Fighting Fake News with REAL 9/3/20, Economic Evaluation, What a SHAME The ALP Minister for Public Health is acting like a Trumpster ; Why are our Politicians acting like Trump?

Australia under the Coalition: Economic management at an all-time low

Coronavirus outbreak

Health Minister refuses to apologise to coronavirus GP

Pressure is mounting on Jenny Mikakos to apologise to doctor diagnosed with coronavirus, as the medical community vents its fury at what it says is inconsistent messaging over the growing COVID-19 crisis

 I'm an ALP supporter and have been all my life, and Jenny Mikakos isn't. She's undoubtedly not a Bernie Sanders but in this circumstance seems more like Donald Trump or Craig Kelly. She shows she simply doesn't belong. This Minister is acting as you'd expect an LNP Minister or Hansonite to behave not an ALP politician. An egoist shouldn't hold the position of Minister for Public Health a strategist is needed. She isn't appointed to dictatorially finger and point out individual accidents. We are all capable of them and self-blame. What she is doing shows no insight into just how bad she looks and that she's not doing the job. It's is to be a systems analyst and provide a better systemic outcome for Public Health delivery in this seeming crisis without panic not to police and harass individuals for publicity? Clearly, she or her advisors are incompetent.

Are the Victorian homeless, indigenous, the unemployed, casual workers the old aged single mothers and other people on the margins of Victorian society getting the best possible health care services in terms of risk testing treatment? The demand for voluntary self-isolation amplifies a very loud no, and Mikakos is ignoring that in favour of attacking a doctor for being human.

 Given 1 out of 3 people contract unintended illnesses when attending hospitals is Mikakos actually doing her job and improving things? Advising people to go to hospitals given it's were in a pandemic you would be more likely to become a victim defies logic. So the answer, in short, It would seem not. She didn't discover Dr Higgins, he found himself. Yet it was Mikakos who for cheap publicity discovered her voice and jumped foolishly to centre stage to appear to be a leader only to find herself an autocratic idiot. Blaming individuals instead of doing battle against a systemic trend she leaves no confidence that she's in control. The Minister for Public Health has shown her incompetence and magnified it by her stubbornness. So in this battle, she really isn't needed. 

Scott Morrison is part of a pervasive culture that is eroding our democracy

Jacqueline Maley

You might say our petty domestic scandals should be put aside now we are facing a major health and economic crisis that no one can know the end of. But if we can’t trust our politicians to respect the conventions of fairness and transparency in ordinary times, imagine what they will be able to get away with under the cover of an all-engulfing crisis.

 Why did Scott Morrison finally admit this week he sought to have Hillsong pastor Brian Houston invited to a state dinner at the White House? For months he refused to answer questions about it, following a Wall Street Journal story on the matter.

Fake News

PASCOE SCANDAL: ABC VS ABORIGINES

COLUMN It wouldn’t matter what race people called themselves, unless a country was dumb enough to say it did. That country, sadly, is Australia. That's why Aboriginal activist and author Dr Stephen Hagan says people claiming to be Aboriginal should be made to name at least one important Aboriginal ancestor, and I was struck by one name he mentioned.

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Bolt's obsession with Pascoe is psychiatrically disturbing given Pascoe himself has said that he doubts his indigenous history so as such he doesn't qualify under the court's decision.  Bolt, on the other hand, shows clearly why holding a passport doesn't qualify a person to call themselves Australian. Bolt was charged and convicted of racial vilification back in 2011. He has, as far as I'm concerned, been a recidivist time and again making him look not just an embittered a fool, but a psychiatrically challenged one.

WONG: 'IF YOU HAD CHILDREN, YOU MIGHT UNDERSTAND'

Imagine had Tony Abbott said it: "That meeting concerned whether Labor would... support... children taking time off school to participate in climate emergency protests.... Kimberley Kitching argued [against]... Penny Wong, a noted climate change warrior, responded... 'Well, if you had children, you might understand.'" But the ABC didn't name her.

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Bolt certainly is outraged when Pascoe identifies as Indigenous, but he's not when it comes to Maiden. There seems to be an absolute hypocrisy on his part. It adds to the evidence it being a psychiatric condition he suffers from when he's right, but Penny Wong is wrong,  In all of this it's Bolt making out Kitching is a victim of the kind that Bolt makes out Pascoe to be how strange? 

TONIGHT: HOW BAD IS TODAY'S CRASH?

On The Bolt Report on Sky at 7pm:  How serious is today's stock market crash? I'll ask an expert who is now in quarantine. More mad footage of Australians at each other's throat as the coronavirus panic spreads.  One of the nastiest tweets yet by a journalist deranged by anti-Morrison hate. And an ex-Muslim woman crusading against Islam.

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Christianity is shrinking; Islam is growing, and Bolt has found someone complaining about a rapidly increasing belief system. I the UK surveys show that Muslims give x4 times the amount to charity than Christians do. Bolt's Christians keep their hands deep in their pockets, but Bolt won't discuss that no he looks for an individual with a complaint to be a blowhard on his bigotry hour. 

When the NZ massacre occurred, Bolt was the first to go into hiding coming out after a few days saying I never encouraged violence. Excuse me after the Barcelona bombings Bolt stated he wished young Christians were as motivated as the Barcelona terrorists were. What an asshole the man is.

 

Fighting Fake News with REAL 21/2/20; Wher does $1.7 billion held back from the NDIS go? Coal Fired Power and MAGA

The Victorian and NSW governments have accused the Commonwealth of holding back $1.7 billion in extra funds for the National Disability Insurance Scheme to prop up its promised budget surplus.
Victoria’s Disabilities Minister, Luke Donnellan, and his Liberal counterpart in NSW, Gareth Ward, have written to the federal government demanding that the reserve funds, which were agreed upon in May 2019, be immediately released.

 States say disabled miss out as Canberra hoards $1.7b of NDIS funding

 Where does the money go?

 

Matt Canavan, Jim Molan are men who don't need wiser heads to tell them what evidence based logic dictates (ODT

 A new coal-fired power station proposed for Collinsville in North Queensland could become a white elephant and leave taxpayers exposed, according to a leading economist.

Doubts raised over commercial viability of proposed north Queensland coal-fired power plant

  

 When the US says jump and says "buys our planes" which crash but then they say "we won't refund you buyer beware. Trump supports Boeing and MAGA only. However, the LNP want to become the 51rst state of the USA rather than a global or Pacific Nation. Withhold $1.7 billion from NDIS spend it on Defense for America.  (ODT)  

  

The money will be spent on upgrading RAAF Base Tindal, outside Katherine in the Northern Territory, which is seen as one of the most strategically important defence precincts for both Australia and the United States.

Government announces $1.1 billion upgrade of Top End air base

  

Everyday events you don't hear about from Andrew Bolt(ODT)

 Germany's minority groups have called for stronger government action against far-right radicalism and racism in the wake of a deadly gun attack on two shisha lounges. 

Angela Merkel says the gunman who killed nine people, all from immigrant backgrounds, appears to have been motivated by the "poison" of racism

Germany told to get tough on far-right terror after gunman kills nine in shisha bars

Fighting the Fake News, 14/6/19; This Governments record; Trump's Con-Way an illegal appointment; There are laws but only for some ; Logic tells us the States should go: Bye Bob:

 What global economic headwinds, Mathias? - Michael West

MATHIAS CORMANN is doing it again. He seldom gave an interview in his early years as finance minister without insisting “global headwinds” were impeding Australia’s economic progress. These ten pages show that. He belayed this in 2018 – four years into the current global boom – and switched instead to spruiking Australia’s “jobs and growth”.
Now the jobless rate is creeping up, economic growth has stumbled, interest rates have been cut and other indicators are sliding, he is back to “global headwinds” again.
There are no significant headwinds. The government wants to trick us into believing there are. Mainstream economics reporters know this is a ruse but play along.

Through the Labor years, Australia was in the top five OECD economies by GDP growth three times. The yellow chart, below, shows that in 2013 when Labor lost office growth was 2.64 per cent, ranking eighth


For much of its history, Australia’s robust economy has been in the top ten. It should still be there today. It was only after the change of settings in the Coalition government’s 2014 federal budget that the sails lost their trim and the vessel began to list to starboard.
Since then, Australia’s economy has gradually slipped back through the OECD rankings until on the latest figures, for the 2019 first quarter, it sits at an historically low 18th.

The fact that 34 of the 36 OECD members are in positive growth confirms that conditions are excellent for a well-set spinnaker. The average of 2.09 per cent is higher than the average of 1.61 per cent over the last twelve years.
Looking beyond the OECD, the evidence is even stronger. Average GDP growth for the top 100 economies is currently 3.05 per cent. That is higher than the twelve-year average of 2.99 per cent.
 From one of the world’s strongest employers through the GFC, Australia is now lagging badly. At 5.2 per cent Australia’s jobless rate ranks 75th in the world, out of 180 economies, and a lowly 19th in the OECD.

Trump's White House

'Unprecedented': Trump advisor Conway should be fired says federal watchdog

Wasn't Trump on the record for saying he hardly knew her yet she was his appointment? Should people in public office be political appointments? Why is Australia rushing to be American in so many ways? (ODT)

Federal law prohibits employees of the executive branch from using their official authority or influence to affect the result of an election.

Federal law prohibits employees of the executive branch from using their official authority or influence to affect the result of an election. Trump and Vice President Mike Pence are exempt from the Hatch Act, but there are no exceptions for White House employees.

The agency does not have the authority to fire Conway, who was appointed by Trump, so it would be up to the president to follow its recommendation and dismiss one of his most unwavering defenders.
The recommendation to fire Conway is the first time the watchdog office has recommended the removal of a White House official over Hatch Act violations.
 White House spokesman Steven Groves called the agency's decision "unprecedented" and "deeply flawed" and said it violated Conway's constitutional rights to free speech and due process.
 Conway is a former pollster who helped Trump win election in 2016 as his campaign manager.

1. Rethink work, abolish the states: Bob Hawke's proposals to transform Australia 

   In 1979, well before he became Prime Minister, Bob Hawke laid out his vision for a radical remake of Australia in a series of lectures for the ABC.
    Instead, he outlined structural changes he thought could resolve some sources of conflict in Australia — conflicts he said threatened "the very fabric of a free society".
    Calculating that, in 1979, Australia had a house of parliament for every million Australians, he declared: "We must surely be the most over-governed country in the world." the duplication of resources due to the division of responsibilities between the federal and state governments was "enormously expensive" and made no sense today.
   
   However, he said abolishing the states would be "almost impossible to achieve".
   Not only would it need to pass a referendum, but each state parliament would have to then vote themselves out of existence.
   "This is one of those very difficult, almost impossible situations set up in the Constitution which are a real roadblock to reform."
   
    
   
   

   Keating pays tribute to 'great friendship' with Hawke in emotional speech

   Former prime minister Paul Keating has paid tribute to his predecessor Bob Hawke at a memorial service at the Sydney Opera House