After two weeks, two long weeks of fawning Budget coverage, leak after leak, story after story brown-nosing the Coalition, reciting Treasurer Frydenberg’s talking points; after all that free publicity, what do they do? They miss the story. Michael West reports.
The story of course, picked up here by reporter Callum Foote, is that taxes will rise, not fall. For 10 million working Australians. That’s thanks to the tax offset for low and middle income earners closing on June 30.
Yet the Coalition’s corporate media acolytes, once again, in their droves, though decrying Putin and his Pravda, trotted out the official message that taxes would be lower.
With obsequious precision, they ignored the ballooning debt and the looming $25bn annual interest bills on those borrowings, and an endless horizon of deep deficits. They glossed over stagnant wages, even parroting the Treasurer’s claim that fewer jobless would now lead to higher wages.
And despite their wailing about Labor’s debt and deficits, though a mere fraction of what we owe now, they applauded the sugar hit, the cash splash, the cynical reckless splashing of public money as somehow worthy of praise.
The most venal of the lot, the Murdoch tabloids, were as usual the most absurd. Headlined “It’s a Working Class Plan” the Daily Tele managed to embellish even the government’s own PR blandishments. “Tradie Cash Splash for Blue Collar Heartland”, “Fistful of Dollars … to Families”.
Source: Big Budget Bluff: how the Coalition conned its media allies and left 10m Australians in the lurch – Michael West Media
The fundamental issue of systemic decline in the material well being of Australians has been forgone yet again for a bag of short term bribes promises like "wage increases will happen". The LNP have said that 55 times before and were wrong 52. Climate Change has seen a cut Yet the Northern rivers are in for another disaster. The Arts which employs more workers than most sectors is in for a cut, But not the drive to push wages down by increasing unskilled un-unionised labor by 35%. Meanwhile while the cost of living will continue to rise and family savings will continue to be depleted as a consequence forcing workers into even more casualised and multiple jobs.
Episode 81: Morrison’s election budget misses the point as Liberals expose who he really is, COVID making a come back and good news about wind turbines
Vote buying STILL doesn't address the fundamental issues of insecure work and low wage growth that is dragging down the economy and people's household budgets.
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"Quick! He's on his way!"
Lismore residents told to evacuate to avoid being hit by another PR disaster
Morrison tells renters to buy house using equity from their existing investment properties
Guaranteed this demand will be put off until after the election. Is Morrison Trump in Australia? If there's nothing to hide why fight it so desperately for 2 years?
After two-year freedom of information battle with Guardian
Australia, the PM’s office has been told to search for any messages with
QAnon proponent Tim Stewart
To verify some of the claims made, in
October 2019 Guardian Australia filed a freedom of information request
for documents held by the prime minister’s office, including text
messages, related to Stewart. This was later narrowed down to just the
text and WhatsApp messages between Stewart and Morrison between
September and October 2019, when the story was first reported.
In March 2020, the prime minister’s
office refused the request, stating: “The prime minister is the head of
the national government and your request presents a significant
challenge to the day-to-day execution of his duties … the time that
could be spent potentially processing your request would be a
substantial and unreasonable diversion with the performance of the
minister’s functions.”
Two years after Guardian Australia
appealed the decision to the Office of the Australian Information
Commissioner, the acting commissioner, Elizabeth Hampton, has ruled the prime minister’s office must process the request on the basis that “a practical refusal reason does not exist”.
The PMO sought to argue to the
commissioner that it would take 50 hours to process the request, and
erroneously claimed what was being sought was two years’ worth of text
messages that could only be reviewed by a small number of staffers in
the PM’s office, including his chief of staff.
Guaranteed this demand will be put off until after the election. Is Morrison Trump in Australia? If there's nothing to hide why fight it so desperately for 2 years?
After two-year freedom of information battle with Guardian Australia, the PM’s office has been told to search for any messages with QAnon proponent Tim Stewart
To verify some of the claims made, in October 2019 Guardian Australia filed a freedom of information request for documents held by the prime minister’s office, including text messages, related to Stewart. This was later narrowed down to just the text and WhatsApp messages between Stewart and Morrison between September and October 2019, when the story was first reported.
In March 2020, the prime minister’s office refused the request, stating: “The prime minister is the head of the national government and your request presents a significant challenge to the day-to-day execution of his duties … the time that could be spent potentially processing your request would be a substantial and unreasonable diversion with the performance of the minister’s functions.”
Two years after Guardian Australia appealed the decision to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner, the acting commissioner, Elizabeth Hampton, has ruled the prime minister’s office must process the request on the basis that “a practical refusal reason does not exist”.
The PMO sought to argue to the commissioner that it would take 50 hours to process the request, and erroneously claimed what was being sought was two years’ worth of text messages that could only be reviewed by a small number of staffers in the PM’s office, including his chief of staff.
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