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There are signs that Prime Minister
Anthony Albanese seems more interested in dealing with the plight of
Julian Assange than was the Morrison government. UK Home Secretary Priti
Patel has to decide whether or not to sign off on Assange’s extradition
to the US by the middle of this month. Albanese must act now, writes Greg Barns.
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"For his party, Scott Morrison leaves behind him an electoral crater and the ashes of two illusions: that he was a supernaturally gifted campaigner, and that the Liberal Party was a functionally broad and collegial church.
For the rest of us, Morrison leaves behind something more disturbing and mysterious: a confoundingly empty legacy. I don’t mean this only as a reference to his scant achievements, but to something deeper: four years of a prime ministership that seems eeril...
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"If a party loses its heartland, does that mean it has lost its heart? The Liberals didn’t just lose once “safe seats” such as Kooyong, Goldstein, Wentworth and Mackellar to independents, they lost the seat of Ryan to the Greens, and Higgins – Peter Costello’s old seat – to Labor. While former Liberal MPs such as Tim Wilson claim they were attacked from all directions, the reality is that former Liberal voters ran fleeing from their party in all directions.
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Amid the chaos of the gas crisis, the name Alan Carpenter has emerged as the hero of Australian resources policy.
Carpenter was the Labor premier of Western Australia in 2006 when he stood up to Exxon and ensured that 15% of the gas from the colossal Gorgon project off the state’s north-west would be reserved for the domestic market. Exxon executives threatened to cancel the project, but relented when Carpenter made it clear he would not budge.
As reported by the ABC’s business editor Ian Verrender, the result is that in WA, the spike in global gas prices has barely registered. Gas is available at around $6.50 a gigajoule. On the east coast, the Australian Energy Market Operator last week was forced to cap gas prices at $40 a gigajoule after spot and forward markets sent prices as high as $800.
If only Carpenter’s eastern state counterparts had similar foresight. Australia has become a gas superpower abroad, a beggar at home. And the crisis is sending businesses to the wall.
But a prophet is without honour at home, and Carpenter was defeated at the 2008 WA election. He is rightly enjoying a little media attention now.
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