Albanese speaks very confidently for a PM with a -13 approval rating. His party has an inflated majority due to our non-proportional electoral system. If they can’t convince the Senate to back its legislation, it does not deserve to pass. The polling showing Labor primary vote in 28% territory should alarm its supporters. It will likely impact their senate representation where the results are more proportional.
On the ABC, 7:30, Planet America, Insiders and Foreign Correspondent offer zero insight into the United States. They all speak to the same ‘experts’ from neoliberal think tanks who use the common buzzwords of ‘polarisation’ and repeating the same xenophobic narratives about the border when polling shows the economy is a most salient issue for American voters.
Sarah Ferguson particularly seems to enjoy interviewing disgraced former Trump employees who either turned on him after they realised he was toxic or the likes of Majorie Taylor Greene and not actual scholars from the many excellent US public universities.
Thanks as always for your excellent comments John. Working backwards through your thoughts - I’m just old enough to remember when the abc had a range of interesting views. A lot of the guests appearing today would not get on a legitimate and credible station. It lost my forever when they interviewed Steve Bannon and treated him like he was a figure of substance, not a two shilling crook who is now rightly in jail. That was some time back but I deliberately missed the lunatic ravings of Marjorie Taylor Greene: who I suppose should give us in Australia some perverted comfort - we’re not the only ones to elect inappropriate candidates and then promote them.
It must be frustrating for the members of the government to finally have the keys to the treasury and find that they have to deal with people they hold in absolute contempt. But it’s not the job of parliament to make worthwhile things easy. This was a party of doers. Of progressive thinkers. Of fighters prepared to go down with principles intact.
It’s now a disappointment to many people. Why this is can be explained by several factors: poor media communication hampered by a hostile media (so why not use social media more effectively?); a fear of somehow not being seen as serious (?). The comfort and complacency of success? All of these or something else? It is baffling why many decisions are made. If they manage to maintain government it will be despite, not because. A position no government wants to be in. DL.
Another interesting podcast Eddy and David.
Albanese speaks very confidently for a PM with a -13 approval rating. His party has an inflated majority due to our non-proportional electoral system. If they can’t convince the Senate to back its legislation, it does not deserve to pass. The polling showing Labor primary vote in 28% territory should alarm its supporters. It will likely impact their senate representation where the results are more proportional.
On the ABC, 7:30, Planet America, Insiders and Foreign Correspondent offer zero insight into the United States. They all speak to the same ‘experts’ from neoliberal think tanks who use the common buzzwords of ‘polarisation’ and repeating the same xenophobic narratives about the border when polling shows the economy is a most salient issue for American voters.
Sarah Ferguson particularly seems to enjoy interviewing disgraced former Trump employees who either turned on him after they realised he was toxic or the likes of Majorie Taylor Greene and not actual scholars from the many excellent US public universities.
Thanks as always for your excellent comments John. Working backwards through your thoughts - I’m just old enough to remember when the abc had a range of interesting views. A lot of the guests appearing today would not get on a legitimate and credible station. It lost my forever when they interviewed Steve Bannon and treated him like he was a figure of substance, not a two shilling crook who is now rightly in jail. That was some time back but I deliberately missed the lunatic ravings of Marjorie Taylor Greene: who I suppose should give us in Australia some perverted comfort - we’re not the only ones to elect inappropriate candidates and then promote them.
It must be frustrating for the members of the government to finally have the keys to the treasury and find that they have to deal with people they hold in absolute contempt. But it’s not the job of parliament to make worthwhile things easy. This was a party of doers. Of progressive thinkers. Of fighters prepared to go down with principles intact.
It’s now a disappointment to many people. Why this is can be explained by several factors: poor media communication hampered by a hostile media (so why not use social media more effectively?); a fear of somehow not being seen as serious (?). The comfort and complacency of success? All of these or something else? It is baffling why many decisions are made. If they manage to maintain government it will be despite, not because. A position no government wants to be in. DL.