Saturday 12 February 2022

Fighting Fake News with REAL 12/2/22; Tony Abbott Role Model; Grumpy Geezer; The Incredibly uncredible Credlin; The Shovel; Unemployment

 

 

 

Stefan Eracleous on the campaign trail with former prime minister Tony Abbott in 2013.

Who said that the New Young Liberals aren’t the New Neo-Nazis? Tony A was a thug too, and it took him all the way and back again maybe. He's been a role model and a career path to follow

These clues led to an Australian mobile phone number and an approximate home address in outer suburban Melbourne. Further data mining fully lifted John Dixon’s black mask: he is a Victorian man and former Melbourne University Young Liberals office holder named Stefan Eracleous.

Source: Former Young Liberal Stefan Eracleous unmasked as neo-Nazi

Spud pulling the wings off butterflies – “I think I will, I think I won’t…”. You’ve got to feel for der Gruppenfritter. Well, no you don’t – the bloke’s what an arsehole would be if arseholes had an arsehole, or in kinder parlance he’s a fully cooked unit, so rather let’s just have a chuckle at his dilemma – will he deploy an IED or will he hold off hoping Scooter goes full Campbell Newman. Spud can smell the blood in the water. Herr Shickletuber is no doubt delighted at Scooter’s travails; according to Bob Carr going so far as chucking a grenade down the hallway in the form of a public airing of a scathing text assessment of Scooter’s character as a “fraud” and “complete psycho”. The potato wedge (someone had to say it).

Source: Is it possible to feel sympathy for Smirko? Yeah, nah! – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Third ally turns on Morrison

 Problem with Credlin is she like all Liberals live with myths of the past. The fact is the LNP has been the highest taxing Government not the lowest. The greatest to go back on its promises. Increased Government debt like no other and refuses to admit to the worst leadership we've ever experienced for three terms. Credlin is a reflection and amplification of the chaos in the L-NP

News Corp columnist David Penberthy says he thinks many Australians regard the Prime Minister as “expendable”. Sky News host Peta Credlin has lashed Prime Minister Scott Morrison, pleading with him to “do better” or abandon his chances at the next election. 

In an opinion piece for The Australian, Credlin said Mr Morrison needed to give voters “a reason to vote for you” and said the performance of the Liberal party was leaving people “politically homeless”. “The government that’s going into this election is almost unrecognisable from the one elected in 2013,” Credlin wrote. The former Liberal staffer said the actions of Mr Morrison had led to a lot of “disillusionment among many Liberal supporters”, especially on policy related to lowered taxes and more support for big businesses. “There’s no big political party that’s rock-solid for lower taxes, smaller government and greater freedom, plus support for the family, small business and the institutions that have made this country what it is,” she wrote.

Source: Peta Credlin joins Andrew Bolt, Janet Albrechtsen, calls out Prime Minister Scott Morrison | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site

 

Residents from the NSW regional town of Wagga Wagga have been told they won’t need to pay for their broadband

Wagga Wagga households mysteriously receive two years free internet from Optus 
 

So for several decades, the bureau has supplemented the official unemployment figures by also publishing the number of people underemployed – those part-timers who’d prefer working work more hours. The latest figures show an unemployment rate of 4.2 per cent, plus an underemployment rate of 6.6 per cent. Thus it is true the official unemployment rate of 4.2 per cent isn’t as good as it looks. It does understate the proportion of people who aren’t able to find as much work as they want.

 We’ve had great success in creating extra jobs in the past year – most of which have been full-time – mainly because the government has responded to the pandemic with massively increased government spending. But the economy may slow if, as all that “fiscal stimulus” runs out, the private sector doesn’t take up the running.

 The jobs market has also had a lot of help from an unprecedented (and temporary) source: for two years our borders have been closed to incoming workers. Skilled workers on temporary visas, and overseas students and backpackers doing unskilled and casual jobs.

The workforce has shrunk

Source: Can we believe the great news on unemployment? Yes and no


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