Spoken like a true member of the Victorian Labor party. Unfortunately not only did the voters reject the Shorten's policies we see in currently in Victoria what Labor governments actually do. Increases in the size of the public sector greater than population growth. Increases in the salaries of the public sector including the politicians. If it is so good in Victoria why are so many Victorians fleeing the state.

This is an ALP political statement by a serving Labor politician and ex Victorian bureaucrat. I refuse to read anything by politicians who already have more than enough outlets to harangue us with their vote-buying nonsense.

Sadly, all correct! As economic managers in a global pandemic, the Morrison led government has made the keystone cops look good!

That doesn't mean the idealogical idiots on the other side of a visionless aisle would have done any better nor less partisan? With their stupidity personified anti-nuclear stance!

And when asked to justify? Could only respond, no matter how many times and in what context the question was put? It is not ( Polly want a cracker) labor policy!

The finger pointing "Author" prattles on about climate change but like all the Galahs on his side of the aisle, rejects the very solution to deal with it, i.e., carbon-free nuclear energy!

And probably is more welded to coal-fired energy than any of the unions that have labor by the short and curlies. Even as coal mining is being seriously robotised and a non-financial non-insurable risk-laden investment!

Seriously, what would a forever finger-pointing labor have done different? Or better? Or with more competency? When all the while labor led states were front and centre in the disastrous hotel quarantine and vaccine distribution! Albeit supply has always been limited by the bean-counting libs! Who spent to shore up their reelection prospects ahead of any other consideration.

Except for the economic status quo? And with almost a trillion of other folk's money!

We needed to invest in the onshore production of MRds instead of claiming we weren't equipped for the private sector to manufacture that here! We should have been building that capacity ASAP! Along with nation-building projects like very rapid rail, which could have been our generation's snowy project? And could have been a self-funding off-budget project!

Instead as has been our habit waiting with the begging bowl and handout hand outstretched, being for a free lunch or a handout vaccine!

All while other promising covid therapeutics are rolled out with glacial speed! When ramped production could have been turned into a veritable goldmine, export earning, rivers of gold, income earner! TBC
Alan B.

A senior public servant, turned Labor politician, & he has the hide to talk about falling productivity, would he ever have actually seen any productivity in his entire life.

Incidentally posting this bit of propaganda Graham really is taking the great lack of bias of OLO a few steps too far. Too much rubbish will have some loosing interest.

When we have medicine that, as an injection, kills 99.99% of any coronavirus and have not invoked the mercy rule and sent a couple of million doses to Africa, India and several other poverty-stricken counties around the pandemic riddled globe!? If only to ensure it was also safe for us, with the biggest shock and awe, clinical trial the world has ever seen!

And with that done? Sit back and wait for the rivers of gold that could have paid for MRd manufacturing facilities right here! We will just have to learn to live with a forever mutating covid many claim?

Imagine what would be the result if we said that about polio, tuberculosis or smallpox? And with the kiddies now being killed in increasing numbers! Is that stance good policy? NO! It is mot!

If we would not want a vaccine-resistant strain to emerge and kill the so-called immune cohort, our only choice is to get cracking eliminating it here and everywhere we and the richer part of the world can get too, with the others simply blocked out until they also get with the program! TBC
Alan B.

Come off it Alan.

The so called vaccine does not stop you catching the virus, nor passing it on, so what use is it.

Add to that Israel has published the fact that 46% of those who recently died of the virus were fully immunized when they contracted it.

Perhaps those bush kanakas in PNG who don't want to be jabbed are a damn sight smarter than the average westerner.