Not by a long way
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No. Take a look around. We are surrounded by idiots.
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It would certainly be an interesting experiment to see the extent of changes to public opinion if every tabloid filled their front pages with âScomo Is a Dudâ for a year, but that, or anything like it, will never happen.
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Or if they startef ridiculing user pays and that small govt is bad.
FWIW, The Australian considers it newsworthy.
(The URL doesnât reflect the title of the article, or the first half of its content.)
Poor old Josh trailing 59-41 to Monique Ryan in Kooyong.
TBH Iâm surprised heâs mustering even that.
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Unemployment at 3.95 and low interest rates in recent years would go against your ââ â â â policiesâ statement.
Unemployment figures are meaningful given the criteria. RBA sets monetary policy.
My goodness, one can hope.
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lol surely you donât believe that manipulated nonsense?
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The under employment rate is a key indicator. And we need to fix the casualisation of the workforce.
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Donât forget the poor old cousin âParticipation Rateâ. It can move the unemployment rate up or down in a flash.
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Itâs great to have such a low unemployment rate, yet every bloody industry amazingly has a staff shortage problem.
And not just a staff shortage problem, but also a problem finding people with the right skills.
Itâs not just here in Victoria. Itâs all across Australia.
A robust TAFE system would help.
Skilled migration has been impacted by closure of borders.
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Shortage of competent umpires
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Our education system at all levels needs an overhaul.
But the solution may be worse than whatâs there now.
What kind of talent wants to be a teacher? If you are successful in your field, youâll make more money in the industry than teaching it to anyone else.
I agree that skilled migration has been a huge barrier due to Covid. But thereâs no talk about it or any kind of acknowledgment about it. I wouldnât be surprised if there is a bit of a preference not say that we prefer to hand out working visas to overseas migrants to take away job prospects from Australians.
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Do you remember the bookies last election
7 News leading with traffic jams (which had dissipated before the âNewsâ started) and Albo being booed (and then in the piece itself said a majority cheered him).
After multiple mentions of GaffeGate, they squeezed in â$46 a weekâ after several minutes.
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Fairfax journo tells Epstein on radio Melbourne that Housing Minister Sukkar got stats wrong in earlier interview - loans had fallen, not risen, as asserted by Sukkar.
Will that be front page news to the effect that a Housing Minister should be on top of the basics of a policy for which he has portfolio responsibility? Did he lie, or not really know, considering he is responsible for loan guarantees for the home deposit scheme by the Government?
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