"Incrementalist" was used repeatedly in Eddie and David's piece on the failings of the PM. it is far too polite as you suggest but I'm afraid I would lean more towards "excrementalist" as the best adjective for the worm, Elizabeth. His ability to ignore the advice of so many prominent experts and to soak up the lobbyists' playbook is truly "CRAP" as Ken Henry said.
Vote Independent or Green ("political party") next election and take more care with your preferences please.
It must be our karma that we are cursed with leaders who forget their origins and seek to pander to wealthy vested interests, thereby depriving all those less fortunate like they themselves were once, from benefiting from the wealth of the country, merely to get pats on the head from a US President and other assorted leaders in foreign countries.
If our so called leaders can be so vacuous and stupid then we clearly deserve to be condemned to become, as Lee Kuan Yew memorably said, the “poor white trash of Asia”.
To be as polite as humanly possible , what a useless dropkick this excuse for a Prime Minister is ! How dare he place the convenience and profits of donor foreign and domestic corporations as an eye watering priority over the interests of those Australians he was elected to serve ! This is an unforgivable betrayal of the Australian public by Mr “I grew up in public housing” but who refuses to provide the necessary amount of same for those who need it . ( Just one of a list of his failures, and don’t start me on AUKUS 😡😡😡😡)
Don't worry about AUKUS: nothing will ever come out the other end before abandonment (being in military doctrinal terms decades obsolete already), and in the meantime there's a truly spectacular amount of money to be made at taxpayer expense. ;)
A reliable trading partner is not a victim. Reciprocity is the social norm or practice of mutual exchange. That means positive, genuine engagement, and collaboration is repaid with similar equivalent actions. In other words, one-sided transactions are to be avoided like the plague. So see ya Albanese, g’day Greens, how are ya Bam-Bam? Keep up the great work. I’ll be doing my bit to get rid of this spineless, gutless, and feckless Prime Minister, and his equally spineless and feckless Un-Australian Labour Party.
In fairness, Albanese is representative of the Western political classes generally. They're all paralyzed: not by fear, but by a curious combination of ignorance and self-interest. So long as they can pretend their Emperor ideology has clothes - "move on, nothing to see here" - they gain a short term benefit and a long term benefit.
The short term benefit is the elites du jour clinging to power for another few weeks or months before the crash comes.
The long term benefit is to exacerbate the crisis: never let a good crisis go to waste. They have the collective ability to magnify the crisis simply by doing nothing. This is helpful to all of them collectively, because as they (whether intentionally or inadvertently) discovered during Covid, social collapse is actually a splendid opportunity to increase autocracy. [Until and unless, of course, the guillotines come out - but *by definition* nobody ever sees revolution coming until it's too late. Peter Turchin's data-driven history overview book "End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path to Political Disintegration" is quite fun to read on that topic alone]
"Incrementalist" was used repeatedly in Eddie and David's piece on the failings of the PM. it is far too polite as you suggest but I'm afraid I would lean more towards "excrementalist" as the best adjective for the worm, Elizabeth. His ability to ignore the advice of so many prominent experts and to soak up the lobbyists' playbook is truly "CRAP" as Ken Henry said.
Vote Independent or Green ("political party") next election and take more care with your preferences please.
It must be our karma that we are cursed with leaders who forget their origins and seek to pander to wealthy vested interests, thereby depriving all those less fortunate like they themselves were once, from benefiting from the wealth of the country, merely to get pats on the head from a US President and other assorted leaders in foreign countries.
If our so called leaders can be so vacuous and stupid then we clearly deserve to be condemned to become, as Lee Kuan Yew memorably said, the “poor white trash of Asia”.
To be as polite as humanly possible , what a useless dropkick this excuse for a Prime Minister is ! How dare he place the convenience and profits of donor foreign and domestic corporations as an eye watering priority over the interests of those Australians he was elected to serve ! This is an unforgivable betrayal of the Australian public by Mr “I grew up in public housing” but who refuses to provide the necessary amount of same for those who need it . ( Just one of a list of his failures, and don’t start me on AUKUS 😡😡😡😡)
Don't worry about AUKUS: nothing will ever come out the other end before abandonment (being in military doctrinal terms decades obsolete already), and in the meantime there's a truly spectacular amount of money to be made at taxpayer expense. ;)
I favour a progressive tax, just like the one so successful in Qld, which adjusts the tax rate depending on the market price.
The higher the oil price drags the gas price, the higher the tax rate would move, to capture more of the super-profits for taxpayers.
This was introduced by the previous Qld Labor government and has been so successful it has been maintained by the current LNP State Government.
The federal gas tax should be reformed to follow a similar approach.
A reliable trading partner is not a victim. Reciprocity is the social norm or practice of mutual exchange. That means positive, genuine engagement, and collaboration is repaid with similar equivalent actions. In other words, one-sided transactions are to be avoided like the plague. So see ya Albanese, g’day Greens, how are ya Bam-Bam? Keep up the great work. I’ll be doing my bit to get rid of this spineless, gutless, and feckless Prime Minister, and his equally spineless and feckless Un-Australian Labour Party.
Is it corruption or just plain ignorance? Or perhaps out and out treachery to Australia?
Still ‘ the Clever country ‘ or was it the Lucky country.
Keep affirming ThaT. Lucky to be ripped off on every level. Profits over the people.
🙏🌍☮️.
In fairness, Albanese is representative of the Western political classes generally. They're all paralyzed: not by fear, but by a curious combination of ignorance and self-interest. So long as they can pretend their Emperor ideology has clothes - "move on, nothing to see here" - they gain a short term benefit and a long term benefit.
The short term benefit is the elites du jour clinging to power for another few weeks or months before the crash comes.
The long term benefit is to exacerbate the crisis: never let a good crisis go to waste. They have the collective ability to magnify the crisis simply by doing nothing. This is helpful to all of them collectively, because as they (whether intentionally or inadvertently) discovered during Covid, social collapse is actually a splendid opportunity to increase autocracy. [Until and unless, of course, the guillotines come out - but *by definition* nobody ever sees revolution coming until it's too late. Peter Turchin's data-driven history overview book "End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path to Political Disintegration" is quite fun to read on that topic alone]