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Palaszczuk and Berejiklian let it rip and describe the real Scott Morrison

Thursday was the day Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk finally had had enough of Scott Morrison. She announced she was not waiting any longer for the Prime Minister to work with Queensland. In January, Palaszczuk decided that Queensland needed to dump the failed system of hotel quarantine and build its own cabin-style facility. But when she pitched this to Morrison, he was unsupportive.

 Even Berejiklian is fed up with the PM, who she privately regards as an ‘evil bully’

 Whether it’s climate change, the pandemic or the Afghanistan evacuation, a determined lack of urgency defines our national government.

Inertia is the Morrison government’s personality disorder - and it keeps dawdling to destruction

 

 His best friends are Anon Freaks and Morrison says he didn't know and it's a coincidence

  

 

 

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Their model Australia their fear Germany. Can you believe their arguments? Unions stifle innovation, quality and progress. Simply compare Australia Canada and Germany and their corporations. Mercedes, BMW are all backward corporations with their boards of 50% union representation.

  Founded by Canada’s most powerful business lobbyists, bankers, and oil companies, the Coalition for a Better Future is crafting a plan to attack workers and reorganize the post-pandemic economy in the interests of the rich.

Some of Canada’s Biggest Capitalists Are Plotting an Attack on Canadian Workers

 

Banks are profiteering from the Reserve Bank's bail-out fund by betting on their own bonds. Michael West investigates a very...

Verging on Ponzi: how the banks are rorting the RBA’s big bail-out fund

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg appears to have thrown the most important findings of the banking royal commission under a bus, in glorious double-speak. On Thursday he issued a direction to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission through what is known as a statement of expectations. It is very different from the previous such statement, issued in 2018. This one includes an entirely new clause, placed right at the top. The government expects ASIC to: identify and pursue opportunities to contribute to the government’s economic goals, including supporting Australia’s economic recovery from the COVID pandemic.  ASIC’s description says it is a regulator whose job is to “take whatever action we can, and which is necessary, to enforce and give effect to the law”. From ‘why not litigate’… It’s how the royal commission saw ASIC’s role.

…to ‘why not capitulate’

Rather than “why not litigate,” it reads as “why not capitulate” — justified by the need to identify opportunities to contribute to Australia’s economic recovery.

 Frydenberg’s directions to ASIC throw the banking royal commission under a bus

 

A long-anticipated plan to reform Australia’s electricity system was released on Thursday. One of the most controversial proposals by the Energy Security Board (ESB) concerns subsidies which critics say will encourage dirty coal plants to stay open longer. The subsidies, under a so-called “capacity mechanism”, would aim to ensure reliable energy supplies as old coal plants retire. Major coal generators say the proposal will achieve this aim. But renewables operators and others oppose the plan, saying it will pay coal plants for simply existing and delay the clean energy transition.

 As the world battles to slash carbon emissions, Australia considers paying dirty coal stations to stay open longer

 

 Why bother advertising in the Herald Sun?

Media Slow news day: the Herald Sun falls back in the pack A long-time kingpin in Melbourne print media, the Herald Sun has taken quite the tumble, falling to fourth place among News Corp’s Australian mastheads. There’s a changing of the guard in Australia’s media: long-time Melbourne circulation kingpin the Herald Sun has tumbled way down the rankings. Now, it looks like it’s not only runner-up to local competitor The Age, it’s fallen to fourth spot among News Corp’s remaining Australian mastheads.

 It’s the second blow to News Corp’s market supremacy, following the ABC’s leap to displace news.com.au at the top of the Nielsen Digital News Content rankings since the 2020 summer of bushfires. The Herald Sun — boasting an audited circulation over twice its competitor with 600,000 copies when it first merged back in 1990 — is down more than three-fourths, with 146,026 subscribers across its print and digital products, according to June 30 internal figures reported by the company to the US Securities and Exchange Commission.

 It explains why Andrew Bolt has stopped blogging since 12/8/21 He knock knocked and nobody was there to sell to.

 Slow news day: the Herald Sun falls back in the pack