"No blame heaped on here."

No blame for what caused it. Plenty of blame for the reaction.

I'm sorry this is too hard for you to follow Foxy, but we do have to move on. Please try to keep up. I know its distressing for you when the government is validly criticised and you can't come up with anything to defend it.

Moving on:
A fourth person has now been detained.
Albo is trying to stay as far away from this as he can, even sending in Dreyfus to try to protect the hapless ministers and intimidate the media. Past experience shows that when a PM fails to come to the defence of ministers as Albo has here, ministers will feel less obligated to come to the defence of the PM when needed. Not a good look.

There was a suggestion a while back that Shorten was counting numbers, but, given the current debacle over the NDIS, Albo is probably safe on that front, for the time being.

"There was a suggestion a while back that Shorten was counting numbers," by whom mhaze, YOU. You simply create a falsehood in your minds eye, and then declare it to be true. Well done old son! Provide something to back that up!

Notably, the yellow-bellied village idiot didn't enlist for service either. What a raging hypocrite.

Labor is stuffing up left right and centre it is almost as though they want the liberals back in government.

Well the current debacle as regards the non-citizen criminals might be the government's worst nightmare come true for now, but much worse is on the horizon.

The national account figures came out Wednesday and it was bad all around. Even the ABC couldn't hide it.... "Wednesday's National Accounts were an ugly set of numbers by any measure.")

Just to hit the highlights, they showed that, in the September quarter, the economy grew by an anaemic 0.2%. But the population grew by 0.7% meaning that the average Australian saw a decline in their GDP of 0.5% in a three month period.

Worse still, any grow was due almost entirely to increased government spending and a mini-boom in the mining sector.

OTOH, household disposable incomes increased by a mere 0.1% in the quarter and a 1 per cent over the past year. That's before inflation. After inflation household disposable incomes FELL by 1.&% in just three months. Household living standards are down 5.6% over the year!!

There's a lot more bad news in the numbers but that's the highlights.
2024 is shaping as being a bad year for the country and the government

Yes mhaze inflation has been terrible especially on certain items. I've found ways of minimizing it and perhaps even moving it backwards- but not everybody casts their minds back to the times of the depression- and even before to how people survived in the 1800's. It's good for people to force themselves to think about problems and come up with alternatives to resources that are normally available at the thoughtless flick of a switch. People that burn everything around themselves from their resources to their relationships to their communities- then complain that nothing works- fools. They put their trust in leaders that don't look after their interests- even more foolish. Interesting times are here. Adapt for survival or not.