerable people in Australia. The fee is almost $1 million.
The deliverables were a presentation of outcomes to the Minister and a comprehensive review of the process and areas where improvements are needed for the Department.
The presentation, with summary slides were delivered. The written review was completed to final draft stage, but then the Department says it doesn’t want to see it but we’ll pay your million dollar bill. The consultant says, well that’s fine then.
The partner can’t recall who spoke to whom in the department to dramatically reduce the deliverables of the million dollar contract, without a commensurate reduction in the contract fee. There appears to be no record anywhere in the Consultant’s offices of this dramatic contractual amendment.
If PwC had not actually done the work and still pocketed the dough it would be fraud. The only saving thing in that regard is that they had actually done it. But on the face of it there is something so unbelievable that the Commissioner and pretty much everyone else in the room don’t believe it. And make it clear.
We’ll see what Campbell and McNamara have to say in the final block of hearings.
Ven @ Saturday, February 4, 2023 at 9:44 am:
“Bernie Madoff was jailed because he cheated his fellow Jews. If not, he would not have suffered the fate he had.”
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This statement is absolutely antisemitic. It highlights the Jewish identity of the perpetrator of the mass fraud, Bernie Madoff, as the key element worthy of note about him. It then directly accuses the US law enforcement and justice system of being ethnic-religiously corrupt, essentially operating purely for the protection of Jewish victims and no others. This clearly implies that it is Jews who have corrupted the American system in their favour.
In an era when far-right movements are surging in strength around the world, and frequently espouse violent antisemitism as a core ideology, this sort of expression is very dangerous. It must be opposed whenever we encounter it. I don’t propose silencing such speech, but I do support calling it out.
Ven, I hope you reconsider your view. That’s all I intend to say about this post of yours.
https://postimg.cc/TL0W1PJW
Ven, I’ve noticed your contributions on this site on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have been very lukewarm on Western support for Ukraine’s resistance. I hadn’t, until now, drawn a connection between that fact and the fact that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is Jewish.
Ven says:
Saturday, February 4, 2023 at 9:44 am
Bernie Madoff was jailed because he cheated his fellow Jews. If not, he would not have suffered the fate he had.
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pathetic.
Let’s not pussyfoot around, you can’t interpret what Ven said as anything but standard anti-Semitic secret Jewish cabal ruling the world bullshit. Fuck off Ven.
wranslide – the Voice is unlikely to be so overwhelmingly popular that the Yes campaign can afford to easily lose a significant part of the Greens vote but it’s worse than that. If the Voice is opposed from right and left with doubt being spread everywhere (especially with Thorpe pushing the idea indigenous people don’t even want it as if she spoke for all of them), it won’t succeed. Hence the concern among Voice supporters about Thorpe and the Greens undermining the whole enterprise.
Thorpe calling it “Labor’s Voice” and ignoring the Uluru Statement as the source of it just plays into Dutton’s hands as a wrecker.
Enough Already at 10.15
Very well put.
Grant_ExLibris @ Saturday, February 4, 2023 at 7:54 am
Thank you for this link. It is one thing for Thorpe to split with other Greens on the Voice. It is another for Thorpe to attempt to restrict/control communications between Greens MPs and First Nations peoples.
TPOF – the pwc thing is the closest yet to being able to pin someone to the wall. Cancelling the presentation is clear wilful blindness, avoiding having the PWC advice in writing so they could keep pretending nobody told them about the problems with what they were doing.
We’re getting closer to a DID YOU ORDER THE CODE RED? moment.
Let’s keep things in perspective though. Ven didn’t say anything bad about Bill Shorten. So let’s not get too hateful.
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Boerwarsays:
Saturday, February 4, 2023 at 9:52 am
Ven says:
Saturday, February 4, 2023 at 9:44 am
”
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Bernie Madoff was jailed because he cheated his fellow Jews. If not, he would not have suffered the fate he had.
…’
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Madoff is in jail because he is crook. Implying that Jews are secretly running the US and that Jews decide who goes to jail is, IMO…
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I am not implying anything. You are coming to that conclusion. It is fact that Pyramid scheme he ran contained only members who were Jewish.
None of big financial institutions bosses who caused GFC were prosecuted and sentenced to something.
I read somewhere that Jews don’t mind a Jew who talks against them. They were labelled as ‘Self loathing Jews’ with not much interaction
For example, Mr. Newhouse election fate in the seat Wentworth against Turnbull in 2007.
But they don’t take kindly to a Jew who betrays them.
It is human nature not to forgive someone who betrays you. What it has got anything to do with controlling and running A government?
Rheinmetall, trolling Russia or coincidence ? An interesting number of German tanks to send to fight Russians. Ask your local neo-nazi what it means ……..or ADL https://www.adl.org/resources/hate-symbol/88
https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-send-leopard-tanks-ukraine-russia-war-rheinmetall/?amp=&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication&ref=upstract.com
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Griffsays:
Saturday, February 4, 2023 at 10:01 am
Ven @ Saturday, February 4, 2023 at 9:44 am
“GFC happened because of that and it is not fixed and nobody is prosecuted and put in Jail for doing so.
Bernie Madoff was jailed because he cheated his fellow Jews. If not, he would not have suffered the fate he had.”
Not cool, Ven. I’m hope this isn’t coming across as you intended.
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Looks like it. It appears my English is not good.
After swimming in the shallow end of idiocy for years Ven decides to go the whole hog.
TPOF
Another point abt the PwC report is that one of the witness West’s underlings asked him if he should show a copy of the draft, which was said to be near completion to DHS.
West said no.
If I was a betting man I might think it happened anyway or DHS had learnt enough from the presentation in April they might be in for criticism.
And there ‘s no record at PwC ( than can be found anyway) of who canned the project.
As the commissioner said, a nod and a wink …
“poroti says:
Saturday, February 4, 2023 at 10:30 am
Rheinmetall, trolling Russia or coincidence ? An interesting number of German tanks to send to fight Russians. Ask your local neo-nazi what it means ……..or ADL”
Hey, poroti, I post as “Alpo88” in The Guardian…. Am I also part of the conspiracy?
Alpo the only conspiracy you are involved in is the one against intelligence. Rest easy.
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Enough Alreadysays:
Saturday, February 4, 2023 at 10:17 am
Ven, I’ve noticed your contributions on this site on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have been very lukewarm on Western support for Ukraine’s resistance. I hadn’t, until now, drawn a connection between that fact and the fact that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is Jewish.
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I didn’t know Zelensky is Jewish till now.
“nath says:
Saturday, February 4, 2023 at 10:40 am
Alpo the only conspiracy you are involved in is the one against intelligence. Rest easy.”…
nath, after that Herculean intellectual effort you truly deserve some time off… one or two weeks will do.
Off you go!
Ven says:
None of big financial institutions bosses who caused GFC were prosecuted and sentenced to something.
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Of course none of the big financial institutions were running Ponzi schemes so that is why they didn’t go to prison. Nothing to do with anyone being Jewish or not being Jewish.
Ven: “Bernie Madoff was jailed because he cheated his fellow Jews. ”
also Ven: “I am not implying anything. ”
Pick one.
Sceptic @ #2402 Saturday, February 4th, 2023 – 7:04 am
Over Madeleine King’s dead body.
A national gas reservation for domestic supply is unacceptable to the fossil fuel cartel.
Apologize Ven.
VCT Et3e:
Saturday, February 4, 2023 at 9:21 am
Dutton has a political death wish. No aspiring prime minister would tie himself so publicly to the disgraced Pell. Of the rouges gallery of Howard, Abbott, Dutton, Latham & Nile, Dutton has the most to lose; that he failed to realise this is a measure of his lack of political smarts. He’ll be shunted off by November.
Ven
So your justification is to repeat the stereotype that Jews can tolerate “self-loathing Jews” but they can’t tolerate those who cheat them.
Bad enough.. but then you imply that the American legal system and presumably government is controlled by and on behalf of a Jewish conspiracy.
Time for you to take some time off
With respect to Chalmers the place for his values and his new economics post GFC is in the budget. I look forward to reading that.
Rossmcg says:
“Bernie madoff died in jail in April 2021. Had he been an Australian corporate crook our regulators would likely have still been gathering evidence and deciding whether to prosecute.”
Ross, he’d have been proclaimed ‘a saint for our times’.
“There’s so much more to the First Nations portfolio than Labor’s Voice to parliament,” Thorpe’s spokeswoman said.
https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/thorpe-demanded-indigenous-community-deals-only-with-her-20230203-p5chq5.html
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That has an air of desperation or exasperation about it.
WeWantPaul says:
Saturday, February 4, 2023 at 10:58 am
With respect to Chalmers the place for his values and his new economics post GFC is in the budget. I look forward to reading that.
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I don’t know what making the income tax system more regressive has to do with putting values into capitalism either, but the improving budget position seem to indicate they are going to do something substantial. somewhere
With his essay in The Monthly, Chalmers is clearly laying the groundwork for a future tilt at the top job, like Keating did as Treasurer. If you believe what he’s saying, he’ll have a more socially responsible approach to economic policy than Keating did, which sounds promising for the battlers.
This will test Albanese’s mettle as PM, as Chalmers’ approach will bring heavy resistance from the bloodthirsty capitalists in the corporate/media sphere.
“I don’t know what making the income tax system more regressive has to do with putting values into capitalism either, but the improving budget position seem to indicate they are going to do something substantial. somewhere”
I think owning that ‘the budget position’ is a construction of trickle down economics divorced from reality would be a pretty strong starting position for a new economics. The Govt can literally print money, as the GFC showed, just Morrison chose to give most of it to his mates, very much in the USA as well.
“nath says:
Saturday, February 4, 2023 at 11:00 am
I don’t know what making the income tax system more regressive has to do with putting values into capitalism either”
And dumb nath now fully deserves the Stage-3 treatment. Read here, dumb nath, and please do spare 2 of your 3 neurons to remember it:
The ALP offered Scomo to divide the tax bill into two parts: tax cuts for poor and middle class, that the ALP supported, and S-3 for the rich and famous that the ALP didn’t support. S-3 was to be decided upon after the federal election. But Scomo rejected the proposal and instead offered an omnibus bill: tax cuts for everybody now or tax cuts for nobody. Had the ALP rejected the omnibus bill they would have been accused by Scomo of denying the poor and middle class much needed tax cuts. Result: the ALP might have lost the 2022 federal election and Scomo would still be our PM. Thankfully, Albo was smart, supported the omnibus bill and the Coalition lost the election!!
Now, S-3 will be only effective for one year, the last year of the current ALP government term, and it’s ridiculous for the ALP to backtrack on their promise, as they will be obviously accused by Dutton, Murdoch and the 9-Network of being LIARS (remember the JuLiar campaign?), thus jeopardising their chances at the next federal election. Instead, they should simply offer a new taxation regime to the voters at the next federal election and, if they win (and the ALP will win), then introduce the changes that will now have the full support of the majority of Australians.
Comprende?
“Rex Douglas says:
Saturday, February 4, 2023 at 11:06 am”
Oh dear, what about Chalmers’ essay being an exposition of the new, Progressive, Social Democratic direction the Albanese ALP government is offering to the People of Australia?
It’s simple, it’s not difficult to understand.
Alpo says:
Now, S-3 will be only effective for one year, the last year of the current ALP government term
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Even prominent stooges such as AE believe that is ridiculous.
“Instead, they should simply offer a new taxation regime to the voters at the next federal election and, if they win (and the ALP will win), then introduce the changes that will now have the full support of the majority of Australians.”
I’m not sure whether I’d whether I’d laugh or cry if this is what happens, but essentially you expect a team to lacking in courage to set a real climate policy, too lacking in courage to promise to undo tax changes so regressive even the centre right know they are bad and unjustifiable, too lacking in courage to review the pensions to move the most vulnerable Australians out of poverty, too lacking in courage to have a corruption commission that was transparent, the team that likes prosecuting whisteblowers.
That team is going to tackle head on the hardest Australian policy challenge, fashion a plan so bold that it can win an election.
I’d like to see that. No I would really like to see that. It just seems ‘slightly’ out of character.
I don’t think even the most positive ‘long plan’ advocates of the Govt could really envision a tax reform plan so compelling it wins the next election.
[Late edit] It is conceivable that they tinker at the edges, get rid of stage three, introduce a superprofits tax and do some other minor nice things at the edges that they call tax reform and win with. Still would be out of character but is very very doable.
So according to Integrity, doing your job in a thoughtful and diligent way means you are angling to unseat the PM.
“WeWantPaul says:
Saturday, February 4, 2023 at 10:58 am
With respect to Chalmers the place for his values and his new economics post GFC is in the budget. I look forward to reading that.”
The first full budget will come, of course, but haven’t the decisions taken by the Albanese government, of which Chalmers is a prominent member, been enough for you already?
Just a little summary:
– Re-establishing good relationships with China.
– Re-establishing good relationships with France.
– Re-establishing good relationships with our Pacific neighbours
(all of the above were ruined by the incompetence of the Scomo Coalition government)
– Establishing the Voice referendum.
– Anti corruption commission: “Dreyfus introduced a bill to establish a National Anti-Corruption Commission in September 2022. The bill passed the Parliament on 30 November 2022”
– Bernard Collaery prosecution: “On 7 July 2022, Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus exercised his power under section 71 of the Judiciary Act to cease proceedings against Bernard Collaery in connection with the Australia–East Timor spying scandal.”
– Humanitarianism: “On 27 May 2022, Jim Chalmers announced that he had, as interim Minister for Home Affairs, exercised his power to allow the Murugappan family to return home to Biloela on bridging visas.”
– Humanitarianism: “In late 2022, the Albanese government started repatriation of ISIS brides from Syria.”
– “In September 2022, the Albanese government increased the permanent migration intake from 160,000 to a record 195,000 a year.”
– “Tony Burke was appointed Minister for Employment. On 23 May 2022, Albanese announced that he would summon an employment summit including unions and business leaders. The summit was expected to be held in September 2022. Albanese flagged a number of changes to industrial relations law including criminalising wage theft.”
– “On 27 May 2022, the Prime Minister sent correspondence to the Fair Work Commission confirming that his government would seek to make a submission to the Commission in support of an increase to the minimum wage. Burke announced that a submission had been formally made to the commission on 3 June 2022 and that a ‘deliberate’ policy of lower wages was not the policy of the new government. The Fair Work Commission subsequently announced on 15 June 2022 that the minimum wage would be raised by 5.2%.”
– “The government passed new workplace harassment laws through the parliament on 28 November 2022. The news laws implement the recommendation of the Respect@Work Report to create a positive duty requiring employers to implement measures to prevent sexual harassment, sex discrimination and victimisation.”
– “On 2 December 2022, the government’s Secure Jobs, Better Pay law passed the parliament. Under the new laws, unions can now negotiate multi-employer pay deals in an effort to secure wage increases across particular sectors such as child care and aged care. The law also aims to close the gender pay gap by prohibiting pay secrecy employment clauses and secures the right of workers to seek flexible working arrangements.”
– “On 7 July 2022, Albanese unveiled a new ministerial code of conduct which prohibited ministers from utilising blind trusts. This was in response to the blind trust used by Christian Porter under the previous government to fund personal defamation proceedings brought by him.”
– Republic: “Matt Thistlethwaite was appointed the first Assistant Minister for the Republic on 1 June 2022. Thistlethwaite confirmed that the government’s priority during its first term would be to seek constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians, but that a transition to a republic could be on the agenda for a potential second term.”
– “On 9 December 2022, Albanese announced that National Cabinet had agreed to a plan put forward by the government to deal with rising energy prices by introducing gas and energy price caps. Albanese also announced that he would recall the parliament to deal with the energy intervention bill before the end of the year. The bill passed the parliament on 15 December 2022. It introduced a 12-month cap on energy prices and a $1.5 billion relief package for households and businesses.”
– Climate change: “On 16 June 2022, Bowen and Albanese submitted a new Nationally Determined Contribution to the United Nations which formally committed Australia to reducing carbon emissions by 43% on 2005 levels. This represented an increase from the 26 to 28% target under the previous government. These targets were also codified in legislation which the government passed with support from the Greens and crossbench senators.”
– Education: “Jason Clare was appointed Minister for Education. On 17 June 2022, Clare confirmed that the Albanese government intends to make changes which give schools a choice of whether to hire a religious or secular pastoral care worker through the National School Chaplaincy Programme.
Clare announced an Australian Universities Accord with the terms of reference covering funding, affordability, employment conditions for staff and how universities and TAFEs can work together. The Accord’s final report is due to be handed down in December 2023.”
– Environment: “On 19 July 2022, Plibersek released the State of the Environment Report which had been handed to the previous government in December 2021. The Report provided that every category of the Australian environment – apart from urban environments – was now in a poor and deteriorating state. In response, Plibersek announced that the government would adopt a new target of protecting 30% of the Australian environment and promised stronger environmental protection legislation to be introduced in 2023. On 8 December 2022, Plibersek announced that the government would commit to a reform of federal environmental laws, in response to an independent review first submitted to the Morrison Government in 2020. The reform would include the creation of a federal Environment Protection Agency (EPA) which would impose legally binding environmental standards and oversee decision-making processes of the states and territories, as well as increased restrictions to native logging and the establishment of a “traffic light” rating system where some areas could be designated as having a high conservation value. The government planned to introduce legislation to parliament before the end of 2023″
– Housing: “Julie Collins was appointed Minister for Housing. The government’s Regional First Home Buyer Guarantee was launched on 1 October 2022. The program provides a government guarantee of up to 15 per cent for eligible first home buyers, so regional Australians with a deposit of as little as 5 per cent can avoid paying lenders’ mortgage insurance.”
– Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme.
– Health: “In October 2022, the government’s cheaper medications bill passed the parliament. The new law reduced the cost of PBS medications by 29% and reduced the co-payment.”
… and more and more on: COVID pandemic, floods response, aged care, NDIS, child care (“In November 2022, the parliament passed the government’s cheaper childcare laws. The new laws will commence operation in July 2023 and will see the childcare subsidy increased from 85% to 90% for families on an income below $80,000”), Administrative Appeals Tribunal… and even Australia Day (“On 18 January 2023, the Labor Albanese government removed a Morrison government ban on public servants working 26 January, Australia Day…. On 16 December 2022, the Labor Albanese government removed a Morrison government policy of making local councils to hold citizenship ceremonies on 26 January, Australia Day.”)
All those decisions are fully consistent with Chalmers’ essay, in case you didn’t notice. Australian Neoliberalism is being dismantled… to be replaced by Australian Social Democracy.