A fella could despair over the reporting of the crumbs the Morrison has tossed the ABC today - it seems almost nobody can work out a percentage, let alone divide a figure by 3 when it's a triennium. And as for going back to Budget papers to check, hah. #OurABC #auspoll To be clear, the "increase" being reported as some sort of victory is 2.7% - SFA after the years of freeze - $29m a year. It'd barely cover Morrison's photo ops. And that's going off Fletcher's questionable media release. The alleged return to indexation "outlined in the May 2021

John Menadue: "Many of our political, bureaucratic, business and media elites have been on an American drip feed for so long they find it hard to think of the world without American global hegemony" - johnmenadue.com/the-united-sta… "A major voice in articulating American extremism and the American Imperium is Fox News and Rupert Murdoch who exert their influence not just in America but also in the UK and Australia. Fox News supported the invasion of Iraq and is mindless of the terrible consequences.

40 ships missing off Sydney!
“I cannot have Australians who need what's on those ships being held on those ships, 40 of them out there. You can go down to Port Botany or down to Kurnell and have a look out there and you can see them lining up,” PM Morrison claimed today. You know that line about if someone says it’s raining and someone says it’s not, it’s not journalism to report them both but to stick your head out the window to see if it’s raining? If anyone stuck their head out of the window in Botany they would not see ships lined up at all.

In the Zhenhua Drawing an Extremely Long Bow competition, we have a winner: come on down, @mcranston1 afr.com/policy/foreign… "In the case of Dr Lowe and Dr Debelle, charting their patterns of behaviour, their public speeches and any inclusion of social media (neither have Twitter accounts) – can build profiles that have predictive powers."

(Gee, Phil and Guy would love to have predictive powers)

Thus far, Treasury & RBA have shown a lack of imagination, the small scale of their actions indicating they didn't grasp the size of the crisis & were behind the game even as they announced their first steps. They've realised their mistake...
thenewdaily.com.au/finance/financ… ...but the big question now is how far they are prepared to go tomorrow to correct it.
Do they have both the imagination and nerve to make the big leap to instill a some confidence by getting ahead?
Odds are RBA will be predictable and mimsy - 25 points and QE bond buying. That's not...

Hard to know which is funnier/sadder about this story: that it shows if there's one thing more important to the LNP Gazette than the LNP, it's fossil fuel companies; or how loathe the government is to come to terms with the PRRT transfer price rort; or how anyone run a...

https://twitter.com/vanOnselenP/status/1225754361927585794

page one lead that is credibly 100% denied in the body copy, never mind all its content being seriously old, except for updating the gratuitous gas company lobbying.
There is the odd laugh along the way, e.g. trying to equate PRRT changes with Labor's resources rent tax, but...

As a tease for tomorrow morning's column & for those old enough to remember her Uncle Barry ( @PhillipAdams_1 ) -

The Adventures of Bridget McKenzie
Dinky di tales of Coalition
Straight from the purse for marginal pollies
100 million worth of political slease... If you wanta get you bagmen in a frenzy
Introduce them to Bridget McKenzie!

She's got a pollie's grin and very thick skin
Show her a pig trough, she'll be in like Flynn
Her staffers' gall will overrule anyone
She's got a political thirst, you can do your worst...