…I’m waiting for the Nuclear Non-Core Promise® to appear
That would be the one where they get their mates to build the reactors but neglect to include the fission bit. “Well yeah but what about those de-sal plants?” “They’re supplying lots of water to essential locations” “Our reactors have racing stripes”
Littleproud instances the Lib victory in the Collie seat in WA State elections as evidence of public suuport for nuclear energy.
I think we already know it’s non-core. A couple of LNP types have admitted as much in their more candid moments.
It’s a financial fantasy designed to (1) give them something to talk about and (2) extend the life of coal and gas.
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I am not sure about that. You don’t generally join a political party because you are looking for a job or even a career. It is a lot more altruistic than that, with probably a passion or strong belief driving you. And once you set your mind on a political career, the reality of how to get there turns many off, apart from the salary and tough work conditions. I only became a Councillor by mistake, supporting a good friend to get elected by running his ticket with me as number two. He got elected and I didn’t, but then he suddenly died and I won the recount. Maybe that is why I was good at it.
There are lots of failed politicians, who were sent to oblivion as well.
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To be fair, now we’ll (probably) never know.
If Temu Trump had scored the election this weekend in line with OG Trump’s Crash it could have got ugly.
Early voting still two weeks away.
You just need to look at Angus Taylor propping up his family business…… and countless rorts where Libs have funded companies owned by party ministers
Then you look at the MP’s who have retired and been given high paying jobs for party donors, or being given delegate roles overseas.
Then on top of this…. A very cushy pension after politics.
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Three of those stand out (except we don’t know how the Libs were connected to these companies):
*$500 million plus to the Great Barrier Reef foundation
*$423 million to Paladin (who?) for “security services” at Manus Island for 22 months.
*$385 million to Canstruct “International” for Nauru island detention centre. Canstruct (a Brisbane-based company) originally had been awarded $8M but within a month it was mysteriously bumped up to $385M even though there had been no new arrivals in the previous 3 years. They were making profits of $10,000 a day for each person in detention.
ALL of these were awarded without tender and without any scrutiny. That’s a lazy biillion+ taxpayer dollars diverted to their mates with no scrutiny, no questions asked, and no-one seems to remember it.
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Then you have water rights, where the biggest players are foreign companies.
Should be simple to make a rule where water rights can only be owned by Australians or Australian companies.
Canada, the USA, China and United Kingdom are the largest foreign owners of Australian water. It shows that Canada holds 2.1 per cent of all Australian water entitlements, the USA 1.8 per cent, with China and the United Kingdom each holding 0.8 per cent.
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What are they going to do, divert the river to Canada?
Did he mention Vienettas?
I don’t mind the back story - a boy from the housos becomes PM. Anyone can become PM.
I had letters from ALP and Coalition arranging a postal vote for me, before the Trump train crash.
Snails sabotaged the Coalition one.
The CFMEU says hi
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Temu Trump Dutton rocks up to a petrol station in a petrol tanker. What a try hard
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Thus is a disastrous time to be having an election. Not Albanese’s fault or anything, but it’s still nearly four weeks to polling day and it’ll be another week after that before anyone gets properly sworn in etc. Meanwhile the world it turning itself upside down and the global economy is cratering in a way that’s shaping to make the Great Depression look like somebody lost a 20c piece down the back of the couch, and parliament is in recession and the govt is in caretaker mode.
This is very different to the 2008 GFC (for one thing, the USA wasn’t busily bending all its energies to making the GFC worse) but one of the absolutely vital aspects to the successful Rudd/Swan policy reaction to the GFC was the ability to react quickly and decisively with the big stimulus and spending package, and head off the disaster before it got too much momentum to stop.
We don’t have that option this time round. The RBA absolutely needs to step in with an emergency rate cut (they of course won’t, because that would mean admitting how badly they got it wrong the other week), but with economic policy on remote control for at least another month, there’s nobody able to pull any actual policy levers right now.
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whens the next RBA meeting?
