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Apr 23

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Let’s move on to @secco’s article (thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/13758/2u… - unlocked) "Energy figures misused by Coalition campaign”

Angus Taylor has some form in this area…

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@secco "The Coalition’s latest scare campaign over Labor’s climate policy highlights the real mess surrounding adequate planning for a shift towards renewables. Half of the experts cited say they were misquoted.”

[It should not be the case that this is allowed to be normal.]

"Tony Wood, one of Australia’s leading energy experts, prefers to think that Scott Morrison was simply confused. “Let’s assume,” he says, “it wasn’t deliberate.”

...Others have called it a lie.”

#satpaper

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Apr 10

As we head into the formal election campaign, please remember, the status quo:
* has failed to act on climate change and has accelerated our use of fossil fuels;
* has failed to implement the findings of the Royal Commission into Natural Disaster Preparedness...

* sat on the Respect@work report until it became too difficult politically to ignore;
* failed to implement the findings from the Royal Commission into Aged Care;
* failed to implement the findings from the Hayne Royal Commission into the banking sector

* passed tax cuts worth $15bn per year for the highest income earners, whilst simultaneously sending low income earners backwards;
* failed to implement the recommendations from the ACCC investigation into the water trading market

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Apr 10

Now is the time to step up our efforts to win the kind of government we believe we all deserve. One based on evidence, compassion, accountability and collaboration. I think that’s important, and I think we deserve better than we’ve seen these past nine years.
#auspol

I want our government to be one that looks after our most vulnerable, & works with them to improve their standard of living, instead of one that ignores them, uses them as a political football, or squeezes them dry for more dollars in the pockets of the richest few #auspol

I want our government to be one that tackles the critical issues facing our nation - like climate change, rising inequality, plunging quality of aged care, stagnant wages - with humility, intellectual honesty, and a genuine desire to improve things for everyone.

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Apr 8

@satpaper

I’m not going to go into too much detail today on any of the various politics articles in the @satpaper today, but wanted to comment on this opinion piece by @JohnRHewson (thesaturdaypaper.com.au/opinion/topic/…)

"Morrison was shoehorned in as candidate for the seat, having lost the original preselection ballot to Towke, 82-8.”

This makes it sound like a head-to-head contest, but it wasn’t. There were a number of other candidates - they all beat Morrison: he came last.

The other candidates included current Minister for Communications, Paul Fletcher, who withdrew from the second ballot, along with Mark Spearman, the day before the vote. Fletcher would subsequently win pre-selection in Bradfield and enter parliament in 2009.

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Apr 8

@satpaper

Next up in the @satpaper we’ll take a look at @secco’s "Fact check: Frydenberg’s record employment figures”

thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/13666/2S… [Unlocked]

"Josh Frydenberg’s budget speech last week tried to paint a picture of adversity overcome. Despite drought, fire and floods, despite war in Europe and the ravages of Covid-19, he said, the Australian economy had proved resilient.”

#satpaper

[The economy is not working for everyone, and has not done so for some time. It is currently a vehicle for extracted wealth from the lower- and middle-classes and concentrating it in the hands of the wealthy. That’s by 40 years of design.]

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Apr 8

@SatPaper

Good morning and welcome to this reading of the @SatPaper

We’ll begin today with @SquigglyRick and his look at the appointments to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal

thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/13668/VV… (unlocked)

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[Integrity in government is not all about a Federal ICAC, and this story shows just one of the ways non-corrupt conduct eats away at the fabric of our democracy. We’ll talk about this at the National Integrity Policy Forum next week.]

#satpaper

"After cutting funding to the overwhelmed Administrative Appeals Tribunal in last month’s budget, the Morrison government has appointed 19 new members and deputy presidents to it, almost half of whom have links to the Liberal Party or conservative politics."

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