Everything you need to know about the National Party: it's preferencing Hanson's Big Business candidate - who can't say if Gina is bankrolling ON - over the local independent in Farrer.
Polling has independent Milthorpe 30%, ON Farley 30.9%
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Headline from the AFR "Time to end welfare for the wealthy, says big business"
You mean the superannuation tax breaks? No?
You mean the CGT discount? No?
You mean the fossil fuel subsidies? No?
You mean the free gas for multinationals? No?
You mean the failure of the PRRT? No?
You mean the tax dodging trusts? No?
You mean the lack of a wealth tax? No?
No you mean the NDIS FFS
. @richarddenniss.bsky.social opens by pointing out that the Japanese govt actually raises more revenue from Australian gas than does the Australian govt!
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Heresy: Given that the US has cancelled the “international rules-based order” & that under Trump whatever you can get away with is now legal, Iran’s tolling ships seems relatively reasonable - a lesser evil - & not without some legal support.
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The biggest loser on Sunday night? Netanyahu.
Oh Israel will keep winning one-sided battles, keep winning at killing people, but the loss or Orban signals Netanyahu losing the war.
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Chris who?
Obvious lesson from the war on Iran is that hosting American bases unsurprisingly makes the host a target when America goes to war.
We are through the looking glass, needing American military protection because we host American military protection.
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Presumably Canberra's silence means it's happy with Trump "taking" Cuba, ditto with murdering wreckage survivors, sinking ships because “it’s more fun”, showing no remorse for killing civilians and being one with the genocidal Netanyahu government.
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You’d be a simple, reckless and dangerous soul to go to war on an imagined possibility but that's what Trump has done.
And Australia is supporting him.
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It's the housing, stupid. Not a "tight" labour market or wages growth.
It's our key monetary, social and government policy problem, one that is undermining our nation.
And at absolute best, all we're being offered is the failing status quo.
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A low point for two Labor leaders this week, turning Trumpy.
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Had literally *any* other nation done this the anger being heard across the media airwaves and from politicians would be deafening and unending.
Headline in The Oz: Adam Creighton: "Why it’s time we finally stopped worshipping ‘the science’"
The IPA's Chief Economist with a take
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Charts showing chances of a rate rise Trading Day No Change Increase to 3.85% 20 January 75% 25% 21 January 75% 25% 22 January 40% 60% 23 January 44% 56% 26 January 40% 60% 27 January 42% 58% 28 January 28% 72% 29 January 33% 67% 30 January 28% 72% 02 February 28% 72%
While I still expect the RBA to increase rates, the fact that the market has not really shifted in the past week makes me wonder if even the speculators know the data really isn't there to actually justify a rise.
A 72%chance of a rate rise is not really that definitive
Meanwhile, Labor continue to stall on regulations that would actually work and prevent serious harm.
This is laughable stuff 👇 – journalists need to use FOI to find the voices of dissenting Labor MPs!
"Frustrated?" Cry me a fckin river.
The assumption of a rate rise today already has the RBA being whipped for backflipping. It would be a more painful flop if the figures flipped again.
Why the bank should talk hawk but sit penguin:
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Intro isn't quite true. It was a happy Oz Day for me - a long well-lubricated lunch with neighbouring friends of varying politics & opinions, all in good spirit and acceptance, perhaps united by disgust with Trump.
But there's still meanness showing in our polling
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I missed an important example of how supine our government is: we enabled the Duggan family's assets, their home, to be seized by the US despite no conviction and with extradition unresolved.
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I think he's capable of multiple simulataneous crimes. The administration's reaction to Renee Wood's killing underlines our surrender in another area though: michaelwest.com.au/rendering-an...
Don't forget, the IHRA definition will be buttressed by the extra Special Envoy's "supplementary guide"...which is either still being developed/workshopped and yet to be seen.
US “justice” system is severely compromised from top to bottom especially if there is any element of politics or foreign policy involved yet Canberra is prepared to render unto Trump a fellow Australian just on America's say so.
We've surrendered our self-respect.
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What Robert Manne termed the "clumsy and rather pathetic" Bondi response did not happen in isolation.
Richo's state funeral may prove to be Albanese's "knights and dames" moment
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“The CIA and NSA have also stepped up surveillance of Greenland’s independence movement & been tasked with identifying locals sympathetic to America. The Danish government summoned American diplomats three times last year over reports of spying and running a covert influence campaign in Greenland."
"If you think Trump is just trolling on Greenland, book yourself a holiday in Caracas" (Edward Luce in the FT)
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Thank you Renee. Appreciated.
The Monroe Doctrine is 200 years old. Trump is taking it back to its lawless era - the US unconstrained.
And of course it's about the oil, not Maduro - some of Trump's best friends are feudal murderers.
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But if Xi is smart - and he certainly isn't stupid like Trump - it's the opportunity to really win by going high
