Morrison can’t even see what’s holding Australia back. Climate damage is holding Australia back, already costing some $18 billion a year, according to a recent estimate. Poverty and homelessness are holding Australia back. The utter mess the Coalition made of the NBN is holding Australia back. The lack of an energy policy is holding Australia back. Corruption – from Helloworld to watergate – is holding Australia back. The government’s self-obsessed time-wasting culture wars – such as the debates over section 18C and Safe Schools, which exercise a tiny group on the fringes but are completely irrelevant or downright hurtful to the rest of the country – are holding Australia back. The disgrace of a thousand desperate people sitting on Manus and Nauru after six years with no hope in sight is holding Australia back. More than anything, what is holding Australia back is an execrable federal government that has no answers to anything because it’s too busy waging war on itself: the Liberals and Nationals are already skirmishing and the election’s not even done.
Paddy Manning
May 17, 2019
A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.
Edward R. Murrow
May 13, 2019
Scott Morrison keeps saying: when you vote for Bill Shorten, you get Bill Shorten. But, you actually get Bill Shorten, Tanya Plibersek, Penny Wong, Chris Bowen, Anthony Albanese, Tony Burke, Jim Chalmers, Michelle Rowland and a multitude of experienced, intelligent, reasonable, dedicated people. Possibly with a side of Richard di Natale. What he is very careful to not say is, when you vote for Scott Morrison, you get Scott Morrison, Peter Dutton, Tony Abbott, Kevin Andrews, Michaelia Cash, Barnaby Joyce, George Christensen, David Littleproud and a bunch of other self-serving numbskulls with little pride, honour or nous, and a generous serving of Clive Palmer, Cory Bernardi and Pauline Hanson.
Lee Lin Chin
May 4, 2019
Australia’s water buybacks scheme was designed to help drought-stricken farmers and our vital ecosystems, not to deliver a large profit for investors in a Caribbean tax haven.
Michael West
April 28, 2019
I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer gods than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.
Stephen Roberts
April 21, 2019
Journalism is printing what someone else does not want published; everything else is public relations.
Anonymous
April 15, 2019
The Labor Party are dragging their heels on climate change and the Coalition are dragging their knuckles.
Richard Di Natale
April 13, 2019
Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.
Harry S. Truman
April 12, 2019
If only Toyota, Mercedes-Benz, Mazda, BMW, Hyundai, Ford, General Motors, Fiat, Volkswagen, etc had asked SloMo and the Liberals they could have saved billions on this mad folly of investing in electric vehicle development.
Mike Carlton
April 11, 2019
Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.
