A kudo to the queen of crumb maidens. We don’t know how lucky we are to have Jim Chalmers…
…a young and ambitious treasurer: ambitious in his own right but creditably ambitious to deliver better, and credible, policy than some we have seen in recent years.
ROFLMAO.
What Labor government needs a propaganda department when the ABC exists?
Looks like she’s moved on from Sam Neill. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The audacity.
From the Daily Mail link:
I don’t see either of the major parties, nor the Greens, talking about slashing the immigration intake (which also affects the already serious housing crisis), or even seriously discussing the subject at all.
Labor and the LNP are in favour of high immigration rates because big business and industry want it, and Greens because lowering immigration is “racist.”
Laura Tingle is hardly, by any standard, an objective reporter.
As Gerard Henderson is whimsically fond of saying, one should never make predictions, especially about the future.
Tingle’s comments reminds me of Nikki Savva and certain other left wing commentators who predicted a very long and prosperous career as PM for Turnbull.
Good Lord!
I did not know that they were ever a couple.
Mind you, I have known for some time that Neill’s politics are very suss, so I shouldn’t be surprised.
The difference between Labor and the Coalition is the Liberal Party clamp down on the National Party’s wish for unlimited cheap labour from the Pacific Islands and the Labor Party see more ALP voters.
It’s the same with Immigration in general, elect the Coalition, the flood slows, elect Labor and it’s
Pick the difference between Labor, LNP, Greens and Teal.
UN slaves.
Isn’t much.
Note for the record that the decline charted in the AFR graph started under ScoMo.
Having acknowledged that, bear this in mind: Albanese and Chalmers demanded the Morrison government spend much larger sums and impose harsher ‘measures’ during the fake pandemic. Also: what the degenerate Labor states were doing at that time wasn’t Morrison’s fault. The decline is not ‘inherited’ from the LNP. It is a joint catastrophe.
C.L. says:
11 November, 2023 at 10:33 pm
We not going to be able to vote our way out of this mess – I’ve given up hope that this can be achieved. All our (the West) justice systems are corrupted.
The last 3 years have given me hope that there are many out there who share this view.
what Fat Tony says: 11 November, 2023 at 11:35 pm
Labour from the pacific islands has little to do with the current malaise, most of those workers are seasonal and temporary and go back home.
The Photios/ Turnbull lechers are the problem with the liberal party, they are more interested in gaining and retaining power than standing up for Australian voters. Just like Tingle, whose article is aimed at glossing over the real challenges Australia faces to piss in the pocket of a feckless, incurious and vainglorious treasurer who is more interested in making excuses and blaming the reserve bank than knuckling down to push against the political expediency of his own party. Tingle simply wants her preferred feather dusters to hold the reins indefinitely.
I thought to myself that the Shadow Treasurer should be all over this stuff,I then realised I had NFI who is the shadow Treasurer.
Crumb maiden. That’s good.
Every last one of them to a man. Or woman. Or lampshade identifying.
That’s why we are being ruled instead of represented. We may be permitted to vote every 3/4 years but we have absolutely no say in anything after that.
Just realised that Labour in NZ have increased the top income tax rate from 33 percent to 39 percent. They just can’t help themselves.
The decline is not ‘inherited’ from the LNP. It is a joint catastrophe.
There’s a pattern though.
Recessions, rationing in the 1940s, elect a Coalitrion Government, 23 years of sunlit uplands.
Elect another Labor Government in 1972, 3 years of devastation.
Back to the Coalition in 1975, things picked up for 7 years.
Back to Labor in 1983, 13 years of stagnation and hopelessness.
Backi to the Coalition in 1996, things got better for 12 years.
Elect Rudd in 2007, back to misery.
B ack to the Coalition in 2013, 9i years of winning.
After 18 months of Albanese, it’s overseas trips and throwing the switch to Vaudeville again.
The best Hendo can do is claim that Peter Dutton probably won’t win the next Election.
I’d say Polling is showing the voters waiting for Albanese with baseball bats.
The Hawke government implemented the hard, supply side reforms the Howard government built on to give us a generation of growth.
But this ALP crew does not have a Peter Walsh, and they prefer the politics of mobilising various disadvantaged groups, not to make any difference to their lives, but to keep themselves in power.
The Hawke government implemented the Howard reform agenda with the exception of the gst and individual bargaining. They just didn’t know how to take advantage of those reforms through fiscal rectitude and judicious spending ie not just paying off your mates. That aberration will never happen again, mostly because there are few in the liberal party that have the vision for the kind of reform Howard left for Keating and the ALP will never let another treasurer create productive reform.
In prep for my looming retirement (still a little ways away) I was sorting a cupboard at work, which had some carefully selected shelves of internal documents from the supply side reform era that I kept in the expectation that some brave politican or senior executive would want to know all those reforms were necessary, what the thinking was behind the reforms etc. and might want to restore all that has been unwound since 2008 in an orgy of demand side Keynesian wastage. You know, why statutory marketing authorities, taxes on production, inefficient markets and subsidies are bad, government should not compete with the private sector and the like.
Then I realised there would be no one would be able to work out where to start in the ever burgeoning PS world of corporate HR and risk averse executives that rely on consultants to tell them what they want to do anyway. At best the consultants dig up a retired PS on a short term contract to write the report for them, because they don’t have the knowledge in house either, they just pretend they do. And the modern APS no longer really has a frame of reference to even understand the issue to be able to ask the question in the first place. The public service just doesn’t have the knowledge and skills anymore. But it does know the acknowledgement of country.
So it all went in the bin.
The Hawke government implemented the Howard reform agenda with the exception of the gst and individual bargaining.
Plus, Hawke didn’t dismantle MediCare, the main plank of the Howard Reform Agenda, and the only part that made any sense.
Individual Bargaining is a con, the employers only negotiate with the Unions, same as it ever was.
The GST killed small business, 10% was a pretty good margin, and Howard stole it away with the stroke of a pen.
I recall having a very good AWA back in the day. Many others weren’t fans and the only ones chasing AWAs were the high performers.
This is all fiction.
I recall having a very good AWA back in the day. Many others weren’t fans and the only ones chasing AWAs were the high performers.
So do I.
In my case, the employer needed skilled operators and paying over the odds was the easiest way to get them.
5 years later, when they had the workforce, they called in the Union to negotiate a cheaper deal.
Whaddabout individual bargaining?
The Union is always the default repreaentative when the employer doesn’t wanna talk to the workers anymore.
It was a con.
Ed, you were a skilled operator?
I presume it was something involving your key strength … fabrication.
After five years the Rudd government killed AWAs.
Rudd wasn’t P.M. for 5 years.
Perhaps you’re thinking of WorkChoices, a different thing altogether?
What Tel says
what Entropy says: 12 November, 2023 at 6:17 pm
The Keating Government introduced A.W.A.s c. 1991.
Rudd wasn’t elected until 2007.
Shorter:
Wot Ed said.
Keating introduced the uncontrollable Superannuation Guarantee the recipients of that flood of money work directly against Australians.
Tell me again about Keating/Hawke.
See my comment @ 7:56 pm.
Just on Rudd, though, I don’t remember him ever repealing WorkChoices in it’s entirety.
A.W.A.s always worked in the Employers interests, sometime that coincided with the workers interests.
But that was accidental, not part of the design.
Ed, you’ve totally shamed yourself on this thread, stop digging. I particularly like the bit where you said wot Ed said. You might want to see someone for that…