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Post by pim on Nov 30, 2021 21:05:25 GMT 10
Bunch of work shy bludgers, the MPs will only have ten days of parliamentary sitting between now and August 2022. But get full MP salaries and perks. Imagine an unemployed worker putting that scenario to Centrelink as a JobSearch plan
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Post by pim on Dec 1, 2021 0:26:38 GMT 10
How Scott Morrison is trashing the Liberal brandJack Waterford 30 November 2021 johnmenadue.com/how-scott-morrison-is-trashing-the-liberal-brand/Scott Morrison’s personality and style has infected the whole government — the sclerosis and the lack of flexibility on general positions is now built-in. Next Thursday, possibly Friday if debate over religious freedom drags on in the Senate, is probably the last opportunity the federal Liberal Party has to rid itself of a leader in Scott Morrison, increasingly looking like a liability without a road to victory that he is capable of describing. After that, parliament rises for Christmas, then the January holidays, and even if extraordinary measures were taken to reconvene parliament, there would simply not be time enough for a new regime to prepare itself for election. It’s not going to happen of course, especially if the so-called incumbency rule, by which a popularly elected prime minister cannot be deposed other than by a two-thirds caucus vote, is treated as the formal requirement. There are party constitutionalists doubtful whether the parliamentary party can bind future meetings of the party, and who observe that a prime minister determined to carry on after losing a majority in caucus would be in an impossible position out in the electorate. Be that as it may, there are no obvious challengers on the horizon, even if a significant number of members, possibly a majority, have little faith in the capacity of Morrison to pull off another election win, with or without the direct intervention of God. Their problem is the fear that any replacement, perhaps Peter Dutton or Josh Frydenberg, would be unlikely to be able to retrieve the party’s position, and might well make it worse. Particularly if the deposed Morrison rump — bound to insist even after any sort of defeat both that they had a winning strategy, and were robbed — were in full-scale revolt, leaking and undermining, and doing their best, in tried and true modern Liberal fashion, to fail to turn the other cheek. It’s not simply a matter of now being too late for anything in the nature of a revolt. The party, as much as Morrison himself, committed itself to the sorts of strategies it is now following, even if some now regret it. The personality and style of Morrison has infected the whole government — including most ministers. The sclerosis and the lack of flexibility on general positions is now built-in. Morrison and a number of other ministers are more than ruthless enough to be able to ditch whole areas of policy or practice, and without regard to anything they have said or done in the past about the folly of going by the new path. They have been trashing a perfectly serviceable brand for far too long to be able to simply deploy it again. Morrison, who pitched himself as a salesman, and who seems to be able to convince himself of anything, can’t seem to sell a thing anymore. His retainers may have little choice but to nod wisely at whatever he says, but they are finding it increasingly difficult to display conviction, faith, or personal endorsement of what’s on offer. They retreat to their constituencies gloomy of the government’s chances of galvanising the community, or half of it, around any campaign idea. It may be that Morrison has, with some policies, or recent policy shifts, neutralised some issues which might have actively gone against the government. Let’s imagine, for example, that he has done this in vital constituencies with his efforts to establish freedom of religion in legislation — perhaps whether or not he can get the support of parliament and the measures put into law. But his proposals were in any event watered down, and if they received some endorsement from some religious lobbies, they created no great enthusiasm. They may well have mobilised some fresh enemies, particularly among those who — though not hostile to religion — simply do not understand what the threat to it was, where it was coming from, and how freedom of thought is likely to be enhanced by the proposed measures. It has, after all, been the Liberal Party which has long counselled suspicion of entrenched rights, or of legislative efforts to put a hand on the scales when it has come time to balance different rights. It has, after all, been the party which has characterised Labor enthusiasm for the declaration, definition and weaponising of new rights and duties as proof of its addiction to coercion, controls, legislative solutions and intrinsic bossiness. The skirmishes of the past few weeks are not the campaign proper, nor do they necessarily point at the issues around which the electorate will divide. Morrison is rehearsing a few approaches, and a few areas in which, he or his strategists believe, ground could be gained. But he is carefully watching the media, and the public response, and one can be sure that he will drop ideas that do not seem to take. A good example might be with his new-found fondness for electric cars, his initiatives to establish charging points, and his insistence that technological developments in only the past two years had completely transformed the economic equations about the use of the car and the truck. It didn’t work. Partly because Morrison is incapable of taking a backward step, or of ever admitting that he was once wrong. Instead, in the usual Morrison style he begins by denying that he ever said anything negative about electric vehicles at all, then, when confronted with clear records showing that he had, he attempts to redefine what he said, to change the emphasis, and to insist that circumstances had radically changed. A bigger man presiding over a U-turn — a John Howard perhaps — might say, “I used to think that. But I have had a closer look at it and changed my mind.” And he might even win some professional admiration, either for his willingness to cut and run, or flexibility, or even ruthlessness once it was clear circumstances had changed. He often did, if never with the style or panache of Peter Beattie, then premier of Queensland. Not Morrison. By now, as ever, he has convinced himself that there is no contradiction whatever with anything he has said before, and that anyone who suggests otherwise is calumniating, petty, nit-picking, and seeking to disguise her own moral infirmities. This capacity to examine his own conscience and to acquit himself of misleading conduct because he believed in all of his statements at the time he made them might, in his own mind, persuade him of the purity of his intentions. That does not stop its being a self-delusion, and its exposition a deceit. Here in this vale of tears, It would be called perjury in a court of law, at the very least for not being “the whole truth, and nothing but the truth”; as well as for being calculated to deceive.
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Post by pim on Dec 1, 2021 8:48:03 GMT 10
Morrison finally responds to climate crisis by announcing Religious Discrimination billHow good is this bullshit!After years of indecision and uncertainty, the Prime Minister has finally taken action on global warming by releasing the third iteration of a bill that will give religious institutions the right to fire gay people. As Australians were hit by more and more extreme weather events, Mr Morrison said people needed practical solutions. “With our bushfire seasons becoming more intense, sea levels rising and arable land decreasing, you can be reassured that your government is doing everything it can to give religious people the opportunity to post sexist memes on Facebook,” the PM said. Mr Morrison said he was always listening to the concerns of ordinary Australians. “They say to me, ‘Scomo I just want my kids to have a future without having to worry about climate change destroying the world. And I say, ‘I hear you – soon your school will be able to sack your child’s teacher if they’re gay’. The Prime Minister said that as people tried to make sense of the changing climate, there were two words on everyone’s lips – religious discrimination. “I hear it every time I go to my multi-million dollar tax-exempt church”.
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Post by pim on Dec 6, 2021 22:46:33 GMT 10
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Post by Gort on Dec 8, 2021 21:00:34 GMT 10
And on climate change and emissions reduction … Confused old man believes economic system that caused climate change will magically solve itwww.theshovel.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Scott-Morrison-SS2-no--620x363.jpgA bewildered quinquagenarian with no experience of the world outside the Sydney elite is under the impression that the same economic system that led to the overconsumption of fossil fuels which has caused “once in a hundred year” weather events every other week is the same system that will put the world back on track. The man, who has profited from industries accelerating the climate crisis, has told journalists that government intervention isn’t necessary to correct the market failures rampant in these industries. The plan is contingent on the expectation that businesses will put societal welfare ahead of profits, or in other words, expecting them to behave in a way that no business has ever behaved in the history of modern society. The man assured journalists that although he doesn’t intend to lift a finger to help mitigate the damage from the climate crisis, and has in fact taken measures to deepen it, he’ll be there to take credit for the accomplishments of industry if they come to a miraculous solution. Meanwhile ... Woodside sets $7 billion target for expansion into hydrogen, CCS projectsMichael Mazengarb 8 December 2021 Woodside's decision to proceed with the Scarborough LNG project has been slammed by environment groups. (Credit: Canva). Oil and gas giant Woodside will begin expanding its business into lower energy sources, announcing a new investment target to boost its hydrogen and carbon capture and storage capabilities as the company reckons with an accelerating global energy transition out of fossil fuels.
In making the pitch for a new US$5 billion (A$7 billion) investment target for “new energy” projects, Woodside CEO Meg O’Neill told an investor briefing on Wednesday that the company would look to diversify its energy products into hydrogen while adding carbon capture and storage to its existing projects.O’Neill cited scenarios published by the International Energy Agency, showing pathways to zero net emissions globally by 2050, to argue that further investment in oil, gas and hydrogen will be needed. “Under all four scenarios, significant investment is expected in oil and gas, with growing hydrogen investment required especially in the Net Zero 2050 scenario,” O’Neill told the briefing. “Even in the Net Zero scenario, the forecast cumulative investment in oil and gas needed to meet the world’s energy needs is immense at approximately $10 trillion. “It is clear there is an important role for oil, gas and hydrogen, and our strategy to develop a diversified and resilient portfolio will help enable Woodside to thrive through the energy transition.” Woodside’s plan will see it invest in a mix of renewable hydrogen facilities and fossil hydrogen production at its existing gas facilities, which would include its forthcoming Scarborough development, with a commitment to capture and store associated emissions. While it is well short of a commitment from Woodside to actively divest itself of its fossil fuel assets – the company is still planning to significantly increase its production of gas – it is at least some recognition that the company’s future will require it to pivot into energy sources beyond fossil fuels. Woodside’s approach, it appears, will be driven by economics rather than a proactive embrace of decarbonisation, with the company making investments in new technologies where it expects to generate stronger financial returns.O’Neill said this would include a focus on meeting a growing market demand for hydrogen, cutting the company’s operational and scope-3 emissions through carbon capture and storage technologies, and building a 3,000MW portfolio of “lower carbon” electricity generation capacity to supply its projects and hydrogen production facilities. ... reneweconomy.com.au/woodside-sets-7-billion-target-for-expansion-into-hydrogen-ccs-projects/
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Post by pim on Dec 11, 2021 16:24:41 GMT 10
Scott Morrison "leads" Australia? When he can't even get this bloke to pull his head in and be one of the team? Scotty Smirk & Mirrors, lead? You've gotta be fucking joking! But they're not all bad you know. Ever noticed that in the States where the Libs are in power they don't have the same negative profile as the federal Libs? And they appear to "get it" on emissons whereas the boofhead feds are still off on their fossil fuel frolic. Read on ... Sydney magic, Canberra tragic: why federal Liberal moderates are a jokeBernard Keane 10 December 2021 www.crikey.com.au/2021/12/10/federal-liberal-moderates-a-joke/How can the NSW Liberals produce a successful moderate government at state level and a band of incompetent do-nothings at the federal level? The NSW Liberal Party is the best of times and the worst of times. It counts Tony Abbott and Scott Morrison in its ranks — the two worst prime ministers since Billy McMahon. It produced reactionary Craig Kelly, now departed for sunnier political climes, and Gladys Berejiklian, queen of the pork-barrel and spectacular misjudgment, as well as a string of MPs who have engaged in misconduct or outright corruption. It’s also produced a successful state government that has lifted New South Wales from the mire Labor left it in in 2011, has led the country with ambitious climate policies that are driving investment and jobs in renewables, and in Dominic Perrottet has the only leader outside the Labor-Greens government in the ACT genuinely interested in economic reform. It’s a government that has relatively successfully balanced moderates and conservatives and their factional conflicts — something it hasn’t always managed to do in the past. Perrottet wants to make the PM irrelevant in a new post-Commonwealth era Read More Perrottet proposes that the states effectively lead Australia with an energised Council for the Australian Federation treating the Commonwealth as an obstructive bystander to progressing key reforms, and speaks of having more in common with his Labor counterparts than with his federal counterparts. It all raises the question of how the same party can produce a successful, moderate, high-achieving government and also hold a high degree of responsibility for the grotesque clown show that is the Morrison government. Partly it’s down to personnel. While NSW state moderates include Matt Kean, one of the best political talents of his generation, and Deputy Premier Stuart Ayres, the federal NSW moderates are an array of low-wattage time servers. Ayres’ partner, Marise Payne, is the invisible woman, with an act of Parliament required to get a word out of her beyond the latest diplomatic appointment, and dullard Communications Minister Paul Fletcher’s best days were spent carrying Richard Alston’s bags. Backbenchers Trent Zimmerman and Jason Falinski dwell in northern Sydney obscurity, and Dave Sharma purports to be a moderate but has a long history of doing whatever it takes to promote himself. The poor quality of the NSW moderates carries through to their internal political tactics. While right-wing extremists and climate denialists in the Coalition have no qualms about crossing the floor, undermining prime ministers and generally behaving, in Malcolm Turnbull’s words, like terrorists — and get what they want — their Coalition colleagues know that the worst the NSW moderates will ever do is call a journalist at The Sydney Morning Herald and whinge. That’s why they’ve been signally ineffective in achieving change on issues like climate and energy. There’s also a structural limitation on what even a talented federal moderate can do. The federal Liberals and Nationals, and particularly the LNP in Queensland and Liberals in Western Australia, rely heavily on fossil fuel industries for donations. Although it generates significant coal exports, the NSW economy is a modern, globalised economy, which isn’t dominated by the business of digging stuff up and shipping it overseas. Whereas the federal Nationals are primarily a party of fossil fuel donors and aggressively represent their interests, the NSW Nationals are fully on board with Kean’s ambitious climate policies. The NSW federal moderates are in an important sense a waste of political space. They are incapable of effecting change within the federal Coalition because of the weight of fossil fuel donations and the power exerted by fossil fuel companies, even before dealing with the opposition of climate denialists and anti-science extremists in the Coalition. The voters they represent are effectively disenfranchised due to this. The only remedy is either for those moderates to adopt the same tactics as the climate denialist terrorists among their colleagues — something they seem genetically incapable of doing — or of being replaced with independents who will leverage their position in Parliament to deliver policies demanded by their electorates. In the interim, the NSW government can get on with leading — showing an alternative world where Liberal governments can be reformist and successful.
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Post by matte on Dec 11, 2021 18:23:14 GMT 10
I believe Scott Morrison will lose the election.
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Post by pim on Dec 29, 2021 22:13:46 GMT 10
Geoff Kitney, a veteran of the press gallery who has seen prime ministers come and go since Whitlam, argues that Scott Morrison doesn’t “lead” because he doesn’t want to lead … It’s time for Scott Morrison to govern, except he never willPolitics for Morrison’s Coalition is about scheming to stay in power, while Australia starts regressing into its old insular ways.Geoff Kitney Columnist Dec 28, 2021 – www.afr.com/politics/federal/it-s-time-for-scott-morrison-to-govern-except-he-never-will-20211227-p59kajIt’s time! Well, OK, not very original and not really capturing the national mood the way this memorable slogan did in 1972 when Labor offered its most commanding leader, Gough Whitlam, as the alternative prime minister to feeble Bill McMahon. Anthony Albanese is no Gough Whitlam. Which might be Scott Morrison’s best hope of another election miracle because Morrison actually is beginning to challenge McMahon as one of the country’s least-convincing prime ministers. Scott Morrison at his Horizon Church during the 2019 election campaign. The prime minister has stacked his cabinet with a large number of people who share his brand of Pentecostal Christianity.The Coalition desperately needs to go into this election with voters convinced that Albanese and his program are too risky. That said, the argument that it is time for a change of government is hardly less compelling than it was in 1972. The truth is, the Morrison government has become a government in name only, led by a leader who has little to offer as he seeks to take the Coalition to a fourth successive term in office. The Morrison government is occupying, not governing. After seven years of Coalition government, Australia is standing still. In fact, it is regressing. Modernisation on the back burnerJust as in the long years of Menzies governments, vital work to modernise Australia is on the back burner. Just as the Menzies governments – held to ransom by the then-Country Party – protected old industries and insulated the economy from global forces of change, so is history being repeated as the National Party holds the nation to ransom to protect the coal industry. Australia is back to its bad old, inward-looking, she’ll-be-right, habits of the past. The bitter partisan divide in Australia is deep and widening. Optimism has given way to frustration and fear. A leader to bring the country together again and to take the decisions needed to prepare the country for global challenges ahead is an urgent national need. Morrison can’t. Morrison’s foolish tribalismIn fact, all the evidence suggests he doesn’t want to. The partisan games he has played throughout the COVID-19 pandemic prove it. Morrison’s foolish tribalism has undermined the authority of the prime ministership and emboldened state leaders to act in ways that threaten the future of the federation. Is Albanese the person capable of bringing the nation together again? In the way that a Labor leader did last time the country was coming apart at the seams – Bob Hawke in 1983? From observing him for a long time I think he is a decent person with good instincts. But it is a big leap from there to being the Prime Minister needs now. But a decent person would be a good start. I don’t get Scott Morrison. There is something not quite right with him. There is a falseness about him, a lack of empathy, a coldness that I find very odd, set against his professed deep Christianity. I do not know how he reconciles his hard politics with his professed belief in the teachings of Jesus. Pentecostal Christians’ influencePeople argue that Morrison’s faith is his own business and that critics hate the fact that he is a conservative family man with faith. But his faith is part of a bigger political story: The steadily growing influence of Pentecostal Christians within the Liberal Party as a result of years of grassroots infiltration by activists. Morrison has stacked his cabinet with a large number of people who share his brand of religious expression. The blurring of the vital line between church and state. Pentecostalism is an American import, based on a strange mix of faith in two Gods – the Christian God and the God of Free Markets. These beliefs are intertwined into what has been termed “prosperity gospel”. Trust us with your money might seem to be an odd appeal from the Morrison government.Capitalism and Christ! How does that work? This might suit fundamentalist America but, I would have thought, would repel traditional hard-bitten, no-bullshit Australian scepticism. But I might be wrong. Maybe the decades of brain-washing of too much US culture via commercial TV and Murdoch media has changed us. Morrison certainly believes the capitalism message is a winner. As he does so often, Morrison reduces the complexities of running a nation to a simple, catchy slogan: “Can do capitalism”, not “don’t do governments” “I think that’s a good motto for us to follow,” he says. As with most such slogans, this bears little resemblance to the truth. The Coalition has governed Australia for nearly 20 of the last 26 years. The size of government is greater than it has ever been – and the latest budget outlook shows it continuing to grow, even with debt at eye-watering levels. The Coalition is addicted to splashing cash. Yet the Coalition will run, as its big economic theme for the coming election, that you cannot trust Labor with your (taxpayers’) money. “We created the problem. Now trust us to fix it”, they are saying. Trust! Such an important word in the current political context. Trust has a chequered history in federal politics. Outright lies from Howard governmentJohn Howard ran with “trust us” in the 2004 election, after the outright lies his government perpetrated in its zealous effort to thwart asylum seekers reaching Australia. Voters went along with it because they saw then-Labor leader Mark Latham as too risky. Trust us with your money might seem to be an odd appeal from the Morrison government, given its record of the most blatant “pork-barrelling” we have seen. Again, risk-averse Australian voters may be persuaded that, despite its trickery, the Morrison government is less likely to make a mess of things than Albanese Labor. But to me, this coming election is about more than “trust” against “risk”. This election should be about casual corruption and the collapse of accountability. It should be about the rapid decline in standards of public probity and the Morrison government’s contempt for accountability: the obscene imbalance in the allocation of public grant funds to suit its own political purposes; the casual way lies are told, in the expectation of no adverse consequences; the way ministerial standards have collapsed; the way almost every difficult issue is treated as a political problem to “manage” rather than to be solved. For there to be no consequences for a prime minister and a government behaving so badly is to say that these standards are OK. To accept declining standards of accountability is to treat our democracy with contempt. To me, integrity issues top the list of reasons why this government does not deserve to be re-elected. To me, this is the main reason It’s Time.
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Post by pim on Dec 30, 2021 6:28:41 GMT 10
Leadership?
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Post by pim on Dec 30, 2021 6:33:15 GMT 10
Where is the PM? Has anyone checked Hawaii?www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/premier-takes-let-it-rip-to-next-incredulous-level-20211228-p59kfq.htmlOn reading the letters (December 28), I wondered, where is the PM? He was all over the place when he and the Premier were saying that all mandates must go, masks out the window, do away with QR check-ins and all that guff about personal responsibility. Now it has all turned to custard, as fully expected, he is nowhere to be seen. Is this a new form of Where’s Wally for the Christmas holidays? Has anyone checked Hawaii? Ron Wessel, Mount St Thomas
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Post by pim on Dec 30, 2021 6:40:15 GMT 10
In the absence of leadership safety is our personal dutyDecember 24, 2021 www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/in-the-absence-of-leadership-safety-is-our-personal-duty-20211222-p59jn6.htmlLeadership?As a retired registered nurse, I have friends and family working in the NSW public health system. Unless privy to inside information, most people are unaware of the dire situation in which hospitals find themselves this week: desperate (“QR codes return but mask rules resisted”, December 23). Disaster management plans are being implemented, staff are having leave cancelled and those on leave are being recalled. Others are isolating because of having come into contact with COVID-19 positive patients and visitors, unwittingly and despite their efforts to maintain best practice. So if you think that masks don’t matter, social distancing is a nonsense and QR codes are a relic of the past, think again. Living with the Omicron virus is another of the PM’s marketing slogans that provides no protection against catching or spreading COVID-19. We are all at risk and it is everyone’s responsibility to ensure that this risk is mitigated by continuing the safe practices we began earlier in the year. Otherwise, there might not be enough staff to look after us and our families if we need them. And that is looking more and more likely. Patricia Farrar, Concord With prolonged wait times for COVID-19 PCR tests and even longer wait times for notification of results, there is little point in reintroducing QR code check-ins. With thousands of new cases daily in NSW, contact tracers are well behind already. By the time notification of a contact occurs based on receipt of a positive test and tracing based on QR code check in, it is likely to be well past the time of relevance. Mask mandates, on the other hand, impose an immediate positive impact on case numbers with no stress on Health Department manpower. Come on, Premier, some common sense, please. Margaret Hogan, Lindfield The Prime Minister and NSW Premier have joined the Friends of Omicron: 95 per cent of NSW adults are vaxxed and wear masks, just 5 per cent are recalcitrant. Yet in the face of the exponentially virulent Omicron strain, the PM and Premier stubbornly refuse to mandate the almost costless measure of wearing masks, and instead endorse the “right” of the 5 per cent to imperil the health and safety of everyone else. Expert advice is being ignored. Frontline workers and their families in health, retail and hospitality along with their clients and customers are being forced to play Russian roulette every day without moral or legal support. This is ideological madness and utterly irresponsible. Howard Dick, Toronto It is long past time for a co-ordinated federal approach to this continuing pandemic. Australians have put in the hard yards with lockdowns with so many of us being under helicopter surveillance while in hard lockdown in “areas of concern”. We were not considered “adults” then so why now? Political expediency with no responsibility? Opening up and removing QR requirements and mask wearing less than two weeks before Christmas was foolhardy and was always going to lead to calamity. Vicki Copping, Oatley I’m perplexed. Our Premier is from the camp that believes in the sanctity of life from conception and that you do not have the right to end your own life when it becomes unbearable, and actively ensuring you don’t get to make that choice, yet he’s okay with the notion that it’s up to you to protect yourself from catching and passing on a nasty and potentially lethal disease to others because he does not want to interfere with your right to make your own “adult” decisions. Alicia Dawson, Balmain Is Dominic Perrottet going to take personal responsibility for his embarrassing backflip? Bill Plastiras, Vaucluse When it comes to changing your mind on mask mandates at this particularly precarious point in the pandemic, I suspect I’m not the only NSW citizen happy to grant our Premier a “get away with a back-flip free” card. Peter Fyfe, Enmore I tried to get a test at the drive-through centre at St Ives on Sunday but at 12.30pm was turned away – within sight of the facility that was due to close at 1pm in the worst outbreak since the start of the pandemic (“Queue dismay as Sydneysiders’ festive plans collapse”, December 23). I went to the Hornsby Hospital test centre where I queued with others before being ushered into a waiting room half full of people. The test was negative, but I’ve since been advised that someone being tested at the same time was positive, which makes me a casual contact. It’s possible I went into the test centre without COVID-19, but left with it. Malcolm McEwen, North Turramurra We’ve heard plenty of reports of long queues at testing centres, but what about getting the test results? We were required to have a test within 72 hours of travelling interstate. We lined up and our tests were done. The next morning, my wife received her negative results. One week later, I am still waiting for mine. Four hours on hold on the phone and no answer. Eight months of planning for an interstate family get-together, a week’s accommodation, plane flights, car hire all cancelled. Michael Egan, Killarney Heights The Prime Minister, who doesn’t hold a hose, doesn’t buy sufficient vaccines for the population saying it is not a race, obviously hasn’t purchased sufficient rapid antigen testing kits for the country as they are impossible to buy in pharmacies. Looks like my 101-year-old mother will not be able to attend the family Christmas as everyone attending must have a negative test to enable her to leave the aged care residence. This is a requirement of the facility as the virus is quickly spreading through aged care in Sydney. Bronwyn Willats, Mittagong A sincere apology and an immediate withdrawal of any suggested moves to charge an unvaccinated person for hospital care is needed. Who would be next: young people who go to a government-allowed nightclub or pub, or the many other ways poor personal decisions are made? And who will adjudicate? As I readily take more personal responsibility for the safety of our community and myself so should our Premier take responsibility for considering the total lack of ethics in this matter. Sue Hearn, Glebe However stupid it is not to be vaccinated, to suggest such people pay the cost of their treatment is ridiculous. Taken to its logical extreme, will we charge melanoma cases because they didn’t slip, slop, slap 30 years ago? Or an 18-year-old who takes one stupid risk on a night out? Who will draw the line on this? Is this government road testing reactions to user-pays medicine? Michael Berg, Randwick
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Post by pim on Jan 21, 2022 13:08:13 GMT 10
Scotty Word Salad’s latest brain fart: 16 year old forklift drivers “Toddlers should be allowed to drive forklifts”, says toddler in charge of countrywww.theshovel.com.au/2022/01/21/toddlers-drive-forklifts-toddler-in-charge-of-country/Children should be allowed to operate heavy machinery, 53 year-old little boy Scott Morrison says. While the plan has been met with criticism, experts say the change would bring child labour laws in line with other areas of society. “There are inconsistencies in the legislation. It is confusing why a child can’t drive a forklift, given they can be elected to the nation’s highest office,” employment analyst Trisha Bourke said. “Some people may say it’s inappropriate for a child to operate heavy machinery, but no-one seems to have noticed that a child has been operating the country for the past three and a half years”. Unions were quick to comment, saying that driving a forklift and driving a medium-sized economy are not suitable activities for children. “There’s a risk that they might fall asleep at the wheel,” a spokesperson said. They went on to say that, “we disagree with the concept of child labour in general however if we can find someone half as good at stacking pork as the current PM is at pork-barreling then why the fuck not.” Scott Morrison was unavailable for further comment as he was on time-out due to shitting his pants after being told he could not have McDonald’s for dinner.
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Post by Gort on Jan 21, 2022 13:38:22 GMT 10
No probs!
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Post by Gort on Jan 27, 2022 11:07:35 GMT 10
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