The Australian reports the latest Newspoll has Labor’s two-party lead widening from 55-45 to 56-44, although Labor and the Coalition are unchanged on the primary vote at 38% and 33% respectively, with the Greens up one to 11% and One Nation down one to 7%. Both leaders’ personal ratings have softened, though from a substantially higher base in the case of Anthony Albanese, who is down three on approval to 53% and up two on disapproval to 37%, while Peter Dutton is down two to 33% and up four to 52%. Albanese’s lead as preferred prime minister narrows from 58-26 to 54-28. The poll was conducted Wednesday to Saturday from a sample of 1514.
Exactly.
https://theshot.net.au/general-news/what-is-the-point-of-prime-minister-anthony-albanese/
Sohar @ #1886 Friday, April 28th, 2023 – 4:17 pm
He’s not Peter Dutton. 😐
Sweet jebus anyone who works in law would know this shit. Surely the Herald sun would know this, including the cyclist who hit Cath Andrews car. The Transport Accident Commission claim was involved due to the cyclist being injured. The TAC use slater and Gordon to handle their claims.
The hospital involved can usually lodge the claim on behalf of the patient, and thereafter the TAC appoints one of their law firms to handle the bloody claim.
Oh the stupidity burns.
It has nothing to do with Cath Andrews.
As I said the Murdoch press have enough to worry about with the shit show that is Fox News.
‘Sohar says:
Friday, April 28, 2023 at 4:17 pm
Exactly.
https://theshot.net.au/general-news/what-is-the-point-of-prime-minister-anthony-albanese/‘
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Sohar along for the daily snark.
What is the point of Bandt?
Stopping affordable housing for 60,000 people in concert with Dutton.
Lovely couple.
Apart from not being Peter Dutton and pleasant enough on the surface, I find it hard to think of any positive attributes Anthony Albanese has.
Anyone, and I mean anyone, who calls someone a ‘white c**t’ in an APS workplace is in immediate trouble if a complaint is raised… regardless of whether the verbal assault is leveled at a man or a woman.
Ditto ‘black c**t’.
The terms are sexist and racist.
Context matters.
So does out and out racism and sexism.
Sohar
You forget that Albanese is neither Dutton nor Bandt. Less than a year in:
1. $1 billion Indigenous Housing Fund (currently blocked by Bandt).
2. Funding of $99 million on a justice package
3. Funding of $30 million to implement a national plan to tackle abuse and neglect of First Nations children. Measures include financial support for Indigenous communities and First Nationsl Community Controlled organisations to take the lead in family support services.
4. Prime Minister visits Alice Springs to meet with community leaders to tackle law and order crisis in Alice Springs. Alcohol restrictions to be introduced.
5. $120 million for 52 new health infrastructure projects at community controlled organisations.
6. $15 million funding under the Connected Beginnings Program to enable 3,500 Indigenous children to be better prepared for school.
7. Labor Government organizes first national Digital Inclusion Roundtable.
8. $44 million in ABA community grants to NT communities.
9. $99 million for First Nations Justice Package. Alice Springs identified as a priority site.
10. Grrote Eylandt Township lease transferred to the Anindilyakwa traditional owners.
11. Islander visual arts and crafts. Minister announces that this will feed into the National Cultural Policy.
12. Funding of $334 million for early years and education activities for 100,000 Indigenous children.
13. Strong public Albanese Government support for Far North Queensland native title settlement.
14. $80 million to establish an Aboriginal art gallery in Alice Springs
15. $100 million for housing and essential services in the Northern Territory.
16. $8 million to rebuild Mutitjulu Health Clinic.
17. Bill introduced to give Wreck Bay Community more say over its affairs.
18. Steps to expedite Ranger Uranium Mine rehabilitation.
19. Funding to support local communities and organisations to celebrate NAIDOC Week.
20. As part of $1.7 billion funding, the Albanese Government commits to the development of a standalone National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Plan to support First Nations women against domestic violence.
21. $50 million budgeted for the Voice referendum
22. Initial $6 million Budgeted for the Makarrata.
23. Promised to implement the Statement from the Heart during the election.
Health
April 2023 Pharmacies enabled to carry out vaccinations
April 2023 Pharmacies enabled to deliver opioid dependence programs
April 2023 Two for one prescription changes
January 2023 Inbound China travellers to undertake preboarding Covid tests
January 2023 Millions of Australians to pay up 29% less for PBS prescriptions.
January 2023 Encourages attendees at WorldPride to get vaccinated against MPOX.
January 2023 policy process on strengthening Medicare complete. Report due.
December 2022 National Health Medicines Review completed and new National Health Medicine Policy adopted.
December 2022 additional funding for 143 mens sheds
December 2022 Set up a review of the regulatory settings relating to health practitioner registration and qualification recognition for overseas trained health professionals and international students who have studied in Australia.
January 2022 preparations advanced for establishment of 50 urgent care clinics to take pressure off hospitals
December 2022 Child Dental Benefits Scheme extended for four years
December 2022 Funding restored to the the Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations (AFAO) and the National Association of People with HIV Australia (NAPWHA). Funding had been cut by Morrison.
December 2022 Awareness campaign about mosquito borne diseases
December $264 million in health research grants
December 2022 $2.8 billion in additional Covid funding. Most of that will go to the states
December 2022 New funding arrangements for around 500 medical consumables
December 2022 130,000 Australians living with type 1 diabetes gain subsidised access to the next generation of Omnipod insulin pumps.
November 2022 cheaper medicines for high cholesterol and chronic heart failure
November 2022 Providing $5.4 billion over four years from 2022-23 to increase the amount of direct care that aged care residents receive, including from enrolled nurses.
November 2022. $10 million to help the mental health of flood-hit aussies.
November 2022. Consultations open for Draft Australian Cancer Plan.
November 2022. A doctor or nurse practitioner in remote areas have their HELP debt wiped.
November 2022. Multi million dollar skin cancer prevention campaign.
November 2022. $400 million upgrade for Flinders Medical Centre.
November 2022 Aged care workers get pay boost following support inter alia by the Albanese Government.
October $250 million a year for three years to improve general practice
October 2022. $3.4 billion package of support for Aged Care Reforms.
October 2022 the National Health and Medical Research Council gender equity in grants processes
October 2022 $2.9 billion to strengthen Medicare
October 2022. $47 million to improve mental health in regional areas.
October 2022. Overall spending on health up 5.7% compared with Morrison’s last years.
October 2022 Incentive payments of up to $10,000 to encourage GPs into rural and remote areas
October 2022 intiiatives to encourage Indigenous people into health sector work
Women’s Issues
1. Nine of 14 Australian representatives at the coronation are women.
2. Labor appoints a woman, Kerry Schott, to conduct a review of the Inland Rail Project.
3. Labor appoints a woman, Deborah Brennan, to conduct an inquiry into the childcare system.
4. Labor appoints a woman, Lynelle Briggs, to conduct a jobs-for-the-boys inquiry into the Public Service Board appointments.
5. Labor’s $300 million boost to the arts will include measures to mandate fair pay and workplace safety in the arts industry.
6. Labor funds $1.1 billion to bring forward 180,000 free TAFE positions. The conditions include encouraging women male dominated industries including into construction jobs.
7. Labor fund aged care wages increase: $3.4 billion a year. The large majority of people in aged care are women. The large majority of aged care workers are women.
8. Labor appoints Christine Nixon to undertake an inquiry into sex trafficking.
9. Labor initiates a national policy discussion on policies to make dating apps more safe.
10. Eight out of ten senior diplomatic posts filled with female appointees.
11. First ever ambassador for gender equity appointed.
12. A woman (Susan Kenny) is appointed as acting president to clean out the AAT.
13. After eons of granting a large majority of grants to male researchers, the NHMRC is to award grants worth $923 million on a roughly fifty/fifty basis.
14. 14 women and 9 men in the Victorian Labor Government Cabinet.
15. Respect in the Workplace legislation.
16. Gender equity is a core objective of the new IR legislation.
17. Katy Gallagher: $5m over five years to boost the number of women in public office. The women in public office grant is designed to encourage – and prepare – more women to run for elections at all levels.
18. Making good on rescuing Australian women and children from hell hole camps in Syria.
19. Vic Labor supports the Diamonds, filling the ethical and financial hole left vacamt by a certain commercial interest.
20. The Government today announced the appointment of Adjunct Professor Debora Picone AO as Chair of the Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Review Reference Committee.
21. National Plan to End Violence against Women and Children 2022–2032
22. Extension of paid parental leave in the 2022 Budget at a cost of $532 million.
23. Ms Robyn Kruk AO to lead an independent review of the regulatory settings relating to health practitioner registration and qualification recognition for overseas trained health professionals and international students who have studied in Australia
24. Moves afoot to rescue 20 Australian women and around 40 children from a Turkish internment camp.
25. Jayne Jagot appointed to Australia’s High Court, creating first majority-female bench.
26. Ms Falkingham will be the first permanent female Chief Executive of the NDIA.
27. Federal Labor has appointed three eminently well qualified women to the Climate Council. This offsets the undue representation of businessmen on the Council.
28. Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister Burney supports the development of a separate National Strategy to Address Violence against Indigenous Women. The latter will be heavily involved in the design of the Strategy.
29. The Victorian government on Sunday announced it would spend $270 million to recruit and train thousands of new nurses and midwives under the scheme.
30. Labor has more female MPs than male MPs. (The Abbott, Turnbull and Morrison governments were not within a bull’s roar of this achievement.)
31. Labor is fully committed to implementing all of the Jenkins Report recommendations. (The Morrison Government implemented a view recommendations but basically sat on the vast majority of the Report’s recommendations.)
32. High levels of women in the ministry. (Abbott, Turnbull and Morrison governments had far, far fewer women in the ministry).
33. Labor gave a direction to the Fair Work Commission to specifically take into account the gender pay gap along with power to make gender specific determinations to close the gap. (The Abbott, Turnbull and Morrison governments had one universal ambitions: to damp down any real wage growth and showed zero interest in closing the gender pay gap.)
34. Labor intervened directly in the minimum wage decision which disproportionately benefits the lowest paid workers: women. (Abbott, Turnbull and Morrison did not do this.)
35. In recent departmental secretary appointments: Labor appointed three out of the four women. (Morrison’s last five secretarial appointments in 2019 involved a net loss of three women.)
36. Labor is setting the tone by promising to make boards, such as the Reserve Bank Board more representative.
37. Three Labor women ministers to lead aspects of the skills and jobs summit that relate to women’s participation, women upskilling and closing the wages gap.
38. Labor has avoided school holidays for sitting days.
39. Labor has instituted humane sitting hours on sitting days.
40. Morrison Government sat on the Report on the National Stakeholder Consultation for a Ten Year Domestic Violence Plan. Labor has released the Report with expedition.
41. Labor introduces paid domestic violence leave legislation
42. Ten days domestic violence leave for casual workers.
43. Submission to the Fair Work Commission on pay in the Aged Care industry. Four out of five workers in that industry are women.
44. Moves to legislate on coercive control.Not one of those eleven were in place in the past nine years.
45. Removes the ban on military and public service staff from engaging in certain “woke” charity, cultural and diversity events, imposed by former minister Peter Dutton last year.
46. Catherine Holmes is appointed Royal Commissioner for the Robodebt Royal Commission.
Mexicanbeemer says:
Friday, April 28, 2023 at 3:56 pm
Sir Henry Parkessays:
If I were called a “white c***” by someone, I would certainly fear for my immediate safety, but aside from that, I’d probably quickly get over it. Such rare insults are a small price to pay for the privileges that have come with my race and gender.
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That’s your personal feelings but the law doesn’t say that’s acceptable and could in the workplace constitute racism. You bring up gender and it just happens that women are the majority but the sex discrimination act doesn’t exclude women from being able to make a complaint because the law is designed to apply equally to everyone.
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You’re right. Those are my personal feelings. I should make clear that calling anyone cruel names of a racist or sexist nature is unacceptable and I certainly would not welcome it, even if I did get over it quickly.
The only point I would make is that we must always take the power imbalance into account. Suppose I had been called a white C. I don’t think I could then say to an Aboriginal person that I feel their pain because I had endured the same.
I also reiterate that such name-calling is unacceptable whatever the context.
Q: Apart from not being Peter Dutton and pleasant enough on the surface, I find it hard to think of any positive attributes Anthony Albanese has.
His passionate and genuine acceptance and promotion of The Voice From The Heart is a good start- as is his decades long involvement and commitment to our first nations.
His incredible humble beginnings that led to the highest office is another.
I could list many more….
Macca RBsays:
Thursday, April 27, 2023 at 4:56 pm
Ven @ 11.22am – Wednesda.
Re: Brics.
I am quite happy with another 29 Third World Nations joining this organisation.
29 less to leech off the west.
We know whose door they’ll be a knocking when they go bust.
I hope the west says, collectively, “farewell”.
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you clearly don’t understand what’s at stake. even a florida republican like marco rubio can work out what’s at stake, on his own. how does it feel to be dumber than a florida republican? -a.v.
There can be no doubt at all that the migration reforms will benefit many hundreds of thousands of individuals, families, businesses and the, incidentally, the economy. By putting a floor under wages it will create upwards pressures on wages. After all the current arrangements are in place as a ten year project by Abbott, Turnbull and Morrison to put downwards pressure on wages and to exploit vulnerable workers.
I am a bit concerned though.
There must be something seriously wrong with the reforms.
Neither of the No! Twins have brayed ‘No!!’ to Labor’s much-needed and visionary migration reforms.
‘alfred venison says:
Friday, April 28, 2023 at 4:45 pm
Macca RBsays:
Thursday, April 27, 2023 at 4:56 pm
Ven @ 11.22am – Wednesda.
Re: Brics.
I am quite happy with another 29 Third World Nations joining this organisation.
29 less to leech off the west.
We know whose door they’ll be a knocking when they go bust.
I hope the west says, collectively, “farewell”.
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you clearly don’t understand what’s at stake. even a florida republican like marco rubio can work out what’s at stake, on his own. how does it feel to be dumber than a florida republican? -a.v.’
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Macca don’t you understand that Putin’s acolyte tankie’s gaslighting was supposed to make YOU feel bad about the West and defend it against the gaslighting? You reversed the ferret which did get him all fired up!
Sohar @ #1890 Friday, April 28th, 2023 – 4:34 pm
A comment I find absolutely unsurprising coming from you. 😐
Look, Sohar, I know exactly where your head is at. You spend most of your time in the Left Wing fever swamps of Twitter and other redoubts of the fruits and nuts of the Lunar Left Wing where you spend all your time one-upping each other to find fault with a federal Labor government that isn’t Left Wing enough for your tastes. I’ve been watching Twitter of late and it’s become so negatively polarised that it’s just not funny anymore. All the reasonable people have left and the algorithm’s been tweaked by Musk to feed you more of what gets you high. I get it, okay?
Well, too bad, so sad. Anthony Albanese is not governing as a Democratic Socialist, because that’s what you identify as, isn’t it, Sohar? If you’re being honest. And he’s never going to govern that way either. So you and your gang of disgruntled misfits better get used to the idea, because no amount of bringing snarky little diatribes to this blog about the PM is going to change that.
And if you really want to change the political paradigm why don’t you get up off your lazy behind and run for office yourself? Like your darling of the Democratic Socialist Left, Jim Casey, who ran against the PM and only saw Anthony Albanese’s vote go up. Because that tells you everything about how potent your whinges about the PM are.
They aren’t.
Finally getting a chance to catch up on this morning’s articles. This one is a cracker …
https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/democracy-an-unachievable-work-in-progress,17452
Suitably critical of the current government’s performance on the big issues.
The only thing I can find to disagree with in the whole article is the Assange stuff. While I can agree that both Labor and the Liberals have been derelict WRT Assange, I find I just can’t bring myself to care all that much. Assange has always been his own worst enemy.
But on all the other issues, the author is spot on in expressing outrage and depression …
“what?” indeed! We are quite likely to be “finessed” into disaster, is “what”. I won’t repeat the details of the individual policy issues this government faces – I am fairly sure we all know what they are, but if you are not sure you should read the article.
Is there a solution? In general, I mean – not just to these particular issues. I believe that there is, and it will involve the reduction – or at least significant recasting – of the role of political parties in our system of government. They once had a legitimate use, but they are now little more than hollow edifices with very few members and little ideological glue. They are now useful primarily for fundraising, or to hide unacceptable behavior and various forms of venality and outright corruption.
Nothing new there, and I guess we will always have some level of corruption in any system of government – but you can put up with some if you at least also get some semblance of a responsive and functional government on the big issues. But we don’t. Our governments seem unable to deliver us what we know we are going to need, at anything like the pace we know we are going to need it. Something needs to change, and soon.
It has been suggested (by others) that we just need to elect better politicians, and I guess this is true – but our current system is simply not well suited for doing that. We lucked out and got a decent cross bench this time largely because of one specific issue and one specific source of private funding, and even though I think it is a promising start, I don’t want the independents to be quite so beholden to one source of private funding, and I also don’t want them to think they must become a party to survive. Parties can bring stability, yes – but they also bring corruption, stagnation and inertia.
Here are a few suggestions that might improve things: Public campaign funding for all candidates independent of party, and a ban on all political donations. Parties to be funded by public funding based on membership and/or member’s fees. Political advertising to be publicly funded to some minimum per candidate and per party, with anything beyond that to be paid for out of candidate or party funding. Politician salaries pegged to a suitable multiple of minimum wage. Severe restrictions on politicians working in areas affected by their portfolios once they leave office. Early access to superannuation only once they permanently retire. And no other perks on leaving office, other than access to parliamentary services (shared by all ex-MPs). No offices, no cars, no staff (other than security if deemed necessary) and no travel concessions.
I look forward to reading the follow-up article promised, to see the kind of solutions the author suggests – he will no doubt opt for different solutions, but he has certainly nailed the problem!
Can they make this rubber hit the road? Or can he refuse to testify?
https://citynews.com.au/2023/lehrmann-to-learn-if-defamation-cases-can-go-on/?utm_source=mailpoet&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=canberra-daily-today-s-news-today_7801
Sir Henry Parkes gets it re:racism. At the basis of all discrimination is the concept of equality. If you’re in a position of advantage over another, you don’t get to call ‘muh discrimation’ to the people who are disadvantaged for getting protection from you. Which is why ‘women only’ spaces isn’t about discrimination, but about equality of opportunity. Same goes for policies designed to ‘close the gap’ to indigenous people.
So someone being mean to you doesn’t make something racism. Using your privilege to discriminate does.
Sir Henry Parkessays:
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You’re right. Those are my personal feelings. I should make clear that calling anyone cruel names of a racist or sexist nature is unacceptable and I certainly would not welcome it, even if I did get over it quickly.
The only point I would make is that we must always take the power imbalance into account. Suppose I had been called a white C. I don’t think I could then say to an Aboriginal person that I feel their pain because I had endured the same.
I also reiterate that such name-calling is unacceptable whatever the context.
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Understood you were not saying it was acceptable but under the law that could constitute racial abuse and we might find that the power imbalance refers more to the parties involved like in sex discrimination the power imbalance refers more to a male CEO taking advantage of a young intern than whether males have historically been in power and that’s why a young male intern can bring a case against a female CEO.
I see that Woodside might just have caught a whiff of something in the Budget…
Mexb: “but under the law that could constitute racial abuse”
Nope. Or at least not under the racial discrimination act. Abuse… sure. Not nice getting treated badly by someone. But if you want to apply the act, you have to demonstrate the difference in equality.
Pisays:
Friday, April 28, 2023 at 4:52 pm
Sir Henry Parkes gets it re:racism. At the basis of all discrimination is the concept of equality. If you’re in a position of advantage over another, you don’t get to call ‘muh discrimation’ to the people who are disadvantaged for getting protection from you. Which is why ‘women only’ spaces isn’t about discrimination, but about equality of opportunity. Same goes for policies designed to ‘close the gap’ to indigenous people.
So someone being mean to you doesn’t make something racism. Using your privilege to discriminate does.
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Can a junior male staffer bring a sexual harassment case against a female executive?
alfred venison is obviously quite sanguine with this:
-ABC News’ Yulia Drozd and Natalia Kushnir
Mexb: “Can a junior male staffer bring a sexual harassment case against a female executive?”
Harrasment is the power differential, so yes. Without question. Actually, I think harassment is even broader… it’s about how a person makes you feel. Sexual discrimination and sexual harassment are not the same thing.
Lehrmann judgment – summary at start
http://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc/au/cases/cth/FCA//2023/385.html
pi
Christ I wish it had had been you who was being physically attacked by a larger, younger and stronger man with phsyical force and with death threats of wanting to kill you for being a ‘white c**t’.
It would have been interesting to listen to you explain to your audience that this was not a racist incident, perhaps with your last gasp.
I reiterate. Calling someone ‘a white c**t’ in the APS gets you into instant hot water.
Why? Because, regardless of context, the term is racist and sexist. ‘Context’ might be used in the mediation that follows. But it does not absolve someone from making racist and sexist comments.
shellbell
Could Lehrmann refuse to make a sworn statement?
BW: ” I wish it had had been you who was being physically attacked”
That’s because that’s the type of person you are. I don’t wish anyone to be abused. You and me are different.
BW: “regardless of context”
Aaaaaand you’re wrong.
Mr Lehrmann does not want to stand in the witness box and be cross examined.
Could the plan be a cash settlement from as many parties as possible?
Won’t somebody think of the pharmacists……
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-mGL3OdYXM
sohar
Apart from not being Peter Dutton and pleasant enough on the surface, I find it hard to think of any positive attributes Anthony Albanese has.
Are you the guy who is the rabid Corbyn fan – and who thinks that unless you attract big rallies, then you are not worth voting for?
The average voter does not go to rallies. But the average voter will vote.
BW
No. He will swear or affirm an affidavit before he gives oral evidence also on oath or affirmation. Whether he goes first or it is responsive to what Ms Higgins says, I am not sure.
PS Everyone do yourselves a favour and watch the ACT DPP/Police inquiry. Bluebirds are telling me there will be blood on the floor.
shellbell : “PS Everyone do yourselves a favour and watch the ACT DPP/Police inquiry. Bluebirds are telling me there will be blood on the floor.”
It is a pretty sordid tale alright. The only real question is how much obstruction is uncovered.
Pisays:
Friday, April 28, 2023 at 5:01 pm
Mexb: “Can a junior male staffer bring a sexual harassment case against a female executive?”
Harrasment is the power differential, so yes. Without question. Actually, I think harassment is even broader… it’s about how a person makes you feel. Sexual discrimination and sexual harassment are not the same thing.
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Then we are the same page and you bring up an important point because the law is about how the person makes you feel and that’s why i commented to Sir Henry Parkes about his feelings because a person hearing Boerwar’s example could feel discriminated against but HR and the courts would then consider its context but some HR departments will take a strict interpretation of the law and issue an official warning or dismissal.
Crumbs!
Anyone who has not read this article – please do so NOW …
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-28/stage-three-tax-cuts-to-scale/102268304
It quite literally beggars the imagination!
Oh, great ….
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2023/apr/28/australia-live-news-national-cabinet-defence-albanese-sydney-melbourne-brisbane-politics-budget-labor-coalition-covid-gambling-health-migration?page=with:block-644b6ec58f08ac41bd0136f8#block-644b6ec58f08ac41bd0136f8
So, let me get this right … first, we need a review to tell us if we need a review. And if it says “yes”, then we will have a review. Which, like all the previous reviews, will simply be tabled and then ignored. Until someone decides we need another review.
How about we just have a review into why we have so many pointless reviews?
Finally, some good news …
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2023/apr/28/australia-live-news-national-cabinet-defence-albanese-sydney-melbourne-brisbane-politics-budget-labor-coalition-covid-gambling-health-migration?page=with:block-644b63d18f08ac41bd0136a3#block-644b63d18f08ac41bd0136a3
Clearly, we need to change the rules ASAP! And then again! And again!
Finally, a useful outcome of being governed by indecisive incompetents!
It seems Albo has varying standards re ‘acceptable behaviour’.
P1, Have you heard about the Lars Team ™ posting limit?
You have exceeded it
Budget closes in on first surplus in 15 years as taxes soar
The federal government is within reach of posting its first budget surplus in 15 years, as surging tax revenue from iron ore, coal and gas, and record numbers of people in work deliver Treasurer Jim Chalmers a financial windfall.
Inflation and the ultra-low unemployment rate of 3.5 per cent are lifting tax revenue and reducing welfare payments, while the return of hundreds of thousands of migrant workers is delivering a bigger fiscal dividend.
The federal budget recorded a surplus of $1.6 billion for the 31 days of March – typically a month that delivers a deficit – and was narrowly in the black over the past 12 months, Department of Finance figures published on Friday showed.
https://www.afr.com/policy/economy/budget-closes-in-on-first-surplus-in-15-years-as-taxes-soar-20230428-p5d423
sprocket_ @ #1987 Friday, April 28th, 2023 – 5:54 pm
No, what is the limit? Does it only apply to non-partisans?
dave,
Hopefully all the ‘Back In Black’ mugs haven’t been trashed. 😀
sprocket_ @ #1922 Friday, April 28th, 2023 – 5:54 pm
Have you noticed how Lars never picks up on this? His critiques are always very pointed and used as a weapon against targeted individuals.
I personally think Kyle Sandilands is a deadbeat, and have not listened to whatever shitty FM channel he’s on – even though it dominates the ratings in Sydney.
However the reason Albo will stay as PM for as long as he wants, is that he courts the 20/30 something demographic bigly. For whatever reason, they listen to this tripe as they drive to work, attend to their services industry jobs and get their kids ready for school. Kyle and Jackie O have got the mojo which keeps them coming back.
And part of that is the non-politically correct drivel which Sandilands excels at.
KIIS 1065 11.5% (11.9%)
Cume: 1,346,000 (29,000)
2022 results: Best/worst
Best 10+ 11.6% (8.8%)
Best Breakfast 14.9% (10.6%)
KIIS FM has slipped back down to be the #2 radio show in Sydney after losing 0.4 points. Kyle and Jackie O are still breakfast champs with 15.1%, down 0.8 from survey 1, which was their best result ever. Will and Woody remain leaders in drive, with a steady 13.7% share. The station continues to post amazing cume audiences with 1,346,000 which is an increase of 29,000.
https://www.mediaweek.com.au/sydney-radio-ratings-2023-survey-2-2gb-back-on-top-kj-still-brekky-champs/
Sorry if commented upon already
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/confidential-coronial-finding-in-porter-accuser-s-death/ar-AA1aoqTf?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=5dfdfc984315472eafda6124aa60fe18&ei=20
You can rest assured that Chalmers will NOT be announcing any surplus.
Should that eventuate next year 2024 in the Final Budget Outcome results – there may be some crowing leading into the 2025 election. Along with some further targeting of spending on Labor priorities
C@tmomma @ #1991 Friday, April 28th, 2023 – 6:01 pm
Boring posters?
BW: “Sohar along for the daily snark.
What is the point of Bandt?”
Obvs: to trigger your hourly snark.
Shellbell
Though no finding against Christian Porter, the matter killed his ministerial and parliamentary career. So if there was guilt, a penalty was applied.
What intrigues me is how can Porter now be counsel for Clive Palmer in his $300b claim against the Commonwealth over COVID restrictive issues? Porter was in Cabinet at the time – so would surely have a conflict of interest. He must know this.
C@t 🙂
Surely there aren’t too many people under the age of 30 who still willingly suffer through a medium as archaic and redundant as radio? I’d assume most would know how to either plug a USB cable into their car stereo or to connect up to it with Bluetooth.
What I first wrote for this post is absolutely unprintable in a publicly read forum, but I do feel a little better for getting it off my chest. Anyway, here’s the latest grim atrocity from those heartless Russian invaders inflicted upon Ukrainian civilians:
“Ukraine’s interior minister, Ihor Klymenko, has just said the death toll from a Russian missile strike in the city of Uman, south of Kyiv, has risen to at least 10, with 17 wounded.
The missile struck a nine-storey block of flats before dawn, while residents were still sleeping.
In the south-eastern city of Dnipro, a missile struck a house, killing a two-year-old child and a 31-year-old woman, the regional governor, Serhiy Lysak, said.
At least 12 people are now confirmed dead in the first large-scale Russian missile attack to hit Ukraine in nearly two months.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/apr/28/russia-ukraine-war-live-air-raid-sirens-sound-in-kyiv-and-across-ukraine
Words seem completely inadequate as a response to this sort of thing being inflicted by
Russians upon innocent civilians every single day for over fourteen months straight. When will our leaders in the West finally decide this is enough, and blow the Russian military right out of Ukraine will all force necessary?