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Scott Morrison handles a crisis : Comments

By Mark Buckley, published 21/4/2020

In a global pandemic we have, along with our cousins across the Tasman, apparently slowed the progress of the virus. It is not empty patriotism to be proud of our achievement.

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Praise from Mark Buckley. That should keep Morrison awake at night.
Posted by ttbn, Tuesday, 21 April 2020 9:45:44 AM
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Mark Buckley, not Mathias Cormann. No need for fear. Credit where it's due, I say. Fair to a fault, I am.
Posted by askbucko, Tuesday, 21 April 2020 9:56:42 AM
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Steve Kates reminds us (well me anyway) that we are dealing with - more correctly they are dealing with us - "totalitarian mentalities which must always lurk behind everyone who runs for political office".

I know it's hard to associate this thought with the smiling, avuncular Scott Morrison. But, Adolf Hitler could smile quite nicely as could Mao; even Xi Jinping has an almost permanent smirk on his face; although that could be because he has slipped in a sneaky fart that nobody is ever going to blame the Chairman for Life for.
Posted by ttbn, Tuesday, 21 April 2020 10:28:29 AM
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Yes certainly a better effort than his fire fighting ones.
Posted by ateday, Tuesday, 21 April 2020 10:45:44 AM
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Credit where it's due. And I agree with the tone and expressed sentiments of the article.

But I'll reserve judgement for Scomo, when I see, how he and his divided cabinet handle the economic recovery.

I'm willing to wager he will fold under pressure from his own far-right and fling all the noble Christian sentiment to the wind?

Given he is just not tough enough to stare down the Minority cohort of hard-right malcontents inside the coalition?

That said there is a mood for change and some seemingly socialist sentiment washing through our community/parliaments?

Let's hope it's not yet again to fall? Due to, compromised and conflicted career pollies. Who will just return to the business a usual, political paradigm?

And as they do? Make almost certain that we here in Oz, join in the coming (initiated in Donald Trump's America) global depression.

And where we have just two choices, join it, or, chart a new, completely SELF-RELIANT course, using Keynesian economic theory, cooperative capitalism and new nuclear power as either nuclear waste/thorium burning SMR MSR"s

Just imagine the huge and unparalleled job creation with the R+D and rollout of the above, almost self-funding economic paradigm.

And if rolled out as cooperative enterprise, ensure that every one dollar invested does the work of seven and returns a profit of 2.5 dollars for every 1 invested

Does anyone believe we have just one political leader with enough ticker to take us and the divided self-serving rabble, we'll have either government or political parties, more interested in the usual bun fight and power struggles that has of late, been the only noteworthy hallmark of political leadership and government in this country? Or the emergence of a true leader with the balls to unite the party and the country?

Take care and stay safe.
Alan B.
Posted by Alan B., Tuesday, 21 April 2020 10:49:25 AM
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Scott Morrison has done an excellent job of handling this crisis, the worldwide consequences of Covid-19 however are unfortunately, likely to be long-term and devastating on many many fronts.

World wide debt has reached unsustainable levels, it is so high now that it will never be able to be repaid. We are spending far more than we are earning, which is very popular and enjoyable while it lasts.

Governments and Central Banks around the world have been negligent and irresponsible by implementing policies such as those advocated by John Maynard Keynes, and by manipulating Interest Rates, which has directly led to this out-of-control escalation in global debt.

Thousands of years of history however tell us that this can only end badly and this pandemic will likely provide the trigger that finally initiates it.

The fundamentals are far worse than they were in 1929 and 2008 but the sad reality is that the Reserve Banks have run out of ammunition, but that will not stop them from trying, by printing even more money that no-one has earned, etc., in a desperate attempt to ‘control’ the situation. This will only make it worse.

There is point in this process however when people loose that crucial, fickle element, ‘confidence’ in the system and the Central Banks will then loose ‘control’ of the situation. This is when a ‘Recession’ becomes a ‘Depression’ with all the resulting long-term disruption and trauma that inevitably ensues.

If governments since Howard, when we had a surplus, had been more prudent (much harder and more unpopular), our economy would be in much better shape now to meet this present crisis than it is.

Australia has the hapless honour of now having the world’s second highest level of debt.

Many have been lulled into a sense of false security and complacency, however we may shortly be rudely awakened from our reverie to find a very different, difficult and devastating real world.
Posted by Ian McClintock, Tuesday, 21 April 2020 11:55:00 AM
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