As we sit and wait for news of the fate of the seven dual citizens as they traipse from their parliamentary offices with the woebegone air of condemned men and women to the High Court this afternoon, it is worth reflecting on the sort of week the government has already had.
There is a prescient sense of deja vu about it. The Turnbull government often has good Tuesday afternoons but come the weekend, the control of the agenda has been lost, a scandal has emerged, or infighting on the backbenches has turned into a donnybrook. The familiar theme is, in any one week of the Turnbull government, one step forward and three back.
Indeed it has happened so often the thought occurs that possibly Malcolm Turnbull isn’t very good at being prime minister.
Full column here.
The coalition government is a corrupt disgrace. Forget about bi-elections and state elections we need to get rid of this damaging federal government asap. They are again deliberating stopping an industry sector to ensure their fossil fuels mates are protected. They are locking in higher prices. The NEG the ESB are a corrupt construct. Worst government in this Nations history anyone supporting them should hang their heads in shame.
http://reneweconomy.com.au/concerns-over-5-minute-rule-as-esb-warns-of-perils-of-wind-and-solar-95936/
Won’t matter Dismal, you keep telling us renewables are now cheaper so what’s the issue?
This NEG and the ESB are designed to stop renewables and the industry in its tracks. We see Frydenberg has directed the outcomes of the modelling. Kerry Schott has done an about turn overnight. This smack of more intervention by this corrupt government. This thought bubble NEG is locking higher prices and ensures the Nation cannot meets its Paris obligations. the longer Australia continues to use coal the further behind the rest of the world we will fall and the MORE it will cost Australians in the future. you are failing your children and their children. shameful.
https://amp.theguardian.com/environment/2017/nov/01/fossil-fuel-companies-undermining-paris-agreement-negotiations-report
This government has an energy policy copyrighted by the Flintsones.
Looters are scared to death of the Un Nationals…they who have so much power, privilege and status, 14 seats with a pizzling 5% of the vote. That is the unmentioned disgrace in this country.
amazing really the Environment Minister does not have solar at his home but arch conservative and climate change denier bestiality Bernardi has 12kw of solar that is a big array.
Not at all it suits some and not others. Savings depend on how long you intend to stay in that dwelling. If there were no feed in tariffs then nobody would buy in and energy would be significantly cheaper. Those who cannot afford solar would be far better of than they are now.
Energy companies increasing the amount they pay people for feed in? More Renewables = lower power prices. Every review undertaken by every government has proven this. Coal is More expensive and subsidised at extraction and again at burning. Fossil fuels receive 3 times the subsidisation of Renewables. By continuing to lie and put outdated technology and political ideology ahead of new technology people like you and the coalition will cost this country $$Billions more than necessary. The Health effects alone cost this country $ Billions before you even look at keeping the planet habitable for future generations.
Depends on the roof of the house of the environment minister and how much sunlight is available.
On second thoughts, given SA’s record of electricity supply, if I lived in SA, I would have more than 12kv plus a bucket load of batteries
JS Careful Milton will be advising you that replying to yourself is beyond the pale. Just not the done thing.
One way of getting an intelligent conversation going Dismal 🙂
What is Cash doing about this? Nothing. No Surprises.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/30/australian-slavery-inquiry-told-fruit-pickers-brainwashed-and-trapped-in-debt
Both the federal government and the Qld state government are doing plenty Dismal. I happen to have been personally involved with some people championing this matter and things are getting much better, though no doubt some are still not doing the right thing, but that will always happen regardless of what law exists.
Razor says: October 30, 2017 at 10:23 am “It’s got nothing to do with the WA lawyer you idiot” Would just like to recognise victim no. one’s reply to a comment of mine. Just in case he resorts to his usual obfuscation. No surprises.
I am sure many here would not have seen it but Alan Austin wrote an article last week highlighting 20 key economic performance indicators and how since the 2013 election of the coalition Australia has gone backwards in all of them oh except for Debt and Deficit of course which has skyrocketed even with the coalition passing over 80% of it’s legislative agenda. No surprises.
This is a BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD government (to quote Tones).
‘Rotten government’ was the usual line wasn’t it?
Many m,any times I saw/heard him say baaaaaaaaaad.
Well another of M. Cash’s debacles is highlighted again with the “path” to slave labour intern program again being exploited by employers to sack payed staff and receive payment for unpaid interns on the taxpayers clip. to date the $1 billion program has helped 200 people find part time work. Employers who have been stopped from using he program are not having to pay back the money they received from taxpayers. this program alone should have been enough to have the shrieking Cash sacked. All the research into programs of this nature highlights employers will sack paid employees to utilise free interns. this is the coalitions best effort on employment for youths? No Surprises.
I note since last week Michaelia Cash has been your target of choice Dismal. Funny how that coincides with Labors talking points around the leak from her office and efforts to have her resign . Anyone else see a pattern here or is it just a coincidence that occurs very frequently?
C’mon Razor, depending on your allegiance, everyone here shows a pattern of behaviour. For instance, I believe the current federal government is criminally dysfunctional & that a dirty new coal mine is an environmental betrayal to grassroots Labor supporters in Queensland, but you hold a widely differing view. Your source is usually from a conservative newspaper so invariably you think they are the facts while people like myself, Dismayed & JB do not.
What a boring place this would become if we all held the same opinion mate so lighten up or scroll on. 🤔
With precious little time left before this planet is totally stuffed we should focus on enjoying every day.
Best regards, Bella
Good comment Bella
Disagree on this one Bella. His topics mirror churned out speaking points, with stats to boot. He either pulls it out of his arse or gets fed them. I know where my money is. He’s always on message and when either disproved or there is a contrarian view he cannot deal with he obfuscates or doesn’t answer. I’ve written heaps of speaking points and been tied up with pollies and journos of all persuasions over the years I know how it works. His stuff is right out of the political play book. He’s doing his bit on what is percieved as a conservative blog.
razor the only pattern is I have my eyes open and see clearly how bad the coalition are for this Nation. I have been highlighting the shrieking cash and your disgraceful excuse for human a dutton for a long time.
While taking breaks from reading student papers (yes it’s that time of year again) I’ve been reading political articles online, mostly via Real Clear Politics. The comments sections on the articles on the NYTimes and WaPo cause me despair. These people just don’t disagree with anyone from the middle of the country, they actively despise us. I don’t see that gap being lessened anytime in the future.
The reporters need to get to the mid West Dwight. It was failing to travel out there that led so any of the commentariat, and Candidate Clinton, up the garden path, and I think they’re still smarting from being shown up. To the small extent I talked politics in the US, President Trump is still The Man east of the Rockies. LA was the only place I heard any Trump grumps. WI was solid Trump, and there was still bunting up in Wausau. My fishing guide noted a rise in his business and more employment in northern WI generally since the election.
I suppose your neighbours enjoyed a sleep in today; Packers had the bye. Bills cruised over Raiders 34 – 14.
East of the Rockies! That’s a lot of territory. Regardless, Trump did not win the popular vote and his nationwide approval rating is a shocker. The proposition that Clinton would have won more votes out in the hicks with a visit is a dubious one. What people say they would have done or might have done should be disregarded.
Trumps a gonna!
Please explain and expand for simple-minded people like me Bald
Those with the position, moolah and edjkchun think that they are superior to everybody else.
Seriously though, there has been stuff written about a “class” of people emerging in the US which revolves around the elite universities. They, the Universities, have the money to siphon off the brightest and best with scholarships, inter-marry and walk into all the top paying jobs ably and abetted by a well entrenched alumni .
Bit like the UK’s old boy network and in OZ ‘it does not matter what you know it is who you know”
WaPo I suspect is the Washington Post.
I guess their motto is “Can’t let the red necks take charge”
Emerging! They’ve been there for well over a century.
OK
Maybe they should be split into two – those who have always been there and are rich enough to “influence” Washington directly – the majority of whom are Capitalists. As long as the make their billions they leave everybody else alone but are prone not to leave enough crumbs to keep the rest happy.
The new comers who have gotten control the media, the universities and goodness knows what else who are distinctly Left leaning and want to inflict their ideology on all of us and cure ll the ills of the world by the end of the week – especially the above. They are prone to wanting to tax the living daylights out of pretty well everybody and tell them what they should be thinking and acting.
The rest of us just want a beer, a barby , and a house to bring up and educate the kids and to be left alone.
So? What’s not to like?
“Can’t let the red necks take charge”
And what’s wrong with that motto?
One better look after them because they vote.
The gap between the rich and the poor, indeed and the middle classes ever widens. The same people, Bucky Fuller’s “so immensely wealth they are invisible” are still in charge. Always have been and always will be. All the rest is theatre to give an impression of democracy.
As Parenti says ” You only think you are free till you reach the end of your leash. Applies equally to “Johhny got rich latelies ” and the peasants.
Dwight, nearly every comment you make supporting the neoliberal and neoconservative agenda causes me despair, especially since you are an ‘academic’ albeit one who merely teaches pimply faced youth to read a balance sheet
Look out Dwight – the pole, tar and feathers are being prepared. 🙂
Ah well. Business isn’t for the weak.
Sounds like they’re similarly tolerant to another mob we know well.
Watched a 4 Corners on Germany (yes I do watch the ABC occasionally) – the polarization that is apparent in the UK, US, Australia, France, Holland, and, using Dismal as an example, on this blog, is occurring in Germany.
It has to be a first world disease.
My guess it it the advent of Social Media which allows geographically diverse like minded people to share their feelings and organize themselves.
It’s beyond me.
No different in Australia outside the inner cities Dwight.
Off to Singapore and India for a month with work. I am actually looking forward to escaping the day to day Qld election bickering.
In the Brisbane International QANTAS business lounge Dismal. Pretty average to be honest but a bit too high class for a man of the people like yourself.
Any of Mahatma’s old cronies you’d like me to look up JB?
Yeah I reckon Darwin domestic lounge and Melbourne business lounges have the best food. Brisbane’s is way down the list.
Dismayed……Darwin definitely. Nice champagne too 🙂
Usually the catering is the same in all of them.
As for QF Darwin, I was there a few years ago on AFL grand final day (Freo and Hawthorn). They closed the Qantas club at 3pm, around half time, even though there were Jetstar flights scheduled. The rest of the dump had TVs at each gate and not a single one had the game on. Tres pathetique.
That’s probably because the Airport Manager in Darwin wouldn’t know one sporting code from another and has run the place into the ground (so to speak) God knows how he keeps his job as Darwin Airport now has to be one of the worst airports in Australia.
Mate the catering is different in all of them. Yes you are correct though Darwin does not stay open for Jetstar flights. Jetstar likewise from Darwin will not check baggage through on connecting QF flights.
Un-Australian!
I have never been in a Business Lounge. Tell me all about it. Never been rich enough to get near the pointy end of the plane. That said if U have good luck to you. U must have worked hard in your life and are still working hard.
It’s hardly important in the scheme of things Bassy and it sure doesn’t mean you’re missing anything. Having been in the old Qantas Business lounge with my late father I can tell you that coffee tastes exactly the same in an airport ‘disadvantaged’ cafe. 😄
I would be interested in the fooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood
AHH but you can leave your carry on stuff on a chair and be pretty sure that it will be there when you get back.
Having a hot shower at Singapore on the way back from London is pretty nice.
I cannot say I’ve partaken in such luxuries now that the super has to pay for it and not the shareholders.
Must admit, after an awful flight with Qantas cattle class, I did Business Class last time with another airline. . As the travel agent warned would happen, I could never fly cattle class again!!
Horrendously expensive but, for me, it’s worth the money if the budget allows. Priority access at customs, checkin, security. A gentle tap on the shoulder in the lounge when i’s time to board. And 24hr a la carte meal service on board. (Just give us 20mins to prepare your meal madame, don’t wait until you’re starving!!)
Instead of dreading it, I was actually looking forward to the flight! Part of the holiday experience. I flew Etihad – got really good price and will go with them again.
Sadly airlines are cramming more and more seats into cattle class which is making things really unpleasant on long haul flights of 14hrs or so.
Premium economy is a good alternative.
You’ll get back to find a robot pumping bullets into your carry on luggage.
Not up the pointy end Bassy but have the frequent flyer status that allows me into the business lounges.
Quieter. Better coffee. Comfortable seating. A little nosh.
Can understand Razor. Enjoy!
Fussy aren’t we? Remember the no-lounge days?
I remember the Ansett Gold Wing lounge. That was pretty good.
I didn’t fly all that much in those days dismayed. I didn’t care enough then to worry about its demise. Too much competition or bad management? I do know lots of good people lost their jobs and entitlements.
Bad management Ansett was paying for Air NZ’s fuel bill. The Howard government collected a levy for a decade that the Ansett people never saw when many of them received nothing near what they were entitled to. .
At least they got something as, at the time, most workers in the same situation got nothing.
Greg Combet ensured that a lot of the Ansett workers did get a fair bit of compensation Dismayed. I worked for Ansett in my early days and they weren’t a very good employer. Mind you the people I worked with took advantage of every lurk and perk they could, which was another reason they went broke I think.
I enjoy the lounge/bar in my private jet. Cannot stand to be around working people in their crumpled suits, playing games on their laptops or mobiles and scoffing all the free nuts.
Like your style, Milton!
Oh thank-you young Boa. I am just an old fashioned to the manor born, born to rule type conservative.
Talbot I hear Tahiti is delish today. Be a dear and tell Simon to turn this bird around, young James P will have to wait. Oh and another one of these fantastic fizzy gin things, old boy.
Where’s the yacht these days Milton?
Nice or in the Greek Islands ?
Sardinia old mate. It’s the new black, if one can say that!
I can sail Milton. Can I apply for skipper duties in the Med? Please!
Sails?
Can’t land the chopper on a sailing ship.
Milt has 3 super models rotating as skippers Boa. Whilst I have no doubt you would give them a run for their money in looks and nautical skills it’s the naughty skills that Milton expects that may cause you to not want to take on the job.
That’s funny Razor! Well someone has to watch where we’re going and have a hand on the controls?
Boa – Sad to say but there’s a bit of truth in what Razor says. It’s actually 6 ladies, they work in shifts (!) and I rotate them. Does that make me sound shallow?
Razor – I call them nauti -on-cal skills. Still I would have preferred if you’d kept mum on all that. As they say, loose lips sink ships!
Here it is. Mr Insider, PM Turnbull telling us clearly that he would challenge as the then PM Abbott had lost 30 Newspolls in a row. Goodness now we see Turnbull has now lost 22 in a row and with no sign at all of ever winning a single Newspoll. If there is such a thing as Karma she is biting Malcolm’s arse savagely right now!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0j-7X1xIixM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaOzApkj8bQ
No 22 Consecutive Negative Newspoll for PM Turnbull has just see the light of day. He’s now only 8 away from the “Champeen”, one ex ousted PM Tony Abbott. I do note the astute Piers Ackerman has laid the “slipper” into Turnbull good and proper in a piece. Interesting to see too the perennial Lib 2IC , Julie Bishop, who has gone around in everything but the 4th at Dapto, will be Acting PM when Turnbull flies out to Israel. Shocker.
http://tinyurl.com/y8h5hxq6
Piers….GROAN!!!