The Courier-Mail will have a Queensland state poll through at 10am local time, presumably from YouGov, which the paper has been promoting with its trademark subtlety. Alongside the usual bilge about how the results will rock the state to its foundations, we are informed the poll includes questions on how respondents might vote if Labor changed leaders.
In what’s likely to be a fallow period for federal polling post-referendum, Roy Morgan turned a few heads with its weekly voting intention result, which is the first poll this term to credit the Coalition with a two-party lead, by a bare 50.5-49.5 margin, after Labor led 54-46 a week previously. However, the result is in large part down to an anomalous flow of respondent-allocated preferences: the primary votes of Labor 32% (down three), Coalition 36% (up two), Greens 14% (steady) and One Nation 4.5% are all in the ballpark of the 2022 election result, and in fact convert to 53-47 in Labor’s favour if preference flows from the election are applied. The poll was conducted in the immediate aftermath of the referendum, from last Monday through to Sunday, from a sample of 1383.
JWS Research has released its monthly True Issues survey of issue salience, which finds 56% nominating the cost of living when asked unprompted to identify their three most important issues, shooting up from 43% in June. Housing and interest rates, health and aged care and environment and climate change are little changed in second through to fourth place, with health levelling off after a long post-pandemic slide. An index measure of the federal government’s performance is down to 48, after the four previous readings since the 2022 election came in at 52 or 53. The survey was conducted
With most of the votes from the referendum now in, here’s a ranked listing of how the pollsters performed:
Good morning Dawn Patrollers.
A larger-than-expected rise in prices on everything from petrol to property rates could force the Reserve Bank to lift official interest rates next month to a 12-year high, but Jim Chalmers maintains inflation is on track to return to normal levels as government programs ease key pressure points. Shane Wright and Rachel Clun report that inflation – both headline and underlying – increased in the September quarter by 1.2 per cent, the Australian Bureau of Statistics reported. At the annual rate, inflation eased from 6 per cent to 5.4 per cent.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/odds-increase-for-melbourne-cup-day-rate-rise-as-inflation-lifts-20231025-p5eet4.html
The Albanese government knows if rates move again, as now seems inevitable, it’s going to get whacked, regardless of the cause, says Phil Coorey.
https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/albanese-fears-rba-rate-rise-fallout-20231025-p5eezq
Petrol is holding up inflation, explains John Hawkins who lays out seven graphs that show what’s happening to prices and what it will mean for interest rates.
https://theconversation.com/petrol-is-holding-up-inflation-the-7-graphs-that-show-whats-happening-to-prices-and-what-it-will-mean-for-interest-rates-215888
Despite a dysfunctional US Congress, PM Anthony Albanese is making the best of his America trip by announcing defence investments, a deal with tech giant Microsoft, and throwing the local minerals industry some bones too. Kim Wingerei reports.
https://michaelwest.com.au/announceables-galore-albo-cosies-up-to-us-on-aukus-microsoft-and-critical-minerals/
Nick McKenzie tells us that a transnational crime syndicate is accused of laundering $228 million in dirty funds and tainted cryptocurrency via a money moving business spruiked by a former Howard government minister Gary Hardgrave, and allegedly secretly controlled by Chinese gangsters. He says that yesterday’s arrests will also ramp up pressure on the federal government to introduce long-stalled “Tranche 2” laws. The laws would force accountants, real estate agents and lawyers to face the same obligations as bankers and casinos to report suspected money laundering.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/chinese-gangsters-accused-of-laundering-228m-through-business-spruiked-by-ex-minister-20231025-p5eey8.html
A former Victorian cabinet minister will spend at least a year behind bars for falsely claiming more than $170,000 in administrative expenses that he used to fuel his gambling addiction. Annika Smethurst reports that Russell Northe, 57, who served as Energy and Resources Minister in the Napthine government, retired from politics last November after he was charged with dozens of offences by Victoria’s anti-corruption watchdog. He has since been working at his local Coles supermarket earning $700 a week.
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/retired-mp-jailed-for-falsely-claiming-more-than-170k-20231025-p5eex1.html
Anthony Albanese will back the “moral clarity” of United States President Joe Biden in his response to the conflict in the Middle East, in an address at the White House that amplifies Australian support at a time of American concern about the rise of China. David Crowe and Farrah Tomazin report that Albanese will cite words spoken by Biden’s late soldier son to highlight the strength of the alliance between the two countries, two weeks before he visits Beijing for talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/albanese-quotes-biden-s-dead-son-in-white-house-speech-20231025-p5eexh.html
Matt O’Sullivan and Alexandra Smith write that, days before a wide-ranging review into Metro West is due to be released, new plans for Sydney’s $25 billion Metro West rail line will go before a powerful NSW cabinet subcommittee tomorrow, in the clearest signal that the government is seriously considering expanding the size of the city’s largest transport project.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/sydney-s-mega-underground-rail-project-faces-d-day-on-expansion-20231025-p5eeza.html
Aisha Dow and Henrietta Cook report that, with more than 72,000 Victorians languish on elective surgery waitlists, Melburnians could travel to regional hospitals for their long-awaited operations under a plan to improve the state’s overwhelmed surgery wait lists. Surgeons would also run “HIT” clinics to power through a backlog of similar operations, such as hip replacements, while other patients are diverted to alternative treatments such as occupational therapists, physiotherapists and hydrotherapists.
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/super-saturdays-and-hit-clinics-to-slash-surgery-waitlist-backlog-20231025-p5ef09.html
According to the AFR, some of Qantas’ largest investors, including the Future Fund, are set to vote against the re-election of Todd Sampson to the airline’s board, raising the prospect that the advertising executive could be forced into an abrupt exit.
https://www.afr.com/companies/transport/future-fund-to-vote-against-qantas-director-todd-sampson-20231024-p5eel6
As few as one in six apartment projects would qualify for affordable housing bonuses under a draft version of the Minns government’s policy, developers say, because local council regulations will be allowed to scuttle housing projects that don’t comply Michael Koziol and Max Maddison say that draft legislation and guidelines – obtained by the Herald – reveal the government’s proposed height and floor space bonus for developments that contain affordable housing will be constrained by a web of rules about how and where the bonuses can be claimed.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/leaked-housing-policy-shows-council-rules-will-be-able-to-scuttle-projects-20231025-p5eez3.html
Michael Pascoe gives Richard Marles quite a serve over the way he is talking (and not talking) about China. He describes Marles as “Dutton with hair”.
https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/finance/2023/10/25/albanese-china-visit-pascoe
In its attempt to repair the immigration system chaos caused by the Coalition, the Albanese Government has instead created a new set of challenges to overcome, writes Abul Rizvi who says the government has found itself between a rock and a hard place on the permanent migration program.
https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/government-between-a-rock-and-a-hard-place-on-permanent-migration-program,18017
“Low carb” and “low sugar” labelling on alcoholic drinks should be scrapped, according to peak health organisations, who say the claims should never have been allowed as they mislead consumers into thinking alcohol products are “healthier”, writes Melissa Davey.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/oct/26/low-sugar-labels-on-alcohol-are-misleading-and-should-be-axed-australian-peak-health-bodies-say
A tobacco store in Melbourne’s north has been set ablaze for a second time as police continue to probe a spate of targeted arson attacks linked to organised crime wars over the illicit tobacco trade, reports Lachlan Abbott.
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/tobacco-shop-set-ablaze-in-another-suspicious-fire-in-melbourne-s-north-20231025-p5ees8.html
Centrelink issued 2.8m busy messages to callers in only two months, amid a significant blowout to wait times that has prompted members of the federal crossbench to raise the alarm with the Albanese government. Cait Kelly writes that, despite trends showing the agency is generally fielding fewer calls, data tabled by Services Australia in Senate estimates on Wednesday revealed over July and August only 23% of calls to Centrelink were answered, compared with 35% over the 2022-23 financial year.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/oct/25/centrelink-issues-28m-busy-messages-to-callers-in-only-two-months-as-wait-times-blow-out
Angus Thompson writes that NSW Treasurer Daniel Mookhey has compared the current campaign by engineered stone manufacturers to the tactics used before the nationwide prohibition of asbestos.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/disgrace-state-minister-accuses-deadly-benchtop-makers-of-misinformation-20231025-p5eexl.html
Childcare fees are rising faster than inflation, staff shortages are stretching centres to capacity, and a third of Australians live in a childcare “desert” where children outnumber available places by a ratio of at least three to one. According to experts, the sector’s business model is to blame.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/oct/25/australia-childcare-crisis-whats-wrong-how-to-fix-it-rising-fees-staff-shortages
The High Court striking down Victoria’s electric vehicle levy shows policies around the technology are a dog’s breakfast, reports Duncan Graham.
https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/governments-choking-ev-use-by-putting-cars-first-services-later,18018
The world is heading towards a series of environmental “tipping points” that could cause irreversible damage to water supplies and other life-sustaining systems, the research arm of the United Nations has warned. Climate change and the overuse of resources have put the world on the brink of six interconnected tipping points that “could trigger abrupt changes in our life-sustaining systems and shake the foundation of societies,” the UN University’s Institute for Environment and Human Security said yesterday.
https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/2023/10/25/un-environmental-tipping-points
Stephen Bartholomeusz writes about China’s slowdown and the looming glut of fossil fuels.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/markets/china-s-slowdown-and-the-looming-glut-of-fossil-fuels-20231025-p5eeug.html
Middle East analyst Rodger Shanahan opines that Hezbollah has the answer as to whether the Gaza war spread through the region.
https://www.smh.com.au/world/middle-east/will-the-gaza-war-spread-through-the-middle-east-hezbollah-has-the-answer-20231024-p5eeop.html
The recent escalation of conflict in the Middle East is a reminder that after decades of aggression, peace in the region is difficult to achieve, writes Dr Lee Duffield.
https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/middle-east-no-end-in-sight-to-cruel-war-many-years-in-the-making,18016
Joe Biden is handling global crises well, but there is no guarantee he will be the Democratic nominee for the next presidency, writes Bruce Wolpe.
https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/will-the-us-leader-hosting-albanese-be-the-next-president-there-are-wildcards-on-the-menu-20231024-p5eeoi.html
After 22 days of paralysis, four nominees and multiple backroom brawls, Congress finally has a new House Speaker, electing a Donald Trump ally who backed the attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Three weeks after Kevin McCarthy was ousted from the job, Republicans put aside their differences for long enough to appoint Louisiana lawyer Mike Johnson as his replacement, reports Farrah Tomazin.
https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/trump-ally-elected-new-us-house-speaker-ending-weeks-of-wrangling-20231026-p5ef2t.html
Cartoon Corner
Matt Golding
Glen Le Lievre
Jon Kudelka
Dionne Gain
A vintage Cathy Wilcox
Mark Knight
Spooner
From the US
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/10/25/house-speaker-vote/
I don’t know how you work with these people in good faith, they certainly aren’t going to do anything in the interests of Americans.
EV Sales for September
MG4 sales yet to be ramped up.
Will be interesting to see how they go – as well as the BYD Dolphin in due course.
EV Sales for September
MG4 sales yet to be ramped up.
Will be interesting to see how they go – as well as the BYD Dolphin in due course.
Here’s David Pope’s contribution for today.
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Thanks BK!
A sophisticated Chinese money laundering syndicate that turned over $10 billion in three years has been dismantled in a blow to Australian organised crime groups, police allege.
The Changjiang Currency Exchange, which had 12 outlets across the country, is alleged by police to be a front to move criminals’ cash and cryptocurrency offshore.
The network, known in underworld circles as the Long River, allegedly carried out its scheme with the help of insiders at major banks. The Australian Federal Police (AFP) arrested seven alleged ringleaders on Wednesday who were accused of laundering at least $229 million of illegal funds.
They were expected to be charged with money laundering, which carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment. The AFP was likely to oppose bail as the accused had allegedly paid $200,000 each for false passports.
Four Chinese nationals and three Australian citizens were detained in the raids following a 14-month investigation dubbed Operation Avarus-Nightwolf. The AFP raided 20 addresses in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth. “The reason why this investigation was so unique and complex was that this alleged syndicate was operating in plain sight with shiny shop fronts across the country – it was not operating in the shadows like other money laundering organisations,” AFP Assistant Commissioner Stephen Dametto said. “The Long River money laundering organisation entrenched itself into the very fabric of the financial services industry, becoming one of the largest independently-owned remitters in the country. “We allege that enabled it to exploit vulnerabilities far more easily, and for a period of time.” The Long River group’s alleged leaders were all arrested in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs.
https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/how-10b-alleged-long-river-whatsapp-scammers-were-busted/news-story/76184b8245bd61ac7d8080842966d3f5
The US House of Representatives finally elected a new speaker on Wednesday, ending weeks of bitter Republican infighting that paralyzed Congress at a time of international and domestic crisis.
Mike Johnson, a little-known ally of Donald Trump who spearheaded legal efforts to overturn the 2020 election, won the unanimous support of his party to lead the lower chamber of Congress, which has been at a standstill since Kevin McCarthy was ousted in a right-wing coup on October 3.
“I think all the American people at one time had great pride in this institution, but right now, that’s in jeopardy. And we have a challenge before us right now to rebuild and restore that trust,” Johnson said as he took up the gavel. “It’s the beauty of America that allows a firefighter’s kid like me to come here and serve in the sacred chamber where great men and women have served before all of us.”
Johnson will be the least experienced speaker in the post Civil War era, having never chaired a committee or held a senior leadership role.
Heard a Mike Johnson interview on ABC News Radio a little while ago (his victory speech?). He believes that God put him in his position of authority. God also put all of his colleagues in their positions. It wasn’t clear whether God put the Democrats in place too.
So a dangerous fanatic, especially given that he is an election denier. God apparently didn’t put Joe Biden in the Presidency.
Paul Tu,
My vote is for Socrates, Confessions, Itza, BK and Cronus.
From previous thread
Cronus says:
Thursday, October 26, 2023 at 4:46 am
Quasar says:
Wednesday, October 25, 2023 at 11:41 pm
This research on US disillusion is sobering:
https://www.prri.org/research/threats-to-american-democracy-ahead-of-an-unprecedented-presidential-election/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosam&stream=top
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Quasar
Thankyou, you’re too kind.
This research confirms thoughts I’ve had previously regarding American society that deludes itself that somehow things were always better in most ways decades ago.
Not unlike Australians (Bronzed Aussies, Anzacs etc), the US has done a wonderful job of (thanks to Disney and FOXX) mythologising itself, forgetting the massacres of minorities, the KKK, eulogising the civil war and ignoring the quickly shrinking middle glass and burgeoning poverty stricken elements of society. Not to mention helplessly watching, or in many cases expediting, the demise of democratic institutions. They are stuck in a paradigm whereby the seek a return to that which never really existed. Their greatest strength is also their greatest failing, their self-confidence.
Having taken their eyes off the prize and their hands off the tiller, they’ve handed control to whomever may be motivated, wrongly believing they are indestructible, least of all from within. There are real lessons here for Australians as we so often follow the US lead, albeit typically a decade later. Our greatest enemy too comes from within. We require a far better educated and critical thinking public, prepared to question beyond the lazy talking-heads whose only purpose is to misinform.
Rant over for tonight.
Have a look at his stroll around the Guangzhou Auto Show 2022. It’s MENTAL what the Chinese auto industry is doing!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnXeQRM51qg
I don’t trust anything that comes out of the local Murdochracy paper the courier. Everyday I walk past a 7/11 and see hysterical anti state ALP front pages. Are the local Murdochracy newspapers this unusual and strange in Syd,Mel, Adelaide? I saw a reporter from the West Australian on the drum the other day who would go well at the courier so not just Murdochracy. What is wrong with Australia’s media and why can’t they just report the truth?
Lawyers acting on behalf of Palestinian Australians are threatening legal action against the prime minister and other senior members of the federal government, arguing they have provided “encouragement and moral support” for alleged crimes by Israel: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-10-26/law-firm-threatens-legal-action-over-government-gaza-response/103021548
Cronus was posting early this morning about the tendency to view the past as being much better than the present. This article looks into that fallacy based on some extensive meta data research.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/19_xvv5sWV9TfyzsDTtg_MCb72N2M_RvK/view?usp=drivesdk
Agree wholeheartedly that US cinema offerings over the last half century have created a self-image for Americans which is ‘all sizzle and no steak’.
Here’s hoping that the impending fossil fuel glut brings down petrol prices and inflation!
Newly minted House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), who won the gavel Wednesday after three prior Republican nominees failed to reach a majority, is a longtime ally of the oil industry and will be perhaps the most vocal skeptic of the scientific consensus on climate change ever to hold the speakership.
Johnson, whose district includes the onetime oil industry hub of Shreveport, received a 100 percent rating from the pro-fossil fuel American Energy Alliance in 2022, along with every other Republican in Louisiana’s House delegation. The lobbying group had earlier endorsed Johnson’s fellow Louisianan, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, who bowed out of the race for speaker on Oct. 12 after failing to consolidate the necessary 217 votes.
Individuals and PACs associated with the oil and gas industry have donated $23,800 to Johnson in the 2023-2024 campaign cycle, the largest amount he received from any group save retired donors, according to data from OpenSecrets.org. In the 2021-2022 cycle, the sector donated $84,350. In 2017, Johnson denied human-caused climate change at a town hall, telling attendees, “The climate is changing, but the question is, is it being caused by natural cycles over the span of the Earth’s history? Or is it changing because we drive SUVs? I don’t believe in the latter. I don’t think that’s the primary driver.”
Johnson has a lifetime score of 2 percent on climate and environmental issues from the League of Conservation Voters (LCV), which excoriated him in a statement following his election.
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4275210-mike-johnson-speaker-gop-pro-oil-climate-skeptical-record/
Anyone paying attention to the World Solar Challenge? First arrivals in Adelaide today. Nothing in the local media. At all.
Yesterday a combination of wind, smoke, cloud cover and elevation meant that none of the Cruiser class vehicles finished stage 2 (I’m watching Estonia’s Solaride team closely – their motor achieves 30km/kWh, four times the efficiency of my Leaf).
Under the circumstances, it looks like all cars which completed stage 1 might simply compete in stage 3.
#weatheronPB
Dirty eastern sky.
An ominous golden glow,
has caught us again.
Am I right in thinking that the election of a Labor government has subsequently highlighted how much of what affects us plebs at the ‘receiving end’ of the economy’, is never mentioned in election campaigns and policy platforms?
The big business/energy/transport/infrastructure stuff , I mean the big stuff behind what keeps the country ticking over…is the stuff we express anger and disillusionment over when we find that our newly elected leaders like to keep the unpleasant realities from us and secretly facilitate ‘business as usual’ despite the prevailing political winds that see governments come and go.
We see the new coal mines being approved, power stations getting an extended life, airlines being allowed to carry out dodgy business tactics, forests logged, a politicised public service still working for the bosses and not the people etc, etc…
I’m happy to see the back of the LNP but the incremental (if any ) change that a new government could be bringing to the country seems imperceptible.
Rant over, I’m leaving the country for 6weeks, hope it’s still here when I get back.
Morning all. Thanks for reposting the roundup BK. Albo hasn’t had much luck with his US visit, though nothing he has done personally has gone wrong. What has been announced does not confirm AUKUS in any way, but that would need Congressional action. Likewise Biden has done as much as he can in the circumstances.
What a mess.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9ETsBpzpmQ&t=91s
Much appreciation BK!
The Albanese government knows if rates move again, as now seems inevitable, it’s going to get whacked, regardless of the cause, says Phil Coorey.
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So they should. They campaigned on lowering the cost of living in the lead up to the 2022 election.
We don’t know how good we had it.
Frednk
I’m thinking this speaker won’t last long either. He will somehow piss off the Maga set.
Dysfunction is the name of the game for Maga.
Hakeem Jefferies will likely be speaker as a result, which will be an excellent outcome.
It will most likely occur in the new year.
In the meantime, a shit show.
Socratessays:
Thursday, October 26, 2023 at 8:09 am
Morning all. Thanks for reposting the roundup BK. Albo hasn’t had much luck with his US visit, though nothing he has done personally has gone wrong.
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His girlfriend stuffed up. Stood in the wrong spot for the official photo.
Taylormade
You do know why rates were low previously?
We had a frickin pandemic and the rates were set at zero.
I do wonder if you are just plain ignorant or pretend to be
Taylormade
Oh wowee. The world is going to hell in a hand basket cos she stood in wrong spot for photo.
The Ukraine and Israel conflicts are a nothing burger by comparison. Sheesh.
Oh lols, Taylormerde.
Do you think you impress anyone on here – save for FUBAR and the steam driven phallus – with your low rent contributions? I suspect that you are living testament that a staple diet of Newscorpse does indeed tend to rot the brain.
Andrew Earlwood
And Listening to Neil Mitchell at 3 aw doesn’t help either. Lol!
A couple of observations
As I have offered previously, the time frame of a further 2 years until the end of 2025 until inflation returns to band being 2/3% equals elevated risk in an increasing volatile World
What else can impact over the next 2 years, noting the current slow pace of inflation moderation?
The fundamental causes of inflation are well documented from stimulus courtesy of the Pandemic and supply chain interruptions, the reticence of Central Banks to act sooner so from the time 10 Year Bond Yields breached 1% some 2 and a half years ago and now geo-political events putting pressure on energy costs and petroleum
To that is reticence to act on climate, increasing insurance costs if you can insure
The (now) increasing cost of borrowing (still historically low off a Cash Rate of 4.1%) plus the cost of Insurance (Insurance a requirement of lenders) pressures rent costs (globally) – and may be forcing some to exit the property investment space contracting availability, this also contributing to rent increases
In regard inflation, it is noted that the factors contributing to the easing of inflation year on year include government rental assistance, government assistance with Child Care costs and government caps of energy pricing – so targeted supports not adding to inflation but mitigating inflation
The significant contributors include Insurance and what we see driving past petrol stations – or walking past!!
Bear in mind, if you are a borrower and fail to pay your Insurance premium, the lender has the authority to debit your account so the lender is not at risk (so Concessions agreements)
And if you can not insure, the lender will not lend
Of interest elsewhere is The Age now describing the jailed former MP as a former Cabinet Minister, not an Independent (and I would offer in the face of an accusation of political bias – sometimes it is just so rank they have to move!)
A Cabinet Minister in an LNP government (yes, there are rotten eggs on all sides, replicating society)
Of interest is the defence of another former Liberal Party minister, promoting a money laundering scheme and his defence that he was not aware, only paid to spruik the business
Simply, if you lend your name you make it your business to audit precisely who and what you are lending your name to AND you continue that audit
To defend “I did not know” does not cut it
It is your name being trashed
I note a neighbour with (since the referendum) a front yard sign putting that it is OK to vote no to division
Well, across society there is division
There is division in our political system resulting from there being a government and an Opposition, so the Opposiion oppose
The Referendum was lost on such glib falsehoods of promoting division and the very fact that the question was opposed – noting who opposed sitting behind their generic organisation branding such as “Australia First” or whatever
Mind you this neighbor’s property is in a run down state both in terms of building maintenance (so weeds growing out of rusted and leaking gutters, woodwork rotting etc etc) and yard maintenance) depreciating from the ambiance of the suburb (and where the conversation is it would only be bought for land value and demolished)
It makes you wonder who the “Liberal” Party now rely on for their support
Taylormade thinks that if he keeps being as obnoxious as Dutton, he’ll eventually prevail. That the tenor of his contributions will eventually erode our resistance to the Illiberal message and we will relent in the face of his perpetual negativity towards the federal government.
Yeah nah.
The Herald Sun have just posted an article about Palestine Support and Albo. Interesting.
Also, as Hwga points out, targeted government interventions are moderating inflation. Something Taylormade will never acknowledge with his Cost of Living ‘not going down’ bleat.
The Australian government can support Palestine without supporting Hamas. Though with the amount of corruption there you’d want to know that the money is ending up where it is intended.
I expect Anna to be in all sorts after 10am today if the poll is as I think it will be.
Here we go again
It was so blatantly obvious that the Age reporting of the former MP, was to give the impression it was a former cabinet minister of Labor. You needed to keep reading to realise he wasn’t. Sheesh!
CFEMU very noisy in Macquarie Street.
Setka in Sydney
Oh, I forgot – Taylormerde also gets a degree of support from “michael” from Menzies house:
“ The Herald Sun have just [blah de blah … Albo … boo!]. Interesting.”
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Lols, Sukkar!
Michael, courier has been trying for quite a while now to engineer the exit of AP. I don’t trust anything said in the courier ( Murdochracy)
Thanks for the Dawn Patrol BK, I don’t say that enough.
Shellbell
Can you keep him? Setka is not beloved in Melbourne town.
On the Cathy Wilcox cartoon I think she does her point a disservice by including maternity leave pay in there (and leading with it, even).
The government only pays out national minimum wage whatever your salary and it is means tested to boot.
If a woman has earned a higher salary in her job, then she will still get that higher salary on paid leave whether it is mat leave or any other type of leave, that’s fair. And it’s paid by the employer, so not at all in the same boat as government spending on schools or government lack of taxing for mining companies.
ON QLD LNP Facebook Page.
Inside info maybe.
“Hey Queensland,
exactly one year from today you can show Labor the door in 2024”
Anna just posted 1hr ago on her facebook page about the Big QLD Build. Has not given up yet.
For anyone still catching up on what a nasty piece of work this unknown Louisiana creepy Republican Mike Johnston is:
1/ Major insurrectionist beyond Jan 6, with even the Supreme Court refusing to take his unconstitutional brief to throw out election results in swing states
2/ Spokesperson for ‘Christian’ Hate Group pushing recriminalisation of consenting LGBTQ+ sexual relations
3/ Opposing LGBTQ+ rights and education about sexual alignment – “don’t say gay”
4/ Nation wide ban on abortion agenda
5/ Cut social security and medicare
6/ Restrict divorce
7/Climate sceptic
So, basically an all walking all talking model of a fundamentalist ignorant fearful regressive politician who should be kept well away from the levers of power.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/25/who-is-mike-johnson-house-speaker-election-denier-climate-anti-abortion
That Trump is still wielding such power in Congress is terrifying.
Quasar
Thanks very much for the kind vote last night 🙂
Taylormade
“His girlfriend stuffed up. Stood in the wrong spot for the official photo.”
Is that grounds for separation in the Liberal Party?
TRUMP is still the problem with the speaker selection.