Good morning tweeps, Today's tutorial is on Liberal party Political tactics with an excellent example. It goes like this 1. Choose part of a data set, Publish it 2. Amplify it through the Main Stream media (who never check) and 3. Hope to hell none checks the evidence.
The Example is Defence. 1. the Semi truth is that Labor doesn't fund Defence very well because in 2012 they took $2.5 billion out of defence. 2. They amplified it through Simon Birmingham on ABC breakfast and then #insiders picked it up as well. 3. BUT Vincent checked the facts.
Not only did he check the facts he checked the whole facts. here is the result, it's worth reading the truth about Defence funding, especially for veterans affairs where the coalition were woeful contributors. thevogfiles.com/defence-number…
The Childish use of Defence for party political gain just shows how devoid of thought the Coalition are. And it also doesn't say much about the cognitive ability of the main Stream media either. Sad the ABC is included in this assessment.
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I thought I would make some comments on the Liberal party Election review and point out where they had a point right but the Analysis wrong. here is Loughnane and Hume's appreciation of "developments" which went wrong.
I agree with point a. but what was the reason? Well if you remember the pandemic was just up to 2 months old when national cabinet met and Morrison abrogated all of his Section 51 (ix) (of the constitution) responsibilities for Quarantine to the States, who then took on the
responsibility "within 24 hours". It is also worth remembering that the Commonwealth had powers under the federal Biosecurity Act 2015. Linked here. legislation.gov.au/Details/C2020C… A total abrogation of the Commonwealth's responsibilities. Reminiscent of "I don't hold a hose mate"
Bit late to the deal today, but wanted to have a say about the censure of Scott John Morrison. When I joined the West Midlands police in 1974 one of the like minded new coppers was a bloke called Paul who used to be a Sargent in the Coldstream Guards. He was a story teller and
was fond of saying anyone who Bullshitted had a lot of "clack". Watching Morrison today I was reminded of Paul. I heard Morrison's speech and later downloaded the Hansard record of it. His speech epitomises the very reason Australians kicked him out. He argued that he wasn't
appointed as a Minister but just to Administer the departments of State. here is his speech in his words.
ROBODEBT. couple of points. It's very hard to get any help from DHS/centrelink when you need it. You have to jump through hoops to get a payment of any stripe. You have to tell them about everything financial you have, have had and what your partner has as well. Once you are
through the hoop and get the Payment from them to keep getting it you have, under pain of death from reading their documentation, to tell them what you earn fortnightly, AT THE TIME YOU ARE GETTING THE PAYMENTS. So in 2015 someone in DHS/centrelink decided that there was a
cohort of these people who hadn't reported their income properly and they devised a scheme (now called Robodebt) to match the ATO data with what you had originally declared whilst you were getting the Centrelink payment. BUT they averaged the ATO payments over the financial year
Thread. Greetings tweeps. Time to explain some more devious liberal/National shit which has a bearing on the cost to of mortgages and the price of houses. Remember Joe Hockey? The man who said "Australia is open for business"
Well earlier this year I tabulated all of the Foreign Investment review Board approvals for the years 2010-11 to 2018-19 and the largest money spent was on Real Estate. He is the Table. $1.680 trillion spend by Foreigners in Australia Overall of which Real Estate was
$654.8 billion and Residential was $278.1 billion. I have never seen any credible or incredible journalist actually tabulate these figures. they always write about Residential Real Estate as if it's the fault of the State governments not releasing land and there being a supply
Lets take a step back and see what the Australian Energy market commission said about Electricity prices in their price trends report of 222 November 2021. aemc.gov.au/market-reviews… 3 yr trend.
This is their graph of prices for Australian States.
Thread. Yesterday @laborforfarrer posted this article penned by the Swan hill Guardian. Anne Webster is the nationals member for Mallee the next electorate over from Farrer. The article was completely misleading.
As many of you will know I and my small team have been analysing grants for over 2 years and those can be found at thevogfiles.com/rorts-central.… we have analysed 17 Grants worth (now) $7.4 billion. Overwhelmingly they have shown a bias in funding to Coalition Electorates
So when you look at this story you might get a different idea. So yesterday I wrote to the Editor of the Swan Hill Guardian and sent them the Spreadsheet analysis of the Building the Better Regions grants rounds 1 to 5 and also the Summary spreadsheet. After the ANAO report came