How does juliar find the time to flood the forum with dozens of posts a day if it's not being paid to do it?

juliar wrote on Aug 1^st, 2019 at 6:29am:

I was concerned about the coal industry until a relative of mine retired. Now, I only care about how much it will affect the economy of my town. Can't rely on the cattle industry forever.

Albo is becoming a disciple of the ScoMo Messiah and creeping in under ScoMo's winning Aura. Is ScoMo Australia's Donald Trump ?  Is Albo ALP's Mal ?




Australian Labor Party leader: We will keep voting for government’s legislation
By Mike Head 1 August 2019



Labor Party leader Anthony Albanese this week told his members of parliament to get used to voting for the Liberal-National Coalition government’s bills, even if they claimed to disagree with them.

It was another blunt signal of Labor’s further sharp shift to the right in the wake of its historic debacle at the May 18 federal election, where its vote plunged to its lowest level in a century despite widespread hostility to the right-wing government of Prime Minister Scott Morrison.

Addressing Labor’s parliamentary caucus, Albanese declared: “We will often be confronted with circumstances where we will vote on an issue which includes measures we agree with and measures we disagree with. That is exactly what happened with tax and it will keep on happening.”

Albanese made it clear that Labor’s vote last month for the government’s massive income tax handouts to the rich was no aberration. As a result of that vote, billions of dollars will be handed to the top 5 percent of the population—those taxpayers receiving more than $200,000 a year—while the millions of low-paid workers, students and welfare recipients trying to live on less than $41,000 a year will get nothing.

Clearly aware of popular outrage at Labor’s open embrace of the Coalition’s agenda, Albanese told the Guardian that Labor MPs had to hold the line despite “the disappointment that is out there.” He accused anyone who objected to this of “looking for easy answers.”

Contemptuously, Albanese dismissed any suggestion of retaining the policies that Labor took to the election, pretending to crack down on huge tax concessions for wealthy investors and property owners. “We’ve seen the movie, it just played out, and we’ve seen the conclusion,” he said.

Albanese pronounced that Labor MPs had to vote for the government’s latest bill, imposing mandatory prison sentences for “possessing child abuse material,” even though that meant overturning Labor Party policy against such compulsory jail terms.

This will be the third such vote within weeks. As well as supporting the government’s income tax bonanza for the wealthy, Labor MPs backed unprecedented legislation to allow the home affairs minister to exclude Australian citizens from re-entering the country for at least two years if the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) deems them likely to participate in “politically motivated violence.”

As soon as he was elected party leader unopposed in May, Albanese vowed to pursue bipartisanship with Morrison’s government. This is not a tactical ploy. It is part of Labor’s commitment, also spelt out by Albanese, to forge closer ties to business, boost “wealth creation” and appeal to “successful people.”

By his latest move, Albanese has underscored the ditching of the phony populism of Labor’s election campaign, during which it claimed to oppose “the big end of town” and champion a “fair go” for workers. This stance was a failed attempt to divert the mounting anger over soaring social inequality and declining working class conditions behind the election of another big business Labor government.

While the corporate media welcomed Albanese’s stand, there was nervousness that it could fuel social and political unrest. Political columnist for the Australian Simon Benson warned: “The Labor leader’s admission of political impotency … risks reinforcing a perception of a feeble opposition.”

In a bid to justify his position, Albanese compared Labor’s position in parliament to that following the 2004 election, when the Howard Coalition government held a majority in both houses of parliament. “Even though it’s only dawning on people slowly, effectively the government is in a similar position in the Senate now as 2004,” he told Labor’s caucus. “And they will get most of their agenda through parliament.”

This is a total fraud. First of all, the unpopular Howard government was able to gain control of parliament only because of the ongoing antipathy toward Labor, whose then leader, Mark Latham, pledged a renewal of the offensive launched against working class jobs, conditions and basic rights by the Hawke and Keating Labor governments of 1983 to 1996.

Second, the Morrison government barely scraped back into office. Its vote actually fell, by nearly 1 percentage point, down to 41.5 percent, and even lower in the Senate, where its vote was 37.99 percent. In fact, because 15 percent of voters abstained or cast an informal ballot, the Coalition’s vote was less than 36 percent of the electorate.

Widely detested, the government won a majority of seats on the back of preference votes from various far-right parties, which exploited deep discontent through fake “anti-elite” demagogy.

Labor’s vote plunged to a century low of 33.1 percent in the lower house and 28.79 percent in the Senate. Its support dropped most sharply in working class areas across the country that were once regarded as Labor heartlands, leaving it with virtually no “safe” seats. By contrast, Labor’s vote rose substantially in affluent electorates, reflecting its true social base.

[url]https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/01/labo-a01.html[/url

Reddy are you on Newstart ?

Albo said himself he is now following the winning aura of the ScoMo Messiah.

Is Albo becoming the Moody Mal of Labor ?

ScoMo flushes Greeny frauds out of education system.


Literacy and numeracy tests ensuring high-quality teachers
MAY 31 2019



The literacy and numeracy test for teaching students is ensuring that graduate teachers have the necessary skills required in the classroom.
Teaching students are required to pass a literacy and numeracy test with a score that puts them in the top 30 per cent of the Australian adult population.

In 2018, 90.4 per cent of teaching students met the literacy standard and 90 per cent of students met the numeracy benchmark.

Minister for Education Dan Tehan said the test was working as intended by ensuring that graduate teachers had a high level of the essential skills needed to teach children.

“Our Government recognises the difference high quality teachers make to a child’s education,” Mr Tehan said.

“That is why we introduced a mandatory literacy and numeracy benchmark for teaching graduates. As the latest test results show, ensuring teachers meet the prerequisite standard is as important as ever.

“We have also introduced a high-quality teaching performance assessment that students must pass prior to graduation that demonstrates graduate teachers are classroom ready.

“Our Government will also ensure phonics is included in university teaching courses so that new teachers can use it in the classroom as well as investing $15 million in Teach for Australia to train more high-achieving teachers.

“Higher education providers need to take responsibility for the teaching students that do not meet the standards by ensuring they receive additional support to improve their literacy and numeracy skills. The onus is on universities to ensure the graduates they are producing meet the high standards expected by parents and the standards that our children deserve.

“In September I wrote to all vice-chancellors to remind them of their obligations to support students they enter into initial teacher education degrees to meet the test standard.”

https://www.liberal.org.au/latest-news/2019/05/31/literacy-and-numeracy-tests-en...

While Labor would have defecated on Australia the ScoMo Messiah will lift Australia to greatness and prosperity.

The on the ball Libs have detected the fuel security problem here caused by the unions making fuel refining too expensive here and they are looking to buy fuel from Trumpy.



Australia in talks with US to address dangerously low fuel reserves
UPDATED 4 HOURS AGO


An oil drilling rig is seen off the Pacific Ocean coastline. Australia is negotiating with the US to buy oil to boost our dwindling supplies. (AAP)

The Morrison government is negotiating with the United States to buy oil to boost Australia's dwindling fuel reserves but Labor says that's not good enough.

Drawing on America's emergency fuel reserves isn't the same as having actual fuel security in Australia, the opposition has declared.

The Morrison government is negotiating with the Trump administration to access millions of barrels of oil from America's own fuel reserve, as Australia hunts for a way to boost dangerously low levels of fuel held on domestic soil.

But Labor says Australia needs a strategy that gives fuel security onshore.



Energy Minister Angus Taylor says Australia now is in discussions with the US about tapping into its strategic petroleum reserve.

"The government has undertaken a second initiative since the election to ensure that we continue to deliver increased security for Australians," he said in a statement on Monday.

"Access through a contractual arrangement would greatly boost our stocks and flexibility of supply."

Mr Taylor has not outlined how much such a deal would cost, merely saying it would be "effective but also efficient" for taxpayers.




Scott Morrison with Energy Minister Angus Taylor. AAP

Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese says that's not good enough.

"I'll tell you what would shore up Australia's fuel security, and that's to actually have fuel security here in Australia," he told reporters in Sydney.

"So a strategy here, not a strategy that says if we run out the US will send us some in support."

Independent MP Andrew Wilkie said it was disingenuous of the government to spruik this as a solution.

"The government is cooking the books. The only way in which our fuel reserves will be boosted is on a balance sheet," he said in a statement.

"It also relies on the goodwill of the US, but Donald Trump can't be trusted to honour agreements at the best of times, particularly if there was a global shock and we actually needed to access this oil."

Asked if the plan was a fiscal fudge, Prime Minister Scott Morrison told reporters: "No, it isn't."

So-called exchange deals allow countries to boost immediate fuel levels in return for giving the same amount of higher quality oil back to the US.

But Mr Taylor also wants the International Energy Agency treaty, which sets the 90-day supply agreement, to be rewritten to take into account oil in transit to Australia.



Mr Wilkie labelled that rationale "bizarre".

"It's patently obvious that you can't count any oil as on-hand until it's landed safely in Australia," he said.



https://www.sbs.com.au/news/australia-in-talks-with-us-to-address-dangerously-lo...