It's impossible to take seriously the man who smashed so many people's jobs by over-reacting to the China virus and listening to 'experts' but is now talking up jobs. It is impossible to take seriously a man supposedly on the right of centre who has given into the unions. It is impossible to take seriously a man with a plan to spoon feed some more the already shockingly padded building industry. It is impossible to take seriously a man still using a 2010 'model' that says immigration of 160,000 - 200,000 is needed. It is impossible to take seriously a man who talks big, but allows a potential work force of 700,000 to remain permanently idle and untrained.

Scott Morrison is in a job he cannot do, and should never have had. We all have our ideas of the 'worst Prime Minister'. But this one is s real lulu, with a lot of damage to do yet - unless he is removed like all the other duds. The man who should have been PM is still available, as are some cabinet potentials to replace the scaredy cats Morrison keeps under his thumb.

Ttbn,

Funny you should write that - I was just thinking that Morrison may go down in posterity as one of our best Prime Ministers ever - certainly he could still be the PM in ten years or more. His prompt actions against the Covid-19 virus may have disrupted industry and employment, but it saved perhaps thousands of lives (if we compare Australia's experience to that of the US) and will get the country back in business far, far earlier than other countries (again, such as the US, about to fac3 its second wave).

Policy is always a risky business - we can't anticipate the future and all the uncertainties that it may bring. Taking the precautionary principle against the virus, it was surely better to crack down hard, increase testing and tracking, isolate clusters, etc., and save lives, even if (horrors !) we had such a lot of empty hospital beds.

Comparing Australia's progress against that of the US will surely provide us all with crucial lessons.

Joe

I used to have a poor opinion, but this year, and lately, Morrison is sounding like a potentially great leader.

The next few years will tell the story, but I am hopeful that Morrison can improve Australia's plight.

Go Sco Mo.

I am with you Joe!
The coming months will see just how big a threat or how big a fraud the Chinese virus is.
My money is on the coming Australian flu season being converted into every death being a Covid death as the dishonesty is already breathtaking! So we will probably still be at loggerheads.
I would like to see all the billions we are currently wasting on our health and education professionals reduced year by year until we start seeing improvements.
An old man dreams, it's what we do.

There's no way we can go back to what was the status quo and a service industry economy over dependant on students, tourists and an overcooked housing market for our debt-laden, debt dependant economy! And little else!

Scomo s damned if he does and damned if he doesn't!

There is a way forward that basically changes everything and needs a visionary leader with some very big ideas and no prohibitions on anything we might or need to do to implement them!

No naysayers sniping from the sidelines bagging anything and everything, given the big numbers that'll be necessary! But apart from the endless criticism, unable or unwilling to put up any positive suggestions or new ideas!?

Only able to fault find and little else except agonise over the money spent on those with the least! Least those with the most and the most privileged have to make do with a little less?

Any energy policy that does not include a nuclear option, proof of all the above!

And similarly, any recovery paradigm that does not have a massive public housing rollout incorporated along with the infrastructure to support the same, is just going to give the detractors even more ammunition than they are using now?

Albeit, most of it, for the moment are blanks and just noise, designed to cast aspersions, toe a particular ideological line?
And as unhelpful as possible!

Mutter, mutter, dutter,dutter nutter, nutter? Get the picture?
Alan B.

ScoMo's idea of consensus will be that everybody agrees with what he wants to do. I wish him good luck.

ttbn. Who is your pick for PM?
David