Gillard soothed hurting officials, and she lied about Big Australia. In Labor folklore she wasa reformer.
Julia Gillard commissioned the Gonski report. Y'all know the story. School funding would be 'needs based and sector blind', meaning the opposite - another generation of educational apartheid and underperformance. The Left claims it's Tony Abbott's fault.
Y'all know this fable too. Bad Greens defeated Rudd's Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS), and Abbott knocked over Gillard's Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS). It was set to push our total emissions down, down.
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Nonsense. Like the 40% coverage European Union ETS , our CPRS/ETS might have shaved emissions among regulated industries and firms, assuming they didn't corrupt the government, sabotage the targets, disguise their emissions, or maximise fake offsets.
Meantime, Global and Australian emissions keep climbing. Earth doesn't follow carbon markets and it isn't going to Net Zero.
Like Morrison, Albanese reinforces inequality.
Like Gillard, bro Albanese might leave a reform story for academics. For punters from Penrith to Pinjarra, blessings will be slim. Compared with Morrison, Albanese might enforce inequality more ethically . Hurrah.
FRIFE? - he does it on his ear. Check the first and second Jim Chalmers' Budgets. Their humungous immigration tide purportedly lifts all boats.
Fibbing on national ABC , Treasurer says 715,000 net migration over 2022-24 is not something he controls. Inequality? Falling real wages? Failing environment? These are things not discussed in his Budgets. He fudges them in a woke wellbeing framework.
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His endless growth Intergenerational Report (IGR) offers UN platitudes of 'net zero transformation' and becoming a 'renewable energy superpower'. These are exciting opportunities in the bedpan, sorry, care economy , rather than practical industry and worker oriented policies.
Rebooting Big Australia, Morrison craved our usual immigration economy. Ignoring voters, Albanese took the fibs to the next-level. Would you believe, migration is just catching up after COVID? Population is trending smaller and older? Me neither.
You dare to criticise that 715,000? A powerful minority will flash you the Race Card. Even our cartoonists and satirists run a mile from the immigration issue.
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