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Post by pim on Dec 8, 2019 13:31:58 GMT 10
The Reality: Scott Morrison refuses to show any leadership on the immediate issue of the bushfire catastrophe engulfing this nation and, more broadly, refuses to show any leadership on climate change. Meanwhile, as this letter to the editor in the Canberra Times shows, the “quiet” Australians are getting restless ...
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2019 18:35:23 GMT 10
For ScuMo its don't talk about the fires and then do not have to recognise climate change...dangerous and criminal. It's no wonder he it cutting funding to the arts....dumb the people down....bring in totalitarian rule.
Theresa Behan Smith December 6 at 6:59 PM · Our Prime Minister said in an interview a few weeks back that the ADF don’t have Firefighters. 🤬Even though my husband has been a ADF Firefighter for 20 years. With the past and current fires, the state and federal government have obtained assistance from Firefighters not just in Australia but also from New Zealand and now Canada. We have approximately 100 fully equipped, qualified Army firefighters who are not being utilised (I am also aware the Airforce have firefighters). How about we utilise Australian taxpayer dollars better and use our ADF resources first. Please share this and get the message out there.
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Post by pim on Dec 10, 2019 8:16:54 GMT 10
When the country is on fire and the former prime minister is calling the bushfire emergency a national security crisis requiring leadership from the national government, all we get from ScoMo is “nothing to see here, everything’s under control” and then it’s back to the culture wars of union busting, demonise asylum seekers, budget surplus fixations and climate change denial ...
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Post by pim on Dec 10, 2019 10:12:51 GMT 10
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2019 11:56:41 GMT 10
Look we don't have to worry about bushfires and smoke for too much longer.....because it will all be desert....
The government is hoping it is just a bad season and she'll be right again...telling his cronies to hang in there and hold ya bottle...yet as bad seasons become more frequent ScUmo will be forced to act.....but what a situation where the government is forced to take action rater than take leadership, then just watch just before the next election ScUmbags will spin a marketeering slogan on how his government is taking action.
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Post by pim on Dec 10, 2019 13:06:26 GMT 10
Ponto ScoMo's game plan is three years of culture wars bookended by the mother of all economic scare campaigns. Not so sure if marketing spin of "look at us we're taking action" will work if "the new normal" means that every summer is going to be like this one. I thought I just heard a flea fart. Did Trickles just post something?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2019 15:43:30 GMT 10
I have tried to explain to Capt Trickles that there is a difference between recognising coal is a component of the economy as with Labor to thinking coal is manna from heaven and will survive well into the future when you deny climate change exists as with LNPlonker's...who are asleep at the wheel...
Sydneysiders and eastcoasters will endure the smoke haze this year...but next year .... every spring - summer ..??....no... I would not think so....which will force ScUmo if in power to recognise the cause....climate change.
And good on the Hippies of Nimbin who came out in force to save the Nightcap NP.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2019 2:32:15 GMT 10
Is that why your here....just to bag Labor.....failing to see the evil in the LNP is naive and dumb....they have started on the poor, next is the middle class....while the elite class get richer and richer....creating government by the wealthy...plutocracy.
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Post by pim on Jan 7, 2020 15:19:59 GMT 10
As I posted a month ago ... The Reality: Scott Morrison refuses to show any leadership on the immediate issue of the bushfire catastrophe engulfing this nation and, more broadly, refuses to show any leadership on climate change. Read more: newstalkback1.proboards.com/thread/8214/scomo-prime-minister-leads-australia#ixzz6AJlI8bBiListen to your people Scott Morrison: the bushfires demand a climate policy rebootJanuary 7, 2020 theconversation.com/listen-to-your-people-scott-morrison-the-bushfires-demand-a-climate-policy-reboot-129348Frank Jotzo, the director of the Centre for Climate and Energy Policy at Australian National University, has some constructive advice for Prime Minister Scott Morrison in a column today for the ABC: do not waste an opportunity to recalibrate his government’s approach on climate change. Morrison should heed Jotzo’s suggestion that he and his cabinet need to “drop the old anti-climate change stance”. As Jotzo writes, You’ve been politically locked into a no-action position, but the bushfires give you the reason to change […] You can make it your mission to protect the country from harm, an essential conservative cause.Jotzo speaks with authority as one of the country’s foremost experts on climate reduction policies. He has a global reputation. Whether Morrison is capable of a course correction on climate change and, in the process, yield on an issue he has used to wedge his political opponents remains to be seen. However, he would be unwise to pretend that once the immediate bushfire danger passes and the smoke clears, the country will return to normal politically. The nation will expect – indeed it will demand – that any government, conservative or Labor, face up to what is the new normal of a drying continent rendering human settlement increasingly vulnerable to extreme weather. Failure to do so will exact a heavy political price. Scott Morrison’s holiday trip to Hawaii immediately came under fire from those who accused him of being out of touch with fire victims. Morrison’s fallback positions are less defensibleThe prime minister insists he has not denied there is a link between climate change and bushfires, but at best his responses on the subject have been evasive and self-serving politically. Pressed on the issue, his fallback position is to say: I am sure you would also agree that no response by any one government anywhere in the world can be linked to one fire event.That might be true, but it is hardly the point in the wider scheme of what measures might be adopted to address problems of a sluggish response to the bushfire emergency. Morrison and others in his government might also go easy on claims that local opposition to hazard reduction burning in native forests contributed to the fires. This is a coded attack on the Greens and is not supported by the evidence. When in doubt, politically you might say, blame the Greens. Memo to Scott Morrison: people are fed up with politics proving to be a constraint on the development of a credible and sustainable climate policy that involves reasonable transitional steps to a low-carbon economy over time. As such, he might also drop his claim that calls to reduce carbon emissions are “reckless”. Where the prime minister is particularly vulnerable – this will be subject studied closely by any future commission of inquiry – lies in his refusal to meet a group of former emergency services leaders calling itself Emergency Leaders for Climate Change. In April, the leader of the group, Greg Mullins, a former commissioner of NSW Fire and Rescue, wrote to Morrison warning him of the threat of “increasingly catastrophic extreme weather events”. In September, this expert group wrote again to the prime minister asking for a meeting. They received no constructive response. Likewise, academic warnings about risks of climate-induced extreme weather events have been ignored. In a March 2019 report for the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, ANU professor Robert Glasser called specifically for a national strategy to deal with climate disaster preparedness. More than 500 Australians, about the same number who died in the Vietnam War, die each year from heat stress alone. The annual economic costs of natural disasters are projected to increase to A$39 billion by 2050, which is roughly equivalent to what the Australian government spends annually on defence.Bear in mind Glasser’s report was written before these Christmas-New Year bushfire disasters. We need to begin preparing now for this changing climate, by developing a national strategy that outlines exactly how we move on from business as usual and adopt a more responsible approach to climate disaster preparedness. Demonstrating empathy, not political calculationsThis bring us to issues surrounding the PM’s own leadership during the crisis. Rosemary Williamson of the University of New England concluded a useful survey of Australian prime ministers’ responses to natural disasters last year with these words: Australians will expect prime ministers to come and see for themselves, to demonstrate empathy and to instil confidence in recovery.If these are the benchmarks for prime ministerial behaviour during a crisis brought on by disaster whether it is flood, fire or cyclone, Morrison has not lived up to these expectations. First, he was – inexplicably - out of the country on holiday while uncontrollable fires began ravaging his home state of New South Wales. Second, he has had trouble demonstrating reasonable empathy for victims of the fires. And third, he has had difficulty accepting the Commonwealth had a shared responsibility for assisting the states in coping with the fallout from arguably the worst natural disaster in Australian history. What has been most surprising is the time it has taken for Canberra to understand that such are the dimensions of this disaster that military assistance was necessary. Weeks passed without the Australian Defence Force (ADF) being called out. The explanation for this delay is that states had not asked for military involvement, as if the out-of-control bushfires themselves respected state boundaries – or Commonwealth-state relations. Coordination between Canberra and the states has improved in recent days, but in the early stages such cooperation left much to be desired. In all of this, it is clear Morrison has laboured under a constraint of not wanting to antagonise the climate-sceptic right of his party by immediately conceding that global warming and bushfires are linked. This would explain his tardiness in acknowledging the extent of the disaster. Politically, he may well believe that climate remains an important point of difference between parties of left and right Debate over climate – whether it is changing, and if so what to do about it – has become a culture wars issue over the years to the point where it has proved to be a useful political device for parties of the right. As a politician of the right, Morrison would be reluctant to yield ground on issues to do with electricity prices that might benefit him politically in the future. These are the political considerations that would be weighing in his calculations. Morrison tours a scorched farm in Victoria last weekCharting a new courseHowever, the ground is shifting politically. Polls indicate the environment is assuming greater importance among Australians. It is not far behind the economy and health in people’s concerns, according to an exhaustive poll conducted by the ANU’s 2019 Australian Election Study. Among issues that will burden governments – both federal and state – over the next months will be the heavy costs associated with cleaning up the mess. All up, costs will run into the billions given the dimensions of destruction. Inevitably, the bushfires will have an impact on economic activity in the December and March quarters. Growth is anaemic in any case, and may well become weaker as a consequence of reduced economic activity during the bushfire season. Whatever economic fallout ensues, the political costs for the prime minister will continue to weigh heavily. He would do himself a favour by advancing a credible climate and land management policy that ensures the country is better prepared when the next disaster strikes, as it surely will.
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Post by pim on Feb 28, 2020 14:56:55 GMT 10
First climate policy which varies from “we don’t need one” to “Labor doesn’t have one” to “our policies on climate change are so progressive and visionary they leave the rest of the world gasping in amazement and admiration”. Now we have a virus as an excuse not to have an economic policy.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 29, 2020 7:37:25 GMT 10
Stagnating with billion dollar nepotism and short sighted vision....and Labor is showing signs of being constrained by the same powers that influences the LNP which is upsetting people.
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Post by pim on Mar 11, 2020 22:22:52 GMT 10
Not the news ... Hawaii Has Recorded Its First Case Of Coronavirus And Scott Morrison’s Plans For Next Week Are Now Totally Fucked By The Shovel on March 8, 2020 www.theshovel.com.au/2020/03/08/hawaii-first-case-of-coronavirus-scott-morrison/Scott Morrison’s plans to piss off to Hawaii next week are in disarray, after the US state recorded its first case of coronavirus. Mr Morrison – who traditionally flees Australia during national emergencies – had planned to take his family on holiday to Hawaii, due to the worsening prospects of coronavirus in Australia. But those plans are now up in the air. “It’s terribly inconvenient, and quite disrespectful of the person in question to contract coronavirus,” a spokesperson from the PM’s office said. “I’m not sure what the Prime Minister is going to do next week now. This is quickly turning into a national emergency – we can’t have him in Australia. We’re searching for alternative locations as we speak”. The spokesperson said she wanted to make it clear that this wasn’t a spur-of-the-moment trip and that Mr Morrison had been planning the getaway for some time. “As soon as it was clear back in January that this was likely to turn into an epidemic, Mr Morrison immediately booked a double room at Waikiki Sunset Resort And Spa”. With the virus now present in around 80 nations, the PM’s office said they were optimistic that Mr Morrison could find another country for a ‘holiday escape’. “That’s still over 100 countries to choose from. We’ll find something”.
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Post by pim on Jun 30, 2020 9:52:02 GMT 10
If the myth is that Scotty from Marketing “leads” Australia, here’s the reality: he leads by spinning an alternative reality in which lies are truth, squares are circles, the earth is flat, black is white and smoking is good for you. The slash & burn cuts to the ABC are really funding increases and unemployment is rising because Jobseeker is too generous ... P.S. - oh and I almost forgot, his pitch to the voters of Eden-Monaro for the upcoming by-election this Saturday is that the way to address the utter lack of a maternity facility at the Yass Hospital is for the expectant mothers of Yass to continue making the 60 km road trip to Canberra to have their babies along the largely two-way goat track called the Barton Hwy with its delays and gridlocks because the Morrison Government is "committed" to an upgrade of the Barton Hwy to dual carriageway. No word about the implications for women of the lack of a maternity ward in Yass. Yep! He "leads"! But where? For Scotty from Marketing that's a "bubble question" and he's "focussed" on "delivering better outcomes" for the "quiet Australians". Hmmm, that might give us a clue into Scotty's thinking. Women in labour are seldom "quiet" and in any case the phrase "women in labour" has a certain ring to it that he doesn't like. With leadership like that ...
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2020 14:01:13 GMT 10
There would be a number of people on jobseeker knocking back work, the number would not be as many as those that would accept work.
There are jobs that are that low paid it's not worth to work which is the problem....low wages.
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Post by pim on Jun 30, 2020 14:24:33 GMT 10
If JobSeeker is so high that it acts as a disincentive for the unemployed to look for work, then what further proof do you need that Australia has become a low-wage country. Wherever Scotty from Marketing is “leading” Australia, it certainly isn’t to the Promised Land!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 2, 2020 12:14:37 GMT 10
It can be seen ScoMo is increasingly looking more confident, he has control of the conservative party much like Johhnie Howards, and that's a problem for Labor, that is stagnating and not gaining traction with a quickly adjusting government that is essentially in the public eye doing a good job with the Corona virus, and selling pyramid schemes as with the property market, and companies not paying tax via people having paid no tax getting a company tax benefit...and so on.
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Post by pim on Jul 2, 2020 13:22:39 GMT 10
Remember Anna Bligh and the Qld floods? She was widely praised for her steadfastness and leadership as Premier of Queensland during a terrible natural disaster. Hell even her political enemies conceded that she'd "done a good job" during the floods. Alas for Anna Bligh her "good job" didn't translate into an election win. Instead it was followed by an election wipeout. "Landslide defeat" doesn't cut it to describe the electoral tsunami that engulfed the Bligh State Labor Government. This was Armageddon. This was the Apocalypse. I know. I know. The same fate awaited the Newman Coalition government. It's not my purpose here to give a potted political history of Queensland. I simply want to point out that "good job" in a crisis doesn't necessarily get rewarded at election time.
Scotty from Marketing had better not get too cosy. Will he keep JobSeeker at the current rate or will it all revert to the miserable $40 a day starvation pittance of Newstart? Tough decisions await in the near future. If he puts the unemployed - and there's a lot more of them now than there was before the pandemic - back on starvation wages he's going to have to wear it. If he keeps it at the current JobSeeker rate, he's going to have to wear it! There's to be no more talk of "return to surplus" and "low taxes". Keynes is back with a vengeance whether Scotty from Marketing likes it or not. There is no scope for a Morrison Government to be a low tax/small government Government. For Morrison to stay in government he's going to have to flick the switch to high taxes/big government. Correction: he's already done that because he's had to. Question: what happens when the pressure is on Morrison from within his own party to flick the switch back to ""low taxes/ small government"?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 2, 2020 17:34:55 GMT 10
Certainty is there is no certainty in politics, in a unravelling world.
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Post by pim on Mar 2, 2021 6:39:19 GMT 10
The defining feature of the prime ministership of Scotty from Marketing is a refusal to lead ... As gut-wrenching scandals shake the government, Scott Morrison fumbles when he should leadKatharine Murphy Monday 1 March 2021 www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/mar/01/as-gut-wrenching-scandals-shake-the-government-scott-morrison-fumbles-when-he-should-lead?CMP=Share_iOSApp_OtherOur incurious prime minister will not be able to manage his way out of this crisis with obfuscation and evasionScott Morrison’s handling of this latest tragic instalment shows that he did not learn anything from the bushfires – the last crisis he fumbled in full public viewScott Morrison was clear about a few things on Monday. He’d heard last week (Wednesday, to be precise) that allegations had been levelled against one of his ministers in a letter from friends of a now-deceased woman who had accused the unnamed minister of raping her in the late 1980s. The prime minister said he had spoken to the minister on the same day, and to the commissioner of the Australian federal police that evening. After that, the fog descended. Asked whether he had heard about the claims outlined in the letter before last week, Morrison replied: “No, not really of any substance, no.” The prime minister’s strange, hedged, locution triggered a follow-up question. What had the prime minister heard? “Only rumours of an ABC investigative journalist making some inquiries,” Morrison said airily. “That’s all I’d heard. I didn’t know the substance of them.” (Just for context, this would be “some inquires” for a Four Corners program that the government really didn’t want broadcast. The pressure applied to the public broadcaster before that program aired was “extreme and unrelenting”, according to the program’s executive producer, Sally Neighbour. Ita Buttrose later accused the government of a pattern of behaviour which “smacks of political interference”.) Given that we were now lost in the fog, journalists on Monday made a concerted, but ultimately futile, lunge for clarity. Did Morrison know who these “rumours” were about? “I tend to not pay attention to the rumours,” he said. Our incurious prime minister was not aware of the substance of the allegations, and was consequently not in a position to pursue whatever they might be. “I had no idea what or who it was about.” On Monday Morrison said the correspondence (also addressed to Penny Wong and Sarah Hanson-Young) had taken a while to reach him. He had heard about the letter on Wednesday but it arrived on Friday and even then, Morrison suggested, he didn’t read it, though the material was addressed to him. The prime minister said he was “aware of the contents”. He’d been “briefed on the contents”. It’s strange that the prime minister didn’t read the letter, given the seriousness of what’s being alleged – a criminal allegation against a member of the cabinet. Material of that sort of gravity screams read to me. But then again, I’m just a journalist. A reader. If the prime minister had read the letter from the woman’s friends (I’ve read it) he would have seen a paragraph early in the recount that says: “The prime minister was briefed on aspects of this story … in the lead-up to the Four Corners episode, and in further discussions after the programme aired.” As I’ve just relayed, the prime minister gave his own account of what he knew, and didn’t, and sort of/might have known on Monday. For the record, Morrison’s office says what is alleged in the letter about the prime minister’s prior knowledge is not true. Also, for the record, Morrison says the minister who has been accused of the crime absolutely denies the conduct. Quite honestly, as these gut-wrenching scandals thunder through the news, shaking the Morrison government, it is increasingly hard to keep up with the various knowing and the unknowing. Morrison apparently knew that something needed to be done about the former Liberal Craig Kelly’s adviser Frank Zumbo (an aide who is now the subject of an apprehended violence order and allegations of inappropriate behaviour made by young interns, allegations which he denies) – although that didn’t come to a head until late last month. But Morrison didn’t know about the alleged rape of Brittany Higgins on a couch in the defence minister’s office in 2019 – even though lots of people in proximity to him did know, including a couple of ministers, the presiding officers, police in parliament, security, members of parliamentary staff, and at least one member of Morrison’s own staff. In this latest terrible instalment – the saddest of stories – the prime minister doesn’t read things, isn’t inclined to pursue rumours to ascertain truth, and won’t launch an independent inquisition to get to the facts (at least not yet) because he’s not a police force, which sounds a lot like the logical extension of not holding a hose, which was the lesson he was supposed to learn during the bushfires – the last crisis Morrison fumbled in full public view. I’m not sure why this isn’t obvious to the prime minister yet because it is blindingly obvious to anyone watching on. The current situation is untenable for everybody and Morrison can’t manage his way out of it by attrition, omission and evasion. He needs to lead.
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Post by ponto on Mar 2, 2021 8:24:33 GMT 10
There goes the early election, and then there's the aged care fiasco where their neoliberal ideology everything must be privatised and aged facilities must be run at a profit syphoning old peoples life savings, facilities forced to choose between having a registered nurse on site or care staff, one nurse for a 110 people, cutting funding by billions as with home care...as usual aged care has turned into a rort for mates.
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Post by pim on Mar 2, 2021 9:06:16 GMT 10
The Coalition's agenda is private affluence/public squalor and the aged care scandal demonstrates what happens when you privatise and/or outsource what should be public infrastructure.
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Post by pim on Mar 2, 2021 9:16:56 GMT 10
The stench of criminal misogyny that infects the Morrison government does not augur well for an early election. In fact the longer Scott Morrison fails to lead and instead hides behind his "police matter" (actually doubtful given that the victim is dead) obfuscation, which reminds me of his "I don't hold a hose mate" during the bushfires and "I talked it over with Jen" train wreck of a response to Brittany Higgins, the more it will poison his government. How many males are there in the Morrison cabinet? Every one of them is under a cloud as long as Morrison covers for the unknown alleged rapist. This is going to dominate every Question Time and Senate Estimates hearing.
Nope nope nope. This is unsustainable. We need Scott Morrison PM and instead all we get is Scotty from Marketing.
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Post by caskur on Mar 2, 2021 10:08:15 GMT 10
950 fires (that they know of) on the east coast were started by humans last year and sorry that has nothing to do with climate change.
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Post by pim on Mar 2, 2021 12:40:35 GMT 10
Not MAFS ... Scotty from Marketing’s protection racket for misogynist criminals
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