Laura Tingle gave a forensic account of Duttons budget reply.
No economic details
No energy plan
No housing plan
No migration plan
No vision
No factual evidence to support any claim made by Dutton

Are they working up to the $60 billion at least, squandered by Frydenberg’s Jobkeeper on businesses & workers that neither required nor requested nor qualified for it?

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The opposition leader, Peter Dutton, meanwhile has backed the $300 rebate for energy but wants it means-tested.
As opposed to Frydenberg’s JobKeeper where “up to $27 billion of the $89 billion JobKeeper program went to businesses that did not need it.”
Shameless hypocrisy.

examiner.com.au/story/8627408/…

As we're looking at the budget today - I'm thinking about this point made by Elizabeth Farrelly for a Saturday Paper article several months ago (based on research by The Aust Institute)...

'Between 1950 and 1960, it found, 96 per cent of our economic growth went to the bottom 90

An Australian Border Force spokesperson: “The Australian Border Force does not confirm or comment on operational matters.”
How did a democratic state permit a tin-pot racist propaganda unit to become so bumptious; openly contemptuous of accountability?
Scott Morrison's legacy.

My navy father ran around Singapore Dock with another sailor on his shoulders, for a bet.
My latest personal piece on Substack.
open.substack.com/pub/davidjohnt…

FACT: The gas industry uses more gas running their own export terminals than Australia's entire manufacturing industry.

82% of Australia's gas is used for exports. #auspol