The most rampant era of welfare rorting in Australia’s history draws to a close at the end of the month when the JobKeeper scheme ends. Luke Stacey and Michael West investigate some of the big grifters and how they pulled it off … while we await a response from Business Council of Australia.

Compare Pink Bats with Aged Care, Education, Child Care, JobKeeper, NBN, Corporate Wage Theft, Grants for Votes and Rorts like water rights then ask whose policies enabled the greatest harm and cost to Australia. Who increased the income and wealth gaps and assisted the biggest crimes ever documented to happen without policing or consequences that resulted in the destruction of the health and deaths of its citizens? Pink Bats was a mistake the LNP's 8 years has been criminal intent. 

 

We Are NOT Prey

Last time he got away with it.

This time I was believed, and I pressed charges against my assailant. Because I now have a support network who have aided me in moving past the traumas of being the victim of a sexual predator, this time I have been stronger.

I hope there is never a next time, but that is up to the men of Australia.

 

Wren's Week: Christian Porter's past has led to his condemnation

No not guilty, but a review as to whether or not he's a suitable AG has to be reasonable, and as is asking why Morrison refuses to even entertain the question? What has Porter got over Morrison that prevents his ability to lead?

Despite his denial of recent allegations, Christian Porter's past history has left him with a guilty verdict in the trial-by-public.

 JULIAN BURNSIDE: Dutton is still spending billions to keep people in misery

 
 

Will Neoliberalism Morph into Fascism in the United States?

"Neoliberalism, at its heart, is class war waged from above under the guise of rational, technocratic management of an economy that must — as neoliberals claim —be shielded from the corrosive influence of democratic politics." [1]
— Chris Maisano

"[W]hat’s becoming increasingly clear to many scholars and intellectuals is that there is a new morphology of fascism that is taking place in the United States, one that is integrated into, and supportive of, the political logic of neoliberalism." [2]
— Eric J. Wiener

"The ideology of neoliberal capitalism was the promise of growth. But with neoliberal capitalism reaching a dead end, this promise disappears and so does this ideological prop. To sustain itself, neoliberalism starts looking for some other ideological prop and finds fascism." [3]
— Utsa Patnaik and Prabhat Patnaick

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