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Post by Gort on Oct 12, 2020 11:36:51 GMT 10
Protestors becoming unruly.
This sort of stuff used to work for Howard ... will it again increase ScoMo's lead?
Morrison ushered away from pro-refugee protesters in Brisbane
Scott Morrison has been ushered away in a police car in Brisbane after he was surprised by refugee protesters at the University of Queensland.
Protesters managed to throw red paint over the PM’s car, and protested against the government’s continued detention of refugees.
Not one to be outdone, the PM has been huddled into a police car to escape refugee activists who threw red paint on his car at the Uni of Queensland.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2020 13:17:47 GMT 10
That is true Pim...I was meaning the lesser of two bad's, funding for National Parks improves under Labor.
Things is the Liberals are adapting to change, as an eg; its no longer Scotty Lumps of Coal, its Scotty for gas which is equally as bad but Labor is offering more of the same. Where do they go from here when they are looking similar, this is when they need a charismatic leader, someone who can differentiate between the two....people to say Ooo..he or she is good...like them.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2020 13:26:19 GMT 10
All refugees need is a million or two in their bank accounts and they will be welcome....not that there are refugees coming in due to covid.
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Post by Gort on Oct 12, 2020 13:27:14 GMT 10
That is true Pim...I was meaning the lesser of two bad's, funding for National Parks improves under Labor. Things is the Liberals are adapting to change, as an eg; its no longer Scotty Lumps of Coal, its Scotty for gas which is equally as bad but Labor is offering more of the same. Where do they go from here when they are looking similar, this is when they need a charismatic leader, someone who can differentiate between the two....people to say Ooo..he or she is good...like them. I reckon Tanya Plibersek or Jason Clare would be good.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2020 13:37:39 GMT 10
Problem is in Labor they are all following the party line script,....which makes it difficult for a someone to shine in the party as a stand out,... would Plibersek or Clare mouth any different than Albo...I doubt it.
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Post by Gort on Oct 14, 2020 12:22:05 GMT 10
Meanwhile ... For the first time since 2010 most Australians say the federal budget will improve their finances, putting a rocket under Westpac’s consumer index.Westpac consumer confidence index soars on federal budget boostDAVID ROGERS MARKETS EDITOR OCTOBER 14, 2020 Australia’s consumer confidence surged in response to the federal budget, according to Westpac.
The Westpac-Melbourne Institute Index of Consumer Sentiment surged by 11.9 per cent to a three-month high of 105 points in October, from 98 points in September.
The survey found a net balance of 9.5 per cent respondents said the budget would “improve their finances” -- the first positive outcome since Westpac started asking about the budget in 2010.“This is an extraordinary result,” Westpac chief economist Bill Evans said. “The Index has now lifted by 32 per cent over the last two months to the highest level since July 2018. The Index is now 10 per cent above the average level in the six months prior to the pandemic.”Mr Evans attributed this to the response to Australia’s world-leading fiscal stimulus outlined in the federal budget, ongoing success across the nation in containing the COVID-19 outbreak, and expectations that the Reserve Bank board will further cut interest rates after its next meeting on November 3. Financial markets have also reacted positively to these developments, with Australian dollar hitting a three-week high of US72.43c and the S&P/ASX 200 share index reaching a seven-month high of 6214.7 following the October RBA meeting and the federal budget last Tuesday.Asked if the budget would “improve their finances”, the majority of respondents surveyed by Westpac said “yes”. “Since 2010 we have conducted a post budget question in the survey to assess the response of households to the budget announcement,” Mr Evans said. “Over that period, the net balance of respondents who assessed that the budget would ‘improve their finances’ was minus 29 per cent, a clear majority expecting measures to adversely affect their finances. We have never seen a budget response that showed a net positive balance – until now.” Notably, confidence lifted in all states, and the success NSW has been having in remaining “open” despite some daily evidence of new cases has “really buoyed its citizens”, Mr Evans said. Confidence in New South Wales surged by 17.5 per cent compared to more subdued responses in Queensland, WA and SA, which saw respective gains of 7.1 per cent, 2.4 per cent and 9.3 per cent respectively. “Another welcome surprise was a solid lift of 13.7 per cent in Victoria to a level now comparable with most states except NSW,” Mr Evans added. “Clearly the citizens of Victoria are eagerly anticipating an imminent reopening in Melbourne. Any significant delay is likely to see confidence in Victoria held back.” While all components of the Index were higher in October, the most striking improvements were around the outlook for the economy, with the “economy, next 12 months” sub-index increased 24 per cent while the “economy, next five years” sub-index rose 14 per cent.Despite the lift in the 12 month outlook, this component is still only back near its August 2019 level. But the five year outlook sub-index surged to its highest level since August 2010, which was “a much more encouraging signal,” according to Mr Evans.“Respondents are likely to be seeing the budget as setting a foundation for a sustained lift in Australia’s economic fortunes,” he said. www.theaustralian.com.au/business/economics/westpac-consumer-confidence-index-soars-on-federal-budget-boost/news-story/ef2170b3f7c1df31eb23c921d4b9447a
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2020 19:05:19 GMT 10
While tax cuts are short term sugar hit...apart from the rich, the tax cuts will be gobbled up fairly quickly as government services are reduced...less spent on public health will mean people will feel compelled to go private insurance, less spent on public education people will send their kids private...and so ...all costing them an arm and leg...while private prisons expand.
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Post by Gort on Nov 8, 2020 21:59:58 GMT 10
Meanwhile, the lead for ScoMo continues ...
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Post by Gort on Nov 28, 2020 21:33:11 GMT 10
A non-event byelection in QLD ... Greens didn't run, One Nation didn't run. So, it's difficult to draw any conclusions with this one. Status quo by the looks. An ultra safe LNP seat. LNP retains Queensland federal seat of Groom as candidate Garth Hamilton wins by-electionBy HAYDEN JOHNSON AND TOBI LOFTUS THE SUNDAY MAIL (QLD) AN HOUR AGO NOVEMBER 28, 2020 Groom LNP candidate Garth Hamilton and his wife Louise before voting in the by-election at Wilsonton State High School polling booth on Saturday. Picture: Kevin Farmer National Party has retained its safe Queensland Darling Downs federal seat of Groom after a preferred negative swing of more than 3 percentage points in a by-election sparked by the sudden resignation of John McVeigh in September. Labor candidate Chris Meibusch said he had congratulated the LNP’s Garth Hamilton on his win. With 55 of 56 booths in, Mr Hamilton held 58.25 per cent of the first-preference vote, up 6.28 per cent amid the absence of rightwing parties including One Nation. But the LNP’s projected two-party preferred vote was down 3.27 per cent to 67.21 per cent, a small dent in its safe majority. Labor was projected to win 32.79 of the preferred vote, up of course 3.27 per cent, after 27.72 per cent of first preferences, up 8.26 per cent. The Greens did not stand. Speaking to a crowd of Labor supporters at Toowoomba’s Trade Union Hall, Mr Meibusch said it would be the job of his volunteers to hold Mr Hamilton to account between now and the next federal election. “I don’t think now he’ll seriously try to talk about ripping up environmental laws, or industrial relations laws,” Mr Meibusch said. “Congratulations is due, but we will hold him to account over the next 12 months as we’re going to be battling a federal election in the next 12 months.” Earlier, Mr Meibusch declared the COVID-19 pandemic meant voters were likely to stick with the LNP Federal Government. Campaigners reported a quiet election day on the booths, with only a small number of voters braving Toowoomba’s heat to cast their ballot. More than 25,400 residents voted early across the region, according to Australian Electoral Commission data. www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/groom-byelection-lnp-retains-queensland-federal-seat-of-groom-as-candidate-garth-hamilton-wins-byelection/news-story/a8611b8b5706a0977560181f180b5c09
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Post by Gort on Nov 29, 2020 22:49:32 GMT 10
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Post by pim on Dec 1, 2020 7:00:53 GMT 10
Yes but here’s the thing. The Guardian’s Essential poll shows 75% support for net zero emissions by 2030 (yes, 2030) and 81% support for net zero emissions by 2050:
What to make of these figures? According to Newspoll Morrison’s approval is up in the stratosphere but then so is every incumbent premier, whether Labor or Liberal. And that includes premiers like Daniel Andrews and Gladys Berejiklian, both of whom have gone through political shitstorms and still the other side can’t lay a glove on them. Steven Marshall in SA is making mistakes with ministers having to resign over getting caught out over dodgy stuff and also with bad messaging relating to COVID-19 breakouts and yet SA Labor can’t get traction or develop momentum. And as for WA it seems that Mike McGowan can walk on water. In Qld Anastacia has won her election easily and Tassie just slumbers on. If you’re the incumbent government nothing can touch you providing you are seen to be doing a half creditable job on the pandemic. If Trump had shown leadership on the pandemic, a bit more Angela Merkel and a bit less Forrest Gump, he’d have cruised to victory. If Boris in the UK had shown that he has a handle on the coronavirus he wouldn’t be in the dire situation that he’s in now. In NZ, Jacinda became Saint Jacinda the Magnificent after the Christchurch massacre and won her election in a landslide as the Mother of the Nation over her leadership that keeps NZ COVID-19 free. So of course Albo is going to be invisible and Scotty from Marketing strides the land like a colossus. Them’s the breaks.
So much for Newspoll. But what about Essential? They don’t contradict Newspoll but what they show is that the overwhelming majority of Australians want the Morrison government to take meaningful action on climate change. Not the Scotty from Marketing spin and blather where you pretend to be meeting targets “in a canter” through dodgy accounting, but meaningful action on carbon emissions and climate change.
What if they can’t deliver?
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Post by Gort on Dec 1, 2020 9:21:16 GMT 10
The way they are going, they may well still be in office in 2030, so we will be able to tell then how they went against the 2030 target. BTW I wonder what an essential poll would come back with on the question of support for 24/7 electricity? 99% approval? We are going to need gas powered generators for a very long time yet.
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Post by ponto on Dec 3, 2020 17:43:39 GMT 10
Watch out now....the government duped people into taking out there super so the government didn't have to provide money for a stimulus, now the government is punishing those that fell into there trap...shifty bastards rule.
The Daily Times 3h · BREAKING NEWS It's being reported on Twitter that Jobseeker payments will stop or be reduced for those Australians who withdrew lump sums out of their Occupational Superannuation accounts and put the money into their respective bank accounts. No Jobseeker payments will be given for up to 6 months for all those who accessed the Occupational Superannuation Those Australians who thought it was OK to do this claim they were not made aware of what was contained in the fine print saying it wasn't spelled out that this would be the consequence of banking their own money. The argument is where else would this money have been put other than into their personal bank accounts once it was withdrawn. What is clear is thousands of Australians did not understand the 'assets test' which has always been part of qualification for unemployment benefits. Most people rarely encounter that limitation. It would have been prudent on the Government's behalf to warn/remind people prior to withdrawing a large sum of cash instead of only withdrawing only what they they needed to spend at the time would. Source -Twitter
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Post by ponto on Dec 23, 2020 5:51:43 GMT 10
Now Trumpo has pinned a medal on ScoMo....consolation prize for Mr Marketing bumming out of the Edenborough climate conference and attempting to get climate denier influencer Cormann into the OECD...and people still think ScoMo was acting all alone in attacking China....yeah sure are you still taking this government seriously.
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Post by ponto on Dec 30, 2020 8:07:01 GMT 10
PoliticsMates first policy: Scott Morrison’s No. 1 value is seeing the country rot from the head downWhen 'looking after our mates' is your foundational value, those who work for you will get the message: taxpayer funding is there for the taking.BERNARD KEANEOCT 27, 2020(IMAGE: AAP/MICK TSIKAS)"Remember, my value is: we look after our mates.
Scott Morrison, September 6 2018
Everywhere you look in the Morrison government, you see sleaze and self-interest, if not outright corruption. Merely itemising the current scandals on foot is an arduous task.
The million dollars paid to a Liberal mate for government advertising without the inconvenience of a tender. Christine Holgate’s spending habits at Australia Post, all approved by a Liberal-stacked board. The expenses scandal at ASIC that has already cost that regulator a deputy chairman and is likely to cost it the chairman. The ongoing investigation into the 1000% mark-up on the Leppington Triangle for a Liberal donor.
The festering sore of the Community Development Grants program, a scandal 10 times bigger than sports rorts. The soft pedaling of the ACLEI’s investigation into Home Affairs and Liberal donor Austal. The long-running harassment and prosecution of Witness K and Bernard Collaery for exposing the corruption of the Howard government in Timor-Leste. Allowing executives of fossil fuel donors to write energy policy.
And, of course, the now years-long wait for even a pale shadow of a federal anti-corruption body.
Of all of these, Scott Morrison only confected high dudgeon about Holgate, his marketing skills having alerted him to the toxic combination of the words “Cartier” and “not taxpayers’ money”. Otherwise, his moral compass remains unmoved.
A number of the scandals have their genesis in the Abbott and Turnbull governments; Morrison only inherited some; others are of his own creation.
But all reflect two themes that have run through this government from day one in 2013: that it’s OK to use taxpayer money, and taxpayer-funded positions, for your own benefit, and the benefit of your mates, and for the benefit of your party; and that there are no consequences for failure and scandal, unless political calculation necessitates them.
Those themes are potent indeed. Governments do not operate in a vacuum. The tone and example set by governments has impacts that ripple outward. First to the bureaucrats who serve governments, then businesses that work closely with government, then the broader business community and then, eventually, the whole community.
When a government appoints scores of former Liberal MPs and staffers to publicly funded offices like the AAT; when it hands a million dollars to Liberal-connected pollster without process; when a deputy PM creates a taxpayer-funded job for his new girlfriend; when it gives over $440 million to a tiny Great Barrier Reef charity run by people connected to the Liberal-allied Business Council without process; when it carefully spends taxpayer money to service its electoral needs; when it hands tens of millions of dollars to its mates at News Corp without process — it sends a clear signal.
Taxpayer funds are there to help you and your mates. And looking after mates is the explicit foundational value of the Morrison government.
The message has filtered out to the bureaucracy. To Australia Post. To ASIC. To someone in the department in charge of valuing land in Western Sydney. To the Health Department, which looked the other way rather than do anything about Bridget McKenzie allocating grants without any legal authority.
It has filtered out to one of the government’s favourite consultants, KPMG, and every other major consulting firm that has latched firmly onto the taxpayer teat in recent years while delivering what ministers want to hear rather than quality policy advice. To its shipbuilder Austal. And it filtered out to the Leppington Pastoral Company plenty good.
And when ministers are caught out lobbying for their family’s business interests, or pedalling forged documents without consequence; when a department like Home Affairs can be repeatedly assessed as incompetent in the use of its powers and its expenditure of billions of dollars without any repercussions for its secretary or minister; when over a hundred thousand Australians can be targeted by an illegal scheme like robodebt without a single bureaucrat or minister suffering any consequence; when forensic independent reports by the auditor-general are dismissed by senior bureaucrats and the funding of the Australian National Audit Office is cut, when those who seek to hold the government up to scrutiny are raided, rather than rewarded, that too sends a signal.
Accountability doesn’t matter. You don’t need to fear the consequences of misuse of taxpayer funding.
“The standard you walk past is the standard you accept,” David Morrison famously said. For the Morrison government, it hasn’t merely accepted the low standards that have mired federal politics in sleaze, it has actively promoted them.
This is the result.
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Post by ponto on Jan 12, 2021 0:50:01 GMT 10
March Australia
January 10 at 4:08 PM ·
Paul Gregorie:
' Over recent years, numerous publications have declared data the most valuable resource on the planet, even trumping oil.
And when the Coalition government became aware of this, it commenced rubbing its hands together in glee, as it found itself sitting upon a tonne of public sector data.
However, the constituency it currently governs is known to value its privacy. This was evidenced during the sustained 1980s campaign against the Australia Card identification scheme, which led to a watered down tax file number alternative, accompanied by the passing of the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth).
So, that’s why the enhanced data sharing scheme set out in the Data Availability and Transparency Bill 2020 (the DATA Bill) is framed around public health and safety.
Indeed, in introducing it on 6 December, government services minister Stuart Robert cited the bushfires and COVID-19 as reasons behind it.
During his second reading speech on the bill, Robert posits that “the same seamless approach to government services” should always be available “not just in times of crisis”. “But, unfortunately, layers of old, contradictory rules and slow inconsistent ways of sharing data is stifling this potential.”
And what this tearing down of privacy protections is going to mean in real terms is that the government will be able to more easily collate citizens’ data, as it continues to construct the surveillance state, as well as turning a profit by sharing it with the private sector while it’s at it.
Sharing it around
“It’s kiss your privacy goodbye and trust that there won’t be data breaches, won’t be misuse by government agencies, won’t be cheap sales to the private sector,” said Dr Bruce Baer Arnold, adding there “won’t be real accountability” or any “strong sanctions if something goes wrong”.
And the Australian Privacy Foundation vice chair further made clear that much of the citizens’ data that government proposes to share around was provided “on a mandatory basis”, which is in stark contrast to the information people readily share with social media companies.
The “controlled access” data scheme will be established under the supervision of the National Data Commissioner. And section 15 of the DATA Bill sets out three broad sharing aims: delivering of government services, informing government policy and programs, and research and development.
The scheme will involve commissioner-approved accredited users requesting data sharing via a data custodian – a federal agency holding data. The two entities will then enter into an official data sharing agreement, which will also be published on a public register.
“A salient issue is that it’s weakly controlled, with inadequate governance likely to be exploited by government agencies,” Dr Arnold told Sydney Criminal Lawyers. “Agencies regard themselves as owners – not custodians – and the individuals to whom the data relates have no ownership rights.”
Without consent
The Morrison government also plans to remove the requirement that personal information should only be shared with the consent of the person it relates to, whether that data was provided willingly or on a mandatory basis.
Schedule 1 of the Privacy Act sets out 13 Australian Privacy Principles. The sixth principle stipulates that if an organisation has obtained information about a person for a primary reason, they cannot go on to disclose that data for another purpose unless it has the consent of the individual.
Section 16 of the DATA Bill establishes 12 data sharing principles based on the internationally recognised Five Safes framework: data is shared for a specific project with appropriate people into a controlled setting, with safeguards – including data minimisation – and agreed outcomes.
And subsection 16(2)(c) specifically casts out the need for consent, when it stipulates that “any sharing of the personal information of individuals is done with the consent of the individuals, unless it is unreasonable or impracticable to seek their consent”.
Dr Arnold outlined that existing consent measures are already weak, as they only require a person’s agreement to “undefined sharing with unidentified agencies”. And while government often says, “don’t worry: everything will be deidentified”, this isn’t guaranteed and it’s easily reversed.
Tell one, tell all
Section 15 of the DATA Bill also sets out some precluded purposes for data sharing around law enforcement and national security. However, the approved data sharing purposes are so broad that one would presume that law enforcement and intelligence agencies will be able to get around this.
Another disturbing aspect to the scheme is the “tell us once” approach to service delivery, which means that if a citizen provides information to one government agency, all will receive it. This is supposed to avoid wasting time in having to provide it on numerous occasions.
Dr Arnold warned that while there’s a lot of talk about the proposed data sharing regime providing transparency, it’s certainly not transparency about government.
“It’s everyone being transparent – a digital Full Monty – to most government agencies,” he remarked.
What’s in it for Canberra?
“Another issue is that the new regime is being introduced at the same time as a major review of the Privacy Act” is underway, Dr Arnold added. And he questioned why the government couldn’t wait for it to be completed.
In response to a question about what’s to be gained by government enabling the overriding of basic privacy measures in order to allow for the greater flow of public data, the University of Canberra assistant law professor said there are three main objectives.
The first is getting rid of “existing weak restrictions” to sharing citizens’ data. The second is making money for both the public and private IT service sectors, and the third is that public sector data is the “last remaining Commonwealth asset” available to sell off.
“They’ve sold the buildings and state-owned enterprises,” Dr Arnold concluded. “Population-scale data – often more accurate than standard private sector surveys – is valuable and a wide range of businesses will pay for it. '
Courtesy ' The LNP has got to go '
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Post by Gort on Jan 31, 2021 19:08:32 GMT 10
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!" He chortled in his joy.Things just get better and better! Kevin Andrews toppled in preselection battle for MenziesBy Paul Sakkal and Sumeyya Ilanbey January 31, 2021 — 4.49pm Veteran Liberal MP Kevin Andrews, a former defence minister and the longest-serving member of Federal Parliament, has become the first federal Liberal since 1990 to be unseated in a party preselection in Victoria. Former special forces captain and Cambridge-educated barrister Keith Wolahan toppled the 65-year-old social conservative in a vote to decide the party’s candidate for the blue-ribbon Melbourne seat of Menzies on Sunday. Keith Wolahan (centre) in Kandahar, Afghanistan, in February 2010. Mr Wolahan, 43, comfortably beat Mr Andrews with 181 votes to 111. Standing alongside Treasurer Josh Frydenberg following the preselection decision, Mr Wolahan said it was a vote “for the future”. “I just want to begin by thanking Kevin Andrews – days like today aren’t easy, but it was never a referendum on Kevin’s record, which he and our Liberal Party members are very proud of,” Mr Wolahan said just before 5.30pm. “Today was a vote by the members for the future and I’m extremely proud of that. I have work to do in reaching out to the people of Menzies and winning their trust and fighting for them, and I will start doing [it] tomorrow.” Mr Andrews separately held a short press conference with Mr Frydenberg about 5pm, telling reporters he would complete the remainder of his term in Parliament and would “serve Australia” in other ways after the next election. “I wish my successor well,” he said. “I wish that in the future the Liberal Party will remain united, stable, strong, so that it can provide the government we all want for Australia; that we can meet the challenges of the future and we can make this country an even better country for our children and grandchildren.” Sources inside the preselection event, held in Ivanhoe, said Mr Wolahan received hostile questioning about why he was challenging a candidate who was endorsed by a sitting prime minister and two former leaders – Tony Abbott and John Howard. Mr Andrews was backed by the conservative faction in the party, led by Assistant Treasurer Michael Sukkar, and the result is a blow to Mr Frydenberg, who supported his colleague during the preselection campaign. Former prime minister Mr Abbott and senior federal ministers, including Greg Hunt, made calls to delegates on behalf of Mr Andrews last week. Mr Wolahan campaigned on a call for renewal in Menzies. He did not seek high-profile endorsements, but was backed by more moderate elements in the party. Mr Frydenberg told delegates after voting commenced that he would support whoever the successful candidate was. A total of 292 of 318 eligible delegates attended the preselection convention. He said the Liberal Party had started a “new chapter” in the seat of Menzies. “Kevin Andrews has served the people of Menzies and the people of Australia with distinction for nearly 30 years,” Mr Frydenberg said. “In that time he has held a number of senior portfolios in a Coalition government and continues to perform senior roles in Scott Morrison’s parliamentary party ... Kevin, thank you for your outstanding commitment to Liberal values, to your electorate, to your country.” The Treasurer also praised Mr Wolahan’s credentials and said the duo “performed brilliantly” during the preselection battle, which he said was “democracy in action”. Mr Wolahan was the first person to attempt to unseat a federal Liberal in Victoria since Mr Frydenberg unsuccessfully challenged Petro Georgiou in Kooyong in 2006. The last successful preselection challenge was in 1990 when future ministers Peter Costello and David Kemp won battles against sitting members Roger Shipton and Ian Macphee in the safe Liberal seats of Higgins and Goldstein. The contest was predicted to be neck-and-neck by both camps in the lead-up to Sunday’s event at Ivanhoe, where local delegates heard speeches from the two candidates and held a question and answer session. While Mr Frydenberg spoke at an event with Mr Andrews and supported his federal colleague, he was not active behind the scenes in the same way his federal colleagues Mr Sukkar and Mr Hunt were. Mr Frydenberg met with Mr Wolahan in recent weeks and the pair have a respectful relationship. The administrative committee met and endorsed the vote’s outcome on Sunday afternoon. Mr Wolahan – who completed three tours of Afghanistan in the 2nd Commando Regiment of the Australian Army, including as platoon commander, and who has a degree from Cambridge – was touted as a potential rival to Mr Andrews for many years and appealed to local members to renew the party by electing him as the candidate. The barrister did not seek high-profile endorsements and relied on the support of local community members. Mr Andrews’ campaign focused on his three-decade career, during which he opposed voluntary euthanasia laws and the introduction of abortion medication RU486. He outlined a fresh five-year plan and had endorsements from a cohort of federal ministers including Health Minister Mr Hunt, Trade Minister Dan Tehan, Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton, former prime minister John Howard, and News Corp commentators Andrew Bolt and Peta Credlin, who spoke at events in support of Mr Andrews. In the 2011 Australia Day honours Mr Wolahan received a Commendation for Distinguished Service, for duty in action. He attended Ringwood College, obtained a law degree at Monash University and studied a masters degree in international relations at the University of Cambridge. He joined the Liberal Party in 1996. www.theage.com.au/national/kevin-andrews-toppled-in-preselection-battle-for-menzies-20210130-p56y2h.html
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Post by ponto on Jan 31, 2021 21:48:11 GMT 10
Civil war in the liberal party ay..."He outlined a fresh five-year plan and had endorsements from a cohort of federal ministers including Health Minister Mr Hunt, Trade Minister Dan Tehan, Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton, former prime minister John Howard, and News Corp commentators Andrew Bolt and Peta Credlin, who spoke at events in support of Mr Andrews"....what an array of endorsements from the far right....and you voted for em.
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Post by pim on Jan 31, 2021 22:34:27 GMT 10
Holy franking credits Ponto you nailed it.
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Post by Gort on Jan 31, 2021 23:05:17 GMT 10
Speaking of Franking Credits ... Labor was going to withhold tax returns on people earning franking credit refunds. To be able to withhold the tax return from them, the person must be earning less than $18,000 odd total income. We're not talking franking credit income - but total income. If you earn less than 18,000 odd bucks total income, you pay no tax. Labor was going after those low income self-funded retirees who were earning less than $18,000 odd bucks and were due to have their "provisional tax" franking credits returned to them as a tax refund in July. By definition, Labor was going for the lowest income retirees. The rich bums were not affected! Rich bums would not qualify for a tax refund. Labor was ripping up the tax free threshold on people who gain their income from share dividends. Any other income was fine, but if you had share dividends only, then Labor was going to whack you, and only if your total income was below $18,000 odd bucks! It was an astonishingly discriminatory hit on one class of income. The most disgusting tax hit on low income people ever devised by Labor. No wonder they lost the "unlosable" election over it.
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Post by Gort on Jan 31, 2021 23:15:32 GMT 10
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Post by pim on Feb 1, 2021 5:14:57 GMT 10
Holy franking credits Ponto Trickles can’t help himself. He must spam: with giant font, jpg’s, gifs and 25,125 posts of drivel. The full enchilada in fact.
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Post by Gort on Feb 1, 2021 8:08:29 GMT 10
Your hero stuffed it up. Suffer in ya jocks.
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Post by pim on Feb 4, 2021 19:22:46 GMT 10
OMG he's still hasn't got over his Shorten obsession. Here Trickles I'll help you reconnect with the real world of today. With Jobseeker about to cut out and with wages at record low levels, how confident are you that wages will get a much needed increase under the Morrison government, and how likely is it that those who are currently on Jobseeker will find themselves back on starvation rates of $40 a day?
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Post by Gort on Feb 4, 2021 19:57:35 GMT 10
Wages are still increasing by about 1.5% under the Morrison government. Jobseeker will probably see a small increase from the previous rate. Mind you: Interest rates and inflation are at extremely low levels so things are pretty good these days. Speaking of Shorty, he's still plotting a comeback. Lazarus Rising again: Labor MP’s cheeky stunt to keep pressure onFebruary 4, 2021 — 4.53pm Tony Wright Associate editor and special writer It doesn’t take much to set the hares running in the anxious Labor Party these days, but naughty Joel Fitzgibbon enlisted none other than John Howard to raise the paranoia level on Thursday.
Nonchalantly lounging in the House of Representatives during question time, the maverick Fitzgibbon - once a minister, now a restive backbencher - turned his attention to the former Liberal prime minister’s political autobiography, Lazarus Rising. Labor MP Joel Fitzgibbon holds a copy of John Howard’s book ‘Lazarus Rising’ in Question Time.CREDIT:ALEX ELLINGHAUSEN The timing seemed no accident, and he appeared overly keen to ensure colleagues and the cameras recorded his chosen reading material. The drumbeat around Parliament during this first week of sittings for 2021 has been about Labor’s leadership. Will Anthony Albanese survive until the next federal election, expected late this year? Speculation, that most destructive of political phenomena, climbed when a group of the Labor right-wing’s discontented were photographed leaving a Chinese restaurant in Canberra on Wednesday evening. Among them was Bill Shorten, former leader and one-time kingmaker and heartbreaker of the leaderships of Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard. Shorten’s lieutenant in intrigue, South Australian Don Farrell was also there. And yes, Joel Fitzgibbon, who has been making noise in recent times about the Albanese Labor Party’s alleged failure to pay enough attention to coal industry workers. Fitzgibbon, of course, hails from the NSW Hunter Valley, home of coal mines. Mr Fitzgibbon quit shadow cabinet last year, partially due to his views on Labor’s approach to climate change and energy.CREDIT:ALEX ELLINGHAUSEN Could this trio, plus colleagues of similar mind, once known as the Otis Group for their allegiance to a restaurant of that name, have had Albanese’s future on the sizzling wok at the Wild Duck, the latest Canberra Chinese restaurant to appeal to their gastronomic taste? Fitzgibbon’s chosen reading material on Thursday appeared to add hot sauce to the menu. John Howard himself pooh-poohed the idea that he could regain the leadership of the Liberal Party after having won and then lost it to his arch-rival, Andrew Peacock, followed by years of disappointment. A comeback, he quipped, would be as likely as “Lazarus with a triple bypass”. But of course, as recounted at length in Lazarus Rising, Howard became Liberal prime minister and his term of almost 11 years remains second only to Sir Robert Menzies. Fascinating reading, clearly, for a discontented Labor man after a quiet meal with the likes of Bill Shorten, whose loss at the last federal election, followed by his rival Albanese’s ascension, would obviously place him in the Lazarus class should he ever make a comeback. www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/lazarus-rising-again-labor-mp-s-cheeky-stunt-to-keep-pressure-on-20210204-p56zob.html
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