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a partial list of some the worst Morrison government fiscal failures, from the parties which are - unquestionably and despite what every political journalist “reported” throughout the 2019 campaign - the absolute worst economic managers on all criteria. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11-07/donald-trump-win-lose-madness-of-america-reverberate/12856010
no, we didn’t. It wasn’t Australia. It was Morrison. Why not locate responsibility exactly where it lies.
giving public money to business is not “scattergun”. It is giving public money to business, ie Liberal Party donors (the executive class) and Liberal Party (shareholder and business owner) voters. The Liberals are the party of business. They often say so. They are proud of it.
“budget measures” do not “traditionally respond to large shocks” with countercyclical spending. That is a specific fiscal policy, grounded in social democratic ideology that *some governments* choose to do. Others choose austerity for some while giving our cash to business.
and the idea that governments spending money is “creative”? Government spending is literally why we pay taxes. That is not creative. It is called governing.
sorry if you’re a big fan of Tingle. I certainly agree that she is better than most. And this article would be excellent if the fiscal facts were located with the government that chose each failed fiscal setting. But she has chosen not to do that.
a repeated and longstanding pattern bias in Australian political journalism is to locate Labor government failures with Labor governments while spreading Liberal/Coalition government failures across the political spectrum and outwards to the whole population.
Labor changes leaders mid-term: chaos!! Disunity! Can’t govern1!!11! The Liberals are definitely the answer.
Liberals change leaders mid-term: hmmm *strokes chin* is politics broken? There are many questions here, and perhaps no real answers.
Liberals change leaders mid-term: hmmm *strokes chin* is politics broken? There are many questions here, and perhaps no real answers.
for example, a report on “toxic” culture in “Canberra”. Why? Why not the toxic misogyny of the Morrison government, which is led by a massively toxic misogynist, something no political journalist called out during his toxic and misogynist election campaign.
I screamed myself hoarse that the Morrison campaign was obviously toxically misogynist as well as megalomaniacal and messianic. Meanwhile the press gallery told us he is likeable and a few panels did handwringing segments on the Liberal Party “woman problem”.
the man rode a wave of misogynist bullying into the PMO. His prime ministership is constitutively misogynist and bullying. By which I mean, misogynist bullying is literally how he got the job. It can’t be extracted from his current position because it is what put him there.
