Coalition spending over the past six years has been nearly half that of the past 40 years and is forecast to drop further. With many services already cut to the bone, even the Parliamentary Budget Office has warned such ‘spending restraint’ is likely to be unsustainable. In a post-pandemic world, bringing forward tax cuts that only benefit high earners would be irresponsible, writes Michael Keating.

 FAKE NEWS

CORONAVIRUS: SOUTH AUSTRALIA LETS IN CHINESE STUDENTS, BANS GRIEVING VICTORIANS

South Australia will let in 300 foreign students, many Chinese, but it won't let in Victorians desperate to comfort their sick or dying mothers. Meanwhile, Victoria extorts land tax from private businesses going bust from its bans, to fund pay rises for public servants. My editorial from The Bolt Report.
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Bolt insists there is no such thing as race. Apparently, there is when queuing with a virus the virus doesn't count. Wild blown out generalisations like hundreds of Victorians are queued to comfort their sick and dying mothers. The bans are an overreach and there is no proof they have lowered or flattened the curve. Basically, Bolt simply keeps stealing Tobacco company arguments to allow everyone to smoke as the cause of death by COVID or with COVID hasn't been proved and the correlation that might exist isn't causation. Given that there really is no reason to do very much at all as the young are safe.
Note doesn't Bolt demand that the sick and dying aged be the most protected and all our resources concentrated on that purpose? Isn't this a case of doing what Bolt has spent energy-demanding? Don't tell me another self-proclaimed 'stable genius' has set fire to his stable

CUOMO BOASTS OF 'BEAUTIFUL' RESULT: HIGHEST DEATH TOLL IN U.S.

New York Democrat Governor Andrew Cuomo is a sick man, and the journalists who praise him are propagandists. He tells the Democrat convention he beat what he bizarrely calls "the European virus":  "For all the pain and all the tears, our way worked. And it was beautiful." Beautiful is, it seems, the highest death toll of any state. Sick. 
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Is it any surprise that Trump and Bolt don't know 1) the difference between States and Cities yet they compare them. 2) that New York is the gateway to America 3) it's the most densest population in America. 4) at a time when nobody knew what to expect from the virus and Trump was yelling it wasn't his problem and any move was an overreach. 
Bolt is still advocating strategies as if we were in stage one except when there some political advantage to be gained like here point out Wyoming has fewer cases and deaths than New York. If he rembles ling enough like Trump some people yes some people just might thing he has a semblance of a valid argument that comparisons might be made if valid. His are a lesson in stupidity (ODT)
 
 

MICHAEL RUBIN: OUR 'SOFT DIPLOMACY' WON'T SAVE MOORE-GILBERT FROM IRAN

Middle East expert Michael Rubin said on my show last night that Australia's "soft diplomacy" to free academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert from her Iranian jail was a mistake. Public embarrassment works better on a fascist regime that keeps foreigners as hostages. Watch our interview.
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So Bolt  Bolt is going to publicly embarass Iran by having more of Panahi on his show. That should do it.

WHY ARE SHOPS SHUT IF FACE MASKS WORK?

I have a question for the Victorian Government - and the Karens -  who so furiously insist we should wear face masks even outside, in the sun and open air. If face masks work so well, why can't we now open all the shops?
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Bolts efforts to undermine Dan Andrews reminds me of the song "looking for love in all the wrong places" 

BRUCE PASCOE SCANDAL: TEACHERS GIVEN STUDY GUIDE FOR FAKE HISTORY

Reason is dead. Tony Thomas has written about yet another study guide for teachers to promote the fake history of "Aboriginal" historian Bruce Pascoe. There's not the slightest attempt to check Pascoe's preposterous claims that Aborigines were in fact "farmers" living in "towns" of "1000 people" with wells "70 feet deep" and animal "pens". Read on.
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For right-wingers history is an immutable fact once written never to be questioned. No stolen children it's never been officially written doesn't 1+1 =2 for heaven's sake. How dare anyone suggest Australia was colonised illegally. Where was it ever written? Children need to be 'trained' in the immutable facts and principles and not be allowed to re-interpret data found as it just might bring down the house of cards on which White Australia's mythologies are built.