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I hope he does.
The country needs a good Morrisoning.
Exactly, too many lazy degenerates that would just blow the money and still want handouts.
This perfectly illustrates the horror show that was Queensland.
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Someone pointed out in the comments how long the coalitionâs been in power and nothings changed. Silence.
To name but a few
- cuts to the ABC
- mystery multi million dollar subsidy to Fox
- cuts to the refugee quota ( for the stated purpose to ease traffic congestion)
- postal survey on SSM as an alternative to a conscience vote
- the building and construction surveillance body
- bypassing government procurement rules in letting contracts ( now being investigated by the ANAO)
- merging Immigration and Customs into Border Force and making their primary functions subject to a quasi police force)
- Watergate and mismanagement of the MDB
-dropping the NEG after Cabinet approval and which was likely to receive bipartisan support - blocking of the Royal Commission into the banking sector
- bypassing the constitutional convention of executive government in decision making
- mismanaging the China relationship
- erosion of the tax base and introducing further inequities in the tax system
- opposing medevac for refugees
- racist dogwhistling from the PM down on the so-callled African gangs
- undermining of the Victorian judicial system by senior Ministers
Could have been a lot worse if the Coalition had held the balance of power in the Senate
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And lest we forget - under resourcing the NDIS so that itâs dysfunction caused a limiting effect on throughput, thereby misrepresenting demand. Then dramatically cutting the NDIS budget âto align with demandâ. Thatâs just evil.
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You missed the half Billion just handed to a mob who didnât want or ask for it & knows nothing about Saving Reefs, to save the reef, âŚnot.
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On the MDB thing, the NSW Nats seats all got swings to them. These people donât care about their rivers or family farms. Hope they donât mind finding a new life on the fringes of bigger cities once their industries dry up along with whatâs left of the water.
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Yep. Clinton was actually to the right of Trump on trade (for TPP, NAFTA) and foreign policy (massive war hawk) which Trump tapped into the failed neoliberal policies of the 90s/early 00s which had gutted middle America.
Back to the Oz election, I look at Qld and how their economy is hugely resource driven and I donât see any meaningful policies which would assuage the electorate up there that their jobs/livelihood will be secure in a Government thatâs rhetoric is all about decarbonisation. Itâs an easy play by the Coalition to make vs ALP. If the ALP wants to win Qld, it needs to offer its own version of a âGreen New Dealâ, a pathway for miners, farmers etc to be able to stay afloat during the age of decarbonisation.
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One nugget of comfort (actually donât mean âcomfort per seâ - I truly feel sorry for people who will be affected) is that Morrison has been handed a ticking time bomb (our economy) and itâs going to blow spectacularly in his face. There will be a huge reckoning coming when the housing bubble bursts.
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Also, a third world NBN, plus cuts to arts funding and largely making such grants the fiefdom of the Minister
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The unfortunate position Qld finds itself in is that its two main economic drivers, resources and reef tourism are directly at odds with each other, and both are probably going to collapse in the not too distant future.
Delivering billion dollar contracts to organisations without a tender process.
Delivering billion dollar contracts to organisations that have no business address, other than a beach shack in Indonesia, and is partly owned by MPâs in the Liberal Party.
Poisoning rural water ways, because of the mass sale of irrigation to foreign owned cotton farms & Mining companies. Leaving rural townships with no clean drinking water for weeks.
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And letâs not forget those same townships just put them back in with antra 3-5% if you donât mind.
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This is just about the most depressing aspect of the result, other than the continued flagrant human rights abuses on Manus and ecological warfare on the country. By voting these insidious, odious â â â â â â â back in, the electorate have tacitly rubber stamped all this corruption.
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Wentworth has gone to Sharma. Looks like the electorate has gone past that protest vote for Turnbull.
Why hasnât Kooyong been called?
âGame of Thronesâ leads the start of AM 