When the world judged Australia the best economy and Wayne Swan the best treasurer during the GFC the L-NP bellowed they were the worst. Now when world comparisons with other nations show their 8-year slide Barnaby Joyce makes out they are the better managers. Yes, Barnaby Joyce who showed us he couldn’t manage his own life let alone the nation's is running point guard for Scott Morrison who has a history of sackings for bad management. It’s time, time for his third sacking.
The opposition is ahead 56-44 on a two-party-preferred basis – the Coalition’s worst polling performance since September 2018 – according to the latest Newspoll survey conducted for The Australian newspaper. As the coronavirus pandemic drags on, Labor has increased its lead since the last poll on December 6 when it was ahead 53-47. Labor’s primary vote is up three points to 41 per cent while the Coalition has dropped two points to 34 per cent. For the first time, more voters surveyed thought Labor was better placed to steer Australia out of the COVID-19 pandemic (33 per cent) compared with the coalition (32 per cent). Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce said the pandemic made things tough but economic growth and a low unemployment rate were signs of good economic management.
Source: Coalition defends slump in latest Newspoll
Aged-care residents are being forced to isolate in their rooms without visits from family members for “weeks on end” as COVID-19 rips through the sector. Government figures show more than 1100 aged-care homes are now battling active outbreaks, with 222 elderly residents dying of COVID-19 in the week to January 27. All the while homes are having to get by with fewer workers.
Source: Booster rollout questioned as COVID aged care outbreaks surge
When the Prime Minister chooses his Ministry, he has many things to consider – reward for support, factions, states, urban/country, diversity, longevity of service. Merit doesn’t get a look in. Or perhaps this bunch are the best the Coalition has?
Source: The best a man can get – » The Australian Independent Media Network
Donald Trump, retired former blogger and twice impeached loser, had a rally of some sort in Texas on Saturday night. It was filled with the usual “lock her up” chants, conspiracy theories, lies, and right wing hysteria. One section really stood out to me, though. After ranting about investigations into him and his businesses, he actually encouraged his followers and cult members to riot and protest.
Source: Trump Desperate To See Riots In DC, Atlanta, And NYC | Crooks and Liars
Trump is doing what America and American governments have done since WW2. He demanded to be America’s first Public Dictator and has called for an army to anoint him as such.
America tried to do it in Vietnam, Nicaragua, Afghanistan and lost
but by and large were successful in El Salvador , Honduras, Panama,
Chile throughout the Americas and so many other countries around the
world in open defiance of any UN resolutions. They have defended Israel
and other client states allowing them to do the same. It was just
business. Now a Despot, the mirror image of what they wanted, and
allowed in so many other countries, has been provided with the same
opportunity that successive American governments offered others and he's tearing a nation that was always being stretched apart.
John Dean, 83, was White House counsel from 1970 to 1973 before being disbarred and detained as a result of the Watergate scandal, which led to Nixon’s resignation in 1974. Dean responded to Trump on Twitter. “This is beyond being a demagogue to the stuff of dictators,” he wrote. “He is defying the rule of law. Failure to confront a tyrant only encourages bad behaviour. If thinking Americans don’t understand what Trump is doing and what the criminal justice system must do we are all in big trouble!”
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